Next Manager Watch

[Oh Teddy Teddy]

I'd imagine they'd turn their attention to Arteta before anyone else.

I reckon they'd struggle to take him out of Arsenal anytime soon. Kompany would come running, though.

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Kompany is obviously a bad idea. He has a literal statue at the Etihad.

 

[PCozzie]

Slot will absolutely need a DOF, he is a pure coach - bloody brilliant one who we should be all over like Trent Crimm is with me at the moment

Someone should be in Slot's ear day and night telling him what a great club we are. Text him, email him, drive up and down outside his house with one of those advertising lorries until he signs a five-year contract. If only there was someone on Spurs Community who the Club could employ to badger Slot....








(I'm taking a massive punt on this joke not having been done yet, but frankly I'm not wading back to find out... so here it is)

 

[Metalhead]

Kompany is a no for me. If he does well, he’d leave to City within a few years, and the speculation would be endless until then.

Within a few years? Considering how long coaches last these days, I wouldn't worry about that.

 

[hughy]

Kompany is a no for me. If he does well, he’d leave to City within a few years, and the speculation would be endless until then.

I always thought the Gerrard to Villa appointment was a similar scenario with everyone tipping him for Liverpool after Klopp. It was going to end badly for Villa whether he was really good or really shite. Same with Kompany if he came to us.

 

[JUSTINSIGNAL]

Yup , the media love a fuck-up story and an alarming number on here are swallowing this clickbait narrative.

All this bull about 'I only care that we play good football' we see here. I call bullshit...If 6-7 defeats playing attacking footie occurred these types would be raging for a new manager. We want to win matches essentially.

So Conte raged about the club...sheesh a few insults here and there go right by me. The true offence committed by Conte for me was his dated rigidity. Happy he's gone. BUT he's done OK. He's forced Levy to buy players...for various reasons all haven't shone yet but will. We got 4th from a v difficult position. and now we are 4th (temporarily) again. This is an improvement. Crisis is those in relegation peril we don't have a fucking crisis.

Fuck..so what that Paratici made a statement and next day his ban came in. Ali Gold going apeshit wtf ? who cares ?....until recently Gold was raging that Paratici doesn't do enough communication via media ffs !

Old guys chime in here about how great it was last century and they cared back then.....Last League victory was '61...yes a few cup competitions. We've been close in the last 10 years, but hey, cups are like that. The club is still here. Get behind it .

We have good players, just a couple more additions could turn it into challengers. I'll run through them for removal of doubt for the frail of mind . Romero, Porro, Biss, Bents, Skipp, new Emerson, Son (back on form) Sarr, Udogie, Kulusevski.PEH has his moments, Richie may come good...then Kane's replacement bought with the 100 mill of his sale..or the man himself.

So Paratici got banned...thats just bad luck, he brought in a good few excellent players. We'll just go out and get another excellent DoF...no big deal. Well done Fabio..but ya gotta go sadly.

Yes we have a Chairman who only needs top 4. Conte has brought extra pressure on him happily. Levy will buy in the summer no matter who is managing.

Its been great fun wringing your hands and wailing about what a terrible club we are and that no manager with any class would come. But we play Monday and I for one will be rooting for the new management, I'm excited to see who plays and how we set up after poor, dated, over rigid management...which still managed to keep us near the top.

Fucking crisis ? Stop swallowing whole the media going about their business and generating clicks. Its their job .

Bravo sir

 

[Yantino]

Given the clubs position in world football, I am more than entitled to expect to play entertaining, attacking football and also win.

They are not mutually exclusive nor should we as fans lower our standards and expect less.

 

[Steffen]

Within a few years? Considering how long coaches last these days, I wouldn't worry about that.

Would be extra annoying then, wouldn't it? We finally get a long term manager who brings success, then he fucks off to City.

 

[Harrier]

If you go off past history, then end of May will be an absolute miracle

He didn’t mention which year!

 

[Cel]

Would be extra annoying then, wouldn't it? We finally get a long term manager who brings success, then he fucks off to City.

No, cos of that bit.

 

[cunn1ngstunt]

Levy is clearly looking for a new puppet so I’d imagine ‘a Kompany man’ would be ideal

 

[Tucker]

No one has mentioned Nagelsmann for pages and pages, and suddenly A&C comes in screaming ”it’s fucking Nagelsmann.”

 

[Atomic Blonde]

Ex Spurs player Sandro raving about De Zerbi in a new BBC article (Sandro worked under De Zerbi at Italian side Benevento in 2018) says he will become "one of the very best" :-

Why De Zerbi is set to be 'one of the very best'

Roberto de Zerbi has got Brighton challenging for Europe, BBC Sport talk to the people who know him the best.

www.bbc.co.uk

These two extracts stand out:-
"An obsessive coach, De Zerbi is always searching for solutions. Rather than just resorting to the transfer market, he wants to help players learn and develop. Domenico Berardi, Manuel Locatelli and Giacomo Raspadori all took their performances to the next level under his watch"

"He showed Italy how to play a different type of football. We were very brave and we weren't afraid of anyone. It's a very complicated style of football, but when you look at it on the TV, it's very nice. When I watch Brighton sometimes, I laugh to myself because I recognise the situations. He properly put his ideas in our minds."

 

[spursfan77]

As soon as Nagelsmann became available I thought we need to jump on that straight away, but after a a week to actually think about it, I don't think that's best for us right now.

I'm not sure another hot head "elite" type manager is what we really need and do genuinely think a Slot type manager would be perfect, someone with a good philosophy, can put an arm around the players at the right time and build something with some very good young players mind you, maybe that's what we need right now.

I don't think the top tier managers out there will ever work under Levy, we've tried 2 in a row and both have failed mostly.

