Levy hires you as DoF - What do you do??
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fortworthspur
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I get the impression any DoF is going to struggle as long as Levy is in charge. The Dallas Cowboys have an owner who thinks he understands the game better than the professionals and the Dallas Cowboys usually suck.
SonicSarr
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Get pissed and become Levy's best mate and ask for a pay rise. ?
Then:
1) Get Gareth Ainsworth as manager
2) Get him pissed
3) Become his best mate
4) invite Harry for a few beers
5) Hope Redknapp turns up not Kane
6) Admonish Kane for turning up to get drunk
7) Fine Kane
8) Solve world poverty
9) Ask Gareth is he's free for a game of golf
10) Kick Docherty in the balls.
11) Pass out
Then:
1) Get Gareth Ainsworth as manager
2) Get him pissed
3) Become his best mate
4) invite Harry for a few beers
5) Hope Redknapp turns up not Kane
6) Admonish Kane for turning up to get drunk
7) Fine Kane
8) Solve world poverty
9) Ask Gareth is he's free for a game of golf
10) Kick Docherty in the balls.
11) Pass out
Pauleta01
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Press the reset button!
1. Appoint Potter as manager
2. Sell Kane, Aurier, Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Lamela, Sanchez, Davies and Moura (let Bale and Vinicius loans lapse)
3.Sign players only under age of 23 with UCL level potential. Go back to the philosophy of buying a portfolio set of players that 60-70% work out (Leicester have only done what Spurs did 5 years ago).
4. Be happy with a progressive and aggressive young team around top 6 to develop over the next 2-3 years. Like when we were constantly breaking EPL records for youngest side.
5. Deliver a net spend profit every season ?
1. Appoint Potter as manager
2. Sell Kane, Aurier, Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Lamela, Sanchez, Davies and Moura (let Bale and Vinicius loans lapse)
3.Sign players only under age of 23 with UCL level potential. Go back to the philosophy of buying a portfolio set of players that 60-70% work out (Leicester have only done what Spurs did 5 years ago).
4. Be happy with a progressive and aggressive young team around top 6 to develop over the next 2-3 years. Like when we were constantly breaking EPL records for youngest side.
5. Deliver a net spend profit every season ?
Bobbins
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Not sure who I'd pick as coach but Potter seems to be the best of the remaining candidates to put in the style of play we want, assuming Rodgers is unwilling to come.
Implement a progressive attacking, pressing, aggressive style of play at all levels of the club.
Reinstate the Poch era fitness regimes and massively prioritise fitness and athleticism throughout the club.
Turn the club focus back to the youth levels following McDermott's philosophies which brought through so much talent in the last decade. We rarely hear about the youth teams these days, our managers don't talk about young players, they rarely give them chances, and the club in general barely mentions them except for the odd Twitter post.
Sell Kane, let Bale go back to Madrid.
Sell Dele for anything north of £30m.
Sell Ndombele for anything north of £40m
Sell (at any price):
Winks
Sissoko
Dier
Sanchez
Doherty
Prioritise the purchasing of young British players, looking at the lower leagues for opportunities to develop talent, as well as the best English talents from lower Premier League teams. Poach 'em before they get poached. Back to the old philosophy which dragged us up in the first place and gave us a healthy profit from player sales.
Ideally sign Grealish but I think he's out of our reach, so aim to sign two athletic, powerful, ball-playing midfield players. Potentially look at Philips from Leeds for one slot, and check out Harrison as well if we decide to sell Lamela.
Sign two new centre backs, a young (preferably British) player (possibly Ben White) and an experienced old hand (a-la Naybet/Gallas).
Sign Raul Jimenez and hope his injury doesn't effect him long-term. Sign one of Danny Ings or Patrick Bamford to play with him.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Instil a culture of success and determination throughout the club. No acceptance of failure. Winning is everything. Build a sense of togetherness and weed out anyone - player or staff - not willing to buy into that philosophy. If you play for Spurs, if you work for Spurs, you must be absolutely determined to win at all costs. Get Levy out of the day-to-day picture as much as possible - he's too accepting of failure.
Essentially, start again. Many people will disagree with the signing suggestions (I expect especially Bamford) but I think this would set us up well for the long term.
Implement a progressive attacking, pressing, aggressive style of play at all levels of the club.
Reinstate the Poch era fitness regimes and massively prioritise fitness and athleticism throughout the club.
Turn the club focus back to the youth levels following McDermott's philosophies which brought through so much talent in the last decade. We rarely hear about the youth teams these days, our managers don't talk about young players, they rarely give them chances, and the club in general barely mentions them except for the odd Twitter post.
Sell Kane, let Bale go back to Madrid.
Sell Dele for anything north of £30m.
