Next Manager Watch

[JCRD]

Only Spurs could, instead of appointing the seemingly available Slot, Amorim, Postecoglu or Alonso, decide it’s better to appoint Rodgers or Glasner.

On the one hand you think there’s no way that’d happen but we were all saying the same two years ago when Nuno left wolves. Nothing would surprise me this time.

I do think Rodgers is a good Manager and coach but right now he is not for us.

 

[SpursSince1980]

Fuck it. I recommend the so-called 'board' entrusted with hiring a manager, do a knockout tournament of ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, and the winner gets to choose. The runner up gets to pick DoF.

Levy will go out in the first round as his 'scissors' get pounded by 'Ian (the kit boy)' rock.

 

[danielneeds]

Both daily mail and telegraph running stories about Slot being offered a new contract to fend off spurs interest. Wages between 2.5m to 3m a year so nothing that would be difficult for us.. both mention he has a lot of power at feyenoord and would want something similar at spurs. Let's see how this one plays out, probably release a statement to journos later tonight that we were never interested in him anyway

Given Feyenoord’s wage bill
Is akin to a lower end Championship club, don’t see what else he can do in Holland. Maybe win another title, but Ajax’s resources will tell. CL campaign is romantic, but if he has to sell players again this summer he’ll be up against it.

 

[barry]

Slot would be a fool to stay at Feyenoord if we come a calling. We take the piss but we're still one of the biggest jobs in world football. You snooze, you "might" lose

 

[Ginola+Tonic]

Slot would be a fool to stay at Feyenoord if we come a calling. We take the piss but we're still one of the biggest jobs in world football. You snooze, you "might" lose

I agree he’d be stupid to turn us down and I don’t think he will if offered.

But we’re definitely not one of the biggest jobs in world football at all

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

I agree he’d be stupid to turn us down and I don’t think he will if offered.

But we’re definitely not one of the biggest jobs in world football at all

We really are. The sixth biggest team in the most watch league in world football. One of the top 10 richest clubs in the world. Based in one of the most famous cities in the world.

Whichever way you cut it we're a pretty big deal on the scale of things.

 

[Spurs4CL]

We really are. The sixth biggest team in the most watch league in world football. One of the top 10 richest clubs in the world. Based in one of the most famous cities in the world.

Whichever way you cut it we're a pretty big deal on the scale of things.

 

[greaves]

We really are. The sixth biggest team in the most watch league in world football. One of the top 10 richest clubs in the world. Based in one of the most famous cities in the world.

Whichever way you cut it we're a pretty big deal on the scale of things.

Especially if you look through a magnifying glass Ted.

 

[wrd]

Tottenham’s top three for sporting director features Tim Steidten

Tottenham’s preferred three candidates for their sporting director role include Tim Steidten, who has held similar jobs at Bayer Leverkusen and Werder Bremen

www.theguardian.com

Interesting tidbit here:

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I know I'm a hopeless optimistic but does this not read as "get your DoF sorted then we'll talk"?

It would be bizarre for JN to completely pull out of the running when there is still time to get DoF sorted and then a manager before preseason training starts

Even the potential manager knew he shouldn't be hired before a DoF

 

[Bluto Blutarsky]

Fuck it. I recommend the so-called 'board' entrusted with hiring a manager, do a knockout tournament of ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS, and the winner gets to choose. The runner up gets to pick DoF.

Levy will go out in the first round as his 'scissors' get pounded by 'Ian (the kit boy)' rock.

Sorry, but I just can't see the bald guy choosing "Scissors"...

 

[yido_number1]

Sorry, but I just can't see the bald guy choosing "Scissors"...

Likes to cut the budget as much as possible though

 

[Locotoro]

We really are. The sixth biggest team in the most watch league in world football. One of the top 10 richest clubs in the world. Based in one of the most famous cities in the world.

Whichever way you cut it we're a pretty big deal on the scale of things.

But we're also one of the hardest jobs in world football with a very high level of expectations, very little patience, a board structure that doesn't back the manager appropriately, and a group of players that are mentally weak

 

[Guernman]

Nagelsmann
Slot
Postecoglou
De Zerbi
Gallardo…

Brendan Rodgers….

A classic game of Russian roulette

 

[sidford]

Feel like this is an apt picture for this thread most days

 

[Stamford]

Pep bigging up de Zerbi again. It's so obvious spurs!

