In a new twist, it turns out that hiring a flavour of the month coach works out to be as expensive as hiring a serial winner. Florian Plettenberg is the chief reporter for the behemoth German sports site Sport1. The reported cost of extracting Julian Nagelsmann from Red Bull Leipzig is thought to be in the region of €15/20million. This may shock some, but if you have a successful coach torn between interest from big clubs and the national side, this outcome is far from unreasonable.
Getting José Mourinho out of N17 is a subject that has delighted the English press over the last few weeks and if we opt to ignore those who have inventing stories, then the truth is, Spurs’ current gaffer has 2 more years to be paid up.
Naglesmann denied discussions with anyone yesterday, either personally or via his agents.
For a club in the economic state that Tottenham is in, it would take a giant leap of faith to blow the wrong end of £50million on a coach to come in and try to get a tune out of more or less the same players that Pochettino and Mourinho failed with…
Yes, I was wondering that too, Eastie!
First full season. Tottenham are getting on with it.
He’s won it though. Has your man?
Tottenham or poch haven’t won it though so what are you talking about?
Something like that!
I’m basing it on what I’ve seen so far. While Leicester and the Spammers have overtaken us a year or so after moving in. I appreciate your optimism but actions speak louder than words.
If they’re gonna step it up then f*cking step it up, the stadium’s there get on with it then…
It won’t matter but the dressing room might not be as fractured. Which might be a step in the right direction?
It’s not a highly coveted trophy like the League Cup though is it?
Who else did? Certainly wasn’t Jose.
That’s how our esteemed chairman will undoubtably see it…
Levy wins? How does levy win? Tottenham will save roughly £33mil. Levy ain’t nicking the money. You’re getting it twisted
No Poch mk1 did
Did he get them into the champions league?
Who said anything about doing business “as old lane? You never shed any light. Can hardly understand what you’re talking about
With Herr Flick to depart Munich, what odds on Nagelsmann going there and challenging at the top of the Bundesliga rather than attempting a salvage job with us for 2-3 years before facing the axe.
Quite right too who wants to play in that rubbish Champions league
If Bayern are going to need a coach as is suspected he would for what little knowledge I have of the German domestic game be the obvious candidate. Great squad of players to work with as well
Nope they don’t want the change you can’t do business as old lane otherwise what is the point of having 7stars Stadium I say deliberate ploy for no change, world class stadium wants world class players to go and win all the trophies out there and become established brand of football hope sheds a light.
Still cheaper than rebuilding the dilapidated squad of dross
Definitely you can’t expect different result the question is are they ready to change course Levy&co?
Well said
i think when it comes to Levy for him this option is easier and preferred option he will think sell Kane buy out Mourinho which will cost him half of the Money he gets from Kane’s sale and get new gaffer give him £20mill and tell him to sell some of the players he wants and use it that money+20 mill I gave you to get new players and Levy will save roughly £33mill of the money if Kane was sold £100mill or £55mill if he has been sold for £120mill Levy wins always.
Sorry, typo of course! I hate to think what it would cost to sack Levy.
Poch mk 2? A manager that flogs his Teams as in running 10 mile odd per game and wins nothing?
Just buy some bloody central defenders!!
They don’t want success at the new lane? Deliberate ploy for no success at the old lane? If you say so
Perhaps they envy the Watford model!
It seems that for the last 22 years we’ve lurched from one managerial appointment to the other with much the same set of circumstances leading to them departing. They come in and try their best, somebody better than others depending on the circumstances at the time but they always leave after being frustrated by lack of backing. Therefore it’s pretty obvious that this is a deliberate ploy by the owners so no manager gets too comfortable and feels that they have the right to dictate transfer policy.
This is part of the reason why they were so keen on the director of football thing, basically our lack of success on the pitch is 100% down to the owners, they don’t really want success because that breeds expectation and the expectation of more investment in the squad.
Just con artists…
Surely that was a typo Marbs, You meant Jose didn’t you?
I can’t see Nagelsmann coming, I think a lot of people are just looking for a Poch MK2. While on one hand it makes sense because a coach that can work with younger players and a more cheaply assembled squad is the only type of manager that fits with the situation at the club. However, I think Nagelsmann would take a hell of a lot of convincing, however money does talk and Levy does pay his managers well. They wouldn’t take the job otherwise, and besides he sees it as cheaper than investing in the squad.
I’m sure if Jose doesn’t get in the top four this season that there will be a clause related to performance that would mean he could be released for less. Considering the number of managers that are hired and fired across football, I would be very surprised if performance clauses are not inserted.
If sacking Levy is on the cards lets have a whip round.
Bielsa seems to manage with getting his message across, so Allegri could too. English speaking managers might be the issue!
I have read that it will not cost £30 mill to sack Levy but merely £20 mill if he has not achieved various targets by season’s end which is not much of a consolation. I seriously doubt that Nagelsmann will come to Spurs as he will be too expensive and is much more likely to go to Bayern. The papers have mentioned Sarri today. What about Allegri as a dark horse? Perhaps he has learnt English by now! In reality, does it matter if Mourinho is sacked and replaced by some other manager who will struggle under the yoke of working for Levy? The result will be the same.
I’d guess Jose would just be paid out over the length of his contract, if there was ever a lump sum it would be less.
Oh god that makes it sound so much worse…
The last paragraph sums it up perfectly. Points to consider, has Jose given us anything to think it is going to get better under him? Would giving him a decent CB had changed our fortunes this season (8 points off third!) and would giving Jose £50m to that CB going to help, when we need more than just one CB. We are stuck between a rock and a hard place.
Word from Germany is that the Bayern coach is going to take over from Yogi Löw as Germany manager and that Nagelsmann is favourite to be the new Bayern manager.
Whatever happened to the old flavour of the month manager Max Allegri. No worries like buses there’ll be another one or two along shortly.
that’s OK, it’s only half the Kane money!