Next Manager Watch

[spurs9]

I'd like to see Carrick have a go actually. Middlesborough are playing wonderful football and to think he got them going by the second game in charge I think, shows he's extremely capable with a levy-loving low expenditure

I've seen "new manager bounce's" longer than Carricks managerial career, so no thanks.

 

[UncleBuck]

Time to put the crack pipe down

Rum & coke at the moment, probably one too many!
I’m in the phase of thinking I’d give anything a go at the moment, I think we need to go totally off the radar with this as highly decorated managers can’t do anything with this club.
Hear me out on this one, Bielsa, top draw coach with so much respect globally who plays attacking football, something we all want to see again.
Can’t speak a word of English apparently, bit like Poch at Soton and then he came to us and miraculously he could.
Gallardo, will need help adapting to the league but who better than Bielsa helping him out?
We need to get creative and try something different as the Italian job hasn’t worked albeit Para has bought in some quality players

 

[Spurzinho]

Just listened to A View from the Lane and jack says Paratici is pushing for Enrique.

I doubt it. Paritici favours defensive coaches. We had Fonseca all lined up but when Paritici came in he pivoted to Gattuso and then when that blew up in his face he opted for Nuno. Enrique seems totally at odds with Paritici's preferences.

 

[spurs9]

Have to also take note of arteta. How a risk like that becomes fruitful if given time. Carrick has more management experience than arteta did when he took the helm at the goons

One good season in 4 after spending more than any other club in the same time period (maybe except Chelsea) and now he's barometer?

Technically he has had 3 seasons of experience to get to where he is now, are we going to have the same patience with someone like Carrick, especially when there are other project managers available that have more proven experience?

 

[McFlash]

That's cool so let the admins deal with it. But the way some of them throw their toys out of their pram when someone doesn't believe them is a bit embarrassing.

That's not for me to judge but we've lost itk's from this site before and it would be a shame for it to happen again, especially when it's so easy to just not say anything.

We can all react differently to different circumstances. I know that I've been short and arsey on here in the past because I've had a bad day, been getting shit from my ex or because I've had too much to drink.
Hopefully these are the exception, rather than the rule but I'd like to think that the majority of posters don't judge the odd post too harshly.

 

[YB123]

I believe Ange Postecoglu is Australian? I’d worry about how good his English is.

"Nice accent you got there, New Jersey?"

 

[YB123]

All gone a bit quiet after this morning.

Press conference tomorrow should be.... interesting.

As Ali Gold said tonight. It will be the same statements and keywords from Conte.

 

[spurs9]

Do you Daniels address?

Skipp is better technically than people give credit.

Also Enrique played 442, 433, 343 and 460, not a given he will go 433

The bold reminds me of the Soldado days.

 

[beats1]

The biggest concern is he left his dream job after 3 years because he had "no energy" after his 2nd year.

That doesn't scream long term project here to me.

Look at Pep, he wanted to leave after his 3rd season stayed for a fourth and took a year sabbatical

It is arguably sports biggest and hardest job

 

[Joely]

I'm not getting on the Enrique hype train. Even I could win the lot with peak Messi, Neymar and Suarez, a midfield of Iniesta, Busquets and Rakitic and a defence of Alves, Pique, Alba and ter Stegen. With a playing style inherited from Guardiola.

Agree. Not only a ridiculous amount of ability in that team Barca team but also experience. Winning La Liga with players like that when realistically it's only Real/Atletico you are competing with and the other teams are way off, for me puts some context around his time there. Won the CL but not exactly a surprise with that kind of line up
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With Paratici having a potential ban hanging over him, don't even know why he would be involved in the process.

 

[thebenjamin]

(sorry for the rough response bellow, im in a coffee shop trying to make a sensible clear answer on my phone whilst i wait for my order)

For a start I would say don't judge him on his job for Spain. Some managers just aren't cut out for international management and although he was altogether a flop I don't think his tactics where ever really going to work consistently in a national team set up.