 

[Ginola+Tonic]

We really are. The sixth biggest team in the most watch league in world football. One of the top 10 richest clubs in the world. Based in one of the most famous cities in the world.

Whichever way you cut it we're a pretty big deal on the scale of things.

In world football?

When some players and even managers ridicule us for being chokers?

We’re in the biggest league in world football, that’s it.
It’s borderline arrogance to suggest we’re one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I adore our club but a level of realism is needed.

I even see someone say we was as big as Man United the other day

 

[Gb160]

The absolute worst thing about this whole scenario, all of it: the board, players, lack of manager, ticket prices, lack of DOF, lack of planning, focus on Go Kart tracks over the actual football, the continuously bolstered property portfolio, the state of the squad, the PR fuck ups and the general incompetence in full view in nearly every single facet of this club, is that it kind of renders everything utterly pointless.

What is the purpose of THFC? I'll be damned if I know...

Ambitionless, aimless, barely directionally correct over the last 4-5 years (I'm probably being generous here).

It infuriates me that we likely have people presiding over proceedings that are completely out of touch, outdated, cannot read a room, promote cringeworthy endeavours and just reek of being corporate hacks whose experience and decision making comes from some "modern business" textbook from 2004. It seems they think they understand the game, the fans, what it means to be Spurs, but they are so hideously wrong that it is just laughable.

They strike me as being the kind of group that have blue sky thinking, brainstorms, swim lanes, glide paths, and wanting to know "what good looks like" as their main prerogatives.
Proper Linked-In, cringeworthy, asinine, corporate shitehawks. I don't even think they do it maliciously. I think they're just stupid and hopelessly out of touch and out of date.


I really feel for the fans that go to every game, because they appear to be being completely duped in nearly every way. There was a time when I'd have loved to have been a ST holder, but I've never felt such apathy, irritation, frustration, anger or hostility towards this club as I do now and it's because of ridiculous decision after ridiculous decision which is just hamstringing the sporting side of the club. I cannot abide stupidity and our board are just plain stupid.

I also really feel for those that use football and Spurs as a vehicle for escapism because there's none to be found here at the moment, although that's not me, because I refuse to rely on something that is not within my control for happiness.


There comes a point where you are so full of this weird, confused, raging bewilderment because you cannot see evidence of a single decision having any kind of forethought, and you wonder "how can the board, (who are all paid very handsomely), not grasp this or see this?" They remind me of the hopeless contestants peddling corporate jargon and spiel you'd see on The Apprentice. Knowing full well that it's all just regurgitated stuff they've heard from somewhere that makes them think they'll sound like they know what they're saying.

I literally feel like violently shaking every single one of them and shouting "WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK ARE YOU DOING, YOU CLUELESS MORON?!?"

Until this absolute malaise lifts, until wholesale changes are made, we will continue to be essentially pointless.

That's really sad. I used to have hope, optimism, whatever. Now? Nah.


And so what happens, is some people just begin to not care, walk out, not renew their STs, engage with the club less, watch less, start to phase it out of their lives more.

I'll never not support Spurs, but it's so, so easy to see through the smoke and mirrors at board level and understand just how shambolically badly this club is currently being run by the idiots upstairs, that I'll hold out very little hope of this being a worthwhile passtime (or something to be proud of or excited by) any

 

[homer hotspur]

Pep bigging up de Zerbi again. It's so obvious spurs!

But not to him, I'm sure

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

In world football?

When some players and even managers ridicule us for being chokers?

We’re in the biggest league in world football, that’s it.
It’s borderline arrogance to suggest we’re one of the biggest clubs in the world.
I adore our club but a level of realism is needed.

I even see someone say we was as big as Man United the other day

Yes in world football.

By virtue of us being one of the biggest teams in the most watched league in the world, it makes an attractive proposition for any manager.

The fact two of our most recent managers are some of the most successful in the history of the game. No way are they even considering us if we didn't have a pull.

 

[Ginola+Tonic]

Yes in world football.

By virtue of us being one of the biggest teams in the most watched league in the world, it makes an attractive proposition for any manager.

The fact two of our most recent managers are some of the most successful in the history of the game. No way are they even considering us if we didn't have a pull.

What would you say we’ve done to be considered one of the biggest clubs in world football?
Other than play in the premier league.

And the manager thing, money definitely talks!!
There’s a reason a lot of fans thought it felt like Conte was doing us a favour and often appeared he thought he was bigger than us.