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Who do you want as next Spurs manager?

  • Allegri

    Votes: 214 21.5%
  • Mourinho

    Votes: 258 25.9%
  • Wenger

    Votes: 9 0.9%
  • Pleat

    Votes: 4 0.4%
  • Ten Hag

    Votes: 54 5.4%
  • Wagner

    Votes: 1 0.1%
  • Howe

    Votes: 36 3.6%
  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 75 7.5%
  • Other (explain)

    Votes: 16 1.6%
  • Keep Poch (lol)

    Votes: 166 16.6%
  • Rodgers

    Votes: 49 4.9%
  • de Boer (Poch mk2)

    Votes: 3 0.3%
  • Benitez

    Votes: 50 5.0%
  • Sherwood

    Votes: 6 0.6%
  • Bus-Conductor

    Votes: 26 2.6%
  • Goat (ffs)

    Votes: 6 0.6%
  • WalkerBoyUK’s lad’s u14 coach

    Votes: 8 0.8%
  • Sissoko

    Votes: 7 0.7%
  • Marco Rose

    Votes: 4 0.4%
  • freeeki

    Votes: 5 0.5%

  • Total voters
    997
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HW61

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The Dorchester Menu

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Or The Premier Inn Tottenham Hale


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Calling bullshit on this rumour. No way does Levy not factor in the price differentials in the two menus, the taxi fare to the other side of the city, or the fact that Ancelloti could simply crash on Levy’s sofa- thus saving the club further costs on accommodation- if they simply met in the restaurant of The Premier Inn Tottenham Hale.

After all, there’s a rebuild going on
Genius at work right there. Perfect remedy to Monday morning blues. Cheers buddy ?
 

guy

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It's so going to be Mourinho, isn't it! Haha! But it doesn't have to be. There is another, younger Portuguese manager entering the scene in France. The league in France is all about being the best of the rest because of PSG, and this young, forward looking manager is exactly doing that with a forgettable team like Marseille, where he plays a very attractive 433. Would be incredible to take him to the PL. Would be like getting an updated version of Mourinho, but without the big ego. He is also younger than Pochettino but already more experienced.

Hucking fell you're serious
 

Hakkz

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It's so going to be Mourinho, isn't it! Haha! But it doesn't have to be. There is another, younger Portuguese manager entering the scene in France. The league in France is all about being the best of the rest because of PSG, and this young, forward looking manager is exactly doing that with a forgettable team like Marseille, where he plays a very attractive 433. Would be incredible to take him to the PL. Would be like getting an updated version of Mourinho, but without the big ego. He is also younger than Pochettino but already more experienced.

Haha, just noticed Marseille are 2nd in the league with a negative goal difference. That's crazy. :LOL:
 

Everlasting Seconds

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dontcallme

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Well, I thought that the rule on SC was to dismiss every single other journalist in the country when providing not at all even one actual quote.
I never really understand why people are desperate for quotes. If people don't want the media to report something then they aren't going to give them a quote.

As readers we just need to determine if the journalist has actual sources or info or if he is just writing something that is plausible without ny actual knowledge.
 
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Everlasting Seconds

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I never really understand why people are desperate for quotes. If people don't want the media to report something then they aren't going to give them a quote.

As readers we just need to determine if the journalist has actualsources or info or if he is just writing something that is plausible without ny actual knowledge.
Quite so, or thirdly is being fed a story line that somebody else very much would want to be reported, however factual it is.
 

spursfan77

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Ally G is the spin doctor of the club to the outside.

I wouldn't take anything he says regarding Poch's future as a fact.

If, as you think, he's the club's spin doctor and the fact he's saying posh isn't going anywhere, more likely to make that true?

If Poch's job was under threat, he'd say nothing or say as much.
 

'O Zio

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The Sun (so pretty much guarantees bullshit) say weve spoken to Mourinho and this will be his team

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So we are signing Fernandes, Dybala and Atal in January. Thats a good 200 million there, plus Poch's payoff. Does the Sun even know who Levy is?

Fucking hell. That's like a 10-year-old kid's FIFA team. It'd be an exciting team to watch but we'd get absolutely killed defensively with basically no dedicated DMs and very offensive-minded wingbacks. Foyth and Sanchez, while both talented, are not the kind of elite CB pairing that would be able to cope on their own like that.
 

dontcallme

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Fucking hell. That's like a 10-year-old kid's FIFA team. It'd be an exciting team to watch but we'd get absolutely killed defensively with basically no dedicated DMs and very offensive-minded wingbacks. Foyth and Sanchez, while both talented, are not the kind of elite CB pairing that would be able to cope on their own like that.
If a 10 year old kid can win with that team then Jose will have no problem. Jose in.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Fucking hell. That's like a 10-year-old kid's FIFA team. It'd be an exciting team to watch but we'd get absolutely killed defensively with basically no dedicated DMs and very offensive-minded wingbacks. Foyth and Sanchez, while both talented, are not the kind of elite CB pairing that would be able to cope on their own like that.
Fernandes out, Lo Celso up, new DM in, problem solved.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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If, as you think, he's the club's spin doctor and the fact he's saying posh isn't going anywhere, more likely to make that true?

