Whilst many will be whooping and cheering the exit of José Mourinho from Tottenham today, the stark reality is that has only heightened Harry Kane’s focus to reevaluate where he is in terms of his career path.
A source close to the club told The Boy this afternoon that Harry Kane’s respectful tweet towards the Portuguese spoke volumes, saying, “Kane really bought into José and sincerely believes that his trajectory as a player was enhanced by Mou’s time at Spurs. H is properly saddened by what’s happened today, he’s too old for another rebuild”.
There is a lot to assimilate from all of today’s news; from the articulated truck that is the European Super League – to the sacking of Mourinho. But by the same token, all that will count is how Spurs fair post-Mourinho.
Can Spurs keep Kane is now the story and will continue to be the story for the rest of the season. Removing Mourinho has once more left the club a state of flux.
He would cast a good toad for wind in the willows.
There is no cheese room mate.
😆 Still alive yeah but too old and been out the game for too long… I would love Hoddle as interim, but same goes for him, plus his dodgy ticker….. Surely Mason won’t be our manager for the final… Lol
The bookies aren’t always right, but I read somewhere he was 2 to 1 to go now.. Couldn’t blame the lad, but he’ll break my heart, and really wouldn’t want him staying in England… Either Manchesters would be a nightmare.. Or Woolwich.
Some are real professionals, the others just a bunch of you-know-what’s.
Is El Tel still alive? Mason had a rough trot and I wish him well but I didn’t think that meant leading out the team for the Cup Final. We are a club in a mess.
Wow. That’s a bad sign. Can’t blame the lad though. He’s been exemplary in every way and I wish him much success even if it’s not with us. It should have been though.
Bravo. We are run by the lowest of the low in fan terms. Couldn’t care less about the property they have built. We are in record debt as they couldn’t even get that right.
Ryan Mason wasn’t even a good player. Interim coach? What credentials does the lad have? Might as well get Tim nice but dim Sherwood back… When Botch was gone they had Maureen walking through the front door the same day.. Now Maureens gone we got Mason.. One step forward, five steps backwards.. Ryan Mason may be able to persuade kane we’re now serious, only if he has become an expert hypnotist.
This is patently true and obvious.. And the bookies odds are reflecting this.
The phrase there use to be a football club over there is nearly 40 years old, the game and financing is totally different though at the same time, I don’t think Levy/enic should get the free ride they get off alot of the fan base. But clubs don’t need fans to operate so they can do as they wish with impunity knowing most fans will always support their club regardless.
He’s a lying toad, that’s what I can’t stand about the guy…
Elite bottom filling pints, elite training facilities, elite ‘Sky Walk’, elite tunnel viewing, elite cheese, elite roll in roll out pitch.
All of this qualifies us as elite, sod the football…
I’m sad to say that I totally agree, we have become an embarrassment. Expecting to be in an elite, ring fenced league is just laughable…
I think it’s pretty obvious that Levy lies and makes predictions about where he ‘expects’ us to end up and then also throws a load of money at the particular individual that he’s trying to hoodwink at the time. In the end people get bored of being spun a yarn…
It begs the question to why it has taken HK so long to suss out Levy. The same applies to the mindless idiots and apologists for Enic and Levy
As usual, you have got it wrong. I thought that Poch did a great job for Spurs, please read Andros Townsend’s comments about what a shambles Spurs were in when Poch arrived and how he put it right. I suspect that Poch, after five and a half years of Levy had had enough. If he had been supported, which he requested some time before the CL final, who knows what might have happened. It is not a question of blind loyalty to an ownership that is only interested in enriching themselves. I gave my qualified support to Mourinho as I never felt that he was the right manager for Spurs but I hoped he would be successful. He is a busted flush whose tactics are out of date and he played cr*p football without getting the results. The difference between me and you is that I can see who is responsible for the mess the club is in. I have supported Spurs since 1962 but I freely admit that I loathe Enic and Spurs for the leeches they are. If you wish to continue with your mindless support for an ownership who treats the fans with complete contempt, feel free but don’t try and convince me that Lewis and Levy have any other agenda apart from enriching themselves.
Spot on. This isn’t the clubs doing this, it’s the current custodians and they should show more respect to the game, the fans and the world at large.
I’m all for people making money but if your moral compass had gone then you aren’t fit to be in such a position of trust…
Sussed.
Personally I don’t feel getting rid of Jose will have any impact on Kane’s future. If he hasn’t dissed out Levy’s priorities by now he never will…
Getting behind the old manager and not the new one was getting it wrong. Will you be the same if another manager comes in that you don’t like? Joker fan. I can cuss poch and Jose (both losers at Tottenham) but when they were here I had their backs. Fck dem both
Totally in agreement. Thought bulldozing WHL was the lowest they could go but this is beyond contemptible
The players who have posted on socials about Jose speaks volumes right now.
