LEGOVERLASS speaks!
Why would a quality manager want to join this club?
🌑 It is not in the top tier of European competition. It has destroyed the careers of players by starving them of success, and it has churned managers every two or three years generally.
🌑 It has owners who everyone knows are land and property developers and have no interest in football success. Its brand has become toxic as a result of ENIC and its reputation.
🌑 Unless a manager has a fetish about stadium design and training facilities who of quality and integrity would in their right mind come anywhere near this organization. That includes management and playing staff.
I take a view we’re pretty stuffed. Usually, Daniel Levy has another man up his sleeve. Ask anyone, ask Harry Redknapp.
I’ve now understood plenty of clues about Mourinho’s exit – since his departure – and it’s all too tragic and all too predictable for bloody words.
Ah, well.
This sounds like my last trip to Los Chiquitos restaurant in Leicester Square at a work Christmas do
Which is essentially why I tend not to wallow. What you’ve described is a reality I can accept. Ultimately we are competing against sides that can simply outspend us, as we have been the insurgent side. It’s crucial we get this next appointment right, hopefully including an empowered DoF. But I don’t buy the narrative that no one wants the job, rather the struggle is choosing the right guy.
Spot on, unfortunately. Hence Levy’s preference for “an attack minded flair coach” to provide a circus for the masses.
I used the terms quality and integrity deliberately to avoid the usual crop of suspects who turn up for the money or assumed status of a bigger club.The prospect of another churn cycle and a barren wasteland of zero success excused on the basis that we are in yet another “project” is untenable to anyone who genuinely has a love for this once great football club.
There are 2 reasons we enjoyed CL football for 3 seasons or so… 1. Poch punching above his weight & 2. One or more of the wealthier clubs under achieving….the bottom line is eventually clubs wealthier than ours substantially invest in their sqaud meaning its just a matter of time before in essence normal service is resumed…
The only managers who would accept a job with Spurs would be someone out of work, Sarri, Allegri, Howe or unproven managers like Potter or Parker. Abramovich displays the same tactics as Levy by ruthlessly hiring and firing but not only does he hire the best, but he also buys the player the managers wants, and he doesn’t spend his life counting the number of bog rolls in the executive boxes loos. Any really good CEO of a sizeable business knows that he has to delegate but he is also responsible for the hiring of competent people whom he trusts to delegate to. With Spurs, it is a toxic atmosphere with employees in fear of losing their jobs unless they tow the party line. When you employ somebody with the experience of Paul Mitchell, do you not take heed of his advice? Or do you ignore him because you know better about player recruitment? By the way, Monaco FC where he now works are in third position , two points be hind the leaders Lille and one point PSG who are in second place. It is completely pointless to make any excuses for Levy and Enic any more, this has been going on too long now and even the normally supine THST have woken up to the fact the we are a completely dysfunctional business, let alone a football club.
And 2nd in the Premier league that was unlucky as usual for us
There’s plenty of pretenders but Mo was the real deal, it has been mentioned on here many times that he got an average group of player’s over achieving to the point of a CL final.
Diamonds don’t grow on trees
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Agree, to a rational human being it would be all those things. But to a football manager (excepting Rodgers) it’s almost a no-brainer. Come to Tottenham, spend two years with a dysfunctional squad, get sacked with a nice compensation package and have Tottenham Hotspur FC manager on your CV with the expectation of another good job to follow.
Pochettino didn’t arrive a proven top level manager, and we \ weren’t in top level European competition. But he proved himself to be exactly what we needed, and within a few years we were in the Champions League and at least challenging at the sharp end of the table – two things we’d gnaw our arms off to be doing again ASAP. So why can’t we attract a manager capable of doing that at least? The proposition is surely better than when Poch took over. The squad is better, if imbalanced. The facilities are better. The money will be better. It’s all very well having a depression session from the inside but from the outside plenty of managers would take this job.
I think I shared this on here many years ago – but what the…
I was in a bar in Dublin (where I was living) when it became evident that there were a number of drunken Dutchmen about.
Like Del boy shouting ‘Ajax!’ I approached the gang giving it loads of “Bonsai, je suis Tottingham, Ich bin Martin Jol!”
Thankfully they saw through the nonsense and I was hugged 27 times before I bought a round 😂
It’s not a poisoned chalice, it’s a wall of death, a pit of vipers or even a shite sandwich with salsa turds on the side.
There will be quality managers trying for the position and honestly money is a big reason.
As long as you don’t come with a big reputation like Mourihno you have little to lose, peace of mind aside.
Yes it’s called a poisoned chalice but it hasn’t hindered Villas -Boas or Pochettino, the gig at PSG isn’t a bad one.
Old Redschnapps has positively blossomed since he left.
I think even Juande Ramos found decent work after us.
I could be wrong but one manager who did suffer for no good reason was Martin Jol, still a fan favourite.