I'd give him the benefit of the doubt but it would be an underwhelming appointment to be sure. All i would say about Southgate is that if he translated what he brought to England I'd say he could build a side that was fairly effective at chalking up points against teams you'd expect to beat whilst probably coming up short in the really big games when it matters. If we are being honest that was Poch for us. Put impressive points totals on the board in the league but not particularly impressive record against other top 6 sides or in big crunch games.
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Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?
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Southgate is a poisoned chalice, no club with top 10 aspirations will appoint him as general public opinion of him is set, it's just a PR disaster, regardless of what ability he does/doesn't have.
Yes I can imagine the reaction to his appointment among spurs fans would be mostly negative and the boos would come out at the first sign of performance wobbles....would be a toxic appointment for sure.
It would trend on social media as #southgateout long before we signed.
If we are looking at Frank, should fire Lange & Munn right now, his fudging football is awful, he's a long ball merchant and definitely not in line with what our squad has been built for.
Muttley
Ronnie Rosenthal
He could bring a load of luck though. We'd never draw anyone decent to the semi-finals of the cups. I mean, the luckiest thing about Southgate is that he ever got to work again after Boro. That was dead lucky.
Not sure, Spurs reminds me of that joke "if it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all"
And he probably got one of the greatest generations of English footballers to work with. I think the biggest negative thing you could say about Southgate is that we went into the last tournament with The Bundesliga, La Liga and Premier League players of the season, almost 100 goals from the season between the starting front 4, and we were dull as dishwater to watch and crawled through the tournament in pain before the Spanish put us out of our misery......
Muttley
Ronnie Rosenthal
He was one of the reasons I gave up being a home and away England supporter. What you talk about just got to me in the end. Him and his right hand man and captain, who hasn't broken sweat for our country for half a decade, drove me crazy. Their middle names are "underachiever". However, one of them has incredible talent. He hides behind it, but is talented. I'll give him that. Not crossed the white line with a 3 Lions attitude for years though.
Mikey10
Steffen Iversen
Muttley
Ronnie Rosenthal
Wouldn't be the first guy to be conned into bringing a proven winner down from the SPL right?
glasgowspur
Andy Thompson
I dont think Levy fully trusts Lange. If he did, Paratici wouldn't be hanging around the place rocking up to games...
Muttley
Ronnie Rosenthal
I gave the club the benefit of the doubt. In Lange you have Mr Data Science and we get fits like Solanke and Kinsky. In Paratici you get gems under their market value and ready to burst like Romero and Kulu. If these 2 got something going, it could be fantastic.
Yes my point was precisely that he isn't the only senior voice in Munn and Levy's ear over managerial appointments.
Muttley
Ronnie Rosenthal
I think if comes down to job descriptions though.
We have a chief football officer (Munn) and a technical director (Lange). Lange and Ange are peers in my mind both reporting to Munn. I see Lange's role as more oriented to squad development. He works on the recruitment side.
I have no clue why Lange would be hiring a manager. That's Munn's job.
Now who has the ear of the chairman, who knows. I don't know whether Levy even understands or cares what a "skip level" conversation is and the dangers. He could easily be going over his own appointed leaders heads and going to their people without structure. It's a small company and Levy was often at the training ground grabbing his lunch. Whose turn is it today to feed the chairman's desire for information so he can make rash decisions again?
SpiderSpurs
John Gorman
It appears that Milan are flirting with Paratici, trying to lure him to them from July.
parklane1
Tony Galvin
Could not agree more.