Next Manager Watch

[Oscar22]

I don’t buy this whole ‘we break managers’ thing.

What we do is expose certain types of managers who aren’t a good fit for our club.

We ‘made’ Poch or gave him the platform to take his career to another level, same with Redknapp.

I blame certain managers for not having the foresight to realise they won’t be a good fit for our club just as much as I’d blame the internal set-up on the football side to not allow and enable certain managers to thrive at our club.

More or less what I’m saying, albeit with a bit of a tongue in cheek downer on our current situation.

I just don’t agree with this “manager x was successful there, so they should be here” idea.

It needs to be more of a (as you explain) that manager was successful there, COULD their style allow them to replicate it here?”

 

[Trix]

Not sure why people are so gee'd up about it possibly being Enrique, a manager who's only ever won anything with a top notch Barca side.

Thing is we are probably going to find a problem with every candidate, and if we don't Levy will

 

[hero]

My concern is more Levy won't even have a clue as to what a good fit would look like.

I am absolutely convinced he doesn't. From my point of view, every self-respect coach now must have a lot of concerns about the direction of the club. This is why believe, that the highly regarded managers are not coming to us.

 

[night-watchman]

Please not Ange Postecoglou. It's got Gerrard to villa vibes all over it.
Thomas Frank, flavour of the month. Another mistake waiting to happen.

Postecogolu is just a far far superior manager to Gerrard and has a track record of transforming stale, aimless teams into playing simply sublime football. True, he does not have premier league experience and I am somewhat biased toward him having tracked his career very closely from his Brisbane days. But to compare him to Gerrard is just flat out incorrect.

 

[spursfan77]

That fills me with dread tbh (not Enrique but FP heading up the search)

It isn't really what the article says. As always with aggregators, you have to read the whole article. It says "at the moment" he is heading up the search but with questions over his future that is up in the air.

 

[Joely]

Don't see us going for Tuchel. After Mourinho and Conte, they'll want someone who toes the party and they can generally keep in check. Think Tuchel is a quality manager but another that is just the wrong fit for us and the way we operate.

We need an up and coming manager who is prepared let things slide and bite his tongue for a few years and focus on building his reputation at us before realising he has hit the wall at us, gets fed up and ultimately goes downhill before he is sent packing.

 

[TheAmerican]

Appointing Tuchel would once again underline that Levy and the board have not learned from past mistakes.

Why should Tuchel succeed where Conte and Jose have failed?

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

Matt Law (who's been good for Spurs stuff)

Says list is

Enrique
Tuchel
Poch
De Zerbi
Big Ange
Glasner
Frank

Probably in that order

One of Enrique, Poch, RDZ, Ange suits me. Try all of them at once for all I care.

 

[EastUpperDK82]

Not sure why people are so gee'd up about it possibly being Enrique, a manager who's only ever won anything with a top notch Barca side.

Hey ! ... we have a very good squad ready to play the Barca/Spain-way .... I agree very much with your view on Enrique.

 

[chas vs dave]

You can look at it two ways IMO if you are a top table manager

Either "I'll give it a miss, if Conte and Jose can't make it work then it's unworkable".

Or " Everyone knows the Spurs job is a poisoned challis so it's a very well paid free hit".

Personally I think most top managers will swerve us like the plague now, and our best bet would be to look for someone that very much see's us as a step up or a way into the Prem as an opportunity they can't turn down.

Or, a innovative manager may see Spurs as an opportunity to demonstrate why they are the future of management, not a dinosaur.

Perhaps trying to find someone who backs themselves, despite the constraints.

 

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

Not sure why people are so gee'd up about it possibly being Enrique, a manager who's only ever won anything with a top notch Barca side.

I don't really care about what they've won. Like Mourinho and Conte's multiple trophies elsewhere, it means very little

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

The whole thing makes me so nervous I wish it didn't but I'm not even asking for much, I literally at this point just would like a manager who is relatively likeable/positive/upbeat and who plays a style of play with some decent possession and passing moves and who is more balanced towards attacking and pressing than defending.

That is it.

I'd love to go in more detail beyond that as to specific requirements to make them a good fit and make us successful but I'm past caring about that under this boards leadership but please don't hire a 4th in a row dour, negative manager that just wouldn't be fair, please let us at least enjoy the club and football again even if the football strategy and structure probably will never be set-up under Levy in a way to actually win anything.

 

[Trix]

Or, a innovative manager may see Spurs as an opportunity to demonstrate why they are the future of management, not a dinosaur.

Perhaps trying to find someone who backs themselves, despite the constraints.

Yeah, so a manager looking to step up then like I said. I'd like to think someone like Carrick would be in the conversation as he's really pulling up trees in the Championship. Just hasn't enough experience to be considered right now.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

That fills me with dread tbh (not Enrique but FP heading up the search)

Same. It was quite a sliding doors moment actually when we were 99% of the way there with Fonseca who's style of play would've really suited our club so so well, Paratici pulls the plug, tried to get us Gattuso and ended up with Nuno followed up by Conte to try to undo the Nuno mess.

His managerial hires at Juve were equally uninspiring and unsuccessful, stick to signings Paratici and let Hitchen come back to choose the manager, he had Ten Haag, Nagglesmaan and others on his list...

 

[newbie]

Basically the same list SC had up months ago

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Yeah, so a manager looking to step up then like I said. I'd like to think someone like Carrick would be in the conversation as he's really pulling up trees in the Championship. Just hasn't enough experience to be considered right now.

Seems to be doing well in the Championship, him and Kompany in particular look good for the future.

 

[newbie]

Yeah, so a manager looking to step up then like I said. I'd like to think someone like Carrick would be in the conversation as he's really pulling up trees in the Championship. Just hasn't enough experience to be considered right now.

But his miserable and has the personality of a fish

Ok he may have changed since I met him

 

[danielneeds]

The fact that Levy is entrusting the manager search to a guy who showed him videos of Nuno's Valencia side to convince him he could be an attacking manager despite all the evidence to the contrary just shows that we are a fundamentally broken club just taking our next aimless steps in the abyss. (Lock away the razor blades )

 

[SpursJord]

Yeah, so a manager looking to step up then like I said. I'd like to think someone like Carrick would be in the conversation as he's really pulling up trees in the Championship. Just hasn't enough experience to be considered right now.

One thing is that I would say is this, does Michael Carrick have much less experience in the Summer if we appoint him than what Arteta did when they appointed him? Carrick managed United for a few games and does great with Middlesbrough. Arteta came straight from being an assistant.

What do you think? What does anyone think to be fair?

 

[AJW]

Interesting…