Next Manager Watch

[kd2000]

Season renewal deadline's coming up soon, I'm unsure what I'll do if we haven't appointed a permanent manager by then.

They will probably appoint the night before the deadline so that those who are unsure have limited time to think about it

 

[Teegart]

If the talk of us walking away due to the £15m we’d need to spend is true, then we’re not going to hire a manager currently at another club. Caveat being Ange as he’s on a rolling 12 month deal at Celtic.

So it’ll be one of Ange, Enrique, Brendo, Glasner, Potter or Lopetigui if he leaves Wolves.

We all know it won’t be Nagelsmann.

 

[St José Dominguez]

I can't help but feel we will get someone with no fee. Either not at a club or in the case of Nagelsmann no fee attached with his former one. The absolute best of those free agents has to be Gallardo. I got a feeling we will get Luis Enrique though.

Majority of our appointments have been out of contract.
Interestingly our 3 best managers of the last 20 years, Jol, Redknapp and Poch were all poached from other clubs.

 

[mil1lion]

About 20+ pages behind, but do I take it Slot is not happening and if do why or is it DL again ?

Sounds like we didn't want to pay the release (10m for Slot plus 5m for his coaching staff). Day started with Slot saying that he isn't leaving.

 

[rossdapep]

Sorry but this is just total nonsense. What part of either game were they outstanding? The first match was about as dull a game as we saw all season as both teams were equally as shit going forward and then we got sucker punched right at the end. The return fixture saw them go 1 nil up with a mistake from Lloris and then defend deep trying to kill the game. We went on to win but a dodgy VAR decision got them out of jail. Much of the second half of that game according to the commentator at the time the great Amorin was hiding behind his hands not able to watch the game as he couldnt handle the nerves, a trick he repeated i believe in the Arsenal game. This is not the type of mentality that we of all clubs need leading us.

Actually, Amorim proved how intelligent he was.

Conte's teams thrive on others attacking them and leaving space behind. So Amorim didn't give him that knowing that Tottenham struggles to create chances against low blocks and are themselves susceptible to counterattacks.

Against Arsenal, he played quite defensively to start with as he knew Arsenal would try to kill the game in the first 30 minutes. After HT, Sporting were much more attacking and got their reward.

They were much more on the front foot against Juventus because he knew that Juventus are not so stable right now.

Watch them in Liga NOS, they dominate all the smaller teams and have more tactical battles versus Benfica and Porto.

He tailors the approach to the opposition, he just doesn't have the quality to really go toe-to-toe every game.

He's got Sebastian Coates as his defensive core FFS

 

[BENNO]

About 20+ pages behind, but do I take it Slot is not happening and if do why or is it DL again ?

You should really know by now that it doesn't matter if it actually was Levy , it will still be blamed on Levy.

 

[jay2040]

All Levy had to do is pick up the phone to Poch when Conte was sacked and we wouldn’t be in this mess right now

FFS, there are other managers!

 

[Dakes]

A killjoy. That's the best way I can describe this club.

 

[BuckeyeSpurs11]

My issue w/ Levy is not that he prioritizes "profit over glory", I think he is so convinced that his way to run a club in the best & only way to do it that he is a penny wise and pound foolish. He is a control freak w awful football instincts & cant get out of his own way. This is why for the 2nd time in 3 summers, we have gone 5+ weeks without a head coach and without a direction. The transfer window opens in 3 weeks and we have no Director of Football, no head coach...we are f*cked because there is no leadership. How can you sign or sell players with no footballing director or coach? It's Levy's meddling once again if there is any action before they are in place.

 

[Timberwolf]

I still think Ange could surprise a few and be a healing type of manger that unites what is a volatile, toxic and broken club

Ange strikes me as the only remaining candidate that could truly unite the fans behind the club again a bit like a 2023 Martin Jol. Personality wise, he's much more avuncular like Jol than Slot is despite them both being bald dutchmen.

I would also happily take Amorim who, funnily enough, would easily be the most natural fit for our squad, but can't see him bringing the positivity that Ange would.

