According to Fabrizio Romano, a two-year deal is waiting for Paulo Fonseca and an option of a third-year at Spur is there should things progress favourably. It is my understanding from a source close to the club that Tottenham’s offer wouldn’t be for all candidates and reflects the financial battering that the club took during the dismissal of José Mourinho.
I also understand that this is a toe in the water type of deal as far as the club are concerned and weighted – not unfairly – but in ENIC’s favour for the incoming coach to live up to expectations. Additionally, the budgets for transfer activity are crystal clear. Sell to buy and with the direction coming from Fabio Paratici who will pass everything across Daniel Levy’s desk for approval.
I take a view that Fonseca will bite Daniel’s hand off to sign this deal and is likely to arrive in London with a wheelbarrow of fresh ideas good intentions. The Portuguese has had a result landing this role, but boy will he have his work cut out for himself…
His first task is to get a tune out of our existing superstars.
Arguing with yourself John??? :-O
Im not saying hes perfect but surely he’s worth interviewing… we’re likely to end up with someone far worse. The odds of Big Sam coming in around Xmas are shortening…..
He’d have been competent at least. Not fond of his approach myself though.
Like us, Poch is fond of the club. Not that pr*ck and his mates…
I don’t blame him for taking the job, and as HH says, he’s got his work cut out so for me he initially gets cut some slack in the biggest job he’s ever had.
This by no means endorses the situation that has led to his appointment, that’s Levy’s incompetence and lack of ambition.
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5th & 7th is very Spursy
How many get such a deal, shows how much they think of him.
It appears Levy ran out of ideas or realised potential suitors would not entertain working with him. IF we have gone down the unemployed list of managers until one says yes, it’s not exactly encouraging.
For me , I would have gone for Potter, he may not be a name or character that excites many, but I have liked his positive and forward thinking style, which if he can reproduce here would be great to watch and infinitely better than the complete negativity we have suffered in recent months.
He could also influence players like White, Bissuoma and Lamptey to come here.
I have no faith at all in anything Levy conjures up. If PF somehow turns out to not be complete camel doodoo then it’s by luck, not by some ability of Levy to spot talent. I know the stadium is an albatross but if you give the fans something to believe in, a product worth supporting, the money will flood in. This just feels like yet another supermarket sweep around Poundland.
Unless morale and unity can be measured in financial terms and recorded on a profit and loss spreadsheet, Levy won’t understand these abstract concepts.
Wrong blog for that !
We have been that club for a very long time, and I wouldn’t say something we’ve just recently evolved into, it’s happened over decades.If the owners think changing the style too attractive place and not winning trophies is going to be enough after everything we’ve been promised with the new stadium, then I think they’re going to be very disappointed with the fans reaction.
Jeez, that made me laugh. Then I realised how it might all be too true. Big Sam in to avoid the drop. Well, he does have the best record of any England manager ……
There is one insuperable problem at Spurs and that is Daniel Levy. We can speculate to our heart’s content as much as we like as to managerial appointments but it doesn’t matter, no manager will succeed at Spurs whilst Levy is there. It doesn’t matter who the DoF, head of player recruitment or who sits on the board, it is completely irrelevant. Twenty two years of failure should be enough for any Spurs fan to understand that we will never be a successful football club whilst Gollum is in charge.
If you’re winning then it doesn’t really matter about the style of play, although we all love teams that win and play attractively. We as Spurs fans have always had to make do with some nice play instead of trophies for many years and to be fair it is always been part of the clubs identity. It can excuse a lot of shortcomings. If you’re going to win playing in a pragmatic fashion then winning becomes the only metric on which the team is judged.
I expect that changing style of play may bring a short-term sense of positivity, but we are still stuck in the same endless cycle under these owners.
My main concern is Harry Kane’s departure, if we are behind the rest now what I think is going to be like after he’s gone? 🤔
Sleepwalk to oblivion.
And remember….no singing in pubs. Wish them all the best policing that…
Yep agree ,potter seems like an excellent choice now .
Fooking scary.
I think you’ve been to the future – you time-travelling gypsy witch!
Surreal that they’ve got away this
“we’ve got one that can see”
They live.
The dead end road….
It would be rather! Levy even rejected by the likes of Fonseca. Priceless!
He’s going to get an OBE then!
Agreed. Poch, if he is ever to return, needs to wait until there is a much better, more ambitious and well funded set up than the present shambolic one.
Talking about winning against the bigger clubs; do you all remember AVB’s dreadful record against other clubs in the so called Big Six in season 2013-14? (actually, we probably weren’t a part of any Big Six at the time). I think we actually had (certainly at an advanced stage of the season at any rate) the worst record of anyone against the Five, rivalled only by Fulham!
I can’t understand, either, why Wolves have let their manager go only to replace him with another chap who seems no obvious improvement and, indeed, perhaps isn’t as good!
“Okay Daniel, we want to sell Dier, Winks, Sissoko, Aurier and Dele to generate about 80-90M. Apparently, we have to sell Kane for 100M to City too. So let’s reinvest that in a few quality players – a CB, a striker, a goalscoring midfielder and a CDM, preferably ones that know the league.”
