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A thoughtful post. Thank you.Ok here's my thoughts, on the understanding that the top names that we've fooled ourselves thinking about have all told us to do one I believe we have to accept we ain't in contention for trophies in the next couple of years so we don't need a proven winner we need a coach who can get us playing as a team not reliant on individuals, one who even if they can't take us to the top can give us the foundations and the route to the top.
My obvious candidate is Potter and although many of you won't like it I believe he would be the right option. His time at Chelsea is as much or more about that club and the owner who spent a fortune and still never got a striker nor did he seem to understand that Potter wasn't going to give him instant success.
Potter's record at Brighton cannot be questioned, they were everybody's favourite to go down when he took over and he turned around their style of play and their expectations and did it without a striker worth the name there either.
Brighton improved each season and although Di Zerbi is getting the plaudits there's no reason to suppose Potter wouldn't have presided over the same improvement had he still been there. On the other hand if you believe he wouldn't have done, then at least he built the model for Di Zerbi to take forward and even that would be a fucking massive bonus for us at the moment the state we're in.
Seriously we ain't in a place to think about success right now, if anything where we are we need to think about avoiding failure and steaming away from the maelstrom.
On that basis I respectfully put Graham Potter forward as my preferred option as our new coach.
Sorry I didn't moan, attack or slag off anyone and everyone like we're supposed to be doing in this thread but I just thought I'd try something different.
If anybody disagrees with me fine but please make your argument as to why and what is your better option.
My concern is that hiring Potter or even De Zerbi would not be sufficient to bring success. Yes they have been shown to be good coaches but they have succeeded because behind them is a top class recruitment system built on data analysis and aligned to a known system of play that has fed the coaches a stream of players that fit into how Brighton plays.
It’s the lack of this system that holds us back - Brighton would never have paid out a fee at the top of their budget for a wing back knowing that it is possible they were a couple of months away from dismissing a manager who plays a back 3 and hiring one who plays a back 4. Brighton buys players and appoints coaches who play the Brighton way.
So in many ways what matters most for the club now is defining the Tottenham way of playing and getting a DOF who can recruit players, develop academy players and appoint a coach who can bring the aspired to Tottenham way to life.
If all the club does is appoint yet another coach without aligning the whole club, then it doesn’t matter who the new coach is, we’ll be back here having another meltdown in 18 months time.