Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
Cue everyone saying “he wasn’t the right guy for us anyway” like Nagelsmann wasn’t
@AjaxDeSuperYids - spot on. I'm aware I'm..on message on this a lot, but ENIC and Levy are the two biggest roadblocks to non-figuratively everything at the club right now.
No ambitious manager will want to work with the sort of shackles that were placed on Poch. If they ask for players to be moved on - too bad for them, Levy won't sanction a loss, even on useless wastes of space and air like Sanchez, Sissoko et al. They'll have to wait until deadline day while Levy haggles over ten quid to keep up his stupid 'tough negotiator' act, because that's all he knows how to do on the footballing side of it.
If they ask for players brought in - ha, good luck getting your first choices out of the skinflints that own us.
Fine, maybe the manager will content himself with overhauling the backroom staff. However, the backroom staff are a morass of mediocrity, but evidently have the chairman's confidence. Steve 'I hate January' Hitchen is proof enough of that. Good luck getting rid of that lot.
There are organizational reasons why we have won nothing under these useless deadweights. As Poch once clearly stated, the club needs to have an organizational culture that focuses excellence, on trophies as the key goal - and all else will follow from there. That comes from the top - and unfortunately, with the useless social leech of a Bahamian tax exile and Levy up top, that culture will never arrive, because the first and foremost concern will always be to avoid the owners having to put in a single penny, and to maintain mediocrity as long as it's profitable.
One of the reasons I want Rangnick is because he doesn't accept that - he fights with people if he feels they aren't up to what he envisions his clubs to be. Someone needs to fight Levy and his utter mediocrity for anything to change. A yes man like Potter or Parker changes nothing in that regard.
We may lose one of the greatest academy products in our history because of the miserable cowardice of our ownership in not building a team to support him. One of the greatest gifts we could have been given, gone because Levy and Lewis are most useless owners we could have had the misfortune to be bought by twenty years ago.
What can honestly, truly change until those two f*ck off?
https://www.skysports.com/football/...-signs-one-year-contract-extension-until-2023
From appointing before season’s end - admittedly media rumour-mongering - to now after season’s done suggest we’ve definitely been rebuffed here.
Jesus wept. We really are an unappealing choice right now, aren’t we? I guess I should wait until we know who’s taking charge before jumping to those conclusions mind.
What’s putting people off? Board? Squad? Lack of money? Lack of autonomy? Lack of European football? Kane looking to leave? All of the above?!
https://www.skysports.com/football/...-signs-one-year-contract-extension-until-2023
From appointing before season’s end - admittedly media rumour-mongering - to now after season’s done suggest we’ve definitely been rebuffed here.
Jesus wept. We really are an unappealing choice right now, aren’t we? I guess I should wait until we know who’s taking charge before jumping to those conclusions mind.
What’s putting people off? Board? Squad? Lack of money? Lack of autonomy? Lack of European football? Kane looking to leave? All of the above?!
Mr G - Mourinho's methods didn't suit our squad. They played progressive attacking football for 5 years then got told to sit back. He's not a bad manager, and we've not as bad a squad as a lot of people would have you believe - the two were just incompatible.
Shouldn't put off too many people - possibly some of the older Italian managers which Mourinho's style has compared to over the years.
New news that he has signed a contract"He is the master of reporting stuff after the fact as new news"
Well, it is new news!
The only reasons this feels like a blow are (i) the criticality of this summer and getting the transfer window 'right' and (ii) the number of alternatives which don't look that appealling compared to the number which do.
I'm trying to console myself with the fact that Alastair Gold has said a couple times that hte board are aware of the need to appoint a manager who plays exciting and attacking football, plus the fact that Poch was somewhat picked out of nowhere.
Would be bloody nice to have it sorted
Find myself not worrying at all. But then again I also find some of the reactions on here to ETH signing a contract extension to be both premature and over the top.We should be very worried by this (not that Nuno is unlikely to join us but Mendes comments about us being complicated).
No chanceFind myself not worrying at all. But then again I also find some of the reactions on here to ETH signing a contract extension to be both premature and over the top.
But of course, ETH rejected us because of Levy, our reputation is severely damaged, there's no reason to think Levy would prefer someone other than ETH, Romano is wrong. Makes for a decent narrative.
Perhaps we can convince Mason to take the job permanently. Or pry Parker from Fulham.
No chance
Fulham have an owner who will invest and Mason knows Spurs are bad for his career
That’s the message isn’t it?!?
Mr G - Mourinho's methods didn't suit our squad. They played progressive attacking football for 5 years then got told to sit back. He's not a bad manager, and we've not as bad a squad as a lot of people would have you believe - the two were just incompatible.
Shouldn't put off too many people - possibly some of the older Italian managers which Mourinho's style has compared to over the years.
I need to pull you up here on a few things.
