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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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Just wake me up when someone - anyone - is appointed.

I'm so bored now I'll just accept anyone (except Guttuso or Sol Campbell). Maybe that was the plan all along, string us along until we're grateful when Gerry Francis is eventually wheeled out of retirement.
 
TheSprocketMan said:
Sorry for the ramble but I've been trying to wrap my head around this all morning. Can someone help me piece everything together.

If reports are to be believed, we had Fonseca lined up, agreed and ready to go. Not the most popular choice by any stretch but a choice that many fans were starting to come around to because there was at least some sort of logic behind it and you could see what they were trying to do. Then, at the last second, Gattuso takes the hump (shock) at Fiorentina which make Paratici completely change tact and go all out for him. Not even testing the waters. Not just a general enquiry about his availability or suitability for the job. No, they just completely binned Fonseca to move on to another controversial target without, apparently, any consideration or foresight into how this would go down with the fans.

It's just...horrendous, horrendous decision making. I'm an Estate Agent (rubs hands sinisterly) and if I've got a decent buyer on board (even if it's a little below our asking price) after being on the market 3 months and everything is about to be agreed with mortgage in place, solicitors etc, I'm not just going to suggest to the vendor to bin that buyer because someone else has said they would bid £5k more without even doing so much as a check to see if their finances stack up. And when their finances don't stack up you've pissed off the original buyer so much he walks away, you don't get the new buyer and you're back to square one having lost total trust with your seller.

I am utterly bewildered by this. It's truly moronic business.
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For precisely the reasons you state, I dont believe it happened that way.

It beggars belief we would actually act that way - for Gattuso. I mean if some next level guy suddenly fluttered his eyelashes at us Id get it (not impressed on principle, but Id understand), but Gattuso? Just no.

I think its most believable that for some reason it broke down with Fonseca, so we spoke to Gattuso to feel him out as he was available.
 
Uri Geller says he’s going to help Scotland win tonight. If they do stick him on the poll and I’ll vote for him.

Levy could even flog Spurs logo bent spoons in the shop. :levyeyes:
 
Xyz said:
It seems virtually impossible we didn't at least have contact with Gattuso - many high credibility journalists reported it, it wasn't just some ITK rubbish. Alasdair gold had clearly been told by the club we'd had talks with him. And it all checks out with the way we dropped the previous guy so suddenly as soon as Gattuso become available.

But even if the reason they abandoned Gattuso was because of his comments (and not fan reaction), then that again just shows how incompetent the board are. How did they not research him before inviting him in for talks? Did nobody at the club even remember him headbutting one of our staff a few years back?

Maybe I'm being naïve but I do feel it's a little different this time. I just can't ever remember this much negativity towards Levy and the board.

Normally it's a small but vocal minority pushing it. Now I am pretty confident the majority think Levy should go. And surely almost everyone is unhappy with how everything has been handled.

Even myself... Until a year ago I wouldn't have said I was Levy Out. I wasn't a fan, but still maintained that even though Levy/ENIC didn't prioritise the team enough, they at least ran the club fairly efficiently. But now we genuinely look like one of the worst run clubs I can think of.

Daniel Levy releasing that PR piece video I think is evidence he's at least slightly concerned by the current backlash. He's trying to control the narrative and we shouldn't let that happen. The narrative is clear: they have underinvested in the squad for too long, made countless disastrous decisions, and totally fecked up everything these last few months.

Had there been fans in the stadium last season the atmosphere would have been toxic. And that was before the super league, and the total shitshow of a manager search.

The club are definitely aware of the negativity, and we should continue to put the pressure on. Even if it doesn't make a big difference, it's better than doing nothing.
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but Ali gold has proved time and again he doesn't know jack shit, sure he quotes official news but he makes stuff up like the rest of them in-between.

Still appreciate where you're coming from though
 
We all said #NoToGattuso which was great but how about we say #NoToMediocrity

Spurs are the 8th richest club in the world and charge the highest ticket prices in Europe.
How is it acceptable that the choice of targets range from people like Nuno who got sacked by a club lower than us and Scott Parker who got relegated. Its not good enough and I hope Fans stand up to any potential appointment that is simply not at the required standard.
say #NoToMediocrity
 
MouraThat said:
We all said #NoToGattuso which was great but how about we say #NoToMediocrity

Spurs are the 8th richest club in the world and charge the highest ticket prices in Europe.
How is it acceptable that the choice of targets range from people like Nuno who got sacked by a club lower than us and Scott Parker who got relegated. Its not good enough and I hope Fans stand up to any potential appointment that is simply not at the required standard.
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All true however the required standard is presently 3rd tier Europe which we are lucky to have.
 
One man will rise…

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This really is the perfect storm to end up with Martinez isn’t it. If he bombs out with Belgium early (which I think he will) there will be no reason for him to stay as the golden generation will be at their end.
 
TheSprocketMan said:
Sorry for the ramble but I've been trying to wrap my head around this all morning. Can someone help me piece everything together.

If reports are to be believed, we had Fonseca lined up, agreed and ready to go. Not the most popular choice by any stretch but a choice that many fans were starting to come around to because there was at least some sort of logic behind it and you could see what they were trying to do. Then, at the last second, Gattuso takes the hump (shock) at Fiorentina which make Paratici completely change tact and go all out for him. Not even testing the waters. Not just a general enquiry about his availability or suitability for the job. No, they just completely binned Fonseca to move on to another controversial target without, apparently, any consideration or foresight into how this would go down with the fans.

It's just...horrendous, horrendous decision making. I'm an Estate Agent (rubs hands sinisterly) and if I've got a decent buyer on board (even if it's a little below our asking price) after being on the market 3 months and everything is about to be agreed with mortgage in place, solicitors etc, I'm not just going to suggest to the vendor to bin that buyer because someone else has said they would bid £5k more without even doing so much as a check to see if their finances stack up. And when their finances don't stack up you've pissed off the original buyer so much he walks away, you don't get the new buyer and you're back to square one having lost total trust with your seller.

I am utterly bewildered by this. It's truly moronic business.
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You clearly Know Nothing About Business, according to Happy Ending, live from a Thai massage parlour staffed by young people of a questionable age.

That Daniel Levy mind, he Knows Everything About Business.
 
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