Sell Ndombele for anything north of £40m
Sell (at any price):
Winks
Sissoko
Dier
Sanchez
Doherty
Prioritise the purchasing of young British players, looking at the lower leagues for opportunities to develop talent, as well as the best English talents from lower Premier League teams. Poach 'em before they get poached. Back to the old philosophy which dragged us up in the first place and gave us a healthy profit from player sales.
Ideally sign Grealish but I think he's out of our reach, so aim to sign two athletic, powerful, ball-playing midfield players. Potentially look at Philips from Leeds for one slot, and check out Harrison as well if we decide to sell Lamela.
Sign two new centre backs, a young (preferably British) player (possibly Ben White) and an experienced old hand (a-la Naybet/Gallas).
Sign Raul Jimenez and hope his injury doesn't effect him long-term. Sign one of Danny Ings or Patrick Bamford to play with him.
MOST IMPORTANTLY: Instil a culture of success and determination throughout the club. No acceptance of failure. Winning is everything. Build a sense of togetherness and weed out anyone - player or staff - not willing to buy into that philosophy. If you play for Spurs, if you work for Spurs, you must be absolutely determined to win at all costs. Get Levy out of the day-to-day picture as much as possible - he's too accepting of failure.
Essentially, start again. Many people will disagree with the signing suggestions (I expect especially Bamford) but I think this would set us up well for the long term.
Bobbins
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Amo
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We're still allowed to sign non-English players after Brexit.
fishhhandaricecake
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Get David Pleat on the blower, tell him the band are getting back together ?
sundanceyid10
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The first thing I would do is fire Sissoko into space. Let him orbit around some planets pointing at them.
slartibartfast
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Go to the Winchester, have a nice cold pint, and wait for this all to blow over."
I’ll bite.
I would burn it all down. I would sell Kane, Son and Dele. Call that 250M. I would buy Grealish, Sancho, Watkins (or Toney) and Daka with those proceeds.
I would sell Winks, Sissoko, Dier, Sanchez and Lamela for whatever I can get. I think that’s probably another 80M. Aurier and Doherty another 15M. Foyth is 15M. So 115M and I need uncle Joe to put in 50M so I’ve got another 165M to play with.
If I can get 50 for Tanguy, I take that and plonk 40 of that for Bissouma and 10 for Olise.
So, I’ve got 165 left to play with. I need 2 CBs, at least one RB and a pure DM.
I’m scouring France, Germany and the Championship for my DM. I don’t know who it is, but I’m confident I can get someone good for 25-30M.
35M for a RB. Again - I don’t know who it is, but I can get a damn good one for 35M.
I’ve got 100M left at CB. Skriniar and Anderson probably works. If it’s not those two so be it. For 100M I can find two insanely good CBs.
Here’s what I’m left with:
G: Hugo + whoever at goalie.
LB: Sergio, Sess, (Davies)
CB: Toby, Rodon, 100M of studs
RB: 35M + Tanganga
DM: 25-30M
CM/DM: PEH, Skipp, Bissouma
CM/AM: GLC/Grealish/Olise
Wide: Sancho, Berg, Clarke, Bale, Lucas (probably one of Lucas/Bale is not back)
Striker: Watkins, Daka
I would burn it all down. I would sell Kane, Son and Dele. Call that 250M. I would buy Grealish, Sancho, Watkins (or Toney) and Daka with those proceeds.
I would sell Winks, Sissoko, Dier, Sanchez and Lamela for whatever I can get. I think that’s probably another 80M. Aurier and Doherty another 15M. Foyth is 15M. So 115M and I need uncle Joe to put in 50M so I’ve got another 165M to play with.
If I can get 50 for Tanguy, I take that and plonk 40 of that for Bissouma and 10 for Olise.
So, I’ve got 165 left to play with. I need 2 CBs, at least one RB and a pure DM.
I’m scouring France, Germany and the Championship for my DM. I don’t know who it is, but I’m confident I can get someone good for 25-30M.
35M for a RB. Again - I don’t know who it is, but I can get a damn good one for 35M.
I’ve got 100M left at CB. Skriniar and Anderson probably works. If it’s not those two so be it. For 100M I can find two insanely good CBs.
Here’s what I’m left with:
G: Hugo + whoever at goalie.
LB: Sergio, Sess, (Davies)
CB: Toby, Rodon, 100M of studs
RB: 35M + Tanganga
DM: 25-30M
CM/DM: PEH, Skipp, Bissouma
CM/AM: GLC/Grealish/Olise
Wide: Sancho, Berg, Clarke, Bale, Lucas (probably one of Lucas/Bale is not back)
Striker: Watkins, Daka
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Caco
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- Nov 2, 2004
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Buy a gun with two bullets, shoot Levy twice, then pistol whip his corpse.
Revolutions don't start with banter!
