Next Manager Watch

[Ruffinthepuffin]

I don’t believe it was the money, it was more football direction

Makes it many more times worse then imo.

 

[muppetman]

Not that I'm advocating RDZ coming in, but why? I know why you are saying it, but it makes zero sense you'd be willing to shell out 40 mil for a player suited to manager you know is leaving and doesn't really fit other systems. Yet baulk at half that fee for a manager you believe can answer your problems. And if you don't think he is the answer, and so not worth the money, then why the interest in the first place?

It's a thoroughly ridiculous train of thought.

Can't you recoup some of the money on a player - sell him on. However, with a manager it's a set cost?

 

[SpursSince1980]

I imagine the situation with Slot went something like this:

1. We held talks, agreed to his personal terms. He believes in the vision sold to him by Levy.
2. His current club set his release clause at a price Spurs wouldn't pay. Presumably, it was something doable. But Danny, Danny'd it up.
3. Slot observes this negotiating tactic, and sees the light. In short: He sees that Baldy is full of shit, and won't keep his promises. 'Cos if he isn't willing to pay a middle-of-the-road release clause, then you can assume this is how his time at Spurs will play out. Lots of promises constantly broken.

After this moment of clarity, he commits to his existing club.

Good for him. As it puts the spotlight back on the biggest sickness at the club: Our chairman.

What talented, up-and-coming manager wants to go where talent and potential dies under the weight of persistent lies, chaos, and dysfunction that has dragged our beloved club to the bottom of an ocean of mediocrity?

The club we adore is being held hostage by an unmovable megalomaniac. Hard to see any hope on the horizon as long as he continues blocking the light.

 

[tony0379]

I don't know.

No worries. It has to be him now. He's the only 1 I would of thought which would calm the fans

 

[Whitey]

United will spend 100 million, they believe real, BM want him

They also have a fan base to appease

I'm not so sure, so we can agree to disagree

 

[mdharris]

I was really excited about Slot, but I think Ange or Amorim could be very good managers for us too. Particularly Ange - he seems to have the character to mend some of the bonds between fans and the club.

 

[Crow]

we've been playing it cool, biding our time. Only we've made the error of drinking too much and now we're acting a complete fool

 

[newbie]

I’m more concerned about the director of football

I'm not so sure, so we can agree to disagree

I think he will go on a free

 

[Trix]

But aren't managers looked at very differently to players who are more like assets?

Not very often managers are "bought". And the average tenure for a manager in the PL is something like one season isn't it?

Maybe that's changing though.

Mate Levy has made it clear he wants a project manager. If you are concerned about having to sack him a year in then either you aren't convinced, or you aren't really committed to that project. After 57 days(and the months previous of knowing this was coming) you'd like to think these things should be 100% known.

 

[muppetman]

I was really excited about Slot, but I think Ange or Amorim could be really good managers too. Particularly Ange - he seems to have the character to mend some of the bonds between fans and the club.

The worry is if the fanbase will give them time or see them as some kind of 3rd rate choice?

 

[robertgoulet]

Best outcome now is that DL panics and hires JN and his preferred DoF.

Just ONCE I'd like for us to not be a clown car.

 

[agrdavidsfan]

Best outcome now is that DL panics and hires JN and his preferred DoF.

Just ONCE I'd like for us to not be a clown car.

He won’t panic and if he does he will go for the cheapest option not the expensive one he is risk adverse with parting with cash

 

[Gareth88]

It’s going to be Mason

Not a chance

 

[Whitey]

I’m more concerned about the director of football

I think he will go on a free

Me too mate..... on both

 

[Trix]

Can't you recoup some of the money on a player - sell him on. However, with a manager it's a set cost?

Yeah, but we have been throwing money away left right and centre on these players. At some point you'd think it would start to ring bells that having a clusterfuck structure is costing far more than any manager compensation ever will.

Again if you have no clear plan and direction it doesn't really matter who you appoint. How can we not have a clear plan after all this time?

 

[theShiznit]

Not a chance

Because he's gonna rule himself out?

 

[robotsonic]

Makes it many more times worse then imo.

If the conversation was about selling the family jewels, then imo it's an understandably difficult bridge to want to cross

 

[robertgoulet]

Yeah, but we have been throwing money away left right and centre on these players. At some point you'd think it would start to ring bells that having a clusterfuck structure is costing far more than any manager compensation ever will.

Again if you have no clear plan and direction it doesn't really matter who you appoint. How can we not have a clear plan after all this time?

Possible that Levy writes his plans down using one of those squiggle wiggle pens and he can't read what his plans are?

 

[daveduvet]

Best outcome now is that DL panics and hires JN and his preferred DoF.

Just ONCE I'd like for us to not be a clown car.

There is that; but it’s been found that highly successful business folk have sociopathic tendencies; whereby their actions, whilst accruing millions/billions, are narcissistic in nature and, therefore, ‘never wrong’. I give Levy et al full credit for getting brand spurs to where they are, but the actual hub of our being is currently neglected: ‘the football team’.

 

[Ndombers]

I for one, welcome our new incompetent overlords!

In fact, fuck the acacemy, Beyonce might like to practice there