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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

Results are only viewable after voting.
Matt1882 said:

Daniel Levy the common denominator in Tottenham’s endless managerial farce | Tottenham Hotspur | The Guardian

The chairman operates a small circle of loyal nodding dogs and his unchecked power is draining away the hope at Spurs
amp.theguardian.com amp.theguardian.com


I hope there is a "To Dare Is Too Dear" movement next season.
My seat has a glass pane in front. I'm inclined to hang something on it.
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Fantastic article and accurate on so many levels. Levy should not be allowed to run the football side of the business
 
Igula said:
What in Levy's past makes you think that he is changing his ways?
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That's not entirely fair, he was one of the earliest exponents in the PL of the DOF system, has adopted on other occasions as well.

But has he always done it properly? Has he always brought in the right DOF ? These are other questions.

He has brought in good people. We had the guy in charge of Liverpool's recruitment analytics here at one time, he also brought in Mitchell when he was highly regarded. But then both left, one because he wasn't being made the most of by Harry Redknapp, the other who fucking knows?


Igula said:
Also if he was planning on this change, why did he wait so long to make it?
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It depends on who he wants. For me, there was absolutely no need to wait because two very good candidates in Rangnick and Campos were out of work.


Igula said:
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.
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Yes, again, for me it was unnecessary because there were really good DOF's we could have brought in months ago. And we also need to be restructuring the way we analyse and recruit too - and the people that do it.

Igula said:
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.
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We were never going to get Nagglesmann if Bayern were in for him. Apart from that, can't think of any other coaches who are off the menu to us.

Igula said:
Even if the logic is good in the process Levy is following, I doubt it is, the timing is still complete shit.
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I'm going to cling to the sliver of hope that at least one of those processes is be being done with some logic. I'd rather that than we start buying players before we have a coach who wants or doesn't want them and a coach who isn't liked by the DOF etc.
 
FOK said:
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Brilliantly directed as a debut, and rather fitting...

iu


Everything is illuminated.
 
Juicy Sushi said:
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.
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For example, last season possession stats were

1. Bayern 61%
2. Leverkusen 60%
3. Dortmund (Favre) 58%
4. Leipzig 54%

Generally speaking his teams have the ball when it's required (ie in the BL quite a lot) but he's not a possession for possession sake type of guy, who will also play a counter attacking game when the circumstances fits.

The problem I think was more in game management of those two things at times. His Dortmund struggled to shut down games (over simplification maybe?)
 
bus-conductor said:
That's not entirely fair, he was one of the earliest exponents in the PL of the DOF system, has adopted on other occasions as well.

But has he always done it properly? Has he always brought in the right DOF ? These are other questions.

He has brought in good people. We had the guy in charge of Liverpool's recruitment analytics here at one time, he also brought in Mitchell when he was highly regarded. But then both left, one because he wasn't being made the most of by Harry Redknapp, the other who fucking knows?




It depends on who he wants. For me, there was absolutely no need to wait because two very good candidates in Rangnick and Campos were out of work.




Yes, again, for me it was unnecessary because there were really good DOF's we could have brought in months ago. And we also need to be restructuring the way we analyse and recruit too - and the people that do it.



We were never going to get Nagglesmann if Bayern were in for him. Apart from that, can't think of any other coaches who are off the menu to us.



I'm going to cling to the sliver of hope that at least one of those processes is be being done with some logic. I'd rather that than we start buying players before we have a coach who wants or doesn't want them and a coach who isn't liked by the DOF etc.
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Good post - balanced and rational and well-argued.

Now, about Sissoko...
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