If Poch's job was under threat, he'd say nothing or say as much.
Highly doubt he is the club's spin doctor directly, but I would not be surprised if his inside sources are deliberately using him, because the sources might be deciding the spin.
 

Colonel Dax

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Ally Gold saying he’s not going anywhere. So this is probably where we actually are.


Agreed but I doubt the club (through Gold) would say Poch is on borrowed time either. They're probably just giving the manager a chance to turn things round and any public utterances to the contrary, official or otherwise, would immediately undermine his position. As ever, Poch's situation depends on results. I still think Levy is extremely reluctant to sack Poch and will understandably do everything he can to avoid this scenario. However what happens if we don't get many points from the next few games and end up in or very close to the relegation zone? In that instance Levy would have to do some serious thinking.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Agreed but I doubt the club (through Gold) would say Poch is on borrowed time either. They're probably just giving the manager a chance to turn things round and any public utterances to the contrary, official or otherwise, would immediately undermine his position. As ever, Poch's situation depends on results. I still think Levy is extremely reluctant to sack Poch and will understandably do everything he can to avoid this scenario. However what happens if we don't get many points from the next few games and end up in or very close to the relegation zone? In that instance Levy would have to do some serious thinking.
I agree. It is impossible to unequivocally say that manager will be given this or be given that. The circumstances around a manager's job will change swiftly, and unfold at an amazing pace when/if changed. I don't believe anybody, any source, who says that "Pochettino isn't going anywhere/will be given January/is a good friend of Levy".
 

jimbo

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Well, I thought that the rule on SC was to dismiss every single other journalist in the country when providing not at all even one actual quote.
I never really understand why people are desperate for quotes. If people don't want the media to report something then they aren't going to give them a quote.

As readers we just need to determine if the journalist has actual sources or info or if he is just writing something that is plausible without ny actual knowledge.
Ally G is the spin doctor of the club to the outside.

I wouldn't take anything he says regarding Poch's future as a fact.
Highly doubt he is the club's spin doctor directly, but I would not be surprised if his inside sources are deliberately using him, because the sources might be deciding the spin.

Okay, so there are couple of things in here. The first is to point out that this is a column, so the lack of quotes isn't particularly surprising or revealing as to the veracity of the piece.

The second is that Ally Gold is an independent journalist, well-connected to the club, not an official spokesperson. The relationship between a journalist and his sources is symbiotic. If the club were just using him to 'spin' this would become apparent to Ally very quickly and he would stop using them - it is not (usually) a good look for a journalist to get everything repeatedly wrong. I've never met Ally, but from his work I'd say he has enough professionaly pride and good sense not to be exploited by the club. It works the other way too, journalists that are hostile to the club would not be afforded as much access - so it is right to take it with a pinch of salt, like all things, but to dismiss it outright is wrong.

Having worked as a journalist, with lots of other journalists, I have seen and experienced all this first hand.

Having read the piece, it portrays a 'business as usual' picture of the club during international week and attempts to squash a few of the social media rumours. My guess is that there is a strong will to give Pochettino the time he deserves to right the ship. Reading between the lines, the West Ham game may be significant but it seems that he will remain the manager unless things decline further. It very much appears that the intention is to give him the January window to make some changes to the squad, if at all possible. It's all just opinion though, for now.
 

Everlasting Seconds

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Okay, so there are couple of things in here. The first is to point out that this is a column, so the lack of quotes isn't particularly surprising or revealing as to the veracity of the piece.

The second is that Ally Gold is an independent journalist, well-connected to the club, not an official spokesperson. The relationship between a journalist and his sources is symbiotic. If the club were just using him to 'spin' this would become apparent to Ally very quickly and he would stop using them - it is not (usually) a good look for a journalist to get everything repeatedly wrong. I've never met Ally, but from his work I'd say he has enough professionaly pride and good sense not to be exploited by the club. It works the other way too, journalists that are hostile to the club would not be afforded as much access - so it is right to take it with a pinch of salt, like all things, but to dismiss it outright is wrong.

Having worked as a journalist, with lots of other journalists, I have seen and experienced all this first hand.

Having read the piece, it portrays a 'business as usual' picture of the club during international week and attempts to squash a few of the social media rumours. My guess is that there is a strong will to give Pochettino the time he deserves to right the ship. Reading between the lines, the West Ham game may be significant but it seems that he will remain the manager unless things decline further. It very much appears that the intention is to give him the January window to make some changes to the squad, if at all possible. It's all just opinion though, for now.
That's not a column at all. A column, if you have worked as a journo you'd know this, most often and almost exclusively in the UK, contains the columnist's opinions, and is undoubtedly presented as such. This "column" is not at all presented as if the columnist's desire is to share subjective musings with the reader. An actual column btw. can in fact very much contain quotes, when the subject is handled in such a way that the columnist is trying to suggest having inside knowledge about the subject matter.
 
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