Hansi Flick has decided to leave Bayern Münich! He won’t be the manager next season. Flick has just announced his official decision, also communicated to board and players. Nagelsmann will be the main target as new Bayern manager – not easy negotiation with RB Leipzig. 🔴 #Bayern
— Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) April 17, 2021
The longer I stare at the coaching conundrum at Tottenham the more obvious it appears that Daniel Levy is running out of wallpaper and paste.
Appointing José Mourinho was undeniably a statement. If you want to be able to tell the time, you buy a Timex, if you want to celebrate what you’ve achieved in life, then you might treat yourself to a Rolex. Having The Special One as one’s manager announces to the world that you’re a big-time operation.
Alas, for Spurs the entire deal has been undermined by the qualities of the squad and the clubs’ intransigence in respect of improving the situation.
In Germany, the machinations to install Julian Nagelsmann as the national coach are underway, and it would take a special kind of cognitive dissonance to not factor in Mourinho’s troubles when deciding which offer Nagelsmann might opt for.
It will cost £30million to remove the Portuguese, and who knows how much to prize young Julian out of Red Bull Leipzig. My money is on Scott Parker which is currently as long as 18/1.
I don’t think he could have anticipated the 300% increase in domestic rights alone from the time he bought the club, and that’s not taking into account the increase in overseas rights
As was said before, any decent manager will look at us and jog on. Unless it’s in the contract to get some real money, Levy will just screw the next bloke over. Maybe that Carney woman might make another Amazon show……..
Funnily enough memories of Sherwood came to my mind as well because that’s the kind of caliber we are probably looking at.
Lol. No need to apologize, I look on it as a learning experience.
Apologies for correcting you but that quote is generally attributed to Groucho Marx.
Wouldn’t call that lucking out, but hey, if we do win it we’ll pretend for a while it means anything and be happy for a few days.
Truth.
The salmon mousse 🤣
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Agree, I think Levy failing to get results out of Poch and Mourinho shows that it’s his stewardship that’s the problem.
I cannot believe that after Pochettino and now Mourinho anyone in their right mind would be queuing up to volunteer
*Enter stage left, Timothy Sherwood ‘alright slags’…
There is zero chance Nagelsmann would even consider joining Spurs having seen Levy’s negligence and interference in all matters concerning the team. The same goes for any in demand young coach with aspirations to build a trophy winning legacy. It’s like the old Woody Allen joke about not wanting to join a club that would have him as a member – I am not sure I would want any manager foolish enough to take the job at Spurs. Best we can hope for is a retread looking for a final payday or a younger hopeful willing to take a punt on pulling off a miracle. I’m with HH in thinking Parker looks a likely candidate and may end up being the best of a weak field of candidates.
That’s all true, he lucked out with the Premier League, he definitely won the lottery. None of what has been built could have happened without PL money. Wouldn’t be surprised if he lucks out again and wins the Carabao Cup Final.
But the truth is that the majority of the value in the club has come from the ridiculous increase in broadcast revenues which I’m sure he could never have envisaged. Even relatively modest English clubs are now in the Deloitte top twenty richest clubs
Harry I think a slightly distorted narrative of the Jose appointment. Since leaving Chelsea for the second time he has not exactly been overwhelmed by job opportunities.
He was never considered for the City job and it is fair to say he only got the United job after they were turned down by Pochettino at the famous lunch. Following United he too was unemployed for over a year before Levy came calling. As you yourself said yesterday Mourinho was the cheaper option,even on his salary, of reviving a squad rather than investing money on recruitment when Poch and many others on here and in the media told him otherwise.
I hold absolutely no truck for Levy whatsoever and I wish many of the thoughts on him expressed on here by you and others got a wider airing but I can’t believe he told Jose there would be the sorts of money he’d been used to at previous clubs at Spurs. In many interviews he himself has conceded money would be tight. In short Levy expected Jose to get a better tune out of the same squad.
There has been no bounce in the team performance. On current form, taking the home defeat to Liverpool as the start we would sit 18th and heaven knows where we would be without the other Harry’s goals and assists. The players who have come in through the last three windows PEH apart have impaired rather than improved the squad
The marriage between Jose and Levy was probably never going to work and it’s possible he was partly used to deflect attention away from his issue to dismiss Potchetino, a dead cat as you call it.
If there’s a parting of the ways I don’t believe Jose’s reputation will be much diminished. History will view him favourably as one of the great managers of the modern era behind perhaps Sir Alex and Ancelotti.
If he does go it will hopefully shine a light on Mr Levy
He owns a third of the club, he’s turned an initial investment of about £40 million into a maybe £2 billion asset. Good luck trying to sack him.
I bet he frequents the expired aisle in the supermarket, hopefully one day he’ll get food poisoning. Go for the prawns mate.
Can’t somebody sack him for total incompetence? Any of us could do a better job and cost the club a fraction of what goes to the diddy parasite. Probably the most hate chairman in football too.
I’m going speak to my solicitor….
We’re stuck in a loop of misery. Thankfully I also follow Leeds, or I’d be even more of a gibbering wreck right now. It’s like we’re in the proverbial long tunnel but the exit is blocked. Somebody ought to sue enic for failing to deliver what they advertise.
Zero trophys
It’s mental. He’s like the pol pot of chairman. Answers to himself. Year zero every year.
Levy never looks at the quality of the player just the price anyway. His house must be full of cheap items that no longer function.
Restart….another 4/5 years and even if the next boss miraculously gets a decent team together, the same thing will happen when it gets to the point to push on to win stuff….the chairman will be otherwise engaged. It’s like those old computer games…back to start…..back to start….back to start….
One thing we can rely on is that Levy will inevitably get it wrong. I asked yesterday if anybody had any idea how much money Levy has cost the club in compensation for all the managers, coaches, scouting staff, DoFs that he has sacked. there is nothinh like being the highest paid CEO in the PL who even had the gall to pay himself a £2mill bonus for going 100% over budget and one year’s late delivery of the new stadium. You would have thought that anybody with a modicum of intelligence or self awareness might have realised that running a football club after 22 years of utter failure might not be a suitable career for him.
Nagelsmann is probably Levy’s best bet as he is almost like signing Poch all over again…will work with what he has, youth, and probably doesn’t need big money spending…perfect for ENIC’s business model….now, where’s my teddy bear, it needs a walk in the garden…
His record is worse than Levy’s so I’m opting for Mystic Meg….
God help us ☹
Llorente….8 years too late, Bale… 10 years since prime, Mourinho….10 years too late….
Levy needs to catch up and pay attention to the use by dates….his fridge must be a mess….