Next Manager Watch

[ntmac82]

I think we all know how this movie ends. Regardless of who we appoint we will be back here in 6 to 18 months discussing the next manager, as we all know that they won't get the investment or players they want or need. It's the same cycle with Levy. Rinse, Repeat!

 

[Tucker]

I think we all know how this movie ends. Regardless of who we appoint we will be back here in 6 to 18 months discussing the next manager, as we all know that they won't get the investment or players they want or need. It's the same cycle with Levy. Rinse, Repeat!

Thanks for the insight. Absolutely nobody has mentioned this hypothesis in the previous 1285 pages.

It’s nice to have a new perspective.

 

[Jaddas]

My top 2 choices have always been JN and Gallardo in that order. Levy is the biggest hindrance to getting either of them, as top managers don't want to work for him, but both are still available, and it doesn't seem we have much competition for either.

Levy needs to swallow his pride and deliver on one of them, along with a DoF who will be able to work with them. He then needs to step down as Chairman. He might be able to step away from football matters for a while, but he will sooner or later get involved when an agent calls him with a cheap deal. Oh, and the other idiots like Cullen also need to go.

We all know this won't happen, but if he had an ounce of decency and any care for the fans, then this is what he would do.

 

[muppetman]

The way the club will/should deal with this is that they should obviously (hopefully) appoint someone say next week and insist this person is and always was no.1 target that we’ve been talking with for a period of time. Always planned etc.

From my point of view I actually hope he isn’t on the SC list and is a younger progressive manager that has been doing really well, within his means, in a competitive league. Doesn’t have to be winning it. The next Poch

I tend to sympathise to a certain extent with @Nebby about the column inches (I hope that this is what was meant) - it is like a feeding frenzy in here and elsewhere.

As a note, I actually had been told somewhere else (there are others) that Levy had been keeping this tighter than a (can’t think) tight thing and nothing was leaking out. This thought gives me at least a little hope. I hope!

Positivity? Here?

You're either brave or mad!

 

[funkycoldmedina]

Clive Allen has talked on podcasts about Rodgers being his no.1 pick. I doubt he is saying that without some sort of info that Rodgers has a chance

The way the club will/should deal with this is that they should obviously (hopefully) appoint someone say next week and insist this person is and always was no.1 target that we’ve been talking with for a period of time. Always planned etc.

From my point of view I actually hope he isn’t on the SC list and is a younger progressive manager that has been doing really well, within his means, in a competitive league. Doesn’t have to be winning it. The next Poch

I tend to sympathise to a certain extent with @Nebby about the column inches (I hope that this is what was meant) - it is like a feeding frenzy in here and elsewhere.

As a note, I actually had been told somewhere else (there are others) that Levy had been keeping this tighter than a (can’t think) tight thing and nothing was leaking out. This thought gives me at least a little hope. I hope!

I generally like to keep an open mind about Levy and don't subscribe to all of the tropes thrown at him in here but let's face it he's fucked this manager search like he has previously. The Nuno search was the worst, but Santini, Mourinho AVB have been some of the most obvious mistakes. He doesn't have a strategy, never has and unfortunately for an extremely intelligent and strategic man is so deep in the forest he can't see his own mistakes and change

 

[HedgieSpur]

Zero evidence that we were in for Slot; just gossip and speculation from a bunch of people who's very livelihood depends on them filling airtime and column inches - and with zero comeback if what they say and write turns out to be complete and utter tosh. But sure, blame Levy if it makes you happy.

We are literally an excuse-maker of a club and that includes some of our fans. I guess denial really isnt just a river in Egypt.

 

[piedpiper]

Were we interested in Neil Lennon or Martin O’Neill? No and there’s a reason for that. Same reason we didn’t go for Gerrard and shouldn’t be going for Ange the postman.

I just think so many clamour for someone with the slightest modicum of success. I want better and if as a club we've decided we going on the project route and zero success expected but attractive football then I'd rather take a younger manager.

As you say Gerrard didn't fill me with any excitement either. I never wanted Potter and still don't but hell I'd accept him over Ange or any other manager from a smaller league.

 

[ljinko888]

Levy could get himself some degree of good will by putting his pride aside and going back to Poch. It is the only appointment I think now would be met with happiness. Especially since it would mean getting one over Chelsea.

 

[Haddock]

The problem with hiring Rodgers is that everyone and their mother know he never was the first choice. It would most likely be on a short contract and he'd be viewed more more less as an interim by the squad and by the fans - It's Nuno 2.0 and it's destined to fail.

 

[easley91]

It's funny to me how many are pining for Poch after years of saying don't go back it won't work out..

 

[ossibissa]

The way the club will/should deal with this is that they should obviously (hopefully) appoint someone say next week and insist this person is and always was no.1 target that we’ve been talking with for a period of time. Always planned etc.

