Next Manager Watch

[HedgieSpur]

All good points.

I think people are seeing his biggest success being with a Barcelona team with one of the best front three's of all time.

Then looking at a Slot , who's playing some unbelievable football with some technically limited players or a Kompany , who's completely revelutionised the way Burnley play and romped back to the premier league after losing a huge chunk of their squad and thinking 'we could do with a bit of that' .

I think we all want to be excited again. And the unknown potential of Slot and Kompany is exciting.

Makes sense...I think we have a host of good options so I wont be unhappy with any of Nagelsmann, Enrique, Gallardo, Slot, De Zerbi or Postecoglu...Kompany is riskier but I'd still be fine with him.

 

[HedgieSpur]

What's he ever done?

We should be looking for a Manager that has been overacheiving, not some guy that failed achieve anything of note with some of the biggest clubs around.

I think we have different views on what constitutes failure. Moreover, there are managers who despite having the worlds greatest front line at their disposal didnt win their domestic league, so I wouldnt neccessarily use the "MSN" as the stick to beat him with.

 

[HedgieSpur]

Have we learnt nothing from hiring these mangers that require players we don't posses to play the brand of football they are hired for? We keep doing the same shit again and again and expecting a different result.

Are you expecting a manager to come in and make Dier, Tanganga, Sanchez et al play an exciting brand of football? I think we are going to have to accept that a number of our players cannot play the brand of football we want to see and replace them.

In any event, we have a core and good young players and some world class players like Kane and (when back to form) Son. I think Enrique could do a lot with them

 

[HedgieSpur]

Hated Enrique’s Roma team then hated his Spain team
Even more keeping the ball for keeps sake and not really doing anything with it although anything is better than now and it would be nice to be able to starve teams of the ball again

Opinions are fine of course but the keeping for keeping sake is pretty lazy imo. Im not sure you watched them closely if thats what you got from it...he pays possession based football but with a much more direct approach than say, Pep.

All good though...agree to disagree mate

 

[dorsetyid]

All I know is that his Spain team played incredibly dull football.

No thanks, if we are going to continue winning nothing I would at least like to be entertained whilst we do it.

 

[carpediem991]

Are we still accepting Fab's "intel" as reliable? He hasn't had too much right about us recently

Don't know when he had something really proven wrong. Just recently broke the Naglesmann out story, no reason not to believe him just because its not what we want to hear.

 

[heinsmit]

Don't know when he had something really proven wrong. Just recently broke the Naglesmann out story, no reason not to believe him just because its not what we want to hear.

Yeah but he is not some omniscient footballing god who knows what's going on everywhere. What that proves is he has a good, close source in Bayern. That does not prove he has one in Tottenham. Indeed, he probably does have a source in Tottenham, which can explain getting past bits right, but that does not mean this source is necessarily close to the managerial situation - especially if that source is currently, say, taking a leave of absence from the club...

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

All I know is that his Spain team played incredibly dull football.

No thanks, if we are going to continue winning nothing I would at least like to be entertained whilst we do it.

At least we'd have the ball

I don't mind Enrique being touted as our next manager though – as others have said – the work we'd have to do to that squad would take years, with his emphasis on technical ability. I do believe there are options out there that could have us playing more effectively in a quicker-ish period.

 

[carpediem991]

Yeah but he is not some omniscient footballing god who knows what's going on everywhere. What that proves is he has a good, close source in Bayern. That does not prove he has one in Tottenham. Indeed, he probably does have a source in Tottenham, which can explain getting past bits right, but that does not mean this source is necessarily close to the managerial situation - especially if that source is currently, say, taking a leave of absence from the club...

Fabrizio has shown over years now he is usually spot on and not making up stories. No matter what club, he obviously has brilliant sources in the game. As things can change rapidly it doesn't always can be 100% of the money, but it makes me chuckle that as soon journalists post positive things people find arguments for it to be true and if they tell something negative people start to doubt them.

 

[spursfan77]

I'm ok with them taking a bit more time to make the right decision, but the manager needs to be in place soon after the season ends, imo

Well, the first preseason tour match announced in Australia is 18 July so that’s probably a decent cut off date. They won’t want to go on that tour without a new manager in place. I suspect that’s the thinking inside the club. As I’ve said for a month, they won’t be in a rush.

 

[Impspur1]

Well, the first preseason tour match announced in Australia is 18 July so that’s probably a decent cut off date. They won’t want to go on that tour without a new manager in place.

You’d think so wouldn’t you

 

[Gb160]

I don’t know much about the candidates but the club is in a mess and cannot afford another managerial mistake!
So I think Brendan Rodgers would be a safe appointment and he could steady the ship for 2-3 seasons at least.

 

[Timberwolf]

All I know is that his Spain team played incredibly dull football.

No thanks, if we are going to continue winning nothing I would at least like to be entertained whilst we do it.

Not particularly big on Enrique, but their football wasn't always dull.

 

[Impspur1]

Not particularly big on Enrique, but their football wasn't always dull.

Having not been initially keen, starting to think that with a striker or 2 to finish off the build up play, might be rather nice to see his fluid passing style

 

[chas vs dave]

Well, the first preseason tour match announced in Australia is 18 July so that’s probably a decent cut off date. They won’t want to go on that tour without a new manager in place. I suspect that’s the thinking inside the club. As I’ve said for a month, they won’t be in a rush.

I'd hope he's in earlier, so that we can get our recruitment done with his agreement.

 

[Japhet]

Are we still accepting Fab's "intel" as reliable? He hasn't had too much right about us recently

It's not exactly a wild punt to suggest that we're fucking about and have no clear path moving forward.

 

[bat-chain]

We want a possession based coach…. Looks at Enrique…

Too much fucking possession…

 

[CantSmileWithoutYou]

Having not been initially keen, starting to think that with a striker or 2 to finish off the build up play, might be rather nice to see his fluid passing style

And there lies the problem, we have no build up play.

 

[Beefyboy]

Yeah but he is not some omniscient footballing god who knows what's going on everywhere. What that proves is he has a good, close source in Bayern. That does not prove he has one in Tottenham. Indeed, he probably does have a source in Tottenham, which can explain getting past bits right, but that does not mean this source is necessarily close to the managerial situation - especially if that source is currently, say, taking a leave of absence from the club...

Absolutely. He also appears on podcasts daily so there will surely be a lot of filling in the blanks and just saying the same things. Tbf to him as well he gets endlessly quoted out of context on aggregator accounts.

 

[Timberwolf]

Having not been initially keen, starting to think that with a striker or 2 to finish off the build up play, might be rather nice to see his fluid passing style

That was the big problem with his Spain team - rubbish up top.

They could actually be very fluid and exciting, scoring lots of goals, if the opposition suited them.

But when teams set up to stifle them (like Morocco in the World Cup) they were too blunt up front to score the so it ended up being very dull tiki-taka as they failed to create chances and missed the ones they got.

We're kind of the opposite of that Spain team: lethal goalscorers up top but a bit crap technically. Not sure how we'd end up looking under him but I imagine we'd have different problems to his Spain side.