Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

[Bullet]

Correct @demotw
If anyone wants to look back at Poch's 2-1 trouncing of the mighty AEL Limassol, here is a full list of his matches.
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[Junior19]

His methods and philosophy is very similar to Pochettino. They use a lot of the same methods. They focus only on enhancing performance, not results, to get the results. Shut out all external noise, and build togetherness.
Knutsen and Pochettino are cut from the same cloth.

I would love to see Knutsen get a chance at a bigger european club, just not sure I want him to come straight to Spurs. I fear we could destroy him, run him to the ground. He should go to the continent first, then we can pick him up!

 

[Muttley]

Sorry Dubai but this is rose tinted mate.

Dembele was bossing it in midfield for Fulham, the reason we signed him was that game vs United when he dominated their midfield. Kane was brought through by Sherwood and was already showing his potential replacing Soldaldo. Alli performed from day 1 so that’s on MK not Poch. Eriksen was smashing it for Ajax etc…

The only one I can genuinely say he improved was Sonny, but even that is caveated as his performance in Germany suggested it was always there and just needed to adapt to the PL .

Now it’s not Pochs fault we pretty much had a pre-built core prior to his arrival, he still had to recognise their potential and play them but to think of “Poch” players we have to think more Foyth/Ndombele/Lo Celso etc from a purchase perspective. Part of me want to bring Poch back with this team which is the complete opposite of the position last time just to see if he is really magic or not, but I don’t like it when the narrative of that 2016 team is changed to Poch brought/improved all these players and without him our squad was mid table only

I agree, but it's the wrong conversation for me. The key conversation with Poch are the things that were happening at the end of his tenure. Why was he losing to teams that had worse elevens on paper? Why had he compromised his formulas to accommodate certain players when it clearly wasn't working? Why wasn't he getting 100% out of his players?

I think it's easy to remember the 2014-2017 ride. It's a lot harder to to remove the variables in plug into the 2017-19 decline period and really judge whether the guy was doing a good job. For me, he wasn't unfortunately. It wasn't just about the well discussed other variables like transfer windows, players ages and injuries.

That's why I don't have as much sympathy with Frank as some. Before last night's game, I wrote down the team sheet and the likely subs and "on paper" it was a team that should have performed way, way better than it did. It wasn't even about winning or losing. It was seeing the eleven players on the pitch playing to the potential even if that meant being on the wrong side of the result. We were anything but that.

When you think back to the end of Poch's reign, it wasn't that dissimilar unfortunately. Poch was under deep scrutiny about why he couldn't prevail in an 11 vs 11 situation when you've got the better hand.

By the way, I still think it's unfair to compare that version of Poch with the one we have 7 years later. That one should be a way better manager than the one that left us.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

His first league game was vs West Ham and the lineup was: Lloris/Naughton/Kaboul/Dier/Rose/Capoue/Bentaleb/lamela/Eriksen/lennon/Adebayor with Kane on as sub.

Verts was suspended or would have started, similar Dembele had a hamstring injury, Walker from Hernia Op and Sandro knee injury.

Not sure where you got the above from unless your counting pre-season friendly when our internationals are away

Exhibit 1 @Bullet

 

[Welshspur60]

I really think that whoever we appoint now is going to struggle to improve our form and turn the ship away from the rocks.
We have a horrendous injury list, with a lot of them out for the season or at least till April. Lets be fair, the squad is poor and we ve only got hslf the squad available now. All the teams around us are picking up points and fighting hard.
It really eas negligent from the owners/board to not go much harder in January and bring more players in, even if just loans.
Its going to be tough ask to turn it around.

 

[metalgear]

poch is trying to hard to get the Spurs job

We need a coach who is comfortable with competing on multiple fronts and a good leader to galvanize the team.

I think a new manager is incoming otherwise a they would have announced heitinga as caretaker already?

 

[robp135]

It has to be said that he managed us to heights that we hadn't been to in a long time or, barring one pot thanks to Ange, since.

The one caveat to this I have to flag is that he had young Kane, young dele and young Sonny. He also had two or three truly exceptional servants to the club in Vertonghen, Walker and Dembele.

We are not there now and if we were to take him back, it would need to be understood that it might take two years to get it right. Good luck getting that across to the modern day fan.

While this is true who were those players when he joined?

Kane was 3rd choice Striker if we sold for £5M it would have been viewed as good business.

Dele was an 18 year old signed from League One.

Son was viewed as an overpay by German pundits.

Dembele was talented but inconsistent and didn’t even start regularly for Poch until his 2nd season.

Walker was viewed as talented but defensively flawed.

Vertonghen was a decent CB that Sherwood was heavily critical off for a bad attitude.

And in Rose who our fanbase was outraged to get a new contract.

Alderwireld who flopped at Atletico Madrid.

You can get lucky with some talents. But a dozen players who become top tier players under the same manager it’s down to something he is doing.

Give him Porro, Romero & Van de Ven And he can make something out of that. Gray & Bergvall are elite talents. Xavi Simons. He will love Tel.

 

[Gazza]

What a mess.

Lads it’s Tottenham

 

[GGyid]

Lads, it's gonna be Dyche

 

[NoLimits01]

I could well see De Zerbi coming in till the summer. I wouldn't mind Rodgers till the summer either but seen he's gone to Saudi recently, doubt he'd come back for a short term gig.

I see I'm still the sole vote for McKenna - still think he's a good option.