Seriously though, read the Davie poem on the picture thread and I would like to believe that that's the sentiment of most Spurs fans. I started to follow Spurs in the '80's, things where bleak back then in Ireland. I had said from a young age that I followed Shamrock Rovers, not that I remember but I've been told that I was 4 years old, history being that an uncle of mine who emigrated to Birmingham thought it would be a bit of craic to get it in my head. So just to put that into context, my family are from Inchicore, and my entire extended family are St. Pats fans, apart from me, proper black sheep stuff, but I kept it going and I genuinely love my Rovers. One of my twin daughters said she liked Utd a while back, but I told her that's fine as long as your first love is Rovers, she now has no interest in Prem football, and only follows Rovers, which I'm really happy about.
So back to me, I started following Spurs in the 80's, after saying my team was Rovers, I had never seen them play in the early 80's and after listening to all my mates go on about f**kin Liverpool, decided to watch MOTD, low and behold the first team I saw was Spurs, with Perryman, Hoddle, Ossie & Co., think they where playing an FA Cup game against Burnley, but they won and they became my English team. So this might seem a bit bizarre to English Spurs fans, but that's how it worked in 80's Ireland.
So it went on, I went to watch Rovers play in Milltown and followed Spurs on TV, enjoyed some great glory years with Rovers and some FA Cup glory with Spurs. Then the premier league happened and I have to admit to just turning my back on English football during these early years, including the Klinsmann days, essentially I didn't like the idea of this elite league which would earn so much money, so I stuck with Rovers who where going through a long bad patch, but they where my team.
Eventually, I came back to Spurs when Hoddle came back as manager, as I saw this as a new dawn, as we all know it wasn't, but like it or not, I was back in. Slowly, our fortunes improved, hated winning a cup under George, but it had been so long, the subsequent European football was short lived, with a season where our right back was our stand out player.
Then there was Santini, we all remember his bus parked against Chelsea, I was in WHL for the game against Blackburn after Bill Nich died, we all stood to chant his name as Blackburn scored and it all looked grim, but from the wreckage emerged our coach, Mr Jol, and my faith was fully restored, this was a team that wanted to win, possibly more so down to Davids, but we move on. We should had CL with that squad, in that season I was at 12 home games and 4 away games, last one being the home game against Bolton, goal by Lennon late on, into last game with it all to play for.....I'll just leave it at that.
That was the last time I went to WHL to support Spurs, I arrived back again with a Rovers shirt in what I remember as my most enjoyable night in WHL when Stephen Rice put a semi-pro team one up before Spurs came back to win 3-1. That said, I enjoyed the Redknapp days, who didn't though with Bale, Modric and Van de Vaart.
What followed was another Spurs style mess, until we stumbled upon Poch and those great years, what followed was worse the Gross period in my opinion. But I get to my point, eventually.......
What Davie wrote struck a cord with so many of us, I enjoyed qualifying for the CL, but the years when we could have and should have won Europa League, I would have enjoyed so much more than the win in Milan, the game IS about glory, it's about winning trophy's and competing on a level playing field, think back to when we should have beaten PSV or Seville. Football today is anything but, watching the Arab or Russian sponsored teams have 20 shots on goal against us in a league game is not football, even if we manage to draw/win.
Our Owners are only concerned about the profit margin, many on here thought about this as a positive in the past as it would lead to us buying better players and advancing, but that hasn't happened, we've been taken for a ride by Levy & Co and I for one am glad that my first love has remained a fan owned Shamrock Rovers. Not meant as a gloat, just in case it comes across that way, but I genuinely have no feeling left for the team that had Hoddle, Perryman & Ossie, that dream of glory has long since gone.
Cheers Daniel, if you ever see me coming with a loaded gun, be under no illusion that you're getting the full barrel, you have truly destroyed this club in ways that Sugar could only imagine. The ESL was an unforgivable action in my opinion, jaysus thank fuck for Rovers.
Revolutions don't start with banter!
Seriously though, read the Davie poem on the picture thread and I would like to believe that that's the sentiment of most Spurs fans. I started to follow Spurs in the '80's, things where bleak back then in Ireland. I had said from a young age that I followed Shamrock Rovers, not that I remember but I've been told that I was 4 years old, history being that an uncle of mine who emigrated to Birmingham thought it would be a bit of craic to get it in my head. So just to put that into context, my family are from Inchicore, and my entire extended family are St. Pats fans, apart from me, proper black sheep stuff, but I kept it going and I genuinely love my Rovers. One of my twin daughters said she liked Utd a while back, but I told her that's fine as long as your first love is Rovers, she now has no interest in Prem football, and only follows Rovers, which I'm really happy about.