As for my thoughts on him for us, they are mixed. I think for a start our lack of technical players would be a really really big problem for him. With any sort of tiki taka style football which relies very heavily on players moving the ball around at speed, with often one touch passing, you need your players to have excellent passing, control and spacial awareness. Now whilst this will be an issue for pretty much any of the managers we will likely be looking at, i think with Enrique our deficit in this regard will be even more apparent. This will cause many issues right out of the gate but in my opinion this is a big issue with our squad anyway so I wouldn't actually be that adverse to making this a priority in regards to transfers moving forward regardless who our manager is. Also i think with that in mind Bissuma and Porro will do really well in his system. But on the flip side I could see Richy really struggle.

Beyond that, is he a good manager. Yes and no. Previous to Barca he had a rather unspectacular stint at Roma but then went to Celta and looked altogether more promising. It was his time there that made Barca go for him and it was the perfect pair tbh. He was incredibly successful with them. Now in terms of his tactics, as has been mentioned, its very much possession based, they averaged something like 60% possession across his three seasons in charge and he is actually quite versatile. Even tho he primarily played 433 in his last season he did actually swap to 3 at the back. In the specifics he actully put a lot of focus on the wings/wing backs because at that time Barca were going through a transition in CM with Xavi and Inesta ageing/leaving. I guess the big question mark over him is, was it his tactics that made him so successful at Barca or was it having MSN up top. That was pretty much the best front three in the world at that point. Now although the way he set up certainly helped to utilise them ultimately there were a number of times were I think they wouldn't have scored if it wasn't for them. But I also think saying that his success was just down to that front three would be wildly unfair. So essentially its a bit of both.

IMO he is a good manager but he is very much a disciple of that type of Barca football and I wouldn't call him an elite manager despite his time at Barca. I think if he came the squad would need a major overhaul as many of our players just do not have the ability to play in his system. But we need one anyway. I think some would find it boring as there is a lot of passing and probing and I would be concerned about our current attacking options not being good enough to put teams to the sword. But he did also like a fast counter attack and he wasn't all about slow possession so I don't think it would necessarily be incredibly dull. I could certainly see us running into a similar situation we are having with Conte in that if he doesn't get players who are technical enough to play in his system then it will fall apart very very quickly.

Altogether, i wouldn't be adverse to him and, having grown up watching Barca, part of me would love to see tika taka lite being played here. But Ultimately there are others I much prefer and I think there could be some really big growing pains with him.

Thanks man! Insightful as ever. I'm a bit worried about it tbh, I reckon it will be him. Roma to me is a comparable job to us and that would be the best example to take.

 

[spurs9]

Look at Pep, he wanted to leave after his 3rd season stayed for a fourth and took a year sabbatical

It is arguably sports biggest and hardest job

I wouldn't say Pep is a project manager either.

 

[Timberwolf]

I wouldn't say Pep is a project manager either.

It's almost impossible to know since he's only managed the very biggest and richest clubs with the best players.

What Klopp did at Liverpool is far, far more impressive than anything Pep has ever done, including his tiki-taka wonder seasons at Barca IMO. If you look at the team Liverpool put out in Klopp's first game it's an absolute joke littered with rejects and turds.

Pep's an amazing manager but he really does play on easy mode.

Anyway I digress...

 

[Snarfalicious]

That’s one sorted. Anyone else looking to be a dickhead tonight? If you can all line up it’s far easier for us

Dickhead, reporting for duty, sir:

 

[beats1]

I wouldn't say Pep is a project manager either.

I wouldn't but he has spent near 7 years at city and after saying he wouldn't do 3 years anywhere else after barca

 

[ChaoticBeaver]

That was a great watch. Explained our issues perfectly

 

[coy-spurs1882]

regarding the next manager all I ask for are:
1. play attacking football
2. develop our youth players properly

I don't care how many trophies he won in the past, let's focus on what he WILL DO instead of what he DID

 

[FloridaSpur]

That was a great watch. Explained our issues perfectly

That looked better than the real thing..

 

[aussiespursguy]

I believe Ange Postecoglu is Australian? I’d worry about how good his English is.

I should take offense to that but funnily I don't!

 

[-Afri-Coy-]

There also a few on here that hear noises that don't exist, but each to their own.

You’ve been a member on this forum for 14 years and you still don’t know the rules yet in regards to ITK?