The Manager Search 2: Search Harder

[Swalien]

Why is there no Neil Warnock option ? Or Ian Holloway ? Those two would bring back the entertainment,

 

[hellava_tough]

Why is there no Neil Warnock option ? Or Ian Holloway ? Those two would bring back the entertainment,

Part of me wanted Gattuso for that reason

Seriously though, what a mess!

 

[Spurs Lodge Kittens]

The fact that some are saying Potter won't come shows the flipping mess we're in as a club. The Brighton manager turning us down ffs.

For the record, I wanted Potter in the summer. Fingers crossed.

 

[ilikeost]

Why the fuck isn't Sherwood on the list?

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Nuno out now and replace with the enigmatic king that is the GOAT!!! .... that tongue wagging is equivalent too 10 years of Nuno passion and energy in one!!!

 

[hellava_tough]

The fact that some are saying Potter won't come shows the flipping mess we're in as a club. The Brighton manager turning us down ffs.

For the record, I wanted Potter in the summer. Fingers crossed.

I agree.

Potter's got to be looking a Leicester and the slow decline of Rodgers' side.

Would be the next stepping stone in his career at a club that seems to be well run, with ambitious owners.

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Fudge he is till here then

 

[Real_madyidd]

Voted Levy. Then realised he could sack himself and get a nice payoff so it's like a wet dream for him.

 

[Arden]

We obviously had issues in the summer trying to recruit an elite-level, or even a top-level, coach.

Nothing's really changed, so I could see Levy going for Parker next.

Scotty seems to tick all the boxes; an ex-Spurs man, who would relish the chance at managing a high-profile club.

I'd certainly support Parker if he came in, but I don't think a young, relatively inexperienced coach who hasn't done anything extraordinary in football yet, should be managing one of the richest clubs in the world.

Levy needs to bite the bullet, put £200m to £300m aside for transfer funds and go and get an elite level coach in.

There are ways of spending that money to maximise profit and retain value, but ultimately the problems at the club aren't going to be cheap to fix.

The football world, especially the PL, has moved on in the last 10 years. The likes of Potter, etc, are getting paid really good money at smaller clubs, so there's not really a huge incentive to move to Spurs unless there's a genuinely interesting 'project' available, which is suitably resourced.

Levy is competing at the highest level with the big-boys now, not managing one of his dad's cut-price clothing outfits.

I wish he'd start acting like a competitive CEO at the top of their industry.

We don't have 200m - 300m and even if we did you could do all of the above and still not get success. I get the die trying attitude but I still think the best way is to go back to what we had at the start of the Poch era. Identify a progressive young coach, integrate young hungry players and press like fuck.

We could spend 200m but we'd probably still only finish 6th not sure what that really achieves.

 

[jbstarr14]

In response to a couple of posters saying that managers won’t want to risk their reputations by coming here:

We’re getting close to this situation becoming a ‘free hit’ for any manager coming in - any improvement would be oh-so-gratefully received, and any ‘failure’ would be hard to lay at the new manager’s door when taken in the context of the last two years.

They’d be heroes if they succeeded in turning this around, and I think that could appeal to more than we might currently think.

 

[hellava_tough]

We don't have 200m - 300m and even if we did you could do all of the above and still not get success. I get the die trying attitude but I still think the best way is to go back to what we had at the of Poch era. Identify a progressive young coach, integrate young hungry players and press like fuck.

We could spend 200m but we'd probably still only finish 6th not sure what that really achieves.

I think that's a fair point; perhaps I was a bit gung-ho with my post.

It's just frustrating when we're such a big club all things considered, yet we're still not getting the basics right on the football side of things.

If we decide to go down the route you're suggesting, we need to study the way the likes of Ajax and Dortmund do it.

Philosophy, hunger to win, recruitment and coaching.

Have a plan in place and execute it.

After 20 years, you'd have thought Levy would have come up with a successful and consistent strategy to run a football club.

 

[dondo]

Potter for me (won’t happen though) and a new start. Players needed to be told you are either100% in or find another club.
There are clearly issues off the pitch with the players that have been going on for a while

 

[Mr Pink]

My g/f says calm down it's only a game...wtf lol

 

[hellava_tough]

In response to a couple of posters saying that managers won’t want to risk their reputations by coming here:

We’re getting close to this situation becoming a ‘free hit’ for any manager coming in - any improvement would be oh-so-gratefully received, and any ‘failure’ would be hard to lay at the new manager’s door when taken in the context of the last two years.

They’d be heroes if they succeeded in turning this around, and I think that could appeal to more than we might currently think.

In theory I agree, but when it comes down to it, what are the chances that a manager will ever succeed at Spurs?

There's going to have to be a fairly robust squad-rebuild over the next few seasons and Levy is going to be in the middle of it, quibbling over ever last detail in every last transfer contract.

If you're an up and coming coach, doing well at your current club, can you really be bothered with all of the nonsense that goes on at our club, with the off-chance that Levy might fluke-it and put together a decent squad a la 2015/16 and 2016/17?

You'd probably just want to carry on until a better proposition comes along; join a club with slightly less resources, but where the chairman doesn't interfere and where the recruitment team get you the players you want.

 

[Arden]

I think that's a fair point; perhaps I was a bit gung-ho with my post.

It's just frustrating when we're such a big club all things considered, yet we're still not getting the basics right on the football side of things.

If we decide to go down the route you're suggesting, we need to study the way the likes of Ajax and Dortmund do it.

Philosophy, hunger to win, recruitment and coaching.

Have a plan in place and execute it.

After 20 years, you'd have thought Levy would have come up with a successful and consistent strategy to run a football club.

I think the problem is we were that Dortmund/Ajax club a few years ago and we tried to transition to something more. The problem is we didn't/couldn't commit to it fully, got decisions wrong etc. etc. Now we're left holding the legacy of that and can't or won't just jettison so much financial outlay.

I'm really not sure where we go as a club now. Like I said the only route I see is getting someone in who can implement some kind of pattern of attacking play and hope we win a cup or two.

 

[midoshairband]

My g/f says calm down it's only a game...wtf lol

international break coming up, maybe a good time to get rid. ?

 

[hellava_tough]

Potter for me (won’t happen though) and a new start. Players needed to be told you are either100% in or find another club.
There are clearly issues off the pitch with the players that have been going on for a while

The issues are...

(i) There isn't a philosophy of winning at the club.

(ii) The players know that Levy won't push them out of the club, because he wants to squeeze every last drop of 'value' out of a sale. So they're quite happy to cruise along in their luxury, state of the art surroundings and pick up their pay-cheques week in and week out.

(iii) Replacements for said-players are difficult to come by because our recruitment is pretty useless (various reasons for this).

 

[Radiant]

In response to a couple of posters saying that managers won’t want to risk their reputations by coming here:

We’re getting close to this situation becoming a ‘free hit’ for any manager coming in - any improvement would be oh-so-gratefully received, and any ‘failure’ would be hard to lay at the new manager’s door when taken in the context of the last two years.

They’d be heroes if they succeeded in turning this around, and I think that could appeal to more than we might currently think.

But you could say the same about our position before Nuno joined, and look how long it's taken before people want him out.

 

[Spursmatty87]

I’ve gone realistic with Parker, no way I would of said that in the summer but that’s where we are now I guess.

 

[Arden]

I don't have a problem with Parker, I don't he's the next Pep or Klopp but I don't know what people realistically expected him to do with Fulham they probably had the 20th best squad and finished 18th. He at least after a difficult start got them setup with a system and were reasonable to watch.