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I was hoping that the reason Poch hadn't been re-appointed was the Paratici situation, but now that that's been resolved there doesn't seem to have been any change, so who knows.
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Well, I never saw that coming
Mason should have been given the job when Conte went home.
....Bettencourt this time.
No one thinks Poch, Mourinho, Conte did a bad job there. They think it's the owner the culture. It's remarkable.
At Man U, Ten Hag came in, worked with an underperforming squad, took no shit, and sorted things out (not quite there yet, but he's made huge strides). Conte came into a similar situation, made the team worse, publicly slagged off the players... and gets praised for it.
(That said, not all Spurs managers are the same. I think Poch did do a good job, until the very end... and poor old Nuno didn't escape criticism, he was ripped apart.)
Possibly because the reputation of Mourinho & Conte is "bigger" than the reputation of Spurs, whereas the reputation of Man Utd is bigger than some of their failed managers (Moyes, Solskjaer, Rangnick)?
The new boss, whoever, whenever, will need to do the same. Our defence is past its sell-by date, we need a lock-picker in midfield and in all likelihood a replacement for Kane.
Mason can't do that, half of them are his ex team mates.
PoChelsea is just *wrong*. I'll cry. If Chelsea can appoint a proper manager, before the end of the season, why can't we? OK, their need is greater (hello Frank), but not by much.
I can see a repeat of the Nuno farce coming. We're linked with every manager you've ever heard of, and a few more besides, throughout the summer, yet they all get disregarded one-by-one, or go elsewhere, leaving us to appoint Billy-never-heard-of (except it won't be "Biliy", it'll be some foreign variation thereof), just before/after the season starts.
We win our first game (a 1-0 thrashing of Luton probably), draw the next 2, and then lose 4 games in a row to leave us bottom of the table, stumble a draw in our first EuropaHireVanConference league match against a pub team from Romania, and then Levy decides to sack Billy-never-heard-of and brings Hoddle back.
I'm writing off next season already ...
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FFS, bringing Poch back as soon as Conte left would have been win-win-win. Watching him go to Chelsea is rubbing serious salt into the wounds and the fans are not going to let that lie quietly if Chelsea outperform Spurs next season.
But I get the feeling that Levy is also a stubborn b'stard and Poch (rightfully) criticised Levy re the squad investment a few years ago, and I think that's Poch's boats all burned with Levy. Which is absolutely 'kin crazy when you look at how much money Spurs have wasted on manager payoffs and crap player buys (backing those sacked managers) since Poch left.
But I'd still rather have a Levy there, with some connection to the club, rather than an Arab sovereign wealth fund or American investment trust owning it - and those are really the only likely options.
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I can't believe I'm mentioning bloody Man U again, but Ten Hag didn't come in to Man U and go "the squad are a bunch of thick lazy underperforming cunts, now can I have my money?". He sorted things out and made them better.
At the moment it seems like you can go to Spurs, get a big contract, do shit, and come out with a completely untarnished reputation. It's the perfect job!
Spence £15m (loaned out)
Udogie £20m (loaned out)
Danjuma loan-to-buy
Porro £40m
Kulusevski loan-to-buy
Bentancur £20m
Bissouma £30m
Romero £50m
Richarlison £60m
That's 9 players and ~£250m over 3 transfer windows. He can't say he wasn't backed.
In a similar period, Mourinho brought in 10 players (including Bale's loan). Of those, only one (Hojbjerg) is still at Spurs. Of the players he used in his final season (20/21), only Hojbjerg, Kane, Son, Dier and Lloris are still regular players - and we may have seen the last of Lloris.
That sort of turnover doesn't allow a team to build and gel.
People say the same about West Ham spending £190m but really we still have old strikers, defenders, fullbacks in our first team, and if any of the new players get injured we're relying on Ogbonna who is about 35 to keep up with the likes of Saka, so actually we probably need another £190m next year to fill those gaps. So the outlay doesn't really reflect the overall picture. I'm not saying a lot of money hasn't been spent, it has, but it does seem to have been spent poorly but you can't expect every transfer to work out either. Some things are out of the hands of the manager.
Yet look at Villa - I don't know what Emery has spent but it won't be much - But that IMO is what management is about - Take an existing set of players and mold them into a team with a game plan that suits
On paper, we *should* have a pretty decent first-11, though Lloris is struggling now and I doubt he'll be around next season and we've really missed Bentancur for a bit of creative guile in midfield.
It's an ageing squad, not least because neither Moaniho or Conte brought through any of the younger players (and/or ignored the younger players who were bought in).
I'd blame Moaniho, Nuno and Conte for failing to build and manage a team. They've had the money to spend. They've had the time to have an impact. But they've either wasted the cash or failed to develop the players into an effective team. Or both.
We've also sold players who have gone on to play much better elsewhere, in positions where we're still weak.
I want a build-a-team manager, not a buy-some-mercenaries manager. Someone who'll trust some of the younger players and give them the time/support/protection to gel into a Spurs team. Someone who'll play football that focuses on trying to score goals rather than trying to avoid conceding them. Someone who brings a bit of excitement and passion (for the team rathe than their own career achievements).