Next Spurs Manager (No longer with groundbreaking 'Change vote' functionality)

[Nine while nine]

So I'm out in China when I spot SC outside bet and fat Spanish waiter lookalike Rafa Benitez.

I approached him to see whether he'd be keen to join Spurs.

Me: 'Rafa, what would you say to the Spurs job?'
Rafa: 'Well, I'm very happy here in my current job, thank you.'
Me: 'But surely the lure of a top four PL team would excite you'.
Rafa: 'It would, but my backroom staff and I are not going to resign from here on a whim. We'd need Levy to do something.'
Me: 'Do something? Like what?'
Rafa: 'Tap us up.'
Me: 'Tapas up? Marvellous. I hope you brought some croquetas and some calamares. Bloody love those.'
Rafa:

 

[Spurs' Pipe Dreams]

10 votes for Wenger fucking hell...

 

[Cochise]

I really don't like this feeling. Poch is the guy that has taken us from next to nothing through to the healthiest years I have known, he's made my team into something to be really proud of, but things haven't been right from a footballing standpoint for some time. I cannot see a way around this that involves Poch remaining at the helm.

In the name of optimism though, I will add that when we fired Redknapp my dad said to me that we would never be that good again. Poch disproved that although it's fair to say that we had to live through the AVB tenure to get there.

 

[SugarRay]

I really don't like this feeling. Poch is the guy that has taken us from next to nothing through to the healthiest years I have known, he's made my team into something to be really proud of, but things haven't been right from a footballing standpoint for some time. I cannot see a way around this that involves Poch remaining at the helm.

In the name of optimism though, I will add that when we fired Redknapp my dad said to me that we would never be that good again. Poch disproved that although it's fair to say that we had to live through the AVB tenure to get there.

Next to nothing? Poch has been great for us but next to nothing? Come on. Poch owes us as much as we owe him. It was a great job for him to land.

Worth remembering most people here preferred De Boer at the time too.

I love(d) Poch but football is ruthless and it has little room for sentiment.

 

[DJS]

I vote WalkerBoyUK’s lad’s u14 coach.

 

[Cochise]

Next to nothing? Poch has been great for us but next to nothing? Come on. Poch owes us as much as we owe him. It was a great job for him to land.

Worth remembering most people here preferred De Boer at the time too.

I love(d) Poch but football is ruthless and it has little room for sentiment.

Maybe I'm overstating his impact, but under Tim we were nothing serious. We had players who on their day could cause teams problems, but as a unit we were nowhere near what Poch transformed us into.

 

[SugarRay]

Maybe I'm overstating his impact, but under Tim we were nothing serious. We had players who on their day could cause teams problems, but as a unit we were nowhere near what Poch transformed us into.

What about Redknapp? Under Tim we were middle of the road but with potential. I’d say Harry had a cracking side but he lost focus and didn’t really get the best of them. Certainly the most entertaining side we’ve had in my years following the club. We had the ability to beat absolutely anybody.

Let’s not pretend Poch built the club, he’s been amazing and I love the man, but he’s had it good here too. Flirting with others and questioning his own future needs to be remembered too

 

[stevenurse]

His comments the other day about hoping to be here for 5 more years was self preservation and nothing else. He knows his stock has never been lower. United would have him in a heartbeat, but they're in a bigger mess than us. Madrid won't want Poch now. He's already rejected them and aside from never winning anything he's now in charge of a side causing major embarrassment. How long would someone stay in a job at Madrid in they were knocked out by a 4th tier team and then conceded 7 at home?

 

[SugarRay]

His comments the other day about hoping to be here for 5 more years was self preservation and nothing else. He knows his stock has never been lower. United would have him in a heartbeat, but they're in a bigger mess than us. Madrid won't want Poch now. He's already rejected them and aside from never winning anything he's now in charge of a side causing major embarrassment. How long would someone stay in a job at Madrid in they were knocked out by a 4th tier team and then conceded 7 at home?

Them two games only would be my guess!

Real have the pick of everyone, why would they want Poch?

If Liverpool won the league then Klopp will probably become available. Much better off waiting to see if that happens. He’s twice the coach

 

[Streetspur77]

People ask for/expect loyalty from players, any in this case managers, when things are going well and then are so quick chuck them away when they aren’t

And on top of that, for a man who if you looked on this forum about a year ago everyone was calling every name under the sun

 

[rabbikeane]

Where's the loyalty to Tim Sherwood?

Think it's more healthy to demand professionalism, character, integrity, and most of all results

 

[Kspur]

This thread = WOW ?‍

 

[The Opinionated Lurker]

His comments the other day about hoping to be here for 5 more years was self preservation and nothing else. He knows his stock has never been lower. United would have him in a heartbeat, but they're in a bigger mess than us. Madrid won't want Poch now. He's already rejected them and aside from never winning anything he's now in charge of a side causing major embarrassment. How long would someone stay in a job at Madrid in they were knocked out by a 4th tier team and then conceded 7 at home?

And yet, loads lapped it up

 

[Misfit]

Allegri or Mou seem the most viable and best? No clue really. Just someone who might be able to figure out the titanic puzzle of getting the squad we have through a game against say, oh I dunno, Brighton without being utterly humiliated.

Also, bonus pic.

 

[Misfit]

I hate all of you who are voting Mourinho. Worse than Sherwood for me.

Allegri is the only option I can get on board with right now.

I'm with this guy (I still have no idea but don't want to be shamed by association with Mourinho. Plez no bully)

 

[thfcsteff]

Pathetic.
Pochettino should be the Spurs manager. Turf out the wasters and let him build his mkII. Enough of this rubbish!!!!!

 

[septicsac]

Pathetic.
Pochettino should be the Spurs manager. Turf out the wasters and let him build his mkII. Enough of this rubbish!!!!!

Yet he keeps picking most of the "wasters" week in week out?

 

[thefierycamel]

Pathetic.
Pochettino should be the Spurs manager. Turf out the wasters and let him build his mkII. Enough of this rubbish!!!!!

We have no playing style at all. We're shit both ways with no obvious idea of what we're trying to do out on the pitch. That comes down to the manager; it's as much him as it is all of those "wasters".

 

[Gb160]

I want Mourinho, but I'm pretty convinced that we'll end up with a Howe/Farke-type manager i.e. one that Levy doesn't have to worry might answer back to him.

This is the most likely scenario unfortunately.

 

[Haddock]

Mourinho's tenures in the PL has always ended up in a farce. The guy has more memes than a cartoon character.

On the other hand I do believe this Spurs squad needs to be rattled. I'm disgusted by the performance of certain players. I do believe Mourinho is the right man for that particular job. He's won it all and despite his antics he'd instil instant respect with the players. As interim coach until the end of the season - Absolutely.

But I also believe someone like Nagelsmann or Eddie Howe (Not necessarily them just a young and up and coming coach who has succeded at lower levels) is the right call long term. It doesn't matter how you twist it we're in a state where we need a new project. Just as Pep and Klopp had a season each where they rebuilt their respective squads.

The thing is that I don't believe our next project or chapter will take 4-5 years to develop. We have have the stadium and the training ground. Our spending this past TW shows that Levy can and will spend the big money. We have the infrastructure to do what Klopp did at Liverpool.