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Sorry, but that's tosh.
You really think Ramos was just a mercenary?
If you want to make that charge at a recent Spurs coach, I suggest you start with George Graham, and then think about 'Arry Redknapp.
Yes. This gun's for hire. And I include Redknapp too.
You would have really loved Keith Burkinshaw's first year stats then. By the way, Burkinshaw still has a worse win percentage in all competitions than Martin Jol who is eclipsed in turn by Doug Livermore & Ray Clemence.
Kind of puts your stat into perspective doesn't it.
I was there—whether you mean the season we went down or the first one back in the EPL. If the former, it's an unfair comparison, as KB took over a team that had been wrecked by Neill—who was a board choice as inspired as Ramos. Ramos' overall league stats are the all-time worst bar Ossie's. Liv and Clem's league stats, BTW, are worse than Jol's. Post-1951, which is all that really matters, only Rowe, Anderson, Nicholson, Pleat (in his first spell) and Shreeves (ditto) have a better record than Jol.
Ramos' overall win percentage with Spurs is roughly on a par with his decidedly modest pre-Sevilla La Liga record with Malaga, Rayo and Betis (best not mention Espanyol).