Spurs were transformed by Poch, who earned the right to a Ferguson rebuild
— Miguel Delaney (@MiguelDelaney) July 9, 2020
They took the short-term fix of changing the manager rather than squad, and that looks like it could be way more costly in long term
Now, the prudent financial decision would be another managerial change
Spurs were transformed by Poch, who earned the right to a Ferguson rebuild
This part is certainly true. Pochettino obeyed the ENIC protocols to the letter, including sitting out several transfer windows where his squad was the only one in Europe’s top 5 divisions not to buy a player.
There’s no denying Mauricio had earned the backing of Daniel Levy. This blog went through a protracted phase of signing off posts with #BackTheDamnManager
They took the short-term fix of changing the manager rather than squad, and that looks like it could be way more costly in long term
This is to fundamentally misrepresent (intentionally or otherwise) what Levy was up to. Despite Pochettino’s good works, Daniel Levy was not to be stopped in his desire to go all in on infrastructure. As I wrote recently, only a psychopath could have ignored the opportunity that Tottenham had nudge Spurs into a genuine contender, opposed to one that “competed”.
There wasn’t any money for a squad rebuild, because a squad rebuild was never a consideration. Levy threw THFC’s £340million reserves into the stadium project.
Now, the prudent financial decision would be another managerial change
Prudent? Nice try Miguel, but throwing Mourinho into the skip with the other dozen plus managers Levy burned through won’t solve anything. Levy has managed to leverage Spurs to the point that the club is unsellable as the assets are all maxed out.
For the foreseeable future, the only alterations to the squad can be made by selling existing players and reinvesting.
Sacking Mourinho would be as helpful as bringing back Pochettino – which would also achieve zip.
Pochettino spent over £300m in five seasons it was Levy selling players kept the cost down to just over £100m nett.
How many times have we been here under Levy ?
That feeling of “going somewhere” and “aiming for the stars” has come crashing down by recent events on and off the field, the promise of a bright future looks distinctly slim . I think the players have become disillusioned and lost their focus , and I really think Mourinho is trying to reinvigorate the players and get them thinking his way, but from what we are seeing on the pitch, it looks a lost cause. It’s probably the biggest test of his career to get the team challenging for honours again, and from what we have seen since he took over, I’m not sure he can do it.
Or give Harry some games in his new career at centre-half.
This mess wasn’t created by Mourinho. I never liked his style at other clubs but he hasn’t signed one player. This is the fault of the board and owners and the team. If I was to a portion responsiblity it would be 80 percent the board and twenty per cent the team. Klopp and Guardiola would fail at Spurs so I want more time for Mourinho and more resources. If they don’t want to spend their own money borrow money for new players. Think differently, a few cheap loans and free transfers aren’t going to work. You could have done that in the missed windows but you failed. We’re back where we started before Poch came and cleared out the dead wood. Now it’s a forest.
People baying for Mourinho’s blood are missing the point here. Changing the manager will never make any difference, even if Levy gets lucky with another Poch, because the board have consistently failed to back any manager properly in the transfer market since ENIC have had their clammy hold on Spurs.
Managers like Jol, Rednapp, AVB and Poch have all proven to be capable at their job, some like Poch were world class, yet none have been backed in the transfer market. The manager gives Levy a list of the players he wants, Levy looks at the list and his hair falls out at the prices of said players, Levy then mostly goes to crappy leagues like the French and Dutch leagues (roughly on a par with our Championship), and saves a shedload of money by buying basically unproven crap that are going to struggle in the PL. We’ve got to the stage now where the squad is so infused with average players that the team has become an average team.
We are on an unstoppable downward spiral because of the short-sighted approach of Levy and ENIC. All they care about is making money for their investors. The new stadium was built to enable our owners to make more money for their investors. It was believed that gullible Spurs fans would parade through the turnstiles like brainless sheep regardless of how the team performed following being diluted with so many average players.
