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New New Manager Poll (The Lets Get It Right This Time Edition)

Who Do You Want Then?

  • Poch

    Votes: 58 43.3%

  • Gallardo

    Votes: 7 5.2%

  • De Zerbi

    Votes: 2 1.5%

  • Enrique

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Carrick

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Kompany

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Other

    Votes: 23 17.2%

  • Tuchel

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Nagelsmann

    Votes: 24 17.9%

  • Slot

    Votes: 17 12.7%
  • Total voters
    134
alekaras said:
He did a good job at Lille, but the underlying data suggests he was more lucky than good. PSG and Lyon performed significantly better and Monaco slightly better than Lille. So I wouldn't put too much stock in what happened in that one season.
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3 times manager of the year in france. Not 1 season.
 
alekaras said:
Going by how much stuff "journalists" make up, I think it's your position that would be classified as the gullible one.
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On the contrary, I'm not naive enough to think everything that the media say is true or what people say is true either when it comes to football.
 
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JerusalemMan said:
Ange Postecoglou: The boy from Greece who could become Tottenham's main man

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/65509996
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This is a good article and includes this part:

He coached at national under-age level but it was almost the end of him. He got sacked, had to go to the Greek third tier to find work, and then came back to Australia, to nothing. Those were scary times.
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This is the video that made him unemployable in Australia for a few years. It was quite remarkable how he came back from that to manage Brisbane Roar and turn them into the best footballing team in the A-League (and a 36-game unbeaten run) in just a couple of years.

Fireworks start at 1:27

 
Lilbaz said:
In aus it's more fore greeks and italians i believe. Europe more for black people.

Just don't use it.
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In Australia, it's definitely more mainstream. There are movies and tv shows that use it, it was always "wogball" that I played as a kid.

Definitely doesn't make it any more acceptable to use, and Australia is full of racism being played off as "just a bit of fun." I wasn't aware of the history of using it for black people.
 
tommysvr said:
This is a good article and includes this part:



This is the video that made him unemployable in Australia for a few years. It was quite remarkable how he came back from that to manage Brisbane Roar and turn them into the best footballing team in the A-League (and a 36-game unbeaten run) in just a couple of years.

Fireworks start at 1:27

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That journo didn't help himself by getting the facts wrong to start with, but from there it was just daft. If you actually spoke to most youth coaches they would say their mandate is to improve players and give them international experience to prepare them for full international football. While getting positive results is a nice aside, the world doesn't end when the U17 team doesn't win.

He's tenacious when questioned, and very calm outwardly, albeit I think he might have lamped "fozzy" had he have been in the same room!
 
Surfless said:
That journo didn't help himself by getting the facts wrong to start with, but from there it was just daft. If you actually spoke to most youth coaches they would say their mandate is to improve players and give them international experience to prepare them for full international football. While getting positive results is a nice aside, the world doesn't end when the U17 team doesn't win.

He's tenacious when questioned, and very calm outwardly, albeit I think he might have lamped "fozzy" had he have been in the same room!
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Yep, totally agree. Also worth considering results after that World Cup in question:

South Korea 2007 did not qualify
Nigeria 2009 did not qualify
Mexico 2011 Round of 16
UAE 2013 did not qualify
Chile 2015 Round of 16
India 2017 did not qualify
Brazil 2019 Round of 16

So it's not like Ange was working with a golden generation and failed miserably. Australian youth football has and will likely always struggle. However, there's no doubt it tainted opinion of him for a few years.
 
Nearly there. My theory for the past couple of weeks is that Scott Munn was the clincher for Ange to be the number one target all along. We just had to wait until his season ended. That explains why we ignored Poch, Nagelsmann etc.

I wonder if the announcement from Levy will mention something like "Ange was at the top of our list all along."
 
Mcfee said:
PSG were 1 point behind when Poch was appointed!
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Wasn't trying to make this into a Poch discussion but rather making the point that Galtier has struggled with essentially the same side that last season won the league by 15 points! But if you want to, then the fact remains that PSG when Poch took over were in a bad way( by their standards).
 
tommysvr said:
Nearly there. My theory for the past couple of weeks is that Scott Munn was the clincher for Ange to be the number one target all along. We just had to wait until his season ended. That explains why we ignored Poch, Nagelsmann etc.

I wonder if the announcement from Levy will mention something like "Ange was at the top of our list all along."
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I'm sure something that suggests that will be released, how true that is would be up for debate.

Looks like he is our man and despite my earlier posts there are certainly some boxes that are getting ticked with him - good vibes/motivator/bringing everyone together, attacking football & adaptability (shown by being a success pretty much wherever he has gone across different countries) so there are reasons to be optimistic- the big concern as I've said previously is all that can quickly be rendered immaterial if his approach on the pitch cannot match up to the standard of the PL. Let's hope it does
 
tommysvr said:
Nearly there. My theory for the past couple of weeks is that Scott Munn was the clincher for Ange to be the number one target all along. We just had to wait until his season ended. That explains why we ignored Poch, Nagelsmann etc.

I wonder if the announcement from Levy will mention something like "Ange was at the top of our list all along."
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I’d be concerned if that was the case. Not a chance he was our first choice appointment.

I know you like him but this appointment smacks of scraping the barrel In my opinion.

Will of course give him a chance but if Kane goes this summer we could be up the creek without a paddle.
 
tommysvr said:
Nearly there. My theory for the past couple of weeks is that Scott Munn was the clincher for Ange to be the number one target all along. We just had to wait until his season ended. That explains why we ignored Poch, Nagelsmann etc.

I wonder if the announcement from Levy will mention something like "Ange was at the top of our list all along."
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I dont think he'll go that far. I think he'll say something about patience, needing the season to end, better to get the right man than rushing it etc etc etc

I'm not sure he was our first choice, but think he's a good fit. Not sure it matters either way though whether he was first choice or not....

Hopefully we can now get on with sorting out the DoF position and fixing the mess of a squad
 
Agreement with Ange was always going to be the easy bit.

Agreement with Celtic potentially harder, depending on what is in his contract...which is impossible to know unless you have the document in front of you
 
djp82 said:
I’d be concerned if that was the case. Not a chance he was our first choice appointment.

I know you like him but this appointment smacks of scraping the barrel In my opinion.

Will of course give him a chance but if Kane goes this summer we could be up the creek without a paddle.
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I'm confident he'll surprise you.
 
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