You're acting like my wife, who would argue the sky is green with her dying breath rather than open her eyes and understand what everyone else is telling her.You’re so wrong it hurts.
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You're acting like my wife, who would argue the sky is green with her dying breath rather than open her eyes and understand what everyone else is telling her.You’re so wrong it hurts.
You know who really needs to be patient. Daniel Levy.
Average term of a manager at Spurs under ENIC is less than 2 years. That’s not including caretaker managers either. And Pleat as a caretaker manager got given most of a season!
Only one manager has been given more than 4 pre seasons / summer transfer windows under levy and ENIC. Redknapp and Jol both got 3. (However for poor Martin Jol Spurs were photographed talking to Juande Ramos during Jols 3rd summer transfer window)
All the other ENIC appointed managers got 1 or 2.summer windows. Or even none!!
We can compare ourselves to pep, Klopp, Wenger, Fergie and now Arteta as much as we want.
But if Levy himself has no patience it doesn’t really matter about the fans does it?
Which of our previous managers would you have given more time to?
All of them.
So you would have given Jose, Nuno and Conte more time?
why?
The joy of hindsight.
Doing the same thing over and over again is not the most sensible thing to do is it.
Jose - sacked o. A Monday before a final among he noise of us entering the ESL.
We lost the carabao cup final. With Ryan Mason in charge.
Nuno - we employed for him what 3 months?
As has been said on here more times than I can count. Be patient. So I won’t be too hypocritical about how long he got.
Conte - we were 4th.
Finished 8th. With Ryan Mason in charge.
Clearly that decision backfired.
Newcastle away….. fuck me that was awful.
Which of our previous managers would you have given more time to?
Like as not, things will sort themselves out and Spurs will finish 4th or 5th. Then all the people who were so mad for Postecoglou at the start of the season, and are questioning him now, can go back to thinking he invented football.
I tend to look at the bigger picture....24 years...In 8 months mind.
Conte pretty much forced his way out (sacked himself).
If top 4 is Levy's holy grail (as repeatedly accused) then he had no reason to sack Conte if he kept his head down and just got on with the job.
It's quite obvious from some of the players that he'd turned into a toxic little shit-bag too.
Mistake keeping Stellini on as acting manager in the interim between Conte & Mason though..... A cleaner break from that regime might have seen Mason engender a bit more harmony and at least seen us qualify for Europa League.
Only Jose should have been given more time, the other 2 nah
Plenty would argue he should have been given less and sacked after Zagreb.
Well since we got to that stage he was owed the cup final at least
Spiteful and stupid by Levy.Well since we got to that stage he was owed the cup final at least
Talking of 8, I've just realised that Postecoglou is an anagram of Lego Octopus....In 8 months mind.
It's not green???You're acting like my wife, who would argue the sky is green with her dying breath rather than open her eyes and understand what everyone else is telling her.
You're acting like my wife, who would argue the sky is green with her dying breath rather than open her eyes and understand what everyone else is telling her.
I tend to look at the bigger picture....24 years
Anyway, all this talk about lowering our expectations to facilitate the so -called rebuild is utter nonsense. The term is a made up fallacy currently being used to somehow absolve years of disgusting squad neglect and numerous managerial scapegoats.
The most successful clubs are in a never ending cycle of rebuilding their squads. Always looking to replace a player with a better alternative. Knowing the right time to move a player on. I'm not sure why Spurs have to somehow be prepared for mediocrity in some undefined rebuilding window when we had a squad that Conte somehow got into the champions league little more than 18 months ago.
Accepting mediocrity is a surefire way to....well.......mediocrity
I wouldn't have hired Nuno or Jose and Conte I wouldn't have hired him if I knew I wasn't going to give him what he wanted.