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Management Poll: Who do you want most as our next manager?

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Who would be your first choice?

  • Graham Potter

  • Scott Parker

  • Ten Hag

  • Rafa Benitez

  • None of the above - comment below

  • *Marcelo Bielsa

  • *Ralf Rangnick

  • *Ralph Hasenhüttl

  • *Steven Gerrard

  • *Julen Lopetegui

  • *Christophe Galtier

  • *Marcelo Gallardo

  • *Oliver Glasner

  • *Ryan Mason

  • *Maurizio Sarri

  • *Gian Piero Gasperini

  • *Mauricio Pochettino

  • *Antonio Conte

  • *Eddie Howe

  • *Gareth Southgate

  • *Nuno Espirito Santo

  • *Paulo Fonseca

  • *Gennaro Gattuso

  • *Ernesto Valverde

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bus-conductor said:
Completely agree, been saying the same for a very long time. Also, everyone getting bent out of shape about the lack of activity on head coach and player transfers, but it could just be that Levy wants to get the new DOF in first and wants the new DOF to be the one making (or at least having a major input) the head coach decision and then the new DOF and new head coach working on transfers together once in situ.

We can argue about who we want and whether we want Paratici etc, but there might just be some logic in the process Levy is following.

And it's not like anything is happening for three or four weeks at least in terms of players back training etc.
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What in Levy's past makes you think that he is changing his ways? Also if he was planning on this change, why did he wait so long to make it?

Even if the best case scenario is true that Levy has decided to step away and give power to a proper football guy, he still fucked it up by taking so long to get him in. We are behind the 8-ball already this summer with needing to offload so many players, needing a new manager and having Kane wanting out to go along with the other factors that every team has to deal with- Covid, Euros- that it is stupid to have not had things in place much sooner.

And while training is not going on, players that we should have interest in are being bought and sold, teams are filling holes in their teams that could have potentially been filled by guys we want out, managers that we may have interest in are signing with other teams.

Even if the logic is good in the process Levy is following, I doubt it is, the timing is still complete shit.
 
Bill Madrid said:
This may or may not be true, it is, however an easy story to write.

Yesterday's Marca ran a piece cribbed from The Times I think saying that Madrid moved on from Conte because ten players had said they would leave if he was appointed.

No names there or here of course. I could knock out a story in ten minutes or so exclusively revealing how Barcelona only agreed to keep Koeman on because of a dressing room revolt involving a number of senior players, couching it all in terms like "allegedly" and "sources have hinted" and so on. Not a word would be true, no news from inside Camp Nou ever reaches me in the Madrid sierra, obviously, but that would hardly matter...
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Sounds like a good idea. If we appoint him, 10 players will leave. Sanchez, Sissoko, Winks et al.
 
ElTel said:
You won't be saying that when we appoint Martinez or Southgate

If I had to choose between Nuno and Martinez it would be Nuno all he way
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If you have two piles of shit I guess the slightly smaller pile of shit is preferable but at the end of the day you are left with a pile of shit.

Nuno sucks, any small improvement he is over Gareth or Martinez still isn't close to good enough.
 
bus-conductor said:
I think that's bit harsh, did good work at BMG, Nice and Dortmund - he can mix a bit of pragmatism with pro activism - but so does Klopp for example. Not saying they are the same or Favre is anywhere near as good, but he isn't Tony Pullis either.
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He's not Tony Pulis, but he's not the kind of guy who is going to play high-possession, passing football. He's much more a low-block and counter guy, but with more possession than most people who play that style.
 
MasonBall said:
Thing is you can't become a self-sustaining super club without success. No matter what the owners are doing off the pitch or in marketing we need to remember that the product is ultimately the football. To become a club like United you need to get those American/Chinese fans to start buying your stuff, why would they do that at Tottenham?
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To wear just before they commit hare kare!
 
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