a year? seems like my whole life and only finally it felt like we were moving on from this word 'transition'
You know how it goes...derbies are always difficult affairs. At a driving distance of 108.1 miles, we are Norwich's closest neighbours in the Premier League.
Can you imagine...we (somehow) win the next four games...and still need three points from the last match. Harry (and everyone else) knows he is off to the England job - and who's coming back to spoil the party? None other than Fulham and (I love) Martin Jol...
I'm sorry, but we were 13 points ahead of Arsenal at one point in this season, and now we are battling the Toon for 4th. That is totally unacceptable, and any one who says otherwise can **** right off. No excuses. No apologies. Just get the **** out of our club.
THe only positive I can glean from the situation is that every time we sell we replace with better (our top players anyway.) If we give that improved squad to a manager who knows his arse from his elbow when the going gets tough, David Moyes for instance, we might actually get somewhere.
I don't want Moyes. Or MON. Or Sam ****ing Allardyce, or any negative twat. I want a manager that knows how to take us to the next level. Someone proven, probably foreign, who speaks English. Yes, it will cost us money, but do we have ambition, are we simply the small-minded club that is happy to keep punching above its weight? I have my answer to that question.
HIAG, to attract somebody like that we need Champions League football, a big ground or preferably both. At the moment there is more chance of you being made "poster of the year" on the Scouser's board than a Champions League berth for Spurs.
Hiddink and Jose both earn around a million a month... Ancelotti is in France. How about Slaven Bilic - fluent in five languages, plays "the right way" - and MIGHT just be able to hang on to Modric? Other names I would find acceptable: Gianfranco Zola Paolo di Canio Chris Hughton Gus Poyet Brendan Rogers Roberto di Matteo (he's done a cracking job with the pensioners).
out of all them and what is within our grasps and the Modric saga id go for Bilic..he seems like someone who can get the boys playing for him.
Dona - we might even get good value from Niko again. He is great when he plays for Croatia. Who knows, Bilic might even believe in squad rotation/preservation, so that when March comes around, the players don't move like slugs.
heres hoping sheikh...i growing to the idea of Bilic,in this sense..however i dont know much about his teams...im sure i will be educated by yourself and others on here..but i suspect he has got alot going for him and your spot on Niko is epic for Croatia
Dona - look what I've just found (and I SWEAR, I had no inkling of this, beforehand): http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/footba...ms-interest-in-becoming-new-tottenham-manager
that could be why hes so adamant that Modders realises that Spurs are massive. im warming to it...would be intrested to see what everyone else thinks...i think he would keep up our exciting football..hope hes good with squads.
If you look back through the history of "next manager" threads, i think I've brought his name up every time. My all time favourite is Hiddink - but he's as old as Harry and earns twice what Capello was paid by the FA. Bilic presents as being of the right generation...one generation younger than Redknapp - but with a ton of experience of playing in England and coaching at major tournaments - at the same time as being old enough to command respect from everyone (except Brad Friedel). Who knows, even if Modders leaves, he might be able to tempt some of the amazing Croatian talents to join us (such as Milan Badelj, or Mateo Kovacic. At his age (43), Bilic could take control of the team and forge a dynasty - oversee the move to the new stadium - and light up Europe. Funny to think that he learned his playing style under Harry's management, at West Ham - but that's no bad thing. I think, for the most part of Harry's tenure, we have been thrilled with the way the team has played and what is needed is evolution, rather than revolution. Here are his raw managerial stats (from Wikipedia): Managerial statistics As of 16 November 2011 Team From To Record Pld W D L Win % Hajduk Split 21 November 2001 4 May 2002 17 11 4 2 64.70 Croatia U21 18 August 2004 1 August 2006 18 10 2 6 55.55 Croatia 1 August 2006 Present 59 40 13 6 67.80 I think you'll agree, not too shabby. Croatia, with about 4.5 million people, has definitely outperformed England, since Bilic took over. It would be brilliant to see what he could accomplish if given the reigns of our club.
Can't get the alignment to work - but you can read the figures at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaven_Bilić
some very interesting posts here chaps. Gotta say, as blunt as he's been, Im 100% behind HIAG's comments - bang on the money. also warming to the idea of Bilic. Although Di canio is doing an amazing job at Swindon, he's a coule of years away from a prem job yet, let alone a top 4 contender. I'm also beginning to wonder what Brendan Rogers could be capable of, with a fair bit of cash to spend. Part of this mess we're in is Levy's fault though. although the guy is a great chairman, we have to remember that football is decided over a season. Every other club around us has strengthened and taken a few "thought out" risks. They've all spent money, some more than others. We decided to make a couple of shrewd signings to strengthen, but then completely contradicted ourselves in weakening our team, by playing those players too often! We've needed some big names for about 18 months now. players that can step in and make the difference. players that allow rotation at any point, to cope with a busy fixture schedule. - harry clearly doesn't have the confidence in those "fringe" players, which is why we're in this mess, so why wasn't this addressed last summer, rather than signing players like Iago Falque, who's not had a look in? It's a different game altogether when trying to compete for the top 4. there's too many teams that are there, or thereabouts. All those teams have made the correct additions, but we seem to not want to take any risk like those clubs.* unfortunately in business, you have to take a little bit of risk. the additions need to be made in order to secure that CL spot over a 38 game season. Sitting 3rd for most of the season doesn't mean you deserve to get there, it's about who perfroms best over the 38!!! we seem to want that 4th spot, but we're not really prepared to go all out to get it. - The irony, is that there is a far bigger detrimental risk that awaits us, should we not qualify. Our manager leaves and so do some of the players. Once again, Tottenham go into transition, struggling to attract any big names as we failed to make our mark and show our intent when we had the chance. 3 transfer windows have passed, hundreds of fans have cried out for certain players and there's been no action taken. you can't have your cake and eat it Levy. *Liverpool not included
I don't normally agree with Hansen but he was spot on during MOTD, the team need to pull together...including the manager, how do you inspire a team that doesn't know if you'll be there next season???
Not if we replace him with a coach who can take us forward. The last World Cup was a good example of this: Italy knew Lipp would be leaving after the tournament and only showed up against Slovakia, whilst France knew Domanech was leaving after the tournament and looked as if they wanted to get rid of him sooner rather than later.