Not keen on De Zerbi, the only upside I can see is that maybe the attitude of the referees towards us may change when they go to their “dressing room” at half time and find him there raging at them

 

[Surfless]

While this is true who were those players when he joined?

Kane was 3rd choice Striker if we sold for £5M it would have been viewed as good business.

Dele was an 18 year old signed from League One.

Son was viewed as an overpay by German pundits.

Dembele was talented but inconsistent and didn’t even start regularly for Poch until his 2nd season.

Walker was viewed as talented but defensively flawed.

Vertonghen was a decent CB that Sherwood was heavily critical off for a bad attitude.

And in Rose who our fanbase was outraged to get a new contract.

Alderwireld who flopped at Atletico Madrid.

You can get lucky with some talents. But a dozen players who become top tier players under the same manager it’s down to something he is doing.

Give him Porro, Romero & Van de Ven And he can make something out of that. Gray & Bergvall are elite talents. Xavi Simons. He will love Tel.

I really really really really hope this is true. And that Poch comes home.

 

[Surfless]

poch is trying to hard to get the Spurs job

We need a coach who is comfortable with competing on multiple fronts and a good leader to galvanize the team.

I think a new manager is incoming otherwise a they would have announced heitinga as caretaker already?

I think you will find that the reaction in the stadium (empty seats) made them look up in the board room the other night and take the issue seriously. As such they are now planning as we type.

I don't know if anyone else has left of the coaching staff - lets hope that doesn't go the same way as the last time we retained the coaches and gave one of them the job (Saudi Sportswashing Machine scored a goal a minute pretty much).

 

[Muttley]

Not keen on De Zerbi, the only upside I can see is that maybe the attitude of the referees towards us may change when they go to their “dressing room” at half time and find him there raging at them

Love that upside.

Perhaps the club will finally grow a pair and hire a specialist role just to analyse the referee's performance. Make the denominator the laws of the game. Make the numerator the referee's performance against the laws of the game. Go very public with the results and prove in the process that the degradation of the quality of football in the PL is a consequence of the officiating. Put some public statements out there about the discontent with PGMOL. We'd have a queue of PL clubs joining us.

Frank should have been swinging for some of Howard Webb's lot instead of being the nice guy he is.

 

[Junior19]

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Quite enlightning.

 

[NoLimits01]

What about Roy Keane, has experience managing a relegation team, is a childhood spurs fan, as a player has done it at the top level, no one will give him brick (well more than once anyway)……..lots of tongue in cheek there btw

 

[Legohamster]

Lads, it's gonna be Dyche

Till the summer I'd prob take him.

 

[Legohamster]

While this is true who were those players when he joined?

Kane was 3rd choice Striker if we sold for £5M it would have been viewed as good business.

Dele was an 18 year old signed from League One.

Son was viewed as an overpay by German pundits.

Dembele was talented but inconsistent and didn’t even start regularly for Poch until his 2nd season.

Walker was viewed as talented but defensively flawed.

Vertonghen was a decent CB that Sherwood was heavily critical off for a bad attitude.

And in Rose who our fanbase was outraged to get a new contract.

Alderwireld who flopped at Atletico Madrid.

You can get lucky with some talents. But a dozen players who become top tier players under the same manager it’s down to something he is doing.

Give him Porro, Romero & Van de Ven And he can make something out of that. Gray & Bergvall are elite talents. Xavi Simons. He will love Tel.

And he had the balls to axe the problem players from the dressing room

 

[Surfless]

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Quite enlightning.

This has just dredged up such a raft of emotions from the end of last season, and reminded me of what an effing stupid decision we made.

We might not have been top 4 this season, but he deserved the chance to be the guy for another year, for the selfless way he put the club's trophy drought ahead of his own career. I appreciate he has a legacy now that is unlike anyone, probably since Venables really (Graham and Ramos never connected with the club really) but he should have been given season 3.

Levy made one last rooster up before he went, and this was it.


Love you Ange thanks for Bilbao mate.

 

[braineclipse]

This has just dredged up such a raft of emotions from the end of last season, and reminded me of what an effing stupid decision we made.

We might not have been top 4 this season, but he deserved the chance to be the guy for another year, for the selfless way he put the club's trophy drought ahead of his own career. I appreciate he has a legacy now that is unlike anyone, probably since Venables really (Graham and Ramos never connected with the club really) but he should have been given season 3.

Levy made one last rooster up before he went, and this was it.


Love you Ange thanks for Bilbao mate.

Haven't seen the interview yet.

Still mixed on letting him go, can understand it, but also think it would have been interesting to see what he could have done.

Think vibes are often underestimated. Good vibes makes managers (and players) perform better. With the EL win we had the chance to build on those vibes, seen what he could do in those circumstances. We'll never know the answer to what would have happened, but I'll always wonder.

 

[billyiddo]

This has just dredged up such a raft of emotions from the end of last season, and reminded me of what an effing stupid decision we made.

We might not have been top 4 this season, but he deserved the chance to be the guy for another year, for the selfless way he put the club's trophy drought ahead of his own career. I appreciate he has a legacy now that is unlike anyone, probably since Venables really (Graham and Ramos never connected with the club really) but he should have been given season 3.

Levy made one last rooster up before he went, and this was it.


Love you Ange thanks for Bilbao mate.

I think the trophy done more for his reputation than seeing out a poor league season so i don't see that as a sacrifice on his part - given his always win comments I'd imagine it would have been his choice anyway. If (big if) we finished lower mid table rather than 17th he may have come through the summer but given the players missing and that the injuries have continued we'd have likely not improved.