H why are you censoring my posts? Doesn’t make any sense at all as there is no bad language or anything. WTF
People baying for Mourinho’s blood are missing the point here. Changing the manager will never make any difference, even if Levy gets lucky with another Poch, because the board have consistently failed to back any manager properly in the transfer market since ENIC have had their clammy hold on Spurs.
Managers like Jol, Rednapp, AVB and Poch have all proven to be capable at their job, some like Poch were world class, yet none have been backed in the transfer market. The manager gives Levy a list of the players he wants, Levy looks at the list and his hair falls out at the prices of said players, Levy then mostly goes to crappy leagues like the French and Dutch leagues (roughly on a par with our Championship), and saves a shedload of money by buying basically unproven crap that are going to struggle in the PL. We’ve got to the stage now where the squad is so infused with average players that the team has become an average team.
We are on an unstoppable downward spiral because of the short-sighted approach of Levy and ENIC. All they care about is making money for their investors. The new stadium was built to enable our owners to make more money for their investors. It was believed that gullible Spurs fans would parade through the turnstiles like brainless sheep regardless of how the team performed following being diluted with so many average players.
It’s up to you to show your displeasure at the way ENIC are screwing you over with the highest admission prices yet not feeding that money back into the team. Stop buying merchandise and stop being brainless sheep and paying top 4 prices to watch a team that belongs in the lower half of the table. Baaaah!
Can we withdraw from the League too?
If Mourinho was doing what Simeone does at Atletico Madrid, sticking it to the big boys and getting results with a ‘Us v them’ mentality he might have more respect off the fans. I don’t want a manager who is a good public face who throws sound bites for fun, I want him to improve the team and get results. These are international players he has, and with his qualities we should be getting results, no matter what the tactics. He won’t get sacked until Christmas, so we’ll see what he can do next season. I am not holding my breath though.
Based on these performances and the Norwich and Leipzig episodes, I think we should withdraw from cup competitions for the time being..Or if that’s not allowed just use them to blood some kids.
Levy can’t afford to sack him, we don’t have any money. Two seasons ago, the squad might have been valued at north of £750 mill, £200 mill for Kane, £100 mill each We owe £1 bill for Alli, Son and Eriksen, £75 mill for Alderweireld, £50 mill for Rose, and other monies for assorted players. Now, what is the squad worth? We are out of the CL for next season and cannot afford to reinforce the team without selling. The problem is that the squad’s valuation has plummeted. For all of us who want Enic to sell the club, what is it worth now with all the debt and the need to completely reinvigorate the squad to the quality required to qualify for the CL? When Poch asked the board to be brave, we had £350 mill in the bank, but the megalomaniac who runs the club ignored the fact that the squad needed substantial reinforcements of quality, and ploughed the money into the craft ale emporium. So where are we now? A club with a billion of debt, needing a complete squad rebuild with a manager whose track record is great, but whose best days are behind him and whom we cannot afford to sack. Nobody believes in the Levy project any more. The players realise they will win nothing at Spurs, and many of the fans are coming to the same conclusion, albeit very slowly. There are hard times ahead for the anchor tenants.
it cost £300m though.. in 2.5 yrs. We have not spent that in 10! bang the drum all you want, jose is a spent force, we will not win under him, and quite simply, his track record is to buy trophies and play football no-one wants to watch.
Didn’t Jose win trophies at United?
As expensive and as humiliating as it would be for levy, it’s in the club’s best long-term interests to pay him off once the season ends.
Even with a world-record spend and a team full of “Jose players,” he couldn’t get United close to Klopp and Guardiola and the football was dreadful. The whole world saw it. So this belief he would return spurs to the top 3 with just a fraction of his world-record spend on “Jose players” is illogical. Pure self-deception.
The truly frightening thing is that levy himself seemed to subscribe to this magical thinking — paying twice klopp’s salary to a guy no other elite club was interested in after the Man U experience.
If the individual running spurs is that deluded I fear we are screwed.
“There’s still a football club over there