Former Aston Villa striker, Gabby Agbonlahor has tipped Tottenham to name an unknown quantity as their next manager.
The Lilywhites have been on the lookout for a new boss for some time now and haven’t been successful.
They have completed plans to bring former Juventus administrator, Fabio Paratici to London.
He is expected to take charge of the search for a new manager from Daniel Levy.
The Italian would have a powerful network that can help Tottenham land one of the best managers around Europe.
However, Agbonlahor tips them to have a strange summer because of a lack of funds.
He says the Lilywhites are more likely to bring in an unknown manager like Wolves did when they brought Nuno Espirito Santo to England.
He is convinced that Paratici will know a manager that may not be renowned, but can come to England and get the job done at Spurs.
“It might be a manager out there that we don’t know of that might get the job,” Agbonlahor told Football Insider.
“I think that might be where Spurs go.
“We hear of these new managers who come and do well. Look at Nuno Espirito Santo at Wolves. Nobody had heard of him and he came in and did a great job.
“There are managers out there that the sporting director will know.
“I can just see Spurs are not going to give a manager loads and loads of money. Whatever manager comes in is one that will have to accept that and a top manager won’t accept that.
“It’s going to be a strange summer for Spurs.”
A hugely underwhelming impending appointment. How depressingly predictable, after the Conte, season-ticket deadline day, PR con-job, that we ultimately hire a cheap ‘yes-man’ who will be indebted to Levy and Paratici for his job and won’t rock the boat or demand transfer funds, like Pochettino at the beginning of his tenure.
This managerial search fiasco, is just a further damning indictment of ENIC’s staggering lack of ambition and Levy’s executive ineptitude. A world class manager (Conte), with a winning pedigree, being eschewed in favour of an unproven journeyman, because the latter is cheap and malleable. The sooner these parasites are removed from our club the better. ENIC out!
Fonseca apparently. Thought he was going to Everton
Punditry at its best. Apart from the Ajax manager there are are no one of consequence out there right now and I included Martinez. How much of a sucker are the Spurs fan to be riled up over such silly utterance? We should know we scrapping the bottom on the barrel. Levy will appoint someone when there are big news from the Euro. Bury that story. Especially if England gets knocked out at the group stage.
A nobody. A yes man. That’s what Levy wants.
Step 5: Back to step 1
Yes, but one should remember the words of one Rose Kennedy: “God never gives you a cross that is too hard to bear” Rather an impressive statement of faith coming from that particular quarter given the many tragedies tat have afflicted that family (perhaps karma for that old b…..d Joe Kennedy)
Levy as manager might bring back my heart failure!
So Levy’s perhaps not going to appoint a “popular” manager. Perhaps, as an expert on football, he’s going to do a Bill Hiddelston at Third Lanark and appoint HIMSELF! This absurd and mischievous thought has given me a chuckle.
Hiddelston was the bogey man routinely blamed for the sad demise of Third Lanark. He had a rather idiosyncratic way of running his club and it was popularly believed that he was asset stripping it. i’m not so sure that he was and while he was also taking funds out of the club he was probably only claiming back what he had put in! He was also working long hours for the club to the detriment of his business interests. He was a Hi Hi’s fan and while a very controversial chap, who had several different occupations through the years, i think it was general circumstances over many years rather than the actions of one man, that eventually drowned them. But, at one stage, he was the manager! Cue Levy? What a horrendous thought!
Third Lanark were in a comically bad state when they went under in 1967 (though I think they only owed creditors around £40,000 a lot more money then, of course, but not really that horrendous) and they would train in the dark to save money and players would sometimes receive their wages in coins taken straight from the turnstiles!. In further economies, old footballs were often painted white and used again – players would head the ball in matches and it would leave white marks behind. I believe visiting teams would also bring along their own light bulbs! All quite amusing but also rather sad; a popular club that had once been champions and twice Scottish Cup winners went out of business.Teddy Taylor the MP (I remember him as MP for Southend during the Thatcher era) took official ownership of the name.
I actually want to visit Thirds old ground, Cathkin Park (one of the earlier Hampden Parks), because I have seen pictures of it and though the stands are obviously long gone, there are still banks of terracing with trees growing out of them and a football pitch that is still used. A haunting reminder of what can happen to a football club. There is currently a Third Lanark team playing in a Glasgow amateur league, wearing the same colours and insignia and the hope is to one day return to the Scottish league; more immediately, they have plans to return to their spiritual home and build a new ground catering for several sports.
But Levy as manager! What an unfortunate thought to enter one’s head. Surely even our esteemed supremo couldn’t be bone headed enough to try? Of course, I know it wouldn’t happen (would it?). I am having a laugh.
Jose was poor at best get over it, he was the one saying he was pleased with his squad, clearly the squad needs investment
relative of your feeling about Levy that has little to do with the way Jose performed with what he had available to him
should have kept jose and invested in the squad to give him a chance to win things. Its weird when Jose was in charge all the media pundits etc were saying, the squad is too good to be where they were. Jose is failing with all the quality players they have. Jose gets sacked and all the players arent good enough, the defense is useless. the players are lazy and arent working for the shirt. some players making too many mistakes blah blah blah. HELLO !!!!! so nothing has changed, it wasnt Jose’s fault, it has been Levy’s failure to support his managers with squad investment. Now the club is looking even more of a joke and Levy’s disgraceful treatment of Jose is causing any good manager to run a mile. Levy Out !!!!!!!!!!!
Just listening to 5 Live and Nihal Arthanayake is interviewing actor Stephen Mangan both big Spurs fans.
Both of them have brought their boys up to be Spurs fans, and Nihal asks Stephen have you had that conversation with your son and without missing a beat Stephen says yes, a couple of weeks ago his son said, ‘It’s your fault dad that I’m a Spurs fan’.
You have to laugh, don’t you.
Text book TalkSPORT speculation.
Step 1: Hire an ex footballer who has the ability to say words.
Step 2: Ask the ex footballer to make an ambiguous prediction or give an outrageous opinion.
Step 3: Film it and splatter it across all social media platforms.
Step 4: Sit back and count all of the click bait cash.