Fine. I suppose we will soon see to what extent our regression was Jose’s doing or the squad deteriorating in and of itself.
The players failed at the end of Poch’s time and during most of Jose’s reign – so I hope people will see that there’s no making a silk purse out of Dier when he gives away goals under the next guy.
My contempt for Enic and Levy knows no bounds. How any Spurs supporter can defend these leaches is beyond my comprehension. They are the enemies of our fans and they are the enemy of football.
Totally agree. Lewis and Levy care about nothing bar lining their own pockets. Running a football operation adequately isn’t even a concern let alone a priority. I’m disgusted.
Not sure anyone can defend Levy after this week’s latest debacle. Not just content selling our soul, he’s now happy to destroy domestic football as we know along with that other group of khants
Spare me your moronic support of Enic and Levy. At least my drivel about Mourinho was proven right. How can you get it so wrong so much of the time? Mourinho was the second Messiah according to you. It is said that when you are in a hole, you should stop digging. I suggest a period of quite contemplation would do you a lot of good.
A temporary bounce could be enough to upset the odds on Sunday. I never suggested that Ryan Mason is the answer and have already suggested in my post that I think Allegri will be appointed. Spare me from any of Tappa’s mindless drivel.
Spare me the same old levy/enic drivel you keep on repeating over and over and over again.
ESL will never happen in reality, so don’t worry about it!
I said a temporary bounce which might upset the apple cart on Sunday. I am not suggesting that Ryan Mason will lead us to the promised land. If you had read my post thoroughly, you will note that I think Allegri will take over, Spare me from any more of Tappa’s mindless drivel.
Bounce isn’t really a thing, and I can’t see Ryan giving a Tappa style speech to motivate them
Less than two years ago we went to Goodison and beat Everton 6-2 playing football that even the great Danny Blanchflower would approve of. Last Friday we went back there played 7 defenders a back five plus two holding midfielders and stank the place out. We have seriously regressed, it’s not all Jose’s fault but he is not blameless nor is he a victim
No mention of filling up pints from the bottom?
I think he improved the team for a time last season. The pinnacle came in the first two or three months this season (beating Utd, City, Arsenal, Soton), but we got done twice by Pool and we never really recovered from afterwards.
The only two ways forward were either signing new players that would fit Jose’s mould, or firing him and starting again with the same people and a different manager. And we will arrive at the same crossroads again, no matter who comes in.
I really wonder what went through the heads of those two when they agreed to that deal.
Rather expensive for a short-term fix that got us 6th and a cup final.
The minor potential upside from the sacking is that clubs can have a temporary bounce after they have sacked a manager , and strange as it might seem, I feel we have a better chance on Sunday now that Mourinho has gone. Unlike HH with whom I seldom differ on most of his comments about the club, I never believed that Mourinho was the right manager for Spurs. We had the right manager in Poch but he wasn’t backed. My money is on Allegri, particularly since the ESL has been announced and there is no compensation to pay. It appears that Jose has gone for far less money than the £30 mill that was purported. The romantic in me would have preferred it if THFC had refused to join the ESL which is a complete anathema to sport in general. Does this now make it easier for Enic to sell Spurs as any buyer would be able to see that we will be in a better place as a “top six club”. Typical nonsense from the Americans who like a closed shop in their sports. It was exactly the same when the Yanks were allowed to participate in buying UK stockbrokers during Big Bang which spoilt the ethos of the City of London forever. Greed always wins in the end and there is no doubting Lewis and Levy’s greed. They make me sick.
When we were making pots of money at the old stadium he never really backed Pochettino. When the stadium catastrophe came into play there was no money at all, hence the two ‘brave’ windows of no signings. Jose knew the score perhaps he thought the squad was as good as Levy
I think people are surprised at the timing not the outcome. All the issues that characterised his last days at Chelsea and United were evident here. For a coach with no equals, slight paraphrase he failed to improve the performance of the playing personnel, indeed many seemed to have backwards.
Watching the last three away games Villa Newcastle and Everton has been painful. They looked like a side that hadn’t been coached and only got out of jail down in all those games due to Harry.
Levy clearly has no shame. In any post either in business or football he would have gone years ago. I doubt very much whether he back the new manager he never backed the other dozen or so.
Agreed he’s gone .
Fair enough, “hounding out” wasn’t a good phrase. But bringing him in without backing him properly still doesn’t make any sense.
Bale has done little to warrant his inclusion and has mostly underwhelming when he has been.
Maybe because nowadays you can’t have a 31-year-old luxury player who doesn’t really track back and often chooses to get substituted for no apparent reason? He did the business against Burnley and Palace, which is nice, but ludicrously little at the wage he gets from the club.
To some extent, it baffles me that Bale STILL gets a free pass after what we’ve seen. It’s now April and we got about three good performances out of him.
“But he hasn’t played.” He has played enough in the cups and sometimes in the league, and did little to show he warrants a place on the team.
