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nedley

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A side note.

Eddie Howe is a bloody fine manager. Just look at what he's done at Bournemouth.

But anyways. Poch will turn this around.
 

Stamford

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Some of our support deserve Howe.

Our support deserve a trophy. Most expensive tickets in works football and years of our divans winning while we are nearly men and that's without the Sugar era, Judas etc. Some people speak like Tottenham are Leyton Orient.
 

Lighty64

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I’m sat here laughing after a defeat as I’m thinking back over the last two years and how many times this clown has tried to reinvent the wheel?

Son at LWB

Sánchez at rb

Foyth at right back

Rose at centre mid

Then the strange selections I honestly think he thinks he’s better than he is ?

19 points in 21 games is making me start to believe he’s a fraud that is actually a lucky manager rather than a good manager.

sorry you are either a troll, or a massive WUM. totally agree with Son but for gods sake Sanchez was tried at RB because KWP was injured, and Aurier wasn't ready.

Foyth hasn't played RB in the league yet, he was injured in the preseason.

Rose was played as a CM because we were light on squad players, and was so low he had to experiment.

19pts in 21 games? last season is over. did we receive a trophy when it was noted over a 2 season spell we were top points scorers?

we suffered from January with our AWAY form, and we were KNACKERED. Am I the only 1 that thought we would struggle the 2nd half of the season because of what we had faced.
 

Archibald&Crooks

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No thanks to Rodgers. Absolute weirdo and too much of a risk. He’s won nothing of note. If Poch goes, only a proper winner will be acceptable.
Good luck with that. Levy will hire Howe and spend the following three years with his arm up Howe’s arse working him like a ventriloquist’s puppet during transfer windows :D
 

LSUY

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I like Howe. But you don’t build an £800m stadium, a world class training ground and the highest expectations in our history and replace Poch with Howe.

If Levy acts, then he needs someone to deliver at the highest level. And that is someone who is proven.

How many proven managers would be willing to work in our set up? Can't see many of them willing to put up with two consecutive transfer windows without a single signing.
 

Ghost Hardware

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It's been our downfall. But from what we've heard that is partly down to Poch as well.

We NEVER strike when the iron is hot.
I completely agree. It's impossible to judge who's to blame. Who's to say Levy was offering C rate players and Poch knew we would end up having to ship them out after two seasons. Andre Gomes for example. Or Levy actually offered quality and Poch wasn't interested. For what it's worth, Lo Celso, Ndombele and Dybala are exactly the type of players we should be after. But getting only two of those in two seasons is sooooo far from acceptable for a team trying to, or supposedly trying to, win something.
 

Stamford

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A side note.

Eddie Howe is a bloody fine manager. Just look at what he's done at Bournemouth.

But anyways. Poch will turn this around.

Getting Howe would confirm that Levy will never change. We need people with a history of winning, especially in the team.
 

Guntz

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I don't even care if I'm dirty for saying it but Mourinho would 100% win us a few trophies if he had this squad for the next 2-3 years. Trouble is Eriksen, Verts, Toby, etc could all be gone next year.
 

Lighty64

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He keeps making mistakes. Tactics, player selection and substitutions are, more often than not, very strange.

He is negative, he is moody, he is moany. Our form has fallen off a cliff and he has done nothing to change it.

When he first came on, he revolutions us as a club. But football has moved on and he has not adapted his style of football. We have no pace, no guile and very little attacking shape. We have no width and no clear strategy to break teams down.

And all this has been a constant theme since January 2019. That’s almost 10 months. And we are bottom 3 in the league table this calendar year. It is appalling with the quality of players he has available.

I love him for all he has done. But it’s time for all parties to move on and freshen up.

you must be related to him:whistle:
 

jolegend

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How many proven managers would be willing to work in our set up? Can't see many of them willing to put up with two consecutive transfer windows without a single signing.
By all accounts Pochettino was stubborn during those windows. When we couldn’t afford some of his first options, he wouldn’t consider any alternatives.
 
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On the subject of Jose, people are willing to sacrifice probable attractive football in favour of results and silverware ...

That's interesting.
 

SugarRay

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How many proven managers would be willing to work in our set up? Can't see many of them willing to put up with two consecutive transfer windows without a single signing.

Set up needs changing then. The whole point of the stadium etc was to compete, properly compete.

Any next appointment will tell us exactly what the plan for the club really is.
 

KikoSpurs

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He's got nearly 5 years left on his contract and is our most valuable asset. Who is going to come in and put in an offer big enough for Levy to agree to let him leave?

Bayern Munich for example. Lewandoski is getting old.
 

ILS

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The last two trophies won at this football club were the last two times we appointed managers who had won big trophies previously. Both those managers had their weaknesses and both had average squads to work with apart from one or two top players, however we still won a trophy.

Every manager in between and since Ramos left have had good reputations on arrival but for what reasons couldn't get us over the line.

For the last four seasons Poch has worked with the best spurs squad the majority of us have ever saw in our life time, yet we haven't managed to win anything. Even in the two finals we have manage to get to under his reign, the majority of fans didn't really believe deep down that we would win either of those finals. His game management of big semi finals/ finals has always been his downfall and I can't see this ever changing.

When he does move on I will be mixed with emotion due to my love for the way he created a spurs team to be proud of, however everything runs it course and maybe at the end of the season it is time to move on for both parties.
 
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