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Hoddle - understandable choice, but Hoddle's insistence on buying over 30s and sticking with the 3-5-2 meant he wasn't right for our club. arguably could have been given longer though.
Santini - shit choice by Levy, glad he resigned.
Jol - fruits of Levy's choice of Arnesen, good appointment, lasted three and a half years, let him go when it was clear his coaching wasn't going to push on to the next level.
Ramos - understandable choice, but didn't work out, imo should have been given longer, but most agreed with his sacking.
Redknapp - imo wrong choice for us, but most would disagree with that, lasted three and half years, and imo was sacked because (mainly) Lewis and Levy lost faith that Redknapp's well known penchant for putting his own career first would continue to correlate with success for THFC. Controversial sacking.
AVB - dillied and dallied over sacking Redknapp (perhaps for good reasons) meant we missed out on their number one choice Rogers. went for AVB, who's appointment was a gamble, but an understandable one given our ambition. Was sacked when AVB's brittle personality meant he couldn't adapt to the realities of managing a club our size and with our strategy. Few would argue with the sacking.
Sherwood - interim in all but name, worth a punt and even if he turned out not to be the long-term option, his 2pts per game was as good as we could hope for from anyone we'd have got in.
Pochettino - fingers crossed on this one, the signs from Trix and others is that he gets the club and buys into our philosophy, if that's true and it's good behind the scenes, and his coaching is good, then he'll be given a lot of time to get it right imo, by Levy anyway, if not by some of the fans, who in reality tend to be knee-jerker myopic types.
Nearly all of the managers Levy's hired have gone for really solid reasons as you've shown.
A 5 year contract and an amenable personality should ensure Poch gets a fair crack of the whip