*** The official 2025/26 Premier League thread ***

[MartyFunkhouser]

Declan Rice has to be one of the most over priced over hyped CM in PL history, no doubt a good player but for the money paid by Arsenal and the return in that time, na not worth it for me.

I watched yesterday and he was also walking cement, looked a carthorse (not saying he is, but he looked it yesterday)

 

[harr1984]

I've said it before, Iraola is going to end up at a top club. I am obviously behind RDZ but I am fairly certain Iraola would have been brilliant for building a dynasty here at Spurs. For one, he has shown time and time again how to adapt to losing your best players and shown our managers how to beat Arse home and away. I think we will regret missing out on him

Like people said about Frank once he moves to a big club.

He hasn't had to juggle European football, let's see how he does with that and expectations at a bigger club. Some swim, plenty sink.....

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

I've said it before, Iraola is going to end up at a top club. I am obviously behind RDZ but I am fairly certain Iraola would have been brilliant for building a dynasty here at Spurs. For one, he has shown time and time again how to adapt to losing your best players and shown our managers how to beat Arse home and away. I think we will regret missing out on him

The issue he will have is time, his style needs almost universal change and buy in, its a unique style, a bad run or time to bed that style in the fans of a bigger club will be foaming at the mouth, you have to have the stomach for it. I long suspected we don't have that as a club, let alone a really big club

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Like people said about Frank once he moves to a big club.

He hasn't had to juggle European football, let's see how he does with that and expectations at a bigger club. Some swim, plenty sink.....

He hasn’t
Big he has genuinely managed in two proper countries which is a big difference to Frank
If you only go for managers who have a managed in Europe… you limit your pool on managers on the upwards curve imo

 

[Robspur12]

The issue he will have is time, his style needs almost universal change and buy in, its a unique style, a bad run or time to bed that style in the fans of a bigger club will be foaming at the mouth, you have to have the stomach for it. I long suspected we don't have that as a club, let alone a really big club

Yep a little patience is needed but judging how quickly he brings players in and they adapt to his style I don't think he needs that much time to bed in. They sold practically their entire defence at the start of the season, I think only Sensei is left, yet yesterday they looked pretty solid defending against "Set Piece FC." He lost Semenyo in January but seems to have found these 2 stars in Croupier and Rayan who've replaced him almost seamlessly. A couple of seasons ago they lost their top scorer and replaced him in a heartbeat.

For me the biggest challenge he will face at Spurs is that our recruitment team is not remotely as good as Bournemouth's

Like people said about Frank once he moves to a big club.

He hasn't had to juggle European football, let's see how he does with that and expectations at a bigger club. Some swim, plenty sink.....

He might need a season to recalibrate but tbh the way we have been playing in the League over the last 2 seasons compared to Europe, European football is the least of our worries. I think he knows the PL well enough to overcome that issue. And as @Bedfordspurs says, he has managed in Europe too which is a good starting point. I think this guy is Poch-esque without actually being Poch.

 

[MartyFunkhouser]

Yep a little patience is needed but judging how quickly he brings players in and they adapt to his style I don't think he needs that much time to bed in. They sold practically their entire defence at the start of the season, I think only Sensei is left, yet yesterday they looked pretty solid defending against "Set Piece FC." He lost Semenyo in January but seems to have found these 2 stars in Croupier and Rayan who've replaced him almost seamlessly. A couple of seasons ago they lost their top scorer and replaced him in a heartbeat.

Yeh I respect what he has done, we both do by the sounds of it, I just don't think the sentiment we both rightfully place on his work gets him a pass here or somewhere else. Its a part I hate about us and the PL in general, how transient and ridiculous the league is now for managers.

 

[Bedfordspurs]

Yeh I respect what he has done, we both do by the sounds of it, I just don't think the sentiment we both rightfully place on his work gets him a pass here or somewhere else. Its a part I hate about us and the PL in general, how transient and ridiculous the league is now for managers.

Players cost more and there are more of them
So by that nature if something is wrong you change the part of least resistance/cost
As we know… changing players is harder than changing managers