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Next Manager?

Mcfee said:
“Some figures at #thfc are now seriously suggesting that the club should reappoint Mauricio Pochettino. [Independent]”

If this is true then I seriously worry about who is in charge of taking football decisions at the club. 5 weeks after Mourinho was sacked and we’re wondering if Poch might become available?
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Papers trying to sell papers. Who are "some figures"? Joe the security guard and karen the receptionist?
 
Lilbaz said:
How many prem players go for management and stick with it?

Arteta, parker and lampard aren't shining examples yet. They'd probably need a couple more seasons to get used to the role. Same with gerrard. They may do very well. We'll see.
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Doesn’t need to be players though
How many managers do a decent job in the Orem and get a chance at a bigger job?
Poch was the last and he didn’t win anything before hand or with us
Martinez at Neverton
Moyes at united (but he did get a team to CL qualifiers before)
Rogers to pool
So of the big 6...
United have done it once with Moyes and didn’t back him
pool did it with Rogers and almost won the league
We did it with Poch
City havent
Chelsea haven’t
Arsenal havent
And I’d say that spans roughly 20 years ish
 
Bedfordspurs said:
Doesn’t need to be players though
How many managers do a decent job in the Orem and get a chance at a bigger job?
Poch was the last and he didn’t win anything before hand or with us
Martinez at Neverton
Moyes at united (but he did get a team to CL qualifiers before)
Rogers to pool
So of the big 6...
United have done it once with Moyes and didn’t back him
pool did it with Rogers and almost won the league
We did it with Poch
City havent
Chelsea haven’t
Arsenal havent
And I’d say that spans roughly 20 years ish
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Arsenals and utds current manager is an ex player.
The others (including us with jose) have some of the best and most successful managers in world football. When they can afford the best why should they take a gamble on someone who's never performed at the highest level? They are trying to give their club the best chance of success. Dodsn't mean that it wont work out. It just minimises the risk.
 
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https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396955629038841857

MAURICIO POCHETTINO could make a stunning return to Spurs.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is considering a shock move to persuade the former boss to leave Paris Saint-Germain and head back to North London.

And SunSport can reveal that Pochettino is seriously considering a switch back to the club as he is unhappy in Paris and would love a second chance at White Hart Lane.

That could be Spurs’ ace card to keep Harry Kane, who yesterday modelled the club’s new home kit.

Pochettino was sacked by Spurs in November 2019 after five years at the club before taking over at PSG in January of this season.

Jose Mourinho was appointed after Pochettino’s dismissal but was sacked last month ahead of the Carabao Cup final.

Yet Spurs supremo Levy has admitted to friends that sacking Pochettino was the worst mistake of his career.

Although Tottenham fans are turning on Levy, he still remains a massively respected figure in football and is seen as making sensible football decisions.

So the fact Levy admits he has made a clanger is extremely unusual.

And Pochettino, who failed to land the Ligue 1 title for PSG and lost in the Champions League semi-finals to Emirates Marketing Project, is struggling at PSG where he starred as a player.

The former Southampton boss feels he has unfinished business at White Hart Lane and a return would be incredibly popular among the fans.

Pochettino has also told pals that he would be prepared to leave PSG for Spurs.

Otherwise, Brighton boss Graham Potter is in the frame but Levy feels he is a gamble.
 
I feel we've fallen so low this past 18 months, and there are no other standout candidates, that it's actually the only think Levy can do now to salvage the situation
 
Agree and it would add to the disappointment (dis-appointment?) to know that Levy and whoever else supported the decision to sack JM a week before the cup final without a solution in mind.

Gutter Boy said:
I feel we've fallen so low this past 18 months, and there are no other standout candidates, that it's actually the only think Levy can do now to salvage the situation
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metalgear said:
Agree and it would add to the disappointment (dis-appointment?) to know that Levy and whoever else supported the decision to sack JM a week before the cup final without a solution in mind.



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Maybe this solution was always in mind? I was always hopefully Poch had just been sent on 9 month sabbatical to recharge his batteries. Maybe it just ended up being 18 months, as that's how things aligned in the end?
 
Gutter Boy said:
https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1396955629038841857

MAURICIO POCHETTINO could make a stunning return to Spurs.

Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy is considering a shock move to persuade the former boss to leave Paris Saint-Germain and head back to North London.

And SunSport can reveal that Pochettino is seriously considering a switch back to the club as he is unhappy in Paris and would love a second chance at White Hart Lane.

That could be Spurs’ ace card to keep Harry Kane, who yesterday modelled the club’s new home kit.

Pochettino was sacked by Spurs in November 2019 after five years at the club before taking over at PSG in January of this season.

Jose Mourinho was appointed after Pochettino’s dismissal but was sacked last month ahead of the Carabao Cup final.

Yet Spurs supremo Levy has admitted to friends that sacking Pochettino was the worst mistake of his career.