It will be telling what happens with Bale from now on. Will Mason play him and show Jose was the one at fault, as ever? I doubt it, but from today, I will hope to be pleasantly surprised by the new direction.
We don’t have to win a game to stay in this League, the money will still come in, suits us right down to the ground.
Did he take the job for the right reasons, 15m maybe.
Levy, and results with the type of football played made the decision, nothing to do with pundits.
Just another League we can’t win.
And with no FFP, City and Chelsea can pour in as much money as they like.
Never such innocence,
Never before or since,
Never such innocence again.
What a player he was.
I don’t doubt he’s glad to be gone from this shambles. I am bothered about two things:
1) Pundit and media dishonesty – they hounded him out and now say he deserved more time. Unsurprising, yet horrible.
2) Why bring Jose in if we’re going to saddle him with Sanchez, Dier et al., and not back him properly, i.e. give him at least two/three windows like Klopp got at Pool? And will we back the next guy or will he be another waste of everyone’s time?
A player of the level of Gareth Bale and you don’t or can’t use him in your team, only Mourinho would have this incredibly strange kind of mentality.
Asking out loud: so is kane going to be poached by one of our fellow super duper clubs now they can theoretically afford the debt?
Levy is in “the club ” courtesy of Joe and benefits accordingly as all the members do in all walks of life
Kane was always going in the summer – Even if jose stayed, we still on step one of a rebuild. All today has done is move us back to step 0. Kane needs to leave.
And, yet, he keeps falling on his feet, this time, potentially, with the ESL.
I think that’s part of a wider picture about those who he played and those who he didn’t. If you are getting results you can justify excluding players if you are not people will ask questions. Excluding Bale how many of the players recruited in the three windows he had are any good? One I suggest
Jose never asked and wanted Bale come back and they saying one of the reasons of sacking Jose was he did not use Bale in his games now can you blame Mourinho for benching Bale when he was against getting him in the 1st place?
The timing might be strange the outcome I think probably not and I can’t see how he would have survived at the end of the season. Jose was a vanity project from a star struck Levy to get a bounce out of an under invested squad.
That hasn’t happened. On current form taken from the Liverpool home match we would be 18th in the league and the football has been appalling. The players recruited under his watch have impaired not improved the squad.
I think it’s been a miserable 17 months for all parties and I think Jose himself might be pleased it’s come to an end.
Longest continuous bar in Europe!
World’s first Cheese Room in a football ground!
Let me tell you I bet you Levy whopping those big boy facts out on the table got him some respect
We’re “Elite” don’t ya know?
Can someone warn that nice young man Ryan that having anything to do with our club will only cause heartache and headache.
Did you know that Phillip Larkin’s actual line from ‘This be the Verse’ was:
“They f**k you up do Tottenham Hotspur
They may not mean to but they do….”
before his Editor hastily amended it.
Yup
hahahahhahahahahhaha me an’ mah boy
Interestingly, many pundits (most of those I’ve seen) are just now piping up:
“Shocking timing”
“His record warranted more time”
“It’s the players’ fault”
“Average players can get excellent managers sacked”
“He never had good enough defenders”
They spent the best part of 17 months lambasting Spurs under Jose for apparently horrid football, helping get him fired, and now they come out with this. F…ing miscreants.
But sure, Ryan Mason on an interim basis is just the ticket to tell Kane and our other two good players that we’re serious this time around.
Has Redknapp been on Sky Sports yet to issue his come and get me plea to Daniel?
‘who wouldn’t want to work with that squad grovel grovel, triffic squad full of internationals gobble gobble.
Amen brother. In what other walk of life would this man be considered to be “one of the most shrewd chairman” in the business?
I won’t give the full rundown as you’ve heard it all before – one pot won in 20 years. One second place. £1bn in hock for a massive White Elephant, delivered 100% over time and cost.
The guy is a fraud, his company have sucked the life out of my club.
Allegri/Parker/Nagelsman’s first backline will be:
Aurier – Dier – Rodon – Davies
Their last backline 18 months later when they’re sacked as we lie 5th:
Tanganga – Dier – Rodon – Davies
Bookmark this and mark my words
New patsy manager. Watch Dier and the shysters who were responsible for the Europa exit start next season. Utter embarrassment. I hope Kane leaves and wins as much as he can. He deserves better than a so called big club.
State of flux is this club’s default position, anything else is gravy.
Levy stumbles from one disaster to another and takes no responsibility for what happens. You could almost mistake him for a politician.
Kane to Poch. No heart emoji for Jose and he (social media team) cut and pasted last line.
Gaffer. I’ll be forever thankful to you for helping me achieve my dreams. We’ve had some amazing moments in the last 5 and a half years that I will never forget. You were my manager but my friend as well and I thank you for that relationship. Good luck with your next chapter! https://abs-0.twimg.com/emoji/v2/svg/1f499.svg