Big fat NO!!! from me, I'm afraid.
Under Ramos we were playing a very technical system of football, which although it was sophisticated and foreign, it required a very high level of concentration and tactical planning. The problem is (IMO) in the EPL, with the pace, physicality and tempo alot of mistakes can happen. So Tactical planning does not work for 90 mins. What you need in the EPL is Simple Tactics and high quality players.
Harry understands this. Put together a mix of Hard working defensive players with alot of flair players and into a simple system where they can express themselves, and in a rather simple system and you should be able have some success.
I know a lot of Spurs fans who kept saying Arry is a clown, he does understand modern football, he is an illiterate so and so....I kept saying to them that look, I've been a Spurs Fan since 1980....and this a is the first time, in a long time that every week I expect lots of goals and think we can beat anyone on our day. 4th, 5th, 4th is an unbelievable achievement when you consider where we have been over the last 15 years (Since Pleat Left (the First Time)). I told them be happy with what we have and enjoy the moments, we are Tottenham not Man U, when have we ever had Dynasty of success in the League. I love flair, goals and superstars, that's why I chose to support Tottenham. I told them that once Arry is gone, they may live to regret it.
The change did happen and we got AVB. I'm a Spurs fan, I will give my support to Spurs regardless of who the manager is. I actually like AVB and I want him to be successful at Spurs.
Unfortunately I don't think he is top quality manager. He seems to me to a FM manager. Everything is too tactical, too precise, too text book. Natural skill and expression of flair will rip up any tactics. You just can't legislate for it. No amount of tactical planning can stop a moment of individual brilliance, whether it's a nutmeg, a freekick, a dummy, through ball, a backheel, a step over, a weaving dribble.
We now have tactical overkill.
If you look at SAF's system it was a simple 4-4-2 with top quality players. Wenger plays a simple pass and move system with players allowed to express themselves.
Whereas we are playing a very precise, passing and positioning system, where players are told to stand and run. No free expression. Where a team of robots. That's just not football.
So back to topic, Levy was wrong to let Arry go, because the even though we were not perfect, we were not far away from real success. We just needed more higher quality players. throughout the squad. I don't hold the England thing against him, as it was England and not another football club.
So Levy was wrong to breaking something which wasn't broken. We just needed better quality parts in our old vintage car, rather than buying a brand new car (which we now discover has so many technical problems).
