Next Manager Watch

[dontcallme]

I want Rodgers.

It's been fun watching our fans struggle to spell the name of our foreign players, despite them being here for years.

Watching us fail to spell as common a surname as Rogers, will bring me a little joy.

 

[journeyman]

I’ve always stood by Levy, the club has come a long way in the last 20 years, but this is another complete embarrassment after the 10 week+ search that gave us Nuno in 2021… I can’t believe he’s allowed this to happen again.

 

[spurs mental]

I want Rodgers.

It's been fun watching our fans struggle to spell the name of our foreign players, despite them being here for years.

Watching us fail to spell a common surname as Rogers, will bring me a little joy.

 

[cabinfever]

I want Rodgers.

It's been fun watching our fans struggle to spell the name of our foreign players, despite them being here for years.

Watching us fail to spell a common surname as Rogers, will bring me a little joy.

I genuinely cannot stand the guy!!

 

[mil1lion]

Thing is, if a new manager comes in and he doesn't have an established pedigree. Would you allow him to sell, arguably, our best players (and not to mention our most lucrative earners)?

How much would you trust a new guy in matters of this magnitude? It might be the right thing to do but would you trust someone that much immediately? There has to be some give and take. Managers do need to earn trust because manuveurs like that can backfire massively.

That said, we need to be sceptical of everything we hear. This is all hypothetical.

Didn't Nuno want us to sell Kane? It's definitely a valid point. You have to back the manager to some extent but until they're proven they should not get too much control. I think Poch earned that but would have been crazy to give him too much control at the start. His transfer choices were not good either so it's also important to get a DOF in. Those years without one left the squad in tatters.

 

[dontcallme]

I genuinely cannot stand the guy!!

Totally agree cabindfever.

 

[arunspurs]

spot on,

its not just results its identity we want to see we are building something, we want to see a plan and clear direction!

What are you talking about ?

We are building something , a Karting track….

Our plan is to have no plan….

Our direction is , “Everything everywhere all at once”

 

[philll]

It's unthinkable that they'd turn their backs on someone who is by all accounts the perfect manager for us because it'd cost a bit more than they think it should to get him out of his current club. They've mismanaged the football side of this club for years, if getting bent over a barrel is the price of getting out of the slump then just suck it up and pay up ffs. The leadership of this club is exasperating.

 

[Wick3d]

Is that the order they are employed in this season?
Start with Rodgers
Sack him in October and appoint Potter in November.
Sack Potter in March and let Mason see the season out again

At some point, Mason has to say no. We can't keep coming back to him; he should argue to Levy that you should give him the job permanently. The only problem is who does Levy turn to when he eventually sacks Mason?

 

[Cinemattis]

10:35 AM

I always struggled with anxiety and so when I see it creeping into people's post here, I try my best to show how I rationalise myself down from insanity, I actually worry people will find it condescending. It's not because I know better regarding football, I clearly don't, that's why I haven't said we need this or that manager this time. It's just because I know what letting anxiety run rampant does to your health.

The problem with that approach is always and I mean always, when the insanity is proven right, it increases anxiety tend fold. So that's why especially when it comes to Spurs, we should I think avoid being dismissive when people show those anxieties but instead try and reason with it. It never comes from knowing best in terms of outcome because if there's one thing that supporting Spurs has taught me, it's to never be confident you know an outcome but it's for our own sanity to try and reason things down even if it ends up going the other way, at least we didn't let ourselves worry about it for 2 weeks.

In this instance I'm disappointed but I'm not panicking because I never decided that Slot was the only answer, I thought that we would get him but I knew the world would keep spinning if we didn't. If it's done with him then onto the next one.

The Celtic manager sounds good, Nagelsmann I still have some concerns with micromanagement but as has been pointed out, might have been a Bayern smear campaign. De Zebri, we don't know for certain he's unobtainable. I still think we're not in Nuno territory yet.

10:36 AM

Oh my god I forgot Gallardo is still available.

Well played, mate!

In my experience anxiety can be closely related to hope, that is that you hope strongly for something to happen (however likely or not), and when your hope is crushed you experience anxiety. Another version of the same would be that you hope something bad should not happen, but it does. It´s the highs and the lows, and the distance of the two points that creates the anxiety, panic, depression, negative thoughts ("It´s the hope that kills you").

 

[Tucker]

I genuinely cannot stand the guy!!

Neither can I. Which probably means he’ll come in and be the one to win us the league.

 

[dannyo]

When you’re running out of reasons to justify renewing your season ticket, holding on for just a thread of positivity, the unbridled fuckwittery of those in charge does nothing at all to help.

 

[GetSpurredOn]

Is that the order they are employed in this season?
Start with Rodgers
Sack him in October and appoint Potter in November.
Sack Potter in March and let Mason see the season out again

close, but below is a much more likely scenario. Rodgers or Potter now, sacked before Christmas, go back in for Nagelsmann. It’s Nuno/Conte mk2.

Rodgers will be Nuno 2

The plot never changes. Team will struggle. Fans will turn toxic. Levy will realize his mistake, sack Rodgers, and pay over the odds for Nagelsmann to come in October after not convincing him this spring/summer.

 

[thefierycamel]

Very clear that the board will go a half-arsed approach either way. They'll get rubbish players in for whichever manager they get, and absolutely no chance they bend over backwards now to get in someone like Nagelsmann, nor a DOF of his liking. The board needs to be fired, absolutely ruining the club. Probably get relegated in a couple of seasons and the muppets will still stand there befuddled as to why it happened.

 

[barry]

 

[thebenjamin]

So by all accounts Slot has been our first choice, or close to it, for months and months. And only yesterday we found out what the compensation is to hire him?

The joke is, that's either true, which means they all need to resign, or it's the PR line being spun by the club because it's more palatable than the actual truth, that they couldn't convince the Feyenoord manager to leave dutch football for the PL and a 1000% payrise. Meaning they all need to resign.

 

[Rosco1984]

spot on,

its not just results its identity we want to see we are building something, we want to see a plan and clear direction!

we are building something, a relegation

 

[Trix]

Or he couldn't agree details on the playing side. Or he had a change of heart. Or other bigger clubs started showing something interest.

There are loads of potential reasons, it's ludicrous for us to believe that we know it.

Always an excuse. So many massive mistakes over the last 5 years and all accompanied with "yeah but what if it was because" from some on here. Lets be realistic and say they can't all have been his fault(because they aren't), if even only half of them were down to Levy it would still be way to many.

 

[dontcallme]

Always an excuse. So many massive mistakes over the last 5 years and all accompanied with "yeah but what if it was because" from some on here. lets be realistic and say they can't all have been his fault, if even only half of them were down to Levy it would still be way to many.

My post isn't about excuses. I've said continuously that this comes down to incompetence.

 

[AngryBob]

It's unthinkable that they'd turn their backs on someone who is by all accounts the perfect manager for us because it'd cost a bit more than they think it should to get him out of his current club. They've mismanaged the football side of this club for years, if getting bent over a barrel is the price of getting out of the slump then just suck it up and pay up ffs. The leadership of this club is exasperating.

This is it, and what frustrates me when people defend our glorious leader with the narrative of our improved financial position and commercial revenue streams and all the extra money he's making us... well, fucking spend it, if not on this, then on what?? Ultimately a bit more money now on the right manager will probably be better spent than on the compensation for the next five managers we'll go through in the next 6 months!