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Jose Mourinho

How do you feel about Mourinho appointment

  • Excited - silverware here we come baby

    Votes: 666 46.7%
  • Meh - will give him a chance and hope he is successful

    Votes: 468 32.8%
  • Horrified - praying for the day he'll fuck off

    Votes: 292 20.5%

  • Total voters
    1,426

tony0379

The bald midget has to go!
May 17, 2004
15,802
41,080


Watch this guys, fascinating. Basically Mourinho describing his tactics in detail on how he beat that fantastic Barcelona team when Inter eventually reached the final of the CL. He is a tactical magician and it’s no wonder why this guy is so successful everywhere he goes. I am so excited at this new era at Spurs under Jose.

Really interesting. Looks like Moura and Son will be definite starters
 

thePessimist

Well-Known Member
Jul 4, 2012
1,261
3,344
Has everyone considered that we may well have changed as a club financially and we will start to see that now.
We spent good money this summer with a couple of players being on big big money and we know there were or are big contracts on the table for players presently
I also found it staggering that we are now paying our manager the second highest salary in world football - just let that sink in for a second.
Now I’m not saying we will spend like city - but I wouldn’t be surprised if (as a few itks have alluded to) we will now start seeing the benefit of our stadium move, stature change and champs final visit.
That’s actually why I agree with the poch change being needed - that momentum can not be lost and It was looking more likely with every game that passed

i keep coming back to this too. it seems to be the right time for us to change our ways
 

Shadydan

Well-Known Member
Jul 7, 2012
38,247
104,143
So much has been written and said about Mourinho. One thing is as clear as day, and excuse the pun, but in the end all Spurs fans should be united on this.

If it all goes terribly wrong, and to make matters worse, we end up being the only side he's ever managed that doesn't win silverware and it all ends in the same acrimonious way it does with all the other clubs he has left there can and should be no doubt whatsoever that this should all be on Levy's shoulders !

There can and should be no excuses this time for Levy, no one at this club should be trying to even defend Levy for this, if it all goes pear shaped and we don't even see any of the silver lined good bits.

I hope it doesn't happen pan out this way, and I'm not even saying it will, I'm simply saying that there is a risk that it could. It's not as if Levy can say he didn't go into this with his eyes shut, or he can say that he was either completely or even mildly unaware of what could possibly go wrong, the entire bloody world in this case knows only too well what could go wrong.

I think this is as bold as Levy has gone in any gamble, and there can and should be no hiding place if the Mourinho gamble fails so badly here and Poch succeeds so well elsewhere. If that happens we will quite rightly face the full force and ridicule and eternal told you so's that any football club has ever faced.

Only time will tell what will happen.....let's all hope, me included that it doesn't begin, happen and end in the way many know it could.

Do you know how entirely forced and stupid this sounds?
 

spursfan77

Well-Known Member
Aug 13, 2005
46,680
104,957
I’m only a third through but The Debate with Harry Redknapp and McCoist on last night is worth a watch if you can today. Redknapp echos a lot of the thoughts we’ve had on here about Poch over the last 6 months. He could almost be a poster on here if he knew how to switch on a computer.
 

topper

Well-Known Member
Jan 27, 2008
3,806
16,254
I feel like there's a change already. I worked from home yesterday and listened to talk sport from 8-5, and literally all day it was José and Spurs talk.

BBC football currently has the first 5 stories as José and Spurs. I haven't ever seen that regarding Spurs or any other manager we've had.

In the football world I think we're always seen as 'nice' Tottenham. Try and play the right way but ultimately are never a proper threat. We're not properly feared, or certainly we've become not feared.

I think just having José in charge can give us a psychological advantage. I think teams will start to fear us again. I think he'll make us really hard to beat. Despite things falling apart at utd when he was there, their first 11 was nowhere near at the quality of ours.

Personally I've never been as excited to be a Spurs fan.
Oh I don’t know - walking toward the stadium in Madrid before the Champions League final was a tad exciting!
 

hughy

I'm SUPER cereal.
Nov 18, 2007
31,842
56,935
article repeatedly says “Spurs are not a top European club”. I’d love to know their definition.
Probably not the same definition of "top club" as Harry Redknapp uses.


"Well Colchester, they're a top, top club..."
 

KILLA_SIN

Well-Known Member
May 24, 2008
7,813
14,455

Mourinho told Levy and the Spurs hierarchy that he has spent his 11 months out of management developing a new football strategy and philosophy. He also stressed to them his Manchester United record proves he will promote youth – if he deems them to be good enough. Mourinho meanwhile laid out plans for recruitment, but insisted he sees Spurs as already having one of the best squads in the league.


This was especially persuasive for Levy. He similarly thinks his club have the third best squad in the league, which was one other reason he grew tired of Mauricio Pochettino’s complaints and appeals for a rebuild.

