That’s what I was saying earlier mister! Believe me, I have no expectations except to see some juicy gifs.
Calmer nature as in no insulting or being personal ... I have no issue with people having a different view
Giuseppe Di Marzio has suddenly chipped in with Fiorentina coach Vincenzo Italiano Before anybody screams at the sight of another Italian coach, it does have to be said that Vinny Italian's name is a misnomer as he has Fiorentina playing decidedly un-Italian football, as they play a high-pressing 433, which appealed to Fiorentina after watching him keep Spezia up a couple of seasons ago He's got a year left on his Fiorentina contract, so surely nothing else could be going on there...
The problem is that we’re stuck in the middle. Quality of coaching and back room stuff has increased across the board around Europe and especially in the PL because more clubs can afford it. Managers like Slot or De Zerbi, or players at good foreign clubs or mid-table PL clubs, are less likely to need an intermediate step. They go straight to the top if they’re good enough. Coming to Spurs and having a bad experience could be terminal for their careers or at least set them back years. Similarly, while we have the financial clout to compete for top 4 and domestic trophies, we’re not attractive as a proposition on the pitch (several managers have now slammed this group and it’s clear there are some issues, and the playing squad needs a big re-work) or off it (no defined structure and a chairman who increasingly has a reputation as a pain in the arse). So we’re not picking up the scraps either. There’s too many other better options, or at less risky ones. Levy has to define what he wants this club to be. Either we try and out-Brighton the Brightons of this world, picking up the coaches and players before they come to the PL, or he tries to go back to Nagelsmann, meets his demands and recommendations for a DoF, and fully invests in what a top manager and DoF wants this club to be, where the only time he isn’t sitting on his hands when it comes to football is to sign cheques. The trouble is that Levy appears to have a very clear idea of how he should operate, and that idea doesn’t fit in with how you do things at the sharp end of the PL.
Bloody hell, we've already reached the stage where the Twitter aggregators are screaming we've offered the job to Rodgers - and are citing the same Twitter feed as a source, in spite them being about as credible as the Spurs Community ITK page on Boxing Day
I hear that Eddie Howe would like to manage a football club, rather than a daycare centre Might be worth an approach
Rodgers likely won’t happen. Apparently his agent (also Potter’s agent) and Levy do not get along at all. With that said, and I almost can’t believe I’m writing this… He’s an absolute cock but a decent manager. I think the issues at Leicester are partly of his own making and partly because the owners were hit hard by Covid and couldn’t invest as they’d have liked. If you take the view that sorting Spurs out in one go is impossible, then he could be the kind of manager who stabilises the club, builds a core of young players, and prepares the club (with the right structure behind him) to be taken over by a manager of higher pedigree and ability in a few years time. In the same way that Newcastle have appointed Howe (who like Poch at Spurs has over performed and is ahead of schedule at Newcastle) and not immediately signed superstars, we need a transitional period in terms of players but also staff. If you wanted to solve the manager in one go, you need one of the elite winners who also works with youth and builds teams (these are rare, the only one available is arguably Nagelsmann). Otherwise you get a coach more used to building with a young team and hope they evolve into a winner with you, and replace them if they don’t (while continuously refreshing the squad, which was the sticking point under Poch). I could stomach Rodgers, who has a decent CV and a lot of experience, if I thought it was a coordinated part of a long-term plan to rebuild the club, even though I’d be initially disappointed with the appointment. But we all know that such a strategy does not exist.
Pre-tax losses of £73m and you say other clubs are in debt What's your club's next trick to appear healthy? Make the stadium seats out of asbestos?
Matt Law claims, while looking for his belt and a slice of lemon, that Graham Potter is set to be offered the Nice job The interesting thing is how some of our fanbase are aghast at the idea of us offering the job to Potter entirely because we'd have to dig him up from that graveyard of managers that is Chelsea
I could make peace with it if it truly felt like it was part of a strategy. I’d feel ill for a while though. Definitely not my first choice. I don’t really want Potter but would take him over Rodgers as a similar but more interesting appointment. Honestly I wonder what Levy has been up to today. Furiously ringing Poch and getting no reply? Crying into a monogrammed napkin? Stuck in a board meeting where nobody knows why what we’re doing isn’t working?
