Nuno Espirito Santo at risk of Spurs sacking after just 89 DAYS in charge following Arsenal derby embarrassment

[Happyhammy]

We all know who will take over as I can't see us having a replacement ready to go. It will be Mason caretaker manager as who else will they be able to appoint if they do indeed sack Nuno?

Edited as my typing skills suck after 12 hour night shift :-(

 

[14/04/91]

The first half on Sunday was the worst I have ever seen from a Spurs team. Don’t know why they played like that, it sounds ridiculous, but I’m not sure if the manager can come back from that display.

It's not ridiculous when you couple that truly astonishing 'tactical approach' of the first half with the season's appalling stats - chances created, chances conceded, distance run.

He was totally the wrong appointment and it's unravelling at super fast speed.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Remember he was 5th choice no one will want the job now !!!
He’s not up to it, I’ve said that all along and it’s seems right to me !!!
Going backwards again ?

5th choice, more like 15th. #lastgirlonthedancefloor

 

[dontcallme]

This is just too depressing.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

We all know who will take over as I can't see us having a replacement ready to go. It will be Mason caretaker manager as who else will they be able to appoint if they do indeed sack Nuno?

Edited as my typing skills suck after 12 hour night shift :-(

back to the david pleat caretaker days.

 

[Coolbury]

We all know who will take over as I can't see us having a replacement ready to go. It will be Mason caretaker manager as who else will they be able to appoint if they do indeed sack Nuno?

Edited as my typing skills suck after 12 hour night shift :-(

Winks back in midfield then if Mason is caretaker

 

[Mark_147]

Eleven goals conceded and three derby defeats in last four games says it all.
Won't be the first time a manager goes quickly , Brian Clough spent just forty-four days as manager of Leeds United in 1974.
Problem is who takes over if he does get the boot

Ryan Mason.

 

[Coolbury]

Ryan Mason.

As well as a crack on the skull he doesn't need to go grey before his time poor man , if he was put back in charge.

 

[PLTuck]

Would Chris Powell be interested in a longer term interim role? Would that affect his job with England?

 

[Coolbury]

The first half on Sunday was the worst I have ever seen from a Spurs team. Don’t know why they played like that, it sounds ridiculous, but I’m not sure if the manager can come back from that display.

Away to Zagreb was pretty awful, Jose didn't last that long after that. Managers make make wrong selections and use the wrong tactics but some of the players need to show up for some of these games. This is now the third manager that some of the players have now raised the white flag of surrender

 

[TheHoddleWaddle]

It's not looking promising is it? I still hold a modicum of hope things will improve as its such early days. But to capitulate like the players did vs arsenal, the one side they shouldn't struggle for motivation against, hints at some serious issues. If Levy thinks he'll fill the stadium at those prices with this level of football the man must be delusional. Box office mourinho sold tickets on his own. This lot?

As discussed ad-nauseum. Common denominators in players and management boards. Most of which us fans have no control over.

But one thing I don't get, is with such a defensive coach why defending is such an issue! I think a lot stems from the midfield shambles which has been dreadful for a considerable time.

I feel a bit for Nuno, he seems a really likeable and respectful guy. But has the Gross air of being out of his depths about him. Let's hope we are mostly wrong in our observations.

Supporting this team, with the stadium and recent flirtation with success is like pulling a fit bird, only to find its got a cock, a dose of the clap, padding in the bra and wanger pants that hold the arse in. (Still would).

 

[TonyK]

Away to Zagreb was pretty awful, Jose didn't last that long after that. Managers make make wrong selections and use the wrong tactics but some of the players need to show up for some of these games. This is now the third manager that some of the players have now raised the white flag of surrender

The same players are still playing under a third different manager. The same players that let the previous 2 managers down. Therein lies the problem. Levy expects top dollar for our dross. For example, Winks isn’t worth 30 bob never mind 30 million!! Dier, Sanchez, Dele and Winks needed to be moved on about 3 years ago. 3 of those players started for us on Sunday. Doch, GLC, Reggy and Tanguy have also been beyond poor for us for a while now as well. Bad times indeed.