So back to me, I started following Spurs in the 80's, after saying my team was Rovers, I had never seen them play in the early 80's and after listening to all my mates go on about f**kin Liverpool, decided to watch MOTD, low and behold the first team I saw was Spurs, with Perryman, Hoddle, Ossie & Co., think they where playing an FA Cup game against Burnley, but they won and they became my English team. So this might seem a bit bizarre to English Spurs fans, but that's how it worked in 80's Ireland.
So it went on, I went to watch Rovers play in Milltown and followed Spurs on TV, enjoyed some great glory years with Rovers and some FA Cup glory with Spurs. Then the premier league happened and I have to admit to just turning my back on English football during these early years, including the Klinsmann days, essentially I didn't like the idea of this elite league which would earn so much money, so I stuck with Rovers who where going through a long bad patch, but they where my team.
Eventually, I came back to Spurs when Hoddle came back as manager, as I saw this as a new dawn, as we all know it wasn't, but like it or not, I was back in. Slowly, our fortunes improved, hated winning a cup under George, but it had been so long, the subsequent European football was short lived, with a season where our right back was our stand out player.
Then there was Santini, we all remember his bus parked against Chelsea, I was in WHL for the game against Blackburn after Bill Nich died, we all stood to chant his name as Blackburn scored and it all looked grim, but from the wreckage emerged our coach, Mr Jol, and my faith was fully restored, this was a team that wanted to win, possibly more so down to Davids, but we move on. We should had CL with that squad, in that season I was at 12 home games and 4 away games, last one being the home game against Bolton, goal by Lennon late on, into last game with it all to play for.....I'll just leave it at that.
That was the last time I went to WHL to support Spurs, I arrived back again with a Rovers shirt in what I remember as my most enjoyable night in WHL when Stephen Rice put a semi-pro team one up before Spurs came back to win 3-1. That said, I enjoyed the Redknapp days, who didn't though with Bale, Modric and Van de Vaart.
What followed was another Spurs style mess, until we stumbled upon Poch and those great years, what followed was worse the Gross period in my opinion. But I get to my point, eventually.......
What Davie wrote struck a cord with so many of us, I enjoyed qualifying for the CL, but the years when we could have and should have won Europa League, I would have enjoyed so much more than the win in Milan, the game IS about glory, it's about winning trophy's and competing on a level playing field, think back to when we should have beaten PSV or Seville. Football today is anything but, watching the Arab or Russian sponsored teams have 20 shots on goal against us in a league game is not football, even if we manage to draw/win.
Our Owners are only concerned about the profit margin, many on here thought about this as a positive in the past as it would lead to us buying better players and advancing, but that hasn't happened, we've been taken for a ride by Levy & Co and I for one am glad that my first love has remained a fan owned Shamrock Rovers. Not meant as a gloat, just in case it comes across that way, but I genuinely have no feeling left for the team that had Hoddle, Perryman & Ossie, that dream of glory has long since gone.
Cheers Daniel, if you ever see me coming with a loaded gun, be under no illusion that you're getting the full barrel, you have truly destroyed this club in ways that Sugar could only imagine. The ESL was an unforgivable action in my opinion, jaysus thank fuck for Rovers.
TommyGee
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Back to our DNA. Strengthen our two weakest points (LCB & CM) and refresh the squad with the next generation and an English core:
1 - Appoint Potter as Head Coach
2 - Use Kane as leverage and demand Laporte as part of the deal with City to cover the LCB position we desperately need.
3 - Clear the deadwood, some already on the brink of leaving:
3 - Pay whatever we need to bring in Grealish
4 - Bring in either Lookman or Madueke, and one of Lamptey or Aarons
That leaves us with a refreshed and promising English core of:
A group of young internationals coming into their prime of:
And a leadership core of:
Whatever happens we're in a for a painful rebuild, but I could definitely get around watching this group come through over the next few years.
1 - Appoint Potter as Head Coach
2 - Use Kane as leverage and demand Laporte as part of the deal with City to cover the LCB position we desperately need.
3 - Clear the deadwood, some already on the brink of leaving:
* Aurier
* Sissoko
* Lamela
* Winks
* Dier
2 - Take advantage of Sabitzer’s contract situation to strengthen our CM options3 - Pay whatever we need to bring in Grealish
4 - Bring in either Lookman or Madueke, and one of Lamptey or Aarons
That leaves us with a refreshed and promising English core of:
* Grealish
* Dele
* Lamptey
* Skipp
* Sessegnon
* Tanganga
* Lookman
A group of young internationals coming into their prime of:
* Lo Celso
* Ndombele
* Bergwijn
* Laporte
* Sabitzer
* Sanchez
And a leadership core of:
* Lloris
* Hojbjerg
* Son
Whatever happens we're in a for a painful rebuild, but I could definitely get around watching this group come through over the next few years.
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