They were similarly blown away when they met him almost exactly four years ago, when Louis van Gaal was still in a job. Mourinho produced a hugely persuasive dossier that – yes – insisted he had a new philosophy of football after the turmoil of Chelsea, and offered a forensic but optimistic assessment of the then United squad. He insisted he was a huge fan of Marcus Rashford.

They were proven to be mere words. His time at United went largely as expected, for a manager then seen as past his peak. There were flashes of old glory through some new trophies, but ultimately dissatisfaction and under-performance amid a lot of rancour.
So how will this go?

perhaps the bigger question is really this: if you are implementing an idealised model of a club and what your best practice is – as has been so vaunted about Spurs – how do you go from having managers like Brendan Rodgers and Julian Nagelsmann as first choices to one like Mourinho? They really couldn’t be more different
 

Amo

Well-Known Member
Aug 22, 2013
15,795
31,480
Has everyone considered that we may well have changed as a club financially and we will start to see that now.
We spent good money this summer with a couple of players being on big big money and we know there were or are big contracts on the table for players presently
I also found it staggering that we are now paying our manager the second highest salary in world football - just let that sink in for a second.
Now I’m not saying we will spend like city - but I wouldn’t be surprised if (as a few itks have alluded to) we will now start seeing the benefit of our stadium move, stature change and champs final visit.
That’s actually why I agree with the poch change being needed - that momentum can not be lost and It was looking more likely with every game that passed

Yup, and if he could only stop being so stubborn just enough to not have us on relegation form for a year, he'd be in charge through the new spending regime rather than merely the start of it. After five-and-a-half years of austerity it must hurt that some next fucker will jump in just as Levy lets loose on spending.
 
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SirHarryHotspur

Well-Known Member
Aug 9, 2017
5,006
7,430
If Jose can improve our record in the so called top 6 teams table it would be a result, in his last full season 17/18 at Man U results against Arsenal, Chelsea, Man City , Liverpool and Us , 6 wins 1 draw 3 defeats .
 

Spurrific

Well-Known Member
Jun 2, 2011
13,501
57,356
I wasn't really on-board yesterday, but feeling a bit better about it now. If the players can apply some of the technical stuff they learned from Poch, along with Jose's teachings and instilling of a winning mentality - we could do well.

Could also be a car crash, obvs.
 

tototoner

Staying Alert
Mar 21, 2004
29,389
34,060
Seeing a lot of positivity and negativity on here, social media and radio phone ins among Tottenham fans.

Personally I am on the fence
 

Hakkz

Svensk hetsporre
Jul 6, 2012
8,196
17,270
Excited, but not because of "silverware here we come". More because finally we are doing something different and I can look forward to a game again which I haven't for months.
 

Thewobbler

Well-Known Member
Oct 29, 2016
3,814
5,701
I hope the buzz this has created rubs off on the players. That's all I care about. Get back to winning ways. I'm happy he's here, he is a winner and a good tactician.
 

Danners9

Available on a Free Transfer
Mar 30, 2004
13,998
20,756
I am all for it because, mostly, it's what we've got and I want Spurs to win games.

But also because I have been bored watching the majority of Spurs games for quite a long time. I felt the players weren't willing/able to put in the required energy, the style of play was increasingly dull most of the time, crazy silly errors, and I didn't like the substitutions (lack thereof..) going back to the 2nd leg vs Juve at Wembley.

If there wasn't going to be a change with Poch, and I hoped week after week there would be, then there has to be a change from Poch.

Also, I am choosing to buy into the 'he's learned, is refreshed, has a new style of playing' side of things (the new backroom staff is a good sign) over the 'he's a dinosaur'/'this is a huge gamble' angle some of the press have come out with since yesterday.

Silverware? we'll see. Start by beating West Ham. If Poch hadn't gone this week, it would have felt he was one game away from disaster anyway.
 

yido_number1

He'll always be magic
Jun 8, 2004
8,646
16,809
Completely mixed feelings about the whole thing. So gutted and sad to see Poch go after everything he has delivered for us. Intrepid about the style of play we might be about to see come rolling in like going away from home to any top 6 club and defending the shit out of the game (See UTD and Chelsea at Anfield). Interested to see if Mourinho can change the Spurs mentality of being the nearly men all the time and actually get us over the line.

In my mind I know what Mourinho is capable of, I just feel like we've gone from sacking Luke SkyWalker to hiring Darth Vader. Hard to process things at the moment.
 

Haddock

Captain
Oct 16, 2017
2,025
6,357
Right now with this group of players I don't believe a "Project" manager would be the right call. All managers have projects of course but Mourinho projects tend to get the best out of players in a short amount of time. That will suit our senior players and that's why I feel it's the pragmatic and right way to go at this particular time.

Coaches like Ten Haag or Nagelsmann would excite me as well - but in a totally different way.
 
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