Next Manager Watch

[tony0379]

I can feel another Herc thread manifesting....

I'm sure he's just dotting the Is and crossing the Ts before he hits send

 

[nedley]

Slot is Nuno vibes. I am astonished that we just cannot get this right.

In what sense?

 

[Shanks]

I’d say you couldn’t make it up, but with spurs, you quite literally could.

 

[mil1lion]

He is by FAR the best manager available. Well I guess the other ones guarantee a finish at least in the top 10- that‘s our target anyway.

Stop taking the piss out of US fans!

In your opinion but come on stop acting like you know he's the best fit for our club. Best manager doesn't necessarily mean it would work out for him here.

 

[Scot-Spur]

Not necessarily but I also wouldn't trust the fans to know who the right man is. Who honestly thought Poch or Redknapp would do as well as they did?
It's the reactions as if people know for certain who the best man for the job is when in reality we don't.

Of course we don’t but at the same time he is the stand out candidate.

Sure we could end up getting lucky but it won’t be through a decent structure.

He by all accounts told Levy what he needed (a DoF and the structure) but Daniel knows best.

How far will we have to fall before he realises he is the common denominator in our failings….

 

[tony0379]

Unless people protest levy won’t give a fuck

Mate some bald bloke in the south stand called him a bald ****. He don't care bruv

 

[Hoddle1982]

Absolute fucking shambles of a football club.

Levy Out.

 

[A Bit Much]

In your opinion but come on stop acting like you know he's the best fit for our club. Best manager doesn't necessarily mean it would work out for him here.

Well let's be fair, we haven't got recent experience of signing the biggest name manager possible and being rubbish.

 

[Yantino]

I don’t have a problem with it. In fact I’m relatively pleased that the club are not going to pretend to be something they are not AGAIN. We’ve just made that mistake with the two previous managers.

If Nagelsmann has made demands about being backed then he is not the right person for the structure we are trying to set up.

 

[curlacious]

The specifics in that press briefing are a big tell. It leaves us with two scenarios, neither of which is good.

Either Nagelsmann rejected us after listening to our plans and we’ve rushed that briefing out. Schoolboy behaviour.

Or he genuinely isn’t on the shortlist or of interest to Levy. This is an even worse scenario as it reeks of incompetence.

I pray it’s not Amorim or Mason.

It's obviously the first one, as there was plenty of reliable noise that we spoke to Nagelsmann last week and he wanted certain assurances before progressing talks. Our press briefing is true on a technicality because we probably don't speak to JN directly, just his representatives/third parties. I think the reason they've briefed journalists is they are desperate to avoid a repeat narrative of "managers turning Spurs down" from the Nuno summer. That's the key to this.

 

[Metalhead]

Cant understand the logic behind that. Will be very underwhelmed if we appoint Slot or Mason knowing that Nagelsmann or Poch were available.

Mason, yes because I personally feel that he needs some more experience in a top job but Slot I would be happy with.

 

[mpickard2087]

To be fair, virtually all fans are absolutely clueless when it comes to talking about prospective football managers. Go back in the annals of SC history and look at the brains trust discussing Poch for instance, hardly went down well and a lot of insistence that they wouldn’t respect such a no-name nobody and that people like Lloris and Vertonghen would be running out of the door...

Without fail it’s always about loudly demanding the biggest name, just go get him. It was in the case of Mourinho, and Conte, and is now tbh. About 99.9% of Spurs fans will have never seen Nagelsmann manage a football match beyond those ones against us a couple of years back. They don’t really know why they want him, the intricacies of what he’d bring, or how he compared to other candidates. Most back him purely because this time he’s the one with the biggest hype train.

Really this thread should be closed, fans have demonstrated, time and again, they have nothing to offer on this one.

 

[Tezza1978]

Would be interested in any further insight from the other ITKs on what has happened here (though Trix's words already hint at what the reasons are! )

I hope we progress with Slot now, maybe he was the first choice? I would frankly be very unhappy if Mason gets the gig as he needs far more experience and Levy would just walk all over him, he will also get very little time with fans and will be told to make do which is a recipe for disaster. We need a fresh voice and fresh ideas, not someone who has been here for years.

 

[JamieSpursCommunityUser]

The specifics in that press briefing are a big tell. It leaves us with two scenarios, neither of which is good.

Either Nagelsmann rejected us after listening to our plans and we’ve rushed that briefing out. Schoolboy behaviour.

Or he genuinely isn’t on the shortlist or of interest to Levy. This is an even worse scenario as it reeks of incompetence.

I pray it’s not Amorim or Mason.

Exactly. The spin is the club saying..

Naglesmann didn't turn us down, actually we're just really really stupid at football.

After a month of speculation from Club mouthpiece journos, we've suddenly decided to specifically brief everyone all at once that we were never in talks.


Feel the contempt.

 

[matthew.absurdum]

Am I the the only one who think that "Levy fails again" but also "Nagelsmann would not be a great fit for us" at the same time?

 

[Goobers]

Well well well. This is a turn up. This won't do an awful lot for Daniel's charm offensive on our da base one feels.
luckily he has a wonderful PR team .....

 

[JW72]

Bayern have dropped off a cliff since he left.

Have they? Something like one defeat in six in the league since TT arrived and back in top spot.

 

[For the love of Spurs]

I don’t have a problem with it. In fact I’m relatively pleased that the club are not going to pretend to be something they are not AGAIN. We’ve just made that mistake with the two previous managers.

Naglesmann isn’t a cheque book manager, he isn’t a defensive manager, he isn’t Jose or Conte.

He is a manager who built his career on improving players often young players making a team far more than the sum of its parts. If we couldn’t make someone like Naglesmann fit, a sort of Poch on steroids then we really aren’t a serious club. Levy had better hope Slot is the second coming of Bill Nic.

 

[rossdapep]

So were those rumours about Alonso being no.1 choice true?

One thing that I am worried about is that Levy is still involved in this decision.

He should be working with Munn on the DOF appointment and then leaving it in Munn and the new DOFs hands.

If Levy (and co) forces a coach on a new DOF, it will fail like Santini and Arnesen.
If Levy accepts another's opinion and the coach doesn't do so well he may pressure the DOF to act later.

He needs to be completely out of this process.

 

[knowlespurs]

What if the new dof comes in and wants him