We need a new Martin Jol, a new Poch, just someone to come in and at the very least get the fans back singing in our own fucking stadium and making it intimidating again.

To the tune of Baby Shark “ Arne Slot, do do, do do, do do do do”

 

[Metalhead]

Would be extra annoying then, wouldn't it? We finally get a long term manager who brings success, then he fucks off to City.

I just think that whoever came in and was a success, they will be linked with a move. I really don't think that it's worth worrying about.

 

[theShiznit]

Ex Spurs player Sandro raving about De Zerbi in a new BBC article (Sandro worked under De Zerbi at Italian side Benevento in 2018) says he will become "one of the very best" :-

Why De Zerbi is set to be 'one of the very best'

Roberto de Zerbi has got Brighton challenging for Europe, BBC Sport talk to the people who know him the best.

www.bbc.co.uk

These two extracts stand out:-
"An obsessive coach, De Zerbi is always searching for solutions. Rather than just resorting to the transfer market, he wants to help players learn and develop. Domenico Berardi, Manuel Locatelli and Giacomo Raspadori all took their performances to the next level under his watch"

"He showed Italy how to play a different type of football. We were very brave and we weren't afraid of anyone. It's a very complicated style of football, but when you look at it on the TV, it's very nice. When I watch Brighton sometimes, I laugh to myself because I recognise the situations. He properly put his ideas in our minds."

If he's good enough for Sandro he's good enough for me.

You look at Brighton and see players that aren't stand out players, but their team play is excellent, TBH i love pass and move football above all else so any manager that can get us popping the ball around gets a tick from me but i honestly enjoy watching Brighton play.

I know there was some article claiming it was a year too early for him but i would happily test the water...

 

[Jim De hat]

You know that these guys can read and talk to other managers etc. they are not being released from some pod where they’ve been hibernating unfettered by modern society into a world where preying levy attacks the newborn and fills him with disinformation ?

Love the name Trent - but you quit the Independent ? No ?

 

[Japhet]

Ex Spurs player Sandro raving about De Zerbi in a new BBC article (Sandro worked under De Zerbi at Italian side Benevento in 2018) says he will become "one of the very best" :-

Why De Zerbi is set to be 'one of the very best'

Roberto de Zerbi has got Brighton challenging for Europe, BBC Sport talk to the people who know him the best.

www.bbc.co.uk

These two extracts stand out:-
"An obsessive coach, De Zerbi is always searching for solutions. Rather than just resorting to the transfer market, he wants to help players learn and develop. Domenico Berardi, Manuel Locatelli and Giacomo Raspadori all took their performances to the next level under his watch"

"He showed Italy how to play a different type of football. We were very brave and we weren't afraid of anyone. It's a very complicated style of football, but when you look at it on the TV, it's very nice. When I watch Brighton sometimes, I laugh to myself because I recognise the situations. He properly put his ideas in our minds."

I don't care who we get now as long as it's not another dinosaur prima donna type or another 'we want to play without the ball' merchant. Let's have a bit of panache, a bit of courage, a bit of entertainment FFS, then maybe we can get behind the team and have something to sing and shout about.

 

[spurs9]

Never heard of Slot before 2 days ago and still know nothing about him but if he's not our manager by 31st May I'm rioting.

It's the SC effect.

Here is a bit about him.

His first job was as AZ's manager (where he had been an assistant for 2 years). He took over a side that finished 4th the previous year and finished his first season in 2nd. They were actually tied on points with 1st place Ajax, who won it on goal difference, in a season that finished 9 games early due to Covid.

He was sacked from AZ 1/3 of the way through his 2nd season due to having talks with Feyenoord about joining them.

At the end of that season he took over Feyenoord, who had finished 5 the season before, and took them to 3rd and also got them to the conference league final, narrowly losing 1-0 to Roma.

This season he has Feyenoord 6 points clear of 2nd place Ajax with 8 games to go and his the toughest league game he has remaining is away vs 6th place Sparta. They are also in the semi final of the dutch cup (v Ajax) and semi final of the Europa league v Roma.

His team play an front foot attacking style with quick passing and movement (check out the video below).

I think he would be a great fit, however I have some reservations:
He has only been a manager for 3 seasons, so lacks experience.
Personally, I would prefer someone who has been able to get his team over the line in some cups and, ideally a league title, just to show the can get the winning mentality into players.

That said, if he does win the league, dutch cup and Europa League, he would jump up into my top 3 along with Gallardo and Nagelsmann.

Edit: Despite being considered one of the big 3, winning the title with Feyenoord would be a big achievement, as it would only be their 2nd win in 23 years.

 

[Albertbarich]

So many good options out there.

Need the DOF situation sorting asap though.

I'd imagine Naglesmann is still the clear choice (he should be) so he will be wanting to know who he is working under/with. Same for anyone else but if we want to attract a manager of his stature then we need a structure in place he will believe in.

If not him the Poch, De Zerbi, Postegcoglu, Slot and Kompany all play good football and should be attainable -if we sort our shit out.

Seen some content that says Slot is overly reliant on wing play and also saw the Ajax game highlights and defensively they looked dangerously open, not sure you get away with that in this league.

In regards to Naglesmann, I think Madrid want Poch, he seems better suited to them in my opinion. Chelsea are surely sticking with Potter after everything he has gone through so far and with the huge squad numbers and turnover there I'm not sure they're anymore of a sensible choice than we are despite the silly budgets. I don't see the Milan clubs as rivals as we can offer double the wages of either and Klopp is going nowhere. So where else could Naglesmann go? I feel pretty confident we can get him, again if we sort out shit out. PSG? He would be insane, everyone fails there, the front three won't press a key component of his tactics and he will likely get little say in their incomings.

It's all there for us to have a nice fresh start. Just down to the club to...sort it's shit out.