From my point of view I actually hope he isn’t on the SC list and is a younger progressive manager that has been doing really well, within his means, in a competitive league. Doesn’t have to be winning it. The next Poch

I tend to sympathise to a certain extent with @Nebby about the column inches (I hope that this is what was meant) - it is like a feeding frenzy in here and elsewhere.

As a note, I actually had been told somewhere else (there are others) that Levy had been keeping this tighter than a (can’t think) tight thing and nothing was leaking out. This thought gives me at least a little hope. I hope!

This last paragraph. I‘m hoping something along the lines of how we allegedly got Modric is going on….
And yes, I’m not normally a poster here but this current doom loop is unhealthy in Sooo many ways!

 

[Hoopspur]

I generally like to keep an open mind about Levy and don't subscribe to all of the tropes thrown at him in here but let's face it he's fucked this manager search like he has previously. The Nuno search was the worst, but Santini, Mourinho AVB have been some of the most obvious mistakes. He doesn't have a strategy, never has and unfortunately for an extremely intelligent and strategic man is so deep in the forest he can't see his own mistakes and change

Devils Advocate time. Has he really? In reality or in your/our minds? Only time will tell. You or indeed I might not like what does eventually transpire but sure as hell something will. The crap football season (for Spurs) doesn’t even finish til Sunday although it seems to have been dying for weeks. I do hope there is a reset button.

 

[Hotspur33]

Levy could get himself some degree of good will by putting his pride aside and going back to Poch. It is the only appointment I think now would be met with happiness. Especially since it would mean getting one over Chelsea.

Not that I think Levy will do what you have suggested, but I find it very strange the Poch appointment isn’t official yet.

 

[jakuba]

Levy could get himself some degree of good will by putting his pride aside and going back to Poch. It is the only appointment I think now would be met with happiness. Especially since it would mean getting one over Chelsea.

I would give an arm and a leg to get Poch back but I just can’t see it happening. Did we get ITK on why they wouldn’t even pick up the phone to him?

I’d be worried that even in the miracle they did get in touch that we’ve left it too late and would be another dead end our blind board runs down wasting yet more time. But here’s hoping they’d at least try - because right now it looks like we’re doing an Everton speed run.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

I'd far rather Amorim than Rodgers mate just saying Rodgers isn't as bad as some are making out.

I can't see it being Amorim, he'd be more expensive to acquire that Slot, and if that's a high factor for Levy you can forget any manager currently in a job.

 

[piedpiper]

Levy could get himself some degree of good will by putting his pride aside and going back to Poch. It is the only appointment I think now would be met with happiness. Especially since it would mean getting one over Chelsea.

Aren't we too late in that regard ? I'd take him wholeheartedly. Him and owners with deep pocket... oh but a man can only dream.

 

[spursfan77]

I just think so many clamour for someone with the slightest modicum of success. I want better and if as a club we've decided we going on the project route and zero success expected but attractive football then I'd rather take a younger manager.

As you say Gerrard didn't fill me with any excitement either. I never wanted Potter and still don't but hell I'd accept him over Ange or any other manager from a smaller league.

It goes against the crowd, but I can kind of see the point of view that £15 million for Slot is a lot of money bringing him from that league. Chelsea paid £17 million for Potter and he failed. Levy will see that and there is no way he is paying that level of compensation for a manager. Actually, we never have because Levy is so risk averse.

I'm fairly ambivalent really as to who it is now. I'm obviously not optimistic and I bet we are still sat here in a week's time with nobody in charge. As with everything Spurs, they just try to take the enjoyment out of everything. Games, going to matches, transfers, manager searches. Everything is a painful chore and has been since that Sissoko handball minutes into that final.

 

[Spursberg]

Thing is, appointing someone just to placate the fans will just end up with us in the same spot in 9 months or less. If there are no honest conversations and alignment between what Levy is prepared to offer in terms of control and budgets and what Nagelsmann would expect then the whole thing is pointless before it even starts.

I agree, but will the fans that go every week to the stadium? We need a manager that plays aggressive/offensive football that also excite the fans, because when you have the gratest stadum in the PL, built to enhance sound and acoustics, it is a problem when that sound is primaraly boos. I fear that a Amorim that still plays 3 at the back or even an unknown (on a larger scale) manager like Postecoglu will make the fans at the stadium jump at the first loss and start the boos.

Nagelsman ticks the boxes of geting the fans on board, plays attractive footbal, and is not that high profile to set the club on fire like Conte/Mourinho.

 

[Yiddo1982]

Have I missed where Rodgers was linked or spoken about within ITK?

Apologies if I have. I know you're all frustrated and angry (me too), but why is that making you go straight to Rodgers?

Oh and it's RODGERS. Not ROGERS.

Roger?

Just remember it has a "d" - for dickhead.

 

[Munny Man]

Blessing in disguise
Could Gallardo sneak in under the radar

This would be the dream! I think he’s absolutely perfect to sort out this train wreck!