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Contingency planning : we've found our guy

Who do you want as the next Tottenham Hotspur manager?

  • Andoni Iraola

    Votes: 12 10.3%

  • Marco Silva

    Votes: 10 8.5%

  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 14 12.0%

  • Kieran McKenna

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 46 39.3%

  • Edin Tersic

    Votes: 1 0.9%

  • A.N. Other

    Votes: 33 28.2%
  • Total voters
    117
Lemonade Money said:
Blimey! Just press 'Reply'!
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Some people don’t do that for some reason
lurker of old said:
Poch was the right guy at the right time
I’m not sure if he is a great coach or not.
Blimey! Some folk are hard to please.
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Not hard to please
I loved it when he was here
But his record before and after doesn’t stand out
Is it because he didn’t have the best striker on the planet and some other outstanding players
Don’t know
But for the USA now for example he is really really struggling and it ain’t because they are playing amazing opposition
He wasn’t a success at psg and Chelsea … well some will say he was great but again, was he. Hard to gauge
Here he was the right guy for us. He connected the dots and got the club united which I hadn’t seen before
And of course we had the league runs but the CL
 
Football management is a funny old game - I'd throw out a theory that by and large it's as much about being in the right place as it is about being a great manager. I reckon there are very few elite managers, they are mostly all very good and have a run of jobs where it clicks and/or they have a lot of money to throw around/benefit from.
 
billyiddo said:
Football management is a funny old game - I'd throw out a theory that by and large it's as much about being in the right place as it is about being a great manager. I reckon there are very few elite managers, they are mostly all very good and have a run of jobs where it clicks and/or they have a lot of money to throw around/benefit from.
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There is a statement in sales, success is all timing and market/territory (as vs. how good of a salesman you are).

Poch & Harry were right man, right time, right club stories for us, as others weren't.

Pep will go down as one of the all time greats having only managed Barca, Bayern & City, would he have ever got any of those jobs if he started in a 2nd division Spanish club? probably not.
 
Raziel said:
There is a statement in sales, success is all timing and market/territory (as vs. how good of a salesman you are).

Poch & Harry were right man, right time, right club stories for us, as others weren't.

Pep will go down as one of the all time greats having only managed Barca, Bayern & City, would he have ever got any of those jobs if he started in a 2nd division Spanish club? probably not.
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And mourinho is now a wash out for some but hasn’t been at a club of the level he won things at for some time
He may well be a wash out too
You don’t know until you know
Have to give context credit for doing it again and doing it at an unfavoured side
Poch and Harry will likely have their time here as their peak (harry for sure)
 
A good manager can maintain the status quo at a club
A great manager can make a club progress and step up places in the table
The elite guys get the opportunities and take them … the latter part being a key. Ancelotti didn’t hang around at Everton when Madrid called again as he knew there would be trophies to win
 
thfcsteff said:
That's right he did (totally forgot about that), he also wanted Moutinho from Porto. I believe that deal was so close to completion that there exists (in somke dark corner) photos of Moutinho in a Spurs shirt from the old training ground. Alas, away it went...
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Had a quick search.
Seems a £22m deal was all in place but we missed the deadline for completion by 1 minute!
Shame as he was an excellent player.
 
tommysvr said:
Can anyone explain the logic of Ange not being good enough on account of his achievements coming in lesser leagues, but Thomas Frank who has literally not even managed a match Europe is the right man?
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That's not the logic that was applied to Ange.
The logic applied is the 22 defeats and the overall form since appx wk 10 of the 23/24 season.
But you know that.
 
tommysvr said:
I spent May, June, July and August 2023 replying to people who thought it was a bad appointment because of the reason I stated.
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Obviously, no-one's born with experience of managing in a top league, and you only get that experience by doing it, so whether or not Postecoglou had any comparable experience before coming here is neither here nor there as far as I'm concerned.

Having said that, you seem to be trying to suggest that, just because he now has experience of managing "in Europe," that should automatically place him above Frank in the notional pecking order somehow. I for one don't accept that, because EPL >>> Europa League, and whereas Frank has shown he can hold his own in the Prem over a number of seasons (and with relatively modest means at his disposal), Postecoglou has just demonstrated, for me and many others, that the Prem is too big a league for him. It's a shame for him, but there it is.

The fact he's managed to win a second-rate UEFA competition (and do so by completely abandoning the so-called principles he insisted all season he could not possibly compromise on, while at the same time delivering our worst league performance in 50 years) doesn't cut any of that ice with me. That's my logic.
 
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