Anyone else and I'll be expecting the worst.

 

[septicsac]

You should really know by now that it doesn't matter if it actually was Levy , it will still be blamed on Levy.

And usually rightly so.

 

[HedgieSpur]

Some of the stuff written on here about Amorim is just ridiculous.....better to say you dont know much about him that write such garbage ffs. If we are intent on getting a manager from Portugal, Schmidt is the one to get (but that aint gonna happen)

For me its Nagelsmann or Gallardo. Everyone else Im relatively ambivalent about

 

[Hertspur]

Did we not have ITK back when we sacked Conte that Amorim wouldn't work with Levy or was that someone else? (or did I just imagine it?)

 

[Nick-TopSpursMan]

I don't know who said it now but regarding "Amorim's Sporting averaged less possession in the CL' than Marseille etc.

You do realise that in both games against Marseille they went down to 10 and 9 men respectively.

First game the GK Adan was a total disaster. They went 1-up after 1 minute

This is how they started - 7 men in attack.
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Then Adan had an absolute disaster class.

First he tried a long pass only for it to deflect into goal.
Then he came for a cross and left the goal almost completely open.
Then he came for a ball he had no need to go for and got sent off.

Second game, they were down to 10 after 19 mins.
Then down to 9 after 60.

So yeah..of course they had little possession!!

Why is no-one talking about their smart 2-0 win over us?
Or how they thrashed Frankfurt 3-0 and dominated?
How they thrashed Besiktas twice?
Or how they beat both Dortmund?
Or how they dominated Juventus and were unlucky to lose?

Yeah they get thrashed by City and Ajax, they also get outdone by Porto and Benfica but Amorim has a far inferior squad and has made some of these players look like world beaters...

A lot of players he lost haven't gone onto better things.
Trincão has been a disappointment elsewhere, yet has been very good for Sporting. Same with Porro
Gonçalves, Paulinho, Matheus Nunes, Ugarte etc all came form nowhere and bigger clubs want/wanted them.

Amorim won't demand big money players, he won't cause frictions or attack players. He is a good character.

He fits us in more ways than some can accept.

Having possession against Juventus means nothing because they have Allegri, a rubbish and low block counter merchant. Juventus are 10th, yes 10th! For average possession in Serie A.

At home to Arsenal, Sporting had 32% possession. Away they had 47%.

Against Dortmund in the CL, they had 35% possession at home and Dortmund played the last 15 mins with 10 men. Away they had 41% possession.

We can try to kid ourselves but Amorim is generally another pragmatic coach with the same structure and style as Conte. His system has the same inherent weaknesses which would see us fall back in to a low block counter style in most matches.

Players like Edwards, Pote, Trincao etc just make the system look better and more fluid because they are agile, nimble players who are fluid with the ball.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

Did we not have ITK back when we sacked Conte that Amorim wouldn't work with Levy or was that someone else? (or did I just imagine it?)

The most recent ITK from a few days ago was saying he impressed in the interview.

 

[jpascavitz]

Did we not have ITK back when we sacked Conte that Amorim wouldn't work with Levy or was that someone else? (or did I just imagine it?)

I thought it was a local Portuguese outlet reporting that, so who knows.

 

[Albertbarich]

Come on, if we won't pay for Slot were not paying for Amorim no matter what style he uses.

 

[WannaDanceWithUdogie]

If it's brendan i'm done

 

[Hertspur]

If it's brendan i'm done

Surely we'd just appoint Mason before we got that far down the list

 

[Gpnash84]

If you are leaving a job you’ve done well in to suddenly take on Pep, Klopp, Ten Haag etc, you would absolutely want to know you are being backed not just in terms of funds but in the implementation of your ideas, with a structure that supports that. There’s no way Spurs can fool any top manager right now that’s what he’ll get. To add to that it seems the club hierarchy can’t even settle on a firm candidate and are continually sounding out multiple options. We already know it’s gone wrong and the only thing left is to now see how bad it gets. I genuinely think you’ll start to hear about a desperate and failed attempt to prise Poch by the weekend.