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They've killed the club for 25 years. You just hope a sale is imminent.
Don’t know he is on a £60m contract (£12m per year) and has a £5m save us bonus I suspect if we go down he will have a £5-10m promotion clause. Then it’s £20m wage, unless Real come in for him he is losing over 50% of his wage if he leaves. This is also the biggest job he has ever had.
If the club fuck him unnecessarily in the summer on transfers though I think that would maybe swing it against us.
Yeah I think in all probability he stays if we go down but I won't feel fully confident until the season is under way with him at the helm. I've seen interviews where he's repeatedly asked "will you be at Spurs next season if they go down" and he never outright says "yes" and instead gives more of a politician's answer. If he truly does feel 100% sure he's going to stay, it shouldn't be a hard question to answer.
Sure it's insane money, but he can get a very well paid job somewhere else no doubt, so I don't think it's completely beyond the realms he fucks off if he's not happy with something behind the scenes. He was already on over 5m a year at Marseille so he's absolutely loaded and he's now in that pool of 'top managers' where he's practically guaranteed to make bank over the next couple of decades, so money might not be his biggest concern.
If the club start reneging on promises or he doesn't feel there's enough alignment of vision he's the type of character that's just gonna say "nah, fuck it, I'm gone". I don't think he's the type that's just gonna stick around solely for a paycheck. And I think there's a chance, when the reality of the Championship hits him - a year of his career, players leaving, less money for players - he simply doesn't fancy it and manufactures a way out. Especially if he has offers on the table from other big clubs.
Should've brought him on as a 3rd CB, not a DM.
We haven't actually tried. We've been deep because we can't get out, but I've yet to see us actually go compact and back to the wall. Feel free to point out times that we have.
He's the third highest paid coach in the PL, with essentially nothing to support that with his track record. He'd have taken the job down there even at that money. He's not getting higher other than Saudi. He's not throwing away that sort of money.
9/10. Name one game this season that we've actually sat back and been compact to protect a lead. Certainly hasn't been one in the last 4 months. Your just using a number you've plucked out of the sky and made it absolute.
Fact of the matter is, we didn't and we did concede, like we did at Palace too. It's basic stuff, even Pep isn't above doing it, but relegation threatened Spurs are too good to. Mad stuff.
He's not walking away from a salary that he has absolutely no right getting. He'd had taken the job even if we'd approached him when we were relegated. 3rd highest paid manager in the league at £12m. He doesn't walk away from that.
No one else had any more of a chance of these mystical instant results you speak of
You don't hire a manager with 7 games left not to try get results, or they'd not have sacked Tudor. Mad this even needs explaining at all, but here we are.
We need to set up the right way to get results. Not sitting back when we were winning was silly, we lost two points because of it. The last we actually shut up after scoring, we won a tournament.
He'll be rich still either way, and is clearly a man that doesn't care for excess money the way some others do. I have no doubts he'd be fine walking out on us at any time if he doesn't feel like he is being treated fairly/honestly by the board/exec.
Why he is basically giving up a £60m contract plus a fat promotion bonus. Nobody else will offer him that, he’s good don’t get me wrong but he is less proven than Pochettino this isn’t Klopp or Pep. This is the biggest job he has ever had with by far the most money. Not saying he won’t Conte on us if we fuck him around but money is money.
He’s a terrorist
Absolutely woeful. Can’t move, can’t pass. Horrible
People actually think human being in the real world just 'walk away' from generational wealth like that just because they don't want to do a job in a lesser league, yet at the same time top managers like Inzaghi are managing in Saudi for more money.
Our fans are just dooming and coping just in case the worst case scenario happens - people don't give up £50m just like that.
The championship is a better overall league than the Saudi one. The Saudi league has just shown me that some players will play in any dump if the money is right. Fans on this forum seem to be treating the Championship like we are sending our manager and players to North Korea but half the players in the prem would happily go down a division if you doubled their wage, they are human beings and money is money.
If he really wanted out he would have negotiated a break clause in his contract, he could have done that as well because he had us over a barrel, afterall he managed to negotiate a massive bonus if he keeps us up.
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