There is one thing certain that is going to occur between now and whenever Daniel Levy names a permanent replacement for the sacked Jose Mourinho and that is a mass of speculation.
Front runners will come and go as has already been the case with Julian Nagelsmann.
The Leipzig boss was leading the pack until yesterday when it was announced that he is set to become the new Bayern Munich and just like that, he is out of the picture.
There are other names in the mix, the usual suspects as some will call them, Brendan Rodgers, Maurizio Sarri and Max Allegri and the chances are they will be in the gossip pages the next time Levy wants a new manager and the time after that.
Then we have the young English managers like Scott Parker and Eddie Howe, managers that are not brand names and probably not the type that Levy will be keen on giving an opportunity.
The new front runner, both in the gossip columns but also with the sportsbooks is Ajax manager Erik Ten Hag.
He is now leading the markets and his name is prominent on today’s BBC gossip page.
Ten Hag comes across as a young exciting manager that plays the sort of football that would suit Tottenham.
The chances are that Ten Hag will drop down the rankings before the day is out and replaced by someone else, largely based on a Daily Mail or Daily Star article, such is the state of the speculation at this moment in time.
But right now, it is Ten Hag and I reckon that most Spurs fans will be ok with that if it actually happens.
He’d have them running in circles.
Levy won’t pay Ten Hag…….. he’ll offer six then seven with add-ons…..
Superb!
😂
We should probably get a manager who’s won elite trophies at a club with a 6th highest spend on players position in its league, and a net spend lower than Brighton’s during the past 5 years.
There must be plenty of managers like that knocking about. Come on fellas, can we see a show of hands ……….
My friend, Bruno, a Benfica fan in Obidos, told me about the time when Porto had a team full of bald headed players. He reckons they were on stimulants, which was making their hair drop out and that their centre half, Stephan Moll (?), quite a useful player (and top scorer one year because he took the team’s penalties), looking around the changing room and worrying that HIS hair would soon drop out, put in for a transfer! Last time I saw Bruno in his bar, he instantly greeted me with the words “The Sporting Lisbon president is a psychopath”. Interesting chap, Bruno, very amusing and well read, too, I would venture.
He told me how the Dutch had once collected a lot of the “spice” islands that once belonged to Portugal and keen to complete the set wanted Rhum (correct spelling?) Island, which was in British hands. Well, Rhum Island wasn’t much good for rum, or for anything else for that matter, it turned out, but they got their island and, in exchange, the Dutch gave us Manhattan! Is this true? He always has me in stitches while I have a few sausages and some Ginginha for lunch.
Quite! I like your bit, though, about a manager with a fetish for stadium design and training facilities. Quite amusing, gave me a chuckle..
Yes, he knows what he would be getting into with Levy which means he might not want the job!
He’s certainly done a good job at Ajax. I checked how long he’d been there and, yes, he was there when they so nearly reached the CL final, quite an achievement for a club outside big 5 leagues. So i’m beginning to think he’s worth a punt, but then I read your comments above, Eddie, and now I’m not sure! But then is anyone going to succeed? After all, they have got to work with the poisoned dwarf, who achieves about the same level of competence as a footballing CEO as Hitler did as a war general!
Ajax have a great academy and scouting system which he wouldn’t have with us.Also his previous foray into the top teams saw him fail at Bayern.
Too many turds to polish with us.
I feel the next manager will have to be given two things, which Pochetino had one and not the other. Poch was given time, but then was humstrung by Levy when he needed players. I like Scott Parker, his Fulham side played us off the park when they came to our place this season, and were good value for their draw. Consider that he has done that without major financial input, and a general lack of quality front players. he knows Spurs, and more importantly he knows what he will be getting into with levy, and also seems like a very level headed and straight-ahead type of man. I dont think we need the ‘Glamour Manager’, and dont forget we got Poch from Southampton after he had done a season or so there.
How’s he any better than Scott Parker, who also (tried) to play good exciting football with Fulham AND has the advantage of knowing the league – and the club – inside out.
Why would a quality manager want to join this club, It is not in the top tier of European competition. It has destroyed the careers of players by starving them of success and it has churned managers every two or three years generally. It has owners who everyone knows are land and property developers and have no interest in football success. Its brand has become toxic as a result of ENIC and its reputation. Unless a manager has a fetish about stadium design and training facilities who of quality and integrity would in their right mind come anywhere near this organisation. That includes management and playing staff.
Whoever….matters not. Levy may as well be manager too at this point.
You’re in Levy La La Land if you think our dirty half dozen are going anywhere sadly…
Now we know what Poch really meant by “Be Brave” – it wasn’t just “Buy Buy Buy” it was also “Churn the squad,, keep fresh, even if you lose out on a few pahnds you bald bell end”
We certainly have 🙁
Appoint who you like, but if you don’t give him the tools to do the job you know what will happen.
Hopefully the dead beat shysters will be gone in the summer
There are those who will say “Well what did you expect, he tried to implement his passing style at a so-so team in Crystal Palace?” and to those I say – if you think his methods were a tough sell to Palace players, imagine what the self serving core of deadbeats in our club will do to him
I give him less than a full season of having to deal with Dele, Winks, Dier, Sissoko, Aurier before he gives up the ghost.
He’ll be eaten alive by the core of dead beats ruining our club and will leave with his reputation in tatters. Levy will shaft him and we’ll be back to The Athletic reporting that “Dressing Room sources say that he is ‘out of his depth’ and that his training methods, whilst suited to a closed shop league such as the Eredivisie, are entirely unsuitable for the Premier League”
Flotsam and Jetsam chaps….flotsam and jetsam
No we were 14th and he had won nothing.. You’re definitely the one obsessed with him… Putting your thoughts on other people doesn’t wash with me. Hypocrite.. He’s been gone years now, get over him.
That’d make three slap heads running things at Spurs! What’s wrong with us and a full head of hair ffs!? 😂
Shoulda stuck with Poch, shouldn’t we… 🤔
Set out the playing strategy , give it the chance/time to succeed- please
Ten Hag comes across as a young exciting manager that plays the sort of football that would suit Tottenham.
It would’nt suit the dead beat shysters.
I think Ajax’ set up and scouting network are second to none, I’m not sure we can replicate that which means it would require a change in philosophy from him. There are question marks over the quality of the Dutch league as well – not many players let alone managers successfully transition (Eriksen and Vertonghen are good examples – Janssen and Kezman are bad).
He is definitely an interesting choice and will be used to working with limited funds etc. I feel like we massively missed the boat with Nagelsmann.
De Boer vibes.
Recent Ajax managers haven’t done so well when they’ve moved on.