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Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

Who do you want as the next Tottenham Hotspur manager?

  • Andoni Iraola

    Votes: 12 16.0%

  • Marco Silva

    Votes: 8 10.7%

  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 2 2.7%

  • Kieran McKenna

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 39 52.0%

  • Edin Tersic

    Votes: 1 1.3%

  • A.N. Other

    Votes: 12 16.0%
  • Total voters
    75
Think we have to tell Poch he can stay for 5 years and really build a team whatever happens, and get him to leave the US.

Whoever we get in, there’s going to be a feeling of “it’s not Poch”. The only exception would have to be an outstanding candidate & there aren’t any really.

Part of me hopes Levy is letting Ange dig a deeper and deeper hole to make Pochs arrival easier, but think I’m just wishful thinking.
 
elyid said:
Think we have to tell Poch he can stay for 5 years and really build a team whatever happens, and get him to leave the US.

Whoever we get in, there’s going to be a feeling of “it’s not Poch”. The only exception would have to be an outstanding candidate & there aren’t any really.

Part of me hopes Levy is letting Ange dig a deeper and deeper hole to make Pochs arrival easier, but think I’m just wishful thinking.
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He's an itch that's going have to be scratched at some point, this seems like the perfect opportunity.
This squad is built for him, most things around the club are either in place or close to it.
If there are issues within the boardroom staff with him then for the sake of the club they need to be ironed out.
If he crashes and burns we can move on. There's no obvious candidate that will be anything other than a gamble, Poch is no more a risk than any other manager, if it doesn't work we are no worse off.
 
gungy said:
we cant go wrong with Xavi? free agent, lots of experience and bagged a few trophies as a manager...
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Surely we could easily go wrong with Xavi. As much as I like the idea, he's never played or managed in the PL. Not sure if he even speaks English. Does he have a pragmatic side to him that would adapt to the PL conditions?

I'd love him to be the new Pep though.
 
Lilbaz said:
Anyone know much about vincenzo italiano? Seems to have done well wherever he has been. Improving results.

What style of football does he play?
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Only what I’ve read
He has done brilliant jobs and plays attacking football
There was some articles on him
He did really well at Fiorentuna but didn’t win the Europeans cups despite being in 2 finals
And he has carried on well at Bologna
He is the kind of manager that Brighton would go for
 
elyid said:
Think we have to tell Poch he can stay for 5 years and really build a team whatever happens, and get him to leave the US.

Whoever we get in, there’s going to be a feeling of “it’s not Poch”. The only exception would have to be an outstanding candidate & there aren’t any really.

Part of me hopes Levy is letting Ange dig a deeper and deeper hole to make Pochs arrival easier, but think I’m just wishful thinking.
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- If (big IF) we went for Poch, it has to be long term, no point for either party any other way
- There is no "whatever happens", business will not work like that, we could agree a missed year of Europe is ok, but expectations would have to be club doesn't drop out of top 10 or something

Personally I think it's now or never, getting a replacement in, if next season isn't amazing, the Poch brick will start again with "he could leave post WC", club & Poch should decide and commit or move on, stop the childish "it may happen one day brick"
 
Raziel said:
- If (big IF) we went for Poch, it has to be long term, no point for either party any other way
- There is no "whatever happens", business will not work like that, we could agree a missed year of Europe is ok, but expectations would have to be club doesn't drop out of top 10 or something

Personally I think it's now or never, getting a replacement in, if next season isn't amazing, the Poch brick will start again with "he could leave post WC", club & Poch should decide and commit or move on, stop the childish "it may happen one day brick"
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So long term unless he doesn't meet expectations?
 
Lilbaz said:
So long term unless he doesn't meet expectations?
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No, defined leeway, room for mitigations. The club financials are very different today than for Poch Mk1, we had to have Europe when we had a 33K seat stadium and no additional revenue streams. Now it's not great to miss out, but it's not a disaster.

This season should show, just giving a manager endless rope is a fudging bad idea.

I'm sure if the club fired Ange in Dec, fans/media would have been up in arms about "trigger happy Levy" and deflection, etc. Hindsight says it would have been clearly the right thing to do
 
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