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Next Manager?

Gutter Boy said:
If it's Kane, Lloris and Son, does it matter?
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Yes it t does, player power isn't a good thing in my book.
As much as I want poch back I can't see it, no way Levy has sacked Jose mid season and went this long without having some one lined up. Just don't see it.
Only glimmer I have is the Mason contacting poch as soon as he was appointed.
Still think it's ETH and we are completing the deal with ajax.
 
Lilbaz said:
Who are "some figures"? Joe the security guard and karen the receptionist?
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The caretaker

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I've said it before but this cult-like mentality around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
 
Mr Gogolak said:
I've said it before but this cult-like meteorology around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
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Understand your point, but he's liked because he was a person who people could identify with, had passion, is a decent human being and his teams entertained and it was the best overall period (despite trophies) that we've had for 20-30 years.

Also worth comparing him against other options, none of which is overly compelling, or at least all come with risks
 
Mr Gogolak said:
I've said it before but this cult-like meteorology around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
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He certainly has his flaws and a lot of them have been discussed at length here. I tend to agree with the people who say it is too soon and I think that he will be at PSG next season. I suppose the key question is, is there anyone better available?
 
milo said:
He certainly has his flaws and a lot of them have been discussed at length here. I tend to agree with the people who say it is too soon and I think that he will be at PSG next season. I suppose the key question is, is there anyone better available?
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Well if we are happy to reappoint youngish, good looking, former managers that have a defined style, but one who has also won trophies and not currently in a job, I can think of someone...
 
Mr Gogolak said:
I've said it before but this cult-like meteorology around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
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I'd rather poch and us being able to identify with the club again, playing good football and challenging for the EL, league cup, fa Cup with occasional top four than turgid, poor football at a club with no direction but in the top four most seasons under a manager like Jose, Zz, conte, simone etc.
 
I wanted Gasperini, however I would take Poch back in a heartbeat.

The man did win a trophy, which George Graham and Ramos did, but he have us playing the best football I have seen in my lifetime, he did get us to second in the league, he did get us to a Champions League final, he did play Real Madrid off the park, and he did inspire players to stay and fight for him.

If he loves the club enough to come back from one of the most well paid jobs in football at a former club of his. Who could honestly say no.
 
glasgowspur said:
I'd rather poch and us being able to identify with the club again, playing good football and challenging for the EL, league cup, fa Cup with occasional top four than turgid, poor football at a club with no direction but in the top four most seasons under a manager like Jose, Zz, conte, simone etc.
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I agree
But quite a few other coaches could do that and maybe more
 
Mr Gogolak said:
I've said it before but this cult-like meteorology around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
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Agree 100%
It would be like as if Leicester had reappointed Ranieri after sacking Puel.
 
Mr Gogolak said:
I've said it before but this cult-like meteorology around Pochettino is something I can't get my head around. I guess it goes beyond football. I've never believed in saviours and messiahs, and I've always known that even the greatest artists have flaws. Sometimes, it feels like there's only one man on planet football who can managed this club (a club that will certainly be renamed Pochettino Hotspur at some point). I admit I find that... disturbing, even more so when you consider he's won a grand total of zero trophies.
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You never go back. He's not going to recapture the zeitgeist here. That time is done, it would have been fantastic if he had been backed at the critical moments but he wasn't and we saw how it played out.

Now we need to move on and find a new man for the project.
 
Bedfordspurs said:
I agree
But quite a few other coaches could do that and maybe more
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And I would be totally up for them too.
I think it is to soon for poch and have pinned my hopes on ETH, mainly because I think he can do everything that I have said above.
Poch would be a massive boost to morale though and I absolutely get the attraction, but I can't see it.
Or at least that's what I'm telling myself ;)
 
Bedfordspurs said:
I agree
But quite a few other coaches could do that and maybe more
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You're right, but as I've said before I think Levy places a high value on PL experience. Agree about your comment about a list of other coaches who play attractive football and making us proud to be Spurs fans again...but most of those are untested in the PL. If PL experienced is a requirement for Levy, then there arent many more than Rodgers (ruled himself out), Potter (who I know you like) and Poch...or at least Poch stacks up better than others like Dean Smith, Bielsa, etc
 
Never go back, I know, I know.. but oh...

It is like that one ex, the one you never seem to quite get over, and you keep thinking, "what if..." and "just one last try!"
And you keep thinking about all the crap rom-com-movies with happy endings she made you watch. And before you know it, you think "it could happen.. it SHOULD happen!"

And then reality kicks you in the teeth, and it all ends in tears. Again!

But not this time! Oh no!! Surely not this time... (?)
 
milo said:
He certainly has his flaws and a lot of them have been discussed at length here. I tend to agree with the people who say it is too soon and I think that he will be at PSG next season. I suppose the key question is, is there anyone better available?
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It's almost impossible to compare two managers so I can't answer that question. I don't keep a ranking of my former girlfriends either. Now, are there interesting options out there? Definitely. Whether we can (or want to) bring them in is another matter entirely but without even trying too hard, I can think of a dozen managers I'd rather see appointed before a the man we sacked two years ago.

Again, I don't think anyone questions the fact that he's been our most successful manager of the Premier League era. He's done some great things here but, really, I don't get the nostalgia and I admit it goes way beyond football. Life's about moving forward, not backwards! I have no interest in meeting people I attended school or college with. In any case, it really reads like, to some people, the man's bigger than the club.

I'll wish him the best if he's reappointed but going back for him doesn't strike me as something a big, forward-thinking club would do.
 
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