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Contingency planning : When Ange is sacked, who should replace him?

Who do you want as the next Tottenham Hotspur manager?

  • Andoni Iraola

    Votes: 12 18.8%
  • Marco Silva

    Votes: 8 12.5%
  • Thomas Frank

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Kieran McKenna

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Mauricio Pochettino

    Votes: 32 50.0%
  • Edin Tersic

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • A.N. Other

    Votes: 9 14.1%

  • Total voters
    64
Depends who took the photo. If it was a member of the public, why has it taken two weeks to surface.

If it was done by someone who was with them, why ensure it leaks now? Has there previously been a photo of them meeting like this since Poch left the club? (I genuinely don't know.)

You could be right and it is nothing. All seems a bit odd to me. As I said in another thread, can't imagine it makes Ange feel any more secure.

Clearly wasn't ..

Ange shouldn't/can't feel comfortable, he must know that

None of know what is going on, but the narrative up until very recently was he was safe, club messaging hasn't changed but the media voice, the Iriola & Poch talk has definitely cranked up, it's a pattern we have all seen before
 
Depends who took the photo. If it was a member of the public, why has it taken two weeks to surface.

If it was done by someone who was with them, why ensure it leaks now? Has there previously been a photo of them meeting like this since Poch left the club? (I genuinely don't know.)

You could be right and it is nothing. All seems a bit odd to me. As I said in another thread, can't imagine it makes Ange feel any more secure.
There could be a lot of reasons mate, but who knows - I just find the idea that their secret meeting to discuss becoming Spurs manager was at a little cafe two doors down from the local Londis hilarious and a little unlikely :D But would enjoy it being true.....
 

Top journalism, apparently Redknapp won our last silverware.

And stick with Ange for me, as long as he makes someone else (Kulu as it stands) captain. And buy him a defensive midfielder he can rely on. Gray may come good, but you need two.

Actually, stick with Ange until the World Cup. If he comes good, brilliant. If he doesn't, give Poch another shot.
 

Top journalism, apparently Redknapp won our last silverware.

And stick with Ange for me, as long as he makes someone else (Kulu as it stands) captain. And buy him a defensive midfielder he can rely on. Gray may come good, but you need two.

Actually, stick with Ange until the World Cup. If he comes good, brilliant. If he doesn't, give Poch another shot.

I would never believe a word that come out of [Rent a Quotes] mouth to be honest.
 
Marco Silva anyone? Stop gap for 2 year then Poch?

I'd take Marco Silva but not as a stopgap for Poch.

If we want Poch, both club and manager need to make the very difficult choice and do it NOW. USMT will understand.

If not, then we should be thinking about Silva or Iraolo or anyone else as a long term hire. Poch would have made his decision and would hopefully have to wait a very long time for our plum job to reappear. It is a great job to have in football.
 
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Do you think Poch could come in and get us over the line in Europa? 3 weeks training and then two smash and grab wins against Frankfurt?

Isnt happening, but would give the club a real buzz. Ange is depressing.
Id say for sure we would have a better chance with Poch than the zero chance we ve got at the moment.
 
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Ange will get us relegated if he's still here next season. He's made a decent fist of it this year
You said that about this year. Do you think we'd have been better off this season with a better squad and less injuries? Gray, Bergvall, Solanke, Danso, Odobert, all with a season settling in under their belt? If we'd never shown that we can dominate and beat top teams, I'd agree with you, but we have, and if we never get through the difficult settling in period (with any manager), we may never reach the promised land. If I thought for a minute that the manager had lost the dressing room, I'd agree with you. As they say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Or you can look at it another way (based on fantasy football), if we get Levy out, and get a new manager, we'll be brilliant from day one, win everything (because there's no competition, no other teams trying to achieve the very same thing), and the fans will never have to worry themselves about SUPPORTING the chairman, manager, players, through the hard times when they need it.
 
You said that about this year. Do you think we'd have been better off this season with a better squad and less injuries? Gray, Bergvall, Solanke, Danso, Odobert, all with a season settling in under their belt? If we'd never shown that we can dominate and beat top teams, I'd agree with you, but we have, and if we never get through the difficult settling in period (with any manager), we may never reach the promised land. If I thought for a minute that the manager had lost the dressing room, I'd agree with you. As they say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Or you can look at it another way (based on fantasy football), if we get Levy out, and get a new manager, we'll be brilliant from day one, win everything (because there's no competition, no other teams trying to achieve the very same thing), and the fans will never have to worry themselves about SUPPORTING the chairman, manager, players, through the hard times when they need it.
Thinking about it...one of the biggest things humans have problems dealing with is change.....yet in football it's the relentless desire. Usually without much thought.

I suppose the change is not happening to you though.(directly)
 
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You said that about this year. Do you think we'd have been better off this season with a better squad and less injuries? Gray, Bergvall, Solanke, Danso, Odobert, all with a season settling in under their belt? If we'd never shown that we can dominate and beat top teams, I'd agree with you, but we have, and if we never get through the difficult settling in period (with any manager), we may never reach the promised land. If I thought for a minute that the manager had lost the dressing room, I'd agree with you. As they say, what doesn't kill you, makes you stronger.

Or you can look at it another way (based on fantasy football), if we get Levy out, and get a new manager, we'll be brilliant from day one, win everything (because there's no competition, no other teams trying to achieve the very same thing), and the fans will never have to worry themselves about SUPPORTING the chairman, manager, players, through the hard times when they need it.
Interestingly for me is that I don't recall ever seeing us dominate a game under Ange. Never left the stadium and thought to myself that we put in a complete performance. Because we only play one way, I don't think it lends it's self to those total 90 mins performances. I'm thinking of the game under Poch were Alli scored those 2 headers v Chelsea for example.
 
Thinking about it...one of the biggest things humans have problems dealing with is change.....yet in football it's the relentlessness desire. Usually without much thought.

I suppose the change is not happening to you though.(directly)

I think we treat change warily as it appears to benefit a few and not directly ourselves, in football the trend has moved from ambition to entitlement.
 
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Let this sink in. Someone at board level had the presence of mind to ignore the fans, and was rewarded with the best manager EVER.
1. The footballing world is very different now - no one gets three years anymore on the off chance that everything might turn out okay. Too much money involved.

2. I can't remember, but I'd be interested to know if United under Ferguson in the first three years were similar to what we are seeing with Ange (stats which suggest he is - or is knocking on being - our worst manager in PL history; results getting worse; player regression; the fanbase divided; multiple - and seemingly endless - injuries, quite possibly as a result of the system being played; the manager getting involved with fans post-games...).

3. We were here in the relatively early days of Poch. There was a turning point. That's yet to arrive for Ange. If it doesn't then he'll be gone in the summer (and possibly before).
 
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