“Yeah, I’m not selling those players for less than 50M each.”
“…”
“So have you seen the latest offers on Ligue2bargainbasement.com? N’Jie and Stambouli might want to come back!”
No, I don’t think he’s an idiot and complete no hoper and he may even surprise us but, as you say, his last bit of work wasn’t very impressive and this is a very difficult job trying to balance the expectations of fans, who believe Spurs is a big club (which, of course, it should be), with the actual current debt ridden reality and its cheeseparing way of doing things.
Talking of evil. Susan Michie of SAGE, the criminal group of psychologists, behavioral scientists and communist party members(what they have to do with virology is anyone’s guess) who are dictating how we should live our lives, has said distancing and masks should stay forever.
Enter the old Lydon quote again here….
Any manager with savvy who knows about Levy and how he does things would turn their nose up at any blandishments from that particular source.
He has status, & is better suited than any other available manager who you could envisage working under levy with a degree of success, I mean he worked under Mike Ashley & got Newcastle promoted. I cant see Mourinho, Pep, Conte, Tuchel, Klopp or anyone else doing that….
If Fonseca is appointed then I will support him wholeheartedly, but he has a task that Sisyphus wouldn’t envy, getting rid of the deadwood and a tune out of the rest whilst working under Scrooge McLevy’s budgetary requirements.
Let’s all hope it pays off spectacularly and we can start giving some back to all those FB and Twitter A*seholes who’ve had a good laugh for too long at our expense.
Seems a fairly sound prediction, alas!
Dressing room atmosphere is so important that you have to waste no time in getting shot of any troublemakers (unless they’re an exceptional talent) and, sometimes, that means letting them go comparatively cheaply. This something the bald one doesn’t appreciate.
Like most, I hope to be proved wrong and hope he succeeds.
However, I can’t help thinking that come late October / early November, 99% of Spurs fans are singing “We told you so!” at Levy as we are 12th, having lost all games against any “big” teams we’ve played, rumours of aggro between Paratici and Levy in the press, Dier, Doherty, Winks still regularly involved, Kane on 12 – 15 goals already at City and Spurs a meme-fest on Twitter.
Yes, quite possibly.
Some positivity here lads come on give the man a chance
This could be a tricky ENIC ploy to make Potter a welcomed appointment. Underwhelming before, now it’ll be a welcomed relief.
Evil genius.
I think a principal problem we have at Spurs is the amount of deadwood we’re carrying at the club, particularly those who are poisoning the atmosphere. These players need to be shifted out pronto, but they tend to hang around, often for years, while our supremo tries to squeeze every penny from a sale, up to and beyond any realistic valuation. Of course, when we are buying, we try to keep the price down and sometimes make an offer that is both derisory and insulting ie Jack Grealish! And no-one likes doing or wants to do business with baldy; he’s universally loathed..
As with any appointment under this regime. It will all end in tears.
Another cheap punt with yet more of Levy micromanaging everything as he does.
And you know what rich elites get up to on boats and islands…..
Wake me up when this nightmare is all over……hang on!
Just saw some tabloid news from Spain, linking Lopetegui with Spurs. Has done a good job at Sevilla and his teams usually play some nice football. Exciting, but probably just a last minute rumor before this Fonseca guy signs.
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The main thing for me is getting rid of the negative dead wood from the camp.
COYS Let’s get this thing bumping again. YIDZ
I for one dont understand the whole Benitez thing. Sure he is a great guy, loved by many, was quite succesful and knows the Prem. But how is he any different from Mourinho in terms of style and perhaps new ideas/freshness?
So there’s still hope 🙂
Robert Maxwell was once on a boat
Well he’s only estimated as the 6th choice.
The football Roma played was pretty okay in general, just winning against the bigger teams would be a worry.
Some of this I feel does come down to the fan base complaints about the playing style under Mouriniho especially the complaints the first half of the season when we were winning.
Have we evolved into a club that is more about entertainment rather than winning?
No sane manager wants to come.
So Levy STILL in charge and has the patsy to buffer the blame? Terrific.
Wouldn’t it be hilarious if Fonseca pulled out ??
Daniel Levy and Joe Lewis meet in the Bahamas ahead of managerial appointment
That sentence alone makes my blood boil. Says all there is to know about these two.
What is the point of a director of football, because this sounds like he is just Levy’s teaboy (or any gender he identifies with) and may as well be director of paperclips.
You recruit people to do their jobs. If Levy wanted a secretary employ one, you want a director of football let them do that and set a relevant review process.
Paratici is just a patsy for recruitment under this working set up because recruitment under this working practise ultimately comes under Levy.
Well, i think Paratici has a good chance of some well paid gardening leave.
This actually feels like Levy is trolling the fans now lol
I do agree with the view this is a bit of a reality check of where we are….last year we clinged to the hope of getting Champions league, now we are laying the foundations for mid table( which can obviously go either way). Not the new guys fault just very depressing.
