No good morning, wanna cuppa...nope not our @Spurlock ... just straight in there with a swift kick in the balls BTW...Like the avi mate
Haha sorry Colin, Good Morning mate and thanks I’ve lost my avatar for 6 months coming up to a Chav and a fox...hoping I don’t lose another few months to a Goon so in meantime just enjoying the freedom of choice lol.
Apparently the shortlist has been whittled down to three Please tell me Martinez has dropped off the bottom...
He would never join a club of soft, Southern pansies or one that has an actual wage bill, of sorts. He had to play for Millwall for image reasons and Watford is the North really, isn't it?
Levy's statement to fans in today's programme...it's so vacuous it's like a party political broadcast Dear Supporter, I want to start my notes by saying I hope you and your loved ones are well after what has been a challenging, often overwhelming year – and one that has called for immense resilience. The hope must be that we are now looking ahead to a return to what we all enjoyed before the pandemic struck. Today is an excellent example – the opportunity to come together, return to our home and for 90 minutes cheer the team on. This season, for many reasons, we have not met our raised expectations on the pitch. Since we lost the Champions League Final in June, 2019, we have invested in excess of £250m in new players. Everyone had high hopes with the squad we had assembled. Unfortunately, despite sitting top of the Premier League in December, we have not been able to sustain this position. We reached the Carabao Cup Final, however we had a disappointing exit from the Europa League and now find ourselves fighting to qualify for Europe, having competed in European competition for 14 of the last 15 seasons. The new stadium is pivotal to generating revenues to invest in the squad. Every single penny generated gets re-invested back into our Club. We are absolutely clear that central to our ambitions is a successful football team – it is what we all crave. We have come close over the last seven seasons and everyone’s focus is on a return to regular Champions League participation and competing for honours. I have said it many times and I will say it again – everything we do is in the long-term interests of the Club. I have always been and will continue to be ambitious for our Club and its fans. As a Club we have been so focused on delivering the stadium and dealing with the impact of the pandemic, that I feel we lost sight of some key priorities and what’s truly in our DNA. Our work in the community and with the NHS is an example of when we get it right, but we don’t get everything right. It has never been because we don’t care about or respect you, our fans – nothing could be further from the truth. We have announced we shall establish a Club Advisory Panel that we believe will provide wide, authentic representation and ensure our fans are at the heart of Club decisions, with the Chair to be appointed annually as a Non-Executive of the Board with full voting rights, a first for any Premier League club. We shall focus on the recruitment of a new Head Coach. We are acutely aware of the need to select someone whose values reflect those of our great Club and return to playing football with the style for which we are known – free-flowing, attacking and entertaining – whilst continuing to embrace our desire to see young players flourish from our Academy alongside experienced talent. It has been evident all season just how much we have missed your presence in the stands. It is a huge lift for all of us to have our final home game of the season with so many of you back here to support the team. I want to thank you all for your tremendous support as always this season, despite having to watch much of it from afar, both here and around the world. The players and coaches will show their appreciation at the final whistle and thank you for your fantastic support in such extraordinary circumstances. I want to give my thanks to Ryan Mason and the coaches, Chris Powell, Nigel Gibbs, Ledley King, Michel Vorm and Perry Suckling who have stepped in to lead the team through to the end of the season – and to our players – they have had to continue to perform and be professional during times when they and their families have also been affected by the pandemic. I should also like to thank all our staff for their continued hard work in often trying circumstances. Whilst many enterprises ceased to operate they continued to deliver football matches and drive off-pitch digital and virtual projects. I urge everyone to get behind the team as we look to finish the season strongly and hopefully secure European football again next season. I hope you and your families have a great summer break and that we welcome you back in August to a full capacity stadium. We are all part of the Spurs family and together we are stronger. Yours, Daniel
Nope, still there from what I’ve seen! The 4 I saw yesterday were: Rangnick Potter Martinez Ten Hag With everything being such a mess, we should be going all out to secure Rangnick IMO, but ideally as a DOF with someone underneath him. Flick would be a dream, and he’s still rumoured. - it’s the hope that kills you. For me, those two carry a lot more weight and I’d feel fairly confident that their CV’s say enough in terms of standing up to Levy. They’ll do the job of securing decent talent at a suitable price, whilst progressing and developing young players into the first team. I just can’t help but feel that the other options will be mugged off by Levy. Graham Potter for example has done a great job, but there’ll always be this element of potential belittlement with his lack of experience. I can see it being too much of a step up at this stage and the wheels falling off with a an already extremely unhappy fan base. I think many won’t accept it from the outset and will see it as the “cheap” or “easy” option, further sticking the knife into Levy. Things are so toxic at the moment, and I think the fans need to see an ambitious plan in place in order to restore trust in the on field decisions. There’s very few options, and Levy has to get this right. Yes, the two I mention may seem like a pipe dream and a perfect scenario, but I fear another shambles of a season if we haven’t got the right person/people in to reinvest the potential Kane money and a suitably experienced manager to work with the team. We have to act like a big club if we want to be one, and that starts from the top by employing people that match the clubs philosophy and DNA.
From rough analysing on Twitter, Rangnick and Potter seem to be the two most preferred options by the fans, though Rangnick has been spoken of more as a DoF than manager for us. I haven’t seen anyone say they want Martinez and ten Hag’s name doesn’t really do the rounds amongst fans after the contract extension. Rodgers’ name also pops up a hell of a lot but most tweets often end with something like “as if he’d leave to join us though...”. I think the club would get a lot of “thumbs up” if they ****ed Hitchen off, brought in Rangnick to take the DoF role and have Potter work below him as manager/ head coach. Rangnick’s solid scouting record and his ability to find/ work with progressive coaches would seem, on paper at least, a good partnership in the making. There’ll be doubters of Potter of course, a sense of snobbery due to who he currently manages plays a part but also the fact that this would be his first “big club” job does obviously leave you with concerns, even someone like myself who really wants him at Spurs has one or two doubts as it’s a risk but it’s a risk I’d be happy to see Spurs make as I do really believe he’s a very good manager in the making. Ultimately though, until we boot the dross playing personnel out the door, whoever the manager is won’t have much luck here and will only meet the same ending as Poch and Jose.
Wouldn’t mind a rebuild in the mould of Steven Gerrard tbh if we are going down that route of starting from scratch. Think he’s got exactly what is needed to get rid of the weak minds and he’s got all the assets the hipsters look for, he’s young, nice hair but I think he possesses that old school too which imo is very important still.
As I’ve previously said Potter wouldn’t be my first choice, but if he is appointed then Levy needs to fully back him and let him get rid of whoever he wants and also let him manage the way he wants without undermining him. I think any manager coming in will soon realise there is a lot of dross that probably don’t help the dressing room atmosphere as well as on the pitch too so they’d to be sold ASAP and then let Potter bring in the players he wants instead of an option B or C like what has happened with previous managers
