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Next Manager?

milo said:
Romano just copies other people's stories and pretends that they are his information. He specialises in announcing a deal is completed after someone else has done it. He is a problem because there are people who hang on his every word and amplify him. It was him who was saying that Gattuso was at an advanced stage.

I agree with you on Gold, KP, JPB and Ornstein. I think that they are generally pretty reliable. Gold talks about how he won't write something unless he has multiple sources on his latest video, I think that he is also pretty good at being clear when he is writing about speculation.

The problem is that a lot of people just react to a headline and conflate it with gonad*s coming from Romano and elsewhere.
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Romano has monetised his plagiarism it seems
 
thfcsteff said:
Are covering. Protecting 'sources' who fed them. Honestly, there are so many scenarios. The truth doubtless lies in the middle i.e. talks had been going on, we had wan
ted him and Paratici together, someone circulated rumors for a reason, cue problems.

If you're interested, we discuss all this in a new pod which just dropped, and I have a theory as to why this has been happening. One thing no-one can argue with it that before the DoF, things were quiet, and since the kerfuffles, it's gone quiet again. As I said, I have a theory and am interested to know if you agree.

One overriding thing is that Paratici is our DoF, we all wanted one so now we need to hope he is steering the ship (albeit with a break in period) otherwise it will fail. We cannot afford that. If he is not going to be left alone, part ways now.
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Not had a chance to listen to the last two pods, but they are on my to do list.
He does actually say Conte was nowhere near as far along as the press made out.
Nothing to do with sources and protecting them.
The Conte story was plausible, just.
Gattuso was so bat brick stupid that I think they are having to rein it in a little.
Luckily they had the eng v sco game and it's fallout to keep them busy.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Agreed. I'm a fan too because I see what people in the game say about him. I actually think he's enhanced his reputation quite well by taking the Belgium job, I'd just be surprised if he'd turn down a top 6 PL job in order to try for a World Cup. I don't think his reputation goes meaningfully further with it, from a probabilities perspective? Is a - say - 15% chance he wins the WC worth turning down the Spurs job for? Is he in contention for the Barca job if he wins it? Maybe? But given they hired Koeman maybe he'd already be in contention?

tbh...maybe you're right. I just think we could get him if we really went for it. Told him he was the one.
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A 15% chance of winning the World Cup is absolutely worth turning the Spurs job down for. He would be a hero in Belgium forever more. 2nd/3rd tier club management jobs will be available to him anyway if they don’t win the Euros or the World Cup.
 
scaramanga said:
I'll agree or disagree based on the outcome, not baseless rumour.
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Still…. When big companies appoint for C positions (as head coach/manager effectively is) they headhunt, they don’t advertise a position and let people apply for it.

Our next manager should be somebody in work, doing well at another club that we’re taking from them so that they can do well for us instead.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Still…. When big companies appoint for C positions (as head coach/manager effectively is) they headhunt, they don’t advertise a position and let people apply for it.

Our next manager should be somebody in work, doing well at another club that we’re taking from them so that they can do well for us instead.
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Just like you shouldn't date single people.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Doesn’t seem like they’ve been reported as in serious discussion with the club by the core 3-4 journos though?

This is what I mean. I don’t see anyone losing their brick over Klinsmann or Nuno. I don’t think people have been taking those links seriously. It’s the ones that come from people with lines into the club that start to raise questions.
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They might have lines into the club but those lines aren't paratici or levy (gold has said that levy has only ever talked to him once to say hello, he doesn't talk to the press). Paratici isn't even in the country.
Those are the two that know what's going on and levy has even released an interview saying ignore what's in the media.
 
Crab.C.Nesbitt said:
Graham Potter now favourite 13/8.

Get in, I'd have taken him at the start. Brighton play good football, if they had a decent striker they would be much higher in the league
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yeah there’s nothing wrong with Potter at all, good football and seems to study the game.

In many ways he’s not too dissimilar to Poch at Southampton.
 
Finney Is Back said:
Still…. When big companies appoint for C positions (as head coach/manager effectively is) they headhunt, they don’t advertise a position and let people apply for it.

Our next manager should be somebody in work, doing well at another club that we’re taking from them so that they can do well for us instead.
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That's the process I was talking about.

To suggest that those managers don't know that position is available and are not preparing if they're interested is more than ridiculous.
 