First Poch knew that the stadium was going to cause issues with winkietossiewoo for a while, he mentioned it every week for a year and a half - it wasn't a surprise and it certainly wasn't an issue for a manager who was talented at getting the most out of a player. Poch had to go because around the time of the Champions league final it dawned on him he needed to change the narrative because some of his stalwarts - Vertonghen, Lloris, Rose, and a few others were ageing, or starting to struggle with his high intensity football. He needed new faces, but also had a final of a major competition which flew in the face of his comments.
Sanchez and Sissoko are not useless - Sissoko was the first name on the team sheet under Poch in the run to the final of the EC, his teammates chanted his name each week, and he won accolades. Similarly Sanchez was improving until Mourinho came in.
Steve Hitchin has the same constraints on him that caused Poch issues - he's at a club managing the debt of a new stadium - despite that he still brought Bale back, signed Vinicius on loan, Reguillon, Hojberg, as well as Ndombele, Sessegnon and Lo Celso in the previous year. I'd argue that with the exception of a centreback, where Rodon was signed to be a now and future player when he's probably a bit off the former, Hitchin has provided a balanced squad - Mourinho said as much when the transfer window shut last autumn.
I don't get your point about back room staff - every manager largely brings their own so it seems moot to me.
I would say that if you have managed a team from the fourth tier to the top tier and gotten into European football with them, you are not a yes man, you're a man with some grit and determination. So your references to Potter are wide of the mark.
Re Kane leaving - we are outgunned in the transfer market by Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project, Liverpool, and Man Utd every season - they have more resources due to rich ownership. These clubs have bought success in a way we profess to loathe - probably only because we can't do it too. Those clubs above have won everything for the last few years, bar the Leicester miracle and the goons fluking an FA cup. Its not as easy as "we should be winning trophies" when those clubs are there to compete for them season after season. So Kane leaving has as much to do with the amount of money being thrown at our rivals as it does with our inability to compete with them. Each season 19 clubs lose the Premier league, 91 clubs lose the FA cup and so on. There's four trophies to aim for, and that makes the odds tough re winning them.
It was a tongue-in-cheek comment BUT I think a lot of people underestimate how massive Mourinho's reputation remains in the game. We'll never know for sure but I doubt potential managers go into so much detail when they're considering the situation. Either they think they'll succeed anywhere (including here) or they see a big-name manager (much bigger name than those linked) has failed miserably and they think they'll get burned.
It's also difficult to appreciate what kind of PR damage the ESL debacle did. There's been a lot of speculation over the financial situation of the 12 clubs and that could be on the back of some people's minds.
Again, not trying to pretend I know anything about why they'd turn us down (if anyone did) but I think that from an outsider's point of view, we may not be such an attractive proposition at the moment.
Re Kane leaving - we are outgunned in the transfer market by Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project, Liverpool, and Man Utd every season
Great post.I need to pull you up here on a few things.
First Poch knew that the stadium was going to cause issues with winkietossiewoo for a while, he mentioned it every week for a year and a half - it wasn't a surprise and it certainly wasn't an issue for a manager who was talented at getting the most out of a player. Poch had to go because around the time of the Champions league final it dawned on him he needed to change the narrative because some of his stalwarts - Vertonghen, Lloris, Rose, and a few others were ageing, or starting to struggle with his high intensity football. He needed new faces, but also had a final of a major competition which flew in the face of his comments.
Sanchez and Sissoko are not useless - Sissoko was the first name on the team sheet under Poch in the run to the final of the EC, his teammates chanted his name each week, and he won accolades. Similarly Sanchez was improving until Mourinho came in.
Steve Hitchin has the same constraints on him that caused Poch issues - he's at a club managing the debt of a new stadium - despite that he still brought Bale back, signed Vinicius on loan, Reguillon, Hojberg, as well as Ndombele, Sessegnon and Lo Celso in the previous year. I'd argue that with the exception of a centreback, where Rodon was signed to be a now and future player when he's probably a bit off the former, Hitchin has provided a balanced squad - Mourinho said as much when the transfer window shut last autumn.
I don't get your point about back room staff - every manager largely brings their own so it seems moot to me.
I would say that if you have managed a team from the fourth tier to the top tier and gotten into European football with them, you are not a yes man, you're a man with some grit and determination. So your references to Potter are wide of the mark.
Re Kane leaving - we are outgunned in the transfer market by Chelsea, Emirates Marketing Project, Liverpool, and Man Utd every season - they have more resources due to rich ownership. These clubs have bought success in a way we profess to loathe - probably only because we can't do it too. Those clubs above have won everything for the last few years, bar the Leicester miracle and the goons fluking an FA cup. Its not as easy as "we should be winning trophies" when those clubs are there to compete for them season after season. So Kane leaving has as much to do with the amount of money being thrown at our rivals as it does with our inability to compete with them. Each season 19 clubs lose the Premier league, 91 clubs lose the FA cup and so on. There's four trophies to aim for, and that makes the odds tough re winning them.
IF Kane does leave, he will do so having been part of a team that came third one season, second another, reached 3 major trophy finals and played some of the best football around (until this season). Some things are not about money, some are just about luck and not being able to beat the last hurdle on a given day.