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Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

Who Is Up Next?

  • Alonso

    Votes: 24 24.5%

  • Xavi

    Votes: 2 2.0%

  • Poch

    Votes: 54 55.1%

  • Mckenna

    Votes: 1 1.0%

  • Other

    Votes: 17 17.3%
  • Total voters
    98
I trust De Zerbi. I know he can get us playing well and getting the results. So let’s put a temporary lock on this.

I’m disillusioned by the fitness talk BUT hopefully the three week international break will help. Some players won’t be called up and can work intensely on conditioning. And I’d hope we can pull some players out of national squads citing their condition.

Then we give De Zerbi until November before comment. Thomas Frank was worse and he got a lot longer.
 
El Dante said:
I trust De Zerbi. I know he can get us playing well and getting the results. So let’s put a temporary lock on this.

I’m disillusioned by the fitness talk BUT hopefully the three week international break will help. Some players won’t be called up and can work intensely on conditioning. And I’d hope we can pull some players out of national squads citing their condition.

Then we give De Zerbi until November before comment. Thomas Frank was worse and he got a lot longer.
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Yeah….Xabi Alonso isn’t exactly having a rip roaring start. Neither is Iraola. I don’t know as much about Leverkeusen’s first few months under Alonso but we know Iraola’s Bournemouth always took a little while to get going,

I really think we’re going to be perfectly fine under De Zerbi. He is a manager whose teams take a while to click. So if we were ultimately going to be a team that eventually succeeds under him, it would be going exactly this way.
 
Think the defence and midfield are beginning to look pretty solid tbh, last couple of seasons we've been constantly overrun and I'm not really seeing that now. The attack is often the last thing to come together, and with a combination of injuries especially the no.10 position and new signings it's not surprising it's taking time to gel.

RDZ and the team will be fine....
 
revlis said:
Embarrassing to bump this thread
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OTOH, it did provoke me to give a wry smile.
Spurs were 55/1 to get relegated at the start of the season; the odds are down to 16/1 now. I am not saying I think they will get relegated but I wish I had pulled the trigger on having that bet at the beginning of the season, if only to lay it off at a profit now. Hopefully, it will all come together, but association football is becoming more like the NFL, where systems get worked out really quickly, and it may be that RDZ's player-acquisition skills prove more important than his coaching skills, because he is probably not going to change his philosophy - unless, perhaps, he needs to find 10 points from the last eight games of the season.
 
We will click at some point and this thread will be banished into the ether until we win 7-5 and the trolls will say that we conceded 5 against peak Real Madrid.
 
harr1984 said:
Think the defence and midfield are beginning to look pretty solid tbh, last couple of seasons we've been constantly overrun and I'm not really seeing that now. The attack is often the last thing to come together, and with a combination of injuries especially the no.10 position and new signings it's not surprising it's taking time to gel.

RDZ and the team will be fine....
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You hope ..

For me, there is no question the team looks better, certain players we have bought are better, it looks like things could click.

But . it's on a knife edge now, had Forest & Everton put away one of their few chances, the noise level would be off the chart, if we go into the international break without a PL win, noise level will be off the chart. If we get tonked in any game, it will get ugly.

This is a results business, the manager has been backed, he won't get fired after 5 games, but he won't get forever either.
 
Raziel said:
You hope ..

For me, there is no question the team looks better, certain players we have bought are better, it looks like things could click.

But . it's on a knife edge now, had Forest & Everton put away one of their few chances, the noise level would be off the chart, if we go into the international break without a PL win, noise level will be off the chart. If we get tonked in any game, it will get ugly.

This is a results business, the manager has been backed, he won't get fired after 5 games, but he won't get forever either.
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The thing we don't know is how De Zerbi deals with noise.
Probably got a bit of noise at Brighton, but that's diddley squat compared to being out our club and the expectations and media spotlight. Plus the media glare in general has ramped up since he was last in the PL. Everything is on steroids these days.
I think even now he looks a bit aggi.

All he needs is complete calmness from the board, to get on with it. Only a crisis like last season would see any shift.
You can't be affected by the outside noise, it's almost embarrassing to be so.
 
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Raziel said:
You hope ..

For me, there is no question the team looks better, certain players we have bought are better, it looks like things could click.

But . it's on a knife edge now, had Forest & Everton put away one of their few chances, the noise level would be off the chart, if we go into the international break without a PL win, noise level will be off the chart. If we get tonked in any game, it will get ugly.

This is a results business, the manager has been backed, he won't get fired after 5 games, but he won't get forever either.
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And had we taken one of our chances in each game then we would be on six points, no talk about no goals scored, and it would be viewed as a relatively positive start all things considered.

You can’t say ‘if’ one way without also stating the alternative. Otherwise we could be talking ‘if’ all day long.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
The thing we don't know is how De Zerbi deals with noise.
Probably got a bit of noise at Brighton, but that's diddley squat compared to being out our club and the expectations and media spotlight. Plus the media glare in general has ramped up since he was last in the PL. Everything is on steroids these days.
I think even now he looks a bit aggi.

All he needs is complete calmness from the board, to get on with it. Only a crisis like last season would see any shift.
You can't be affected by the outside noise, it's almost embarrassing to to be so.
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Marseille wouldn’t have been all beer and skittles in that regard, he’d have got plenty of scrutiny there.
 
El Dante said:
And had we taken one of our chances in each game then we would be on six points, no talk about no goals scored, and it would be viewed as a relatively positive start all things considered.

You can’t say ‘if’ one way without also stating the alternative. Otherwise we could be talking ‘if’ all day long.
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Fair, but that's a bit of luck/rub of the green .. historically that is a one way street with Spurs
 
For fudge sake, here we go again. It's been 4 games ffs he has a whole new squad. We will finish top 7 and get some sort of European football next season, if this doesn't happen you can bump this post in may and I'll happily never post on here again.
 
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