Next Spurs Manager

[Hashegotthesackyet?]

First time I agree with Durham, Fat Spanish Waiter for me.

 

[Phil Silvers]

First time I agree with Durham, Fat Spanish Waiter for me.

f***ing Durham is such a turd. He must **** off every PL club for whatever miniscule reason he can find day in day out. He really is a boring f8cktard.

 

[GHod1981]

It's got to be Hoddle for the short term. Get the fans onside, hopefully some good football. If we're looking interim, then Hoddle over Sherwood any day.

 

[AuroRaman]

First time I agree with Durham, Fat Spanish Waiter for me.

As much as we mock/have mocked him, he is a fantastic, top class manager in my opinion. Even with all the crap he had to put up with Chelsea, he won them the UEFA Cup and has won trophies with every single major club he has managed (bar Napoli, of course).

Continental cup-winning manager, treated like **** at Chelsea, coming back to prove himself managing one of their bitter London rivals. What could go wrong?? 8-[

 

[Yid (Israel)]

Hoddle will go just as well as Dalglish for Liverpool couple of years ago. As in a complete catastrophe.
And there's absolutely no way Benitez is leaving Napoli for us btw

 

[parklane1]

To be honest i am not sure what we do next, whoever we appoint he will have to bring his own staff in, new players, old players out, new training menthods, new formations and if after 18 months if we are still not winning anything, then guess what the boo boys will be out and yet another manager will go. Its a viscious circle which we keep repeating.

 

[mouville]

As much as we mock/have mocked him, he is a fantastic, top class manager in my opinion. Even with all the crap he had to put up with Chelsea, he won them the UEFA Cup and has won trophies with every single major club he has managed (bar Napoli, of course).

Continental cup-winning manager, treated like **** at Chelsea, coming back to prove himself managing one of their bitter London rivals. What could go wrong?? 8-[

:-k Sounds like good enough reasons for me and still young enough to be long term.

 

[clevelandspur]

To be honest i am not sure what we do next, whoever we appoint he will have to bring his own staff in, new players, old players out, new training menthods, new formations and if after 18 months if we are still not winning anything, then guess what the boo boys will be out and yet another manager will go. Its a viscious circle which we keep repeating.

That is an exaggeration really, we have had 2 managers in the last 6 seasons and both done well results wise and player quality has steadily improved. I don't think we are looking at a major overhaul at all.

 

[Jordinho]

To be honest i am not sure what we do next, whoever we appoint he will have to bring his own staff in, new players, old players out, new training menthods, new formations and if after 18 months if we are still not winning anything, then guess what the boo boys will be out and yet another manager will go. Its a viscious circle which we keep repeating.

Whoever we appoint must be tasked with making a team of what we have, not putting together a new squad. This season is far from a write off.

 

[VolSpur]

Just read another article this one from 2010 on de Boer and he's got to be the one.

Frank de Boer bringing the old school back to Ajax.

What a week: What a breath of fresh air the win over Milan was, sure it may not have been against the strongest Milan XI or a XI that was really pumped up for the game as qualification to the next stage of the Champions League had been secured in the previous game-week, but that didn’t matter, what mattered was how the Ajax XI reacted to their new coach.

Before that game De Boer spoke of bringing the joy and prestige of playing for the club back to Ajax. But he also brought something back: the ‘Ajax way of playing’.

First of all: he gave clear instructions on how he wanted the shape of the team to be:

We played following the Ajax philosophy. With wingers (Sulejmani & Suárez) and a real number ten (Eriksen) and everyone did well at the job they were assigned beforehand. The wingers kept the field broad, and came in at the right times. And that’s only possible if the backs come up on time. For example, I saw Van der Wiel come up at least twenty times tonight. I hadn’t seen him do that in a long time. But he did it tonight. That’s the Greg we want to see. I think he was symbolic of the whole team tonight.

What was a shock before the game was the omission of leading scorer El Hamdaoui, starting the game on the bench with De Boer instead opting for Siem de Jong to be his ‘number 9′, the reason for this could very well be that De Boer wanted a forward who could hold the ball up and link with the wide players and the attacking midfielder and de Jong did this exquisitely. In fact he and Eriksen were doing no more of what was expected of Petersen – Bergkamp and Kluivert -Litmanen in days gone by.

Also most importantly was encouraging his players to not be afraid of making mistakes: “We showed guts tonight,” De Boer said satisfied. “Dare to play. It’s OK to make mistakes, but show some guts, on all positions.”

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Another aspect of this new administration is De Boer’s core belief in the academy and following the Ajax tradition of promoting and playing the talents that have come through. Against Vitesse: his first league match in charge, no fewer than 11 of the 18 man squad have like him graduated from the Ajax academy including Lorenzo Ebecilio who alongside Rodney Sneijder (brother of Wesley also not part of the 18) trained with the first team with De Boer observing. Could this be a sign of things to come – more talents given a similar chance, De Boer himself saying, if they’re good enough, they are ready to train with the senior team.

De Boer’s previous role with the academy, coaching Ajax A1 shouldn’t be underestimated, his knowledge and eagle eye of knowing who will make the grade could be very important next summer if some of the already names in the squad leave for pastures new. Already Eriksen and Alderweireld whose goal sealed Ajax’s win over AC Milan have both come out in praise of De Boer’s approach and spoke of the confidence he instilled in them plus the easiness of playing for him: both of course knowing him from their academy days.

Christian Eriksen:
Hopefully this win is the turning point and we can keep up the good work for the next few weeks. He gave me a lot of confidence to play both on and off the ball. Tonight I visualised some pictures in my head from those academy days and remembered how well things had gone for me – that seemed to work.

