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Personally I don't actually really care about winning things, I find it kind of bratty listening to those who demand that we must and that the club is failing us by not doing so. Every clubs fans want to win something, we aren't special or more deserving and with clubs like City around it's gotten harder and harder over recent years. What I would like is to feel like we might win something, for the most part under Poch I felt that way, for the final year/18 months that feeling waned as our performances declined and when he left I expected Mourinho to bring it back.
He hasn't, and now it feels like time for someone else to give it a go. When things are down in football it often feels like the good times are a million miles away, but all it takes is one decent Summer and things can be completely different.
Look at Leicester, from almost certain relegation to Champions one season to the next. Clearly that's not the norm but just because we're devastatingly average right now doesn't mean we're decades away from having a whiff of CL football again.
Yeah. I'd like to win some trophies but it is not a must have for me. But it would tickle my competitive personality.
I am however patient (or am trying to be), and would be willing to give the new manager a few years to rebuild the team in their image, like we allowed Pochettino to do. Be it Sarri, Jardim, Parker or whoever. Even Nagelsmann, which I have gone on note here previously about being sceptical about.
If whoever comes in after Jose can make us play decent enough football and have us competing for the European spots and maybe snag a cup or two over a 2-4 year period I would be happy with that. And it would hopefully put us in a decent position so that whoever replaces that manager can mount a more serious charge at the league one day.
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Nagelsmann would be my preferred choice. Young, ambitious and Germany are generally doing well at the management game at the moment. I like the style of football he gets his Liepzig side played too, although ultimately they were outclassed recently over two legs against a badly out of sorts Liverpool team.
Potter wouldn't be a bad appointment. Knows how to get a team playing, but doesn't exactly get the juices flowing.
There really isn't that much about that's "realistic" right now.
Potter wouldn't be a bad appointment. Knows how to get a team playing, but doesn't exactly get the juices flowing.
There really isn't that much about that's "realistic" right now.
Potter is a lesser name but the football he plays is lovely. That’s all I want right now, good football but yes Nagelsmann would be top billing.
Far as I am concerned one of Nagelsmann Potter or Ten Hag would redeem Levy. Even if we came 6th we would play decent football and I could enjoy being at games.
still want potter
Only slight worry I have with Potter is that at Brighton, nobody really expects or demands anything. They don't win a lot of games (every time I see them play they seem to be quite unlucky!) but he still gets credit for making them tough to beat, and easy on the eye.
At Spurs any manager will instantly be expected to make us into genuine challengers sooner rather than later if we don't lose the likes of Kane and Son. So it's a completely different sort of pressure from anything he's experienced before. He could obviously flourish, some people thrive under pressure if anything.
How has the club been set back a few years?
Yay, let's play 'lovely' football and win nothing just like the football that was never ever boring and we always won under Pochettino.
I agree on Nagelsmann and Potter but Ten Hag would be too risky. As we've learned from buying players, you can't trust the Dutch league when assessing quality.
So true. Earlier this season I used to end the game with a headache . On Sunday I just sat back and watched the game. Content in the knowledge that every chance we would cock it up and I wasn’t bothered if we did.
Theo Delaney(Spurs show) and Paul Hawksbee were on Talksport earlier today saying exactly the same thing.
It’s as if we are in limbo awaiting the removal of Jose.
Scott Parker for me. I can do without big names. Solsksjaer had done nothing to get the United job, apart from play for them. What did Lampard do at Derby...he did worse than the bloke before him and had 3 future internationals on loan. Still got top 4 for Chelsea.
Theo Delaney(Spurs show) and Paul Hawksbee were on Talksport earlier today saying exactly the same thing.
It’s as if we are in limbo awaiting the removal of Jose.
Scott Parker for me. I can do without big names. Solsksjaer had done nothing to get the United job, apart from play for them. What did Lampard do at Derby...he did worse than the bloke before him and had 3 future internationals on loan. Still got top 4 for Chelsea.
The other teams around us improving has nothing to do with any of them throwing lorryloads of fucking cash at their squads either. 
I think if he had been at this level for awhile that might concern me more but the fact that he is a young manager has moved from Sweden to Swansea then Brighton, to me shows that he has the ambition to keep moving up and likely wants to be at a level like us where the pressure is high. That doesn't mean that he will be able to handle it, but the reason why he has been at the levels he has been is because of his age more than anything.
I was not keen on him last summer but I have been more impressed with him this year. I think he has altered the approach a few times this year that makes me more confident that he can transfer his ideas/style to results on the pitch if he is given better players.
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Better than playing the bad football we are now and finishing even lower.
We will probably miss out on either EL, CL and that has a cost. We play shit football, half the players look miserable. It’s feels like the end of AVB’s reign. Our standing from 2-3 years ago has dropped and we are dependent on Levy pulling a rabbit out of the hat with the next manager. To say I am fucked off is an understatement.
Because Levy is a twat with a picture of Jose on his bedroom ceiling
He also has the letter J in a tatoo on his left buttock and the letters s and e on his right buttock
He signed Harvertz, Chillwell, Werner, Ziyech , Silva and Sarr costing 210 million quid... I think with my FA level 2 I'd have a fair crack at top 4.
We need massive...MASSIVE investment, our squad is mid table at best with a sprinkling of world class attackers