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Next Manager?

Yiddo said:
it wouldn’t surprise me at all if our new manager has already been sorted
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I would be gobsmacked if that was the case. It would leak out either from Spurs or the club which they're coming from or from personal contacts too easily
 
https://totalfootballanalysis.com/h...-favre-at-borussia-dortmund-tactical-analysis

The philosophy of Lucien Favre
Favre is one of the coaches one can describe as being offensive-minded. The playing style of his former squads at Nice, Gladbach and Hertha BSC prove this. Nice, for example, had a possession rate of 56.3% on average and a pass completion rate of 87.5% in the last season which is the second best rate in Ligue 1 (stats from whoscored.com).

His main goal is to dominate the opponent with possession and to find the right moment to penetrate defensive lines.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
But he was proven at the exact things we needed him to be (young players, attacking football, system) and had a reputation not just as someone good, but someone excellent at what he did. It was a really smart appointment and I was delighted with it at the time.
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Was he, did he?
He left espanyol bottom so I’d say that isn’t proof of anything. He had 2 seasons at Southampton and did well but they also broke their transfer record several times to back him including a failed transfer of an old Poch favourite forward
Most Spurs fans were not after Poch and wanted a Dutch manager or two who failed elsewhere whilst Poch helped us improve
Poch still IMO is relatively inexperienced. That actually showed here with his changes to his style of management. Everything aligned for him to learn things here whilst we developed. That’s very rare to get everything aligned like that IMO
 
AdamB said:
I've said a couple times recently that he would be a good option. Plays attacking football, used young players at Dortmund and a relatively big name IMO. Not a long-term option given his age but probably a safer pair of hands and less risky than some of the names being touted about
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Rated him before it went wrong at Dortmund
Very good coach and manager
 
AdamB said:
I would be gobsmacked if that was the case. It would leak out either from Spurs or the club which they're coming from or from personal contacts too easily
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My mates adamant it’s Martinez and were delaying announcement whilst he is at the Euros to help him.
 
If the choice is between Jump and Potter then I'd rather have Potter

But it's only Monday, by midweek who knows what the names thrown around will be.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Was he, did he?
He left espanyol bottom so I’d say that isn’t proof of anything. He had 2 seasons at Southampton and did well but they also broke their transfer record several times to back him including a failed transfer of an old Poch favourite forward
Most Spurs fans were not after Poch and wanted a Dutch manager or two who failed elsewhere whilst Poch helped us improve
Poch still IMO is relatively inexperienced. That actually showed here with his changes to his style of management. Everything aligned for him to learn things here whilst we developed. That’s very rare to get everything aligned like that IMO
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He was excellent at the things we needed him to be excellent at. (Young players, attacking football, system making the whole greater than the sum). The way to test his reputation was to ask people in the game - nearly all of the Southampton players credited him with reaching heights they never thought possible, including top prospects like Shaw.

Everything aligned because we clearly had a strong idea about what we needed, what we needed the person to be good at, and went and got him. He then did better than anyone expected because he adapted and evolved so quickly, because he was such a talent. The reason I was making this point in the first place was because it didn't entirely look like we've got the same clarity around our strategy. Fonseca looked to be in the zone, although questionable track record he was the 'type'. Gattuso didn't seem to the the type and he certainly didn't have the track record.
 
I am surprised we have not gone back for Fonseca. If it is true that were only going to pay him £ 4 mil a year that leaves a lot of change from what we were paying Mou which could be used to, say, split the difference on his Italian tax loss. At least Fonseca fitted DL's original spec and he was a Paratici candidate whereas Nuno and certainly Potter have no connection with him at all. Maybe we are going to fire Paratici?!
 
Raziel said:
No idea mate, not going to pretend any of us has a clue what is going on.

What I would say is, I could see some logic to the club
- Getting in a DoF, focus on dumping some deadwood, securing the core of the future team
- Get in a manager who could do a job in the circumstances
- Play out the next two seasons, hopefully get back into regular Europe, have stadium cash come in
- Look to make the next big push under the following manager

And yes, that seems terribly unambitious, but there could be some plan in there.
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Well, there’s unambitious and there’s what’s possible. If our finances are buggered, I have much less of an issue with the club with this manager search. Short of ENIC selling up, we have to make do with what’s possible, and in that instance I would totally understand we were looking for a manager who would be willing to take a punt on us, because we’d be taking a punt on them too. All we could try to do is get someone that suits our requirements as much as possible in the budget we have, and make do. We’d both be beggars, but I wouldn’t criticise the club for a managerial choice they made if that turned out to be the circumstances.

Which is different from assuming we have this master plan that is soon to be revealed, that we might not have spoken to any of the candidates reported etc. Or that we are being super methodical about it, because I don’t think we are. I think we are trying to get the best possible person who will work under our constraints, which is a slightly different thing, because I think there will be people we quite like that turn us down, and it’s ok to admit that.
 
Lilbaz said:
I'd be amazed if martinez left belgium the year before a world cup. They have a chance of winning it.
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I think he took the Belgium job to recover his reputation after Everton and prove he could manage top players. I also think he’d be mad not to take our job if he has any interest in getting back into club football. We’re the best he’ll get.
 
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