Although Tottenham fans are turning on Levy, he still remains a massively respected figure in football and is seen as making sensible football decisions.

So the fact Levy admits he has made a clanger is extremely unusual.

And Pochettino, who failed to land the Ligue 1 title for PSG and lost in the Champions League semi-finals to Emirates Marketing Project, is struggling at PSG where he starred as a player.

The former Southampton boss feels he has unfinished business at White Hart Lane and a return would be incredibly popular among the fans.

Pochettino has also told pals that he would be prepared to leave PSG for Spurs.

Otherwise, Brighton boss Graham Potter is in the frame but Levy feels he is a gamble.
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Ugh, if this was any paper other than The Sun, I’d be jumping for joy right now.

It would be such a great story. A proud guy like Levy admitting the worst mistake of his career. A spiritual guy like Poch coming back home to finish the job he started. A reconciliation allowing us to forget the last two years ever happened. Rarely do you get these kind of stories that just feel so ‘right’. I would love to see it.

Realistically, so much would need to change for it to work out. Poch would actually need to be backed. We’d need to be willing to sell players. We’d need to be willing to compete to sign players with proven experience, not just potential. On the one hand it feels unlikely, on the other it doesn’t feel so far beyond the realms of possibility.

As I said, if only it wasn’t The Sun.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Maybe this solution was always in mind? I was always hopefully Poch had just been sent on 9 month sabbatical to recharge his batteries. Maybe it just ended up being 18 months, as that's how things aligned in the end?
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Part of me thinks Poch will want to do a full season there, get a league title under his belt, see how deep he can get in the CL with his signings, and then make a call.

OTOH, PSG never strikes as being a long term job, and if as he admitted he really wants to work at Spurs again some day, why not now? I really shouldn’t be doing this to myself, but I can almost see a world in which it works.

If it all turns out that the reason we let the squad go stale and didn’t sell players when we needed to wasn’t because Levy lost trust in him, but it was some sort of cash crunch with the stadium that’s now been resolved, maybe it could all work out. Maybe JM was entirely a punt because there really was no other option. Poch was sent on sabbatical and we tried to see if Jose could get a tune out of the players because we needed to squeeze more out of them before a rebuild can happen? Ugh, again it’s probably not the case. And I really shouldn’t do it to myself. But somehow it’s one of the only things that would make the crazy decision make sense.
 
Finney Is Back said:
I’m not sure the semi finals are ‘early’ in the CL.
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Let me break it to you bucko. In the eyes of PSG's owners, any form of elimination was too early. Expecially after they lost in the final the previous year and went out bitchin' and cryin' in this years.

Oh, there can be little doubt about what's going to happen here. Poch will be freed up to rejoin Spurs to loud and lusty approval. And could be on a free transfer - once PSG hire the exasperated Zidane Zinedine after he departs Real Melodrama. I called this whole thing a while back and am now resting on my laurels as the world's foremost remote (five times zones west) Spurs management prediction expert - Ahh, won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen?

Fill your pants with sun screen, dear readers. The sun is about to shine out our backsides.

 
BrainOfLevy said:
Ugh, if this was any paper other than The Sun, I’d be jumping for joy right now.

It would be such a great story. A proud guy like Levy admitting the worst mistake of his career. A spiritual guy like Poch coming back home to finish the job he started. A reconciliation allowing us to forget the last two years ever happened. Rarely do you get these kind of stories that just feel so ‘right’. I would love to see it.

Realistically, so much would need to change for it to work out. Poch would actually need to be backed. We’d need to be willing to sell players. We’d need to be willing to compete to sign players with proven experience, not just potential. On the one hand it feels unlikely, on the other it doesn’t feel so far beyond the realms of possibility.

As I said, if only it wasn’t The Sun.
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Line your bird cage in confidence with this astute journal. It's happenin', baby.
 
greatwhitenorf said:
Let me break it to you bucko. In the eyes of PSG's owners, any form of elimination was too early. Expecially after they lost in the final the previous year and went out bitchin' and cryin' in this years.

Oh, there can be little doubt about what's going to happen here. Poch will be freed up to rejoin Spurs to loud and lusty approval. And could be on a free transfer - once PSG hire the exasperated Zidane Zinedine after he departs Real Melodrama. I called this whole thing a while back and am now resting on my laurels as the world's foremost remote (five times zones west) Spurs management prediction expert - Ahh, won't you pour me a Cuban Breeze, Gretchen?

Fill your pants with sun screen, dear readers. The sun is about to shine out our backsides.
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Buying a ticket except Conte to PSG and ZZ to Madrid...
 
But ZZ is already in Madrid and, by all reports, sufficiently discontented to depart this summer.

Conte doesn't have the image ZZ does to keep the PSG owners happy. They want the absolute best of everything at their club and ZZ fits that approach for their manager post. And being a French legend, ticks all the boxes.
 
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