Cliff-notes
-Brings a certain style of play we're looking for.
-Has experience in Europe and has won league titles.
-Promotes and Grows the youth set-up
-Would be backed by current players
-Personal mantra is "dare to play" : Can't get much closer to "to dare is to do" \o/

please Levy, get him in.


edit: Turns out he rates Paulinho too... These were de Boer's selections for a 2013 "fan dream team".

 

[chancer]

Sounds great, but I have serious doubts whether de Boer would drop Ajax in it half way into the season with a tight title race* and European progress in play. After all, if he wants the job Levy would probably hold it for him till the summer, which would be a better time to arrive at Spurs than now.

* http://www1.skysports.com/football/competitions/eredivisie/table

 

[VolSpur]

Vertonghen, who played a key role last season – in his own words “effectively as a playmaker" – described De Boer as the best coach he's played under.

-more praise for de Boer (this coming from our own Verts)

@chancer I think/am hoping he would come for the same reason Eriksen and Verts did.. a step up in league. Not to say Ajax is by any means a lesser club than Spurs, but the Prem offers a new challenge, and de Boer has already won the Eredivisie twice

 

[Reggie_Mentalist]

Basel coach Murat Yakin admits he has held talks with Spurs

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/basel-coach-murat-yakin-admits-he-has-held-talks-with-spurs-20-minutes/

Murat Yakin, who master minded a penalty shoot-out win over Spurs in the Europa League last season, has admitted today that he has held talks with the north London side about succeeding Andre Villas-Boas, according to Swiss website 20 minutes.

In October, Lazio were interested in bringing Yakin to Rome but he has denied any discussions with the Serie A side and revealed that there have been talks with Spurs.

Yakin is quoted as saying: ”I had no contact with Lazio, but with Tottenham, yes.”

To add further fuel to the rumours, Tottenham Technical Director Franco Baldini was spotted at some of Basel’s Champions League games, where he was reportedly checking out the form of Egyptian right winger Mohamed Salah.

20 minutes add that Basel are going through a rocky spell after coming third in Group E of the Champions League.

Yakin’s contract expires at the end of the season which could make him a realistic candidate should Tim Sherwood fail to impress as Spurs interim coach.

If Yakin was to take over at White Hart Lane, there will be many comparisons with former Swiss boss Christian Gross who was appointed by Alan Sugar as Spurs boss in 1997 and only lasted nine months.

 

[Hitchslap]

People should check out Lucien Favre's record at Moenchengladbach. They play really nice football too.

He'd be my pick from Germany, certainly ahead of Loew.

 

[clownfoot]

Anybody know anything about this guy? I'm not too savvy on Swiss football

 

[thfcsteff]

To be honest i am not sure what we do next, whoever we appoint he will have to bring his own staff in, new players, old players out, new training menthods, new formations and if after 18 months if we are still not winning anything, then guess what the boo boys will be out and yet another manager will go. Its a viscious circle which we keep repeating.

I think the next appointment will be told that this is the squad they have. Perhaps a face or two, but no overhaul. Anything else would make the whole thing absurd...

 

[Modric THFC]

Anybody know anything about this guy? I'm not too savvy on Swiss football

Not remember him putting us out of Europe last season?

 

[kinkygerbil]

Pretty strong if you ask me

Swindon - Took up to the Premiership against all odds which is like winning the league with Man United

Chelsea - Relative success considering it was pre the big spending era and days of Gullit and Viali, he started that ball rolling

Southampton - Overachieved and their fans were angry he left because he was doing a great job

Tottenham - Ducked and dived on the deals he could in order to do the best he could, again pre big spend era. We burnt out come the end of seasons because he had to sign the likes of Poyet, Sherringham and Redknapp to give us any class, and to some extent it worked. The start of the season we had Dean Richards and Freund as holding midfielder in that system, we were excellent at times. I know we died against United second half in the 5-3, but my GHod we were amazing first half. The problem is the team had no legs past Christmas but I honestly believe he did all he could with the budget and where the club was at the time.

Wolves - Terrible club anyway his draw percentage was pretty decent haha

England - Scores of players have come out saying he is the last great England coach and there are some big names from the game that say that......

How about?

but with Spurs third from bottom with four points from six matches and having the worst points tally in the Premiership for 2003 - 22 from 23 matches - the manager was predictably dismissed.

 

[Modric THFC]

Basel coach Murat Yakin admits he has held talks with Spurs

http://www.101greatgoals.com/blog/basel-coach-murat-yakin-admits-he-has-held-talks-with-spurs-20-minutes/

Murat Yakin, who master minded a penalty shoot-out win over Spurs in the Europa League last season, has admitted today that he has held talks with the north London side about succeeding Andre Villas-Boas, according to Swiss website 20 minutes.

In October, Lazio were interested in bringing Yakin to Rome but he has denied any discussions with the Serie A side and revealed that there have been talks with Spurs.

Yakin is quoted as saying: ”I had no contact with Lazio, but with Tottenham, yes.”

To add further fuel to the rumours, Tottenham Technical Director Franco Baldini was spotted at some of Basel’s Champions League games, where he was reportedly checking out the form of Egyptian right winger Mohamed Salah.

20 minutes add that Basel are going through a rocky spell after coming third in Group E of the Champions League.

Yakin’s contract expires at the end of the season which could make him a realistic candidate should Tim Sherwood fail to impress as Spurs interim coach.

If Yakin was to take over at White Hart Lane, there will be many comparisons with former Swiss boss Christian Gross who was appointed by Alan Sugar as Spurs boss in 1997 and only lasted nine months.

I'd say if there was anything behind it he wouldnt still be 33/1

 

[ringo]

How about Marc Wilmots - after the World Cup. (Assuming he can speak English)