 

[onthetwo]

It's not looking promising is it? I still hold a modicum of hope things will improve as its such early days. But to capitulate like the players did vs arsenal, the one side they shouldn't struggle for motivation against, hints at some serious issues. If Levy thinks he'll fill the stadium at those prices with this level of football the man must be delusional. Box office mourinho sold tickets on his own. This lot?

As discussed ad-nauseum. Common denominators in players and management boards. Most of which us fans have no control over.

But one thing I don't get, is with such a defensive coach why defending is such an issue! I think a lot stems from the midfield shambles which has been dreadful for a considerable time.

I feel a bit for Nuno, he seems a really likeable and respectful guy. But has the Gross air of being out of his depths about him. Let's hope we are mostly wrong in our observations.

Supporting this team, with the stadium and recent flirtation with success is like pulling a fit bird, only to find its got a cock, a dose of the clap, padding in the bra and wanger pants that hold the arse in. (Still would).

'Capitulation' suggests that some sort of 'united front'/effort was shown at the start.....but it wasnt. What i saw was a team that didnt trust the plan they were given i.e whatever plan they had in training (without any pressure) never got implemented for the match. Nuno tried hard not to call them out on it initially (by taking the blame himself) post-match until the interviewer pressed him at which point it became clear that the team didnt follow the orders, for whatever reason. So, as others have said, i hope there is some 'blood letting' in training this week as the players made a fool of him AND us.

 

[sebo_sek]

This scene from Jarhead shows the NLD and what Nuno's response should be

 

[WaldotheCat]

It is awful to see all this blundering and floundering about after what looked like a promising start against Mcity. I feel torn three ways. Part of me really hopes and wants Nuno and the team will turn it around and we go on to win the next 4 on a row. Part me hopes and wants Levy et al. to go back to Conte, cap in hand - at least he is available in theory -. Part of me hopes and wants us to wait till january and appoint Gallardo.

 

[rez9000]

The easy bit is sacking him, the hard bit is who wants to take on the job?
We didn’t exactly have a queue in the summer?

We did have a queue - we just felt they were too expensive in terms of backing them properly.

Even now, we'd have strong candidates (maybe not quite this early in the season, but soon enough regardless) who'd take the job if we committed to supporting their plans fully.

But we won't - when the chairman tries to impose a 20% pay cut on staff and furlough some of them, the only thing that matters to him is money.

The reason they won't come is because they know they're on a hiding to nothing when it comes to resources.

 

[jolsnogross]

We spend tons of money, we just choose to spend it on clunkers. We have no real leaders in this side and some who appear to have leadership qualities are poor to middling players (Dier, Hojbjerg). We are getting no return on the fortunes spent on GLC and Ndombele.

Nuno joined a crisis club but hasn't responded to the crisis very well, even though the first three results suggested we might not be so deep in the mire. If he promised to be someone he isn't - to fit the "free-flowing, attacking, and entertaining" DNA - then he only has himself to blame and it is ludicrous that Spurs bought another load of bull during an interview. I never really thought his decent Wolves sides were overly negative. He needs an intervention with this squad of players, and some will need driving out of the club. But I suspect it'll be him that goes first. And then Paratici gets one more shot at it.

 

[Pochemon94]

Ryan Mason "You thought you could get rid of me? HAHAHHAHAHA WINKS GET READY YOU'RE GOING TO BE STARTING"

 

[whitesocks]

He's lasted longer than brian clough at leeds then. (44 days).

Nuno so nearly gave the same speech as clough, in his Rennes press conference. The infamous 'you can chuck all your medals in the biggest dustbin you can find' speech. The one that helped get clough sacked.

Nuno was really getting stuck into how all our previous champions league campaigns meant nothing. The clubs past means nothing.
But unfortunately, rather than trashing the club's proud achievements one by one, he veered off more onto his philosophy of life of just living in the present.

It's a shame as we could have been talking about this presser for the next 50 years.
His press conferences are certainly more enttertaining than the games he's been in charge of.

 

[Guernman]

We can’t afford the likes of Conte so we have to take a chance on up and coming managers in the same way we target potential in players rather than the finished article.

Potter or Gerrard both have massive upside potential which Nuno simply doesn’t have. Or persuade Gallardo to come.

Nuno is blatantly the wrong person for this job so the sooner we act the better. We cannot afford to be heading on this trajectory for any longer.