You will be hard pressed to find a manager that is a good fit for Spurs. The requirements are so exact and specific that no manager will ever be a good fit. Levy doesn't actually understand what he wants Vs what he offers. Poch worked for a while until he was starved of recruitment and we saw how that ended.
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This. I think at its heart, there is a lot of confusion at the club over which vision to follow, which results in the squad we have now.
Our best results came when all four of the major power centres at the club were in total alignment on the approach to follow - chairman, scouting team, manager and academy setup. When Poch came in, for the first time, we had a small golden era between 2015 and 2017 where everything clicked.
- Manager wanted young, hungry players fit enough to play a high press.
- Michael Edwards, and then Paul Mitchell, were experts at finding precisely these players.
- Levy was more than happy to buy them because they were relatively cheap and had high upside.
- And academy was very happy to implement Poch's high-press at youth levels, since it allowed for development of the players.
In the later years, Poch wanted established players to sustain our sudden rise, Edwards and Mitchell left, Levy got distracted by the stadium, and the academy stopped producing players good enough to break into the side. And it all stagnated and fell apart, although we coasted on that 2015-2017 period for a while.
With Mourinho and then Conte, the big hope was that the club would commensurately change its approach to back these world-class managers with the world-class players they needed, but that has just not happened. And now we're all out of alignment.
- Levy still wants to sign cheap young players with upside.
- Conte wants readymade, world-class talent.
- Paratici wants to sign those players too, but on wages Levy won't allow.
- Academy has fallen into utter disrepair.
There is no alignment, and therefore we are basically hoping we luck into success.