Mikey10 said:
Ferdinand, Lineker and Klinsmann were all over his coaching ability tonight during their analysis. They also said he’s very highly regarded just about everywhere bar England.
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I think he's one of those managers who know's his stuff and can talk about the game at length. I think when he retired he went round loads of clubs in Europe to look at how they do things (Rodgers did the same) and I remember when he was at Wigan he had a whole room converted into his own studio with all these machines he could rewatch the games on and add all these different analysis points etc.

The trouble is I'm not sure all that theory translates itself onto the pitch or organises a defence - he always played great football. Wigan at times were fantastic to watch but their defence was always terrible and the same at Everton. If that part was sorted out then I think he'd be a great option - can imagine he's quite likeable when speaking with him too.
 
Crab.C.Nesbitt said:
Graham Potter now favourite 13/8.

Get in, I'd have taken him at the start. Brighton play good football, if they had a decent striker they would be much higher in the league
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Shame he won't have a good striker at Spurs next season.


Guess we are a step up from Brighton but they are a lot better run then us.
 
BrainOfLevy said:
Everyone keeps talking about Romano....#1 he works for the Guardian, he probably has some contacts in the game on a general basis although I don't consider him to be an authority on Spurs. I also don't consider anyone from the Mirror to be an authority on Spurs.

I keep saying it. Gold, KP, JPB / Ornstein. If they say something, we can assume it has probably had at least a confirm / deny from the club. Does that mean the club wouldn't lie to them? Of course not! But the club will use them. I'm being very specific around those 3-4 people. If they are in desperate need of a story, where is the latest link after Gattuso? To @thfcsteff 's point, they clearly show they won't make stuff up, because leaks stop. Things slow down.

I'm not talking about Klinsmann, or any link from any other journalist other than those three or four. The whole 'don't believe the links' thing has the whiff of not wanting to believe things might be as chaotic at the club as it appears, or that we have some amazing, yet to be revealed candidate up our sleeve. I will say again, if the club are in financial difficulties and need a cheap solution who is willing to work under serious constraints in the next two years, I am totally ok with that. I won't consider Levy to be a screw up, I'd consider it him doing the best thing for the club given the unprecedented situation we all had to deal with. I think that is completely the likely scenario. I would dearly love for us to pull someone amazing, proven, and a unifying figure out of the bag. But it doesn't look likely. I think the reality is we will probably end up with someone who would have been quite an underwhelming figure had we known who it would be at the point of sacking Jose, but maybe that is just the reality right now.

But trying to make out good journalists don't have sources, it just goes against everything anyone that has worked remotely closely to any industry which uses the media in any normal way knows to be true.
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No, Romano is not a Guardian employee. He is a freelancer that occasionly gets stuff published by the Guardian.
 
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P.D. said:
I think he's one of those managers who know's his stuff and can talk about the game at length. I think when he retired he went round loads of clubs in Europe to look at how they do things (Rodgers did the same) and I remember when he was at Wigan he had a whole room converted into his own studio with all these machines he could rewatch the games on and add all these different analysis points etc.

The trouble is I'm not sure all that theory translates itself onto the pitch or organises a defence - he always played great football. Wigan at times were fantastic to watch but their defence was always terrible and the same at Everton. If that part was sorted out then I think he'd be a great option - can imagine he's quite likeable when speaking with him too.
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Didn't Martinez win the FA Cup with Wigan? Beating Emirates Marketing Project in the final? And then getting relegated.

I'd be happy with Martinez -- he might have learned a bit more on organising a defence over the last 8 years. Or he might just have been relying on Alderweireld and Vertonghen!

I also think Potter would be a sound appointment. Definite echoes of Poch's time at Southampton, despite being at an even smaller club.
 
elyid said:
yeah there’s nothing wrong with Potter at all, good football and seems to study the game.

In many ways he’s not too dissimilar to Poch at Southampton.
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Agreed, and given we're going to have a tough couple years financially, he's young enough to go through that and come out the other side, where some in their 60s or more celebrity managers wouldnt do so

I'm still sceptical whether Paratici would go for him; hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised
 
I would be really pleased, excited even, to see Graham Potter come in to the club. Not in an 'oh my GHod we're gonna win the league' kind of way, but in an 'oh excellent we might for once look like we have a consistent long-term plan' kind of way.
 
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