I didn’t expect an elite manager just a sensible one
This managerial pursuit has been the great leveller for Spurs and we are getting the manager we deserve. No elite manager was ever going to touch us with a barge poll while your Potters and Rodgers prefer to stay in the confines of smaller but well run clubs focused purely on football. The guy has won things so he’s not an idiot but his last job with Roma was a disaster. It’s a very risky appointment for Levy as he enters the last chance saloon.
So we have the best stadium and training facilities in the world and the answer to our woes is a coach with a good track record in the Ukraine who has just been sacked by Roma to be replaced by a multiple winner sacked by us to save money. Forgive me for being completely underwhelmed by this appointment. It reeks of giving somebody a sticking plater for a broken leg. Paratici has a good track record in Italy but it can’t be that difficult to recruit players for Juve like de Ligt for €75 mill but we are going to be scrambling around the bargain basement for our recruits after we have shifted the deadwood at some cost to our balance sheet. This appointment smacks of ill thought out desperation and is not the proper plan of root and branch reform of the way the club has been run that should have been put in place by the board. Levy will slink into the shadows pretending that Paratici is running football matters which we all know is a complete fallacy. It staggers me that Lewis is not more awake to the damage his diminutive sidekick is doing but then he doesn’t care about the football club’s success either. It makes me weep alongside so many long suffering fans. There is no end to this analogy with Sisyphus, it just keeps getting worse.
I really worry this might actually be close to the truth
Completely agree hence why I’ve been hoping to avoid this set back but once it’s done it’s done and I am still a fan 😭
Yes a WHU reject as well.
We should grab Potter before Everton do as at least he has a clue about the PL and the championship possibles. I just do not feel comfortable with someone that even the porn merchants did not like and whose only redeeming point is that he is free.
OT who coached Roma when they did that massive turnaround to beat barca in the CL?
I agree…he can’t helped being used but this is a guy we should not have even been looking at so hence the general desperation and blind hope it might not happen but when the dust settles….
You could be right… Big Sam in at Xmas would be a real wake up call…🤤😂
Totally agree. I will give him a chance. But I have absolutely no hope that this will be anything other than a disaster that will set the club back even further. I think with a top coach and a bit of spend we are 3 to 5 years away from top 4. If Fonseca lasts a year and is then sacked then that is a year wasted plus set back a further 2 or 3 years. I reckon we are now probably 8 years away from top 4, best case scenario. We are absolutely screwed.
Yep agree. Paulo has done nothing wrong and should be given a chance now he is there. The fact he was enjoying his summer without work and then a “Super” club with “the best facilities in the world” slid a contract under his nose is Levy’s issue.
Levy needs to go and Lewis needs to put his hands in his pocket and pay off the stadium to stop crippling the team.
That long? Mid table at Christmas and another severance package to start the new year is my guess. Who knows though, maybe Levy will get lucky once more, to saddle us with the ENIC dream for another 5 years.
Its difficult to see why Benitez wasnt at least interviewed at least he knows the EPL
We’re Tottenham Hotspur, we shouldn’t need to be giving anyone a chance. We need to be the ones given a chance by the likes of Conte etc..
State
As underwhelmed as we might be by all of this, I guess we have to give the bloke a chance, what choice do we have?
The idea that he’s coming purely because we couldn’t attract anyone better is a pretty shocking star of affairs… 🤔
The discontent should not be directed at the new manager, which many spurs fans have done. He should atleast be given a chance to succeed.
I always admire positivity but I feel it is misplaced in this instance, like I said the other day there still needs to be sense and a feeling of going in the right direction.
It does look like a scape goat until we balance the books
Give the guy a chance fellas. I take my hat off to anyone who can get that mob working for each other. Hopefully the new guy would have done his homework & realised how difficult it’ll be.
My theory is that Daniel wants Poch back at some point (rightly or wrongly), this feels very much like a stop gap because it was too soon for all concerned for a return. If I was Poch I’d never work for Levy again…
I was using him as the example of “smaller club” but more importantly there are free managers better suited which would suggest the package on offer…
The fact people still prop up the “ENIC Dream” buying season tickets is beyond me. We all know levy is a snake oil salesman. I wouldnt be too shocked to see Kane go for £200m and Fonz being given £50m to spend.
Or he will have a purple patch get an early extension and then true colours show and we are square -10 😂
Potter signed something like a six year deal with Brighton about a year ago. Well done to the Seagulls for tying him down. Levy might have had a punt in him otherwise.
If I were a season ticket holder who had been coned sorry duped I mean blinded by levy I would looking into getting my money back. Strength in numbers if enough get together you have a chance about the same as this guy seeing the final year of his contract.
It also makes you worry for which transfers we are really in for
This just feels like the cheapest appointment we could make, it makes it feel like free managers and people like Potter were financially out of reach 🤦🏻♂️
I simply do not agree with this appointment and will not support, will seek refund for my season ticket or put it on the exchange. This will be a disastrous appointment and he will not see the end of the season and it’ll be back to Square -3
Superstars?? Lol. Start the weekend with a good ole dose of humour 🤤. If I was a gambling man I reckon he’ll be announced within 7 days & gone by Easter