How you felt when our managers were sacked

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sammyspurs said:
Jol - sad and almost embarrassed

Ramos - delighted

Harry - shaking my head at the utter lunacy of Levy and our fans

AVB - partied like its 99

Tim - whatever

Poch - relieved
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Mainly disagree with you on Redknapp. Wouldn't have had a major problem if he stayed, but I thought the way he he behaved over the England job was out of order. Within 2 days of getting cleared over the tax trial, he was pointing his arse at the FA telling them he knew they fancied it. Had he done what Woy did(publicly denied any interest) he may have stayed in the job....and he has since admitted that he was thinking about who he wanted on his england staff during our matches.


The only one that's upset me in any major way was Jol, simply because the way the club went about its business was disgraceful
 
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Gutted when Jol went.
Relieved when Ramos went
Sherwood, wasn't bothered in the slightest
Harry , pissed off.
Poch, gutted, but felt it was inevitable.

However none come anywhere near the way i felt when the General left.
When KB went it affected my support for a couple of seasons.
We should have shown faith with that man. Whilst he wasn't actually sacked, it would be considered constructive dismissal in any other business.

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I think i had wiped the AVB era from my memory...
 
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Jol I was fuming because of how it happened
Ramos delighted
Redknapp - felt was harsh
AVB ecstatic bigger cunt than Sherwood
Sherwood meh was never getting the job anyway
Poch distraught he was the Messiah and we will be a laughing stock when he goes on to greatness with a chairman that backs him
Mourinho liked him and loathed him in equal measure shame it never worked out.
 
Matt1882 said:
Thought it was quite widely known Harry basically stopped doing his job as soon as the court case was won. Didn't turn up for training sessions and had deputies instead doing the job.
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Any truth to that, like articles or quotes or is it a case of “it was so long ago I don’t need to be credible”
 
Jol was disgraceful - I was at that game in the Park Lane (not too many others were) - it was before internet phones were solid and remember a few people hearing things and then it just being passed around. It's actually utterly mental how it happened, beyond toxic.

Most gutted was Pochettino - The error of this sacking might take years to recover from; time will tell what state Mourinho leaves us in next year.

Redknapp I think I went out on the piss to celebrate. Detested his attitude in the end. Should have been sacked sooner.
 
I've always supported the club not the personnel.

Players and managers come and go, there is very little loyalty anymore.

Those that think we did the dirty on Poch, he would have ended up doing the same to us if he had a mega offer, in fact I think he was/is still being groomed by Man Utd long term.

If I felt sorry for anyone it was Jol, as he was so just so likable and loved the club and the fans.
 
sammyspurs said:
He was sacked because Levy got a hard on for the “next level” and hired AVB
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Sorry mate, I think you got that wrong. My opinion, I think he was sacked for not showing respect to a club that backed him through a legal case, and basically offering his services to the FA the same week. (As I recall, Capello quit the same week he was aquitted)
 
Jol - Really Liked big MJ and felt the club let him down

Ramos - Who

Harry - Not fussed really. Great bloke but his management skills were dwindling

AVB - See Ramos

Sherwood - Actually quite liked this guy but the fact that he has never really made it anywhere else means OK decision.

Poch - I found out about this whilst on holiday in Panama and was truly upset though I felt it was coming. The best manager since The General (look it up kids) and I loved him to bits and he loved us. Felt some of the players (and Levy) needed to take a good look at themselves

Jose - "placeholder" though he'll resign more than likely
 
Jol was the only one that made me sad as he was the manager who truly ( with Arnesen and Levy) gave us Spurs back. I started to follow us in 92 and we terrible right up until 2005. That side was a really good side and Jol was a hugely likeable figure. Levy’s handling of his sacking was appalling.
 
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Jol - sad and almost embarrassed

Ramos - delighted

Harry - shaking my head at the utter lunacy of Levy and our fans

AVB - partied like its 99

Tim - whatever

Poch - relieved
 
Jol = Liked him but felt it was the right decision (especially considering it was common knowledge Ramos would be replacing him). So sad for Jol but excited about the next appointment.

Ramos = Relieved

Harry = Sad but understood why. Still wanted him to stay though.

AVB = Delighted that fraud was sacked.

Sherwood = Thought he was unfairly criticised but didn't really care that he didn't get the permanent Job.

Poch = Really sad but thought it was the right call at the end. Took me a while to get there though.
 
sammyspurs said:
How did he behave?
He always said no English man could turn it down, it was hardly a betrayal.
He had half the fan base calling him a criminal and hoping he went to jail despite the courts finding him not guilty, he stayed and worked through that whole trial and people wondered why our form wavered.

Levy pandered to it all, and was too quick to try and go next level just two years after breaking the top 4 which was deemed impossible. With a manager who was only brought on to stave off relegation.

People can say what they want about the second time we came 4th, but funny how the rules changed just a year later making us the last team to be fucked by it. The failure that season was Barca and Bayern’s, not Redknapps.

The club tried to run before it could walk, and despite the early years under Poch, ten years later we are exactly where Redknapp had, only this time we are playing shit football and have to start over with Jose.
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I dont think he failed( although he certainly took his eye off the ball). But the club had just (rightly) supported him through the court case, and deserved the same in return.
Not joking about taking another job in pressers. Not (by his own word) looking at Brendan Rodgers and deciding that he would make him assistant in the England job. During a match.
The man who got it publicly denied any interest, and yet privately must have been discussing it with the FA. It wouldn't have been hard for Redknapp to say (in Public) "Sorry lads, the club backed me to the hilt during the recent trial, and I owe them the same. I'm not prepared to discuss another job"

I've never believed for a second he was sacked because we didnt get champions league.
Anyone that does, it's up to them.
 
Francis - Can't really remember.

Gross - Same.

Graham - Excited at the prospect of Hoddle.

Hoddle - Relieved.

Santini - Perplexed.

Jol - Disappointed but a little relieved.

Ramos - Happy

Redknapp - Delighted, purely for non footballing reasons though. Didn't like his attitude, gave off the impression that there was no point in trying to be better than we were at the time, would have been a self fulfilling prophecy. Also felt like karma for whoring himself about for the England job.

AVB - Sad as he talked a decent game buy couldn't back it up, relieved as the hammerings were becoming too frequent.

Sherwood - Delighted, fucking relieved as thought Levy might have fallen for his spiel. Funnily enough despite no fucking clue about tictacs, he did actually manage to have us beating all the 'inferior' sides, even if we had less than zero chance of getting a point against the big 4. Also stuck to his words and did play the youth. Sigurdsson and Chadli in cm though, how fucking bonkers do you have to be to try that???

Poch - Little sad, little disappointed, really angry. Angry at Poch, for letting such a good side that we had slip to what we are now, for talking such a good game and banging on about bravery, then doing absolutely fuck all to back up those words, for not winning anything with the best team I've seen us have, for making half of our fans seemingly Poch fans as opposed to Spurs fans...

We have a weird history in my time, any time we think we've found the one, they move us up a level, but then can't seem to handle it there themselves, it always turns sour in the end.
 
I remember watching the match when Jol was sacked with a few mates who supported other clubs in Spain and thinking I am embarrassed by my club today, the way that was done was absolutely disgraceful and hurtful to a very nice man and good manager who got us going for a while. Took a long time to get back onside after that for me.

Redknapp, AVB,Ramos deserved it.
Tim should never have been in our dugout.
Poch it was time but had you asked me 6 months previous I would have been in tears.

I actually think Levy has done all he can in this dept over the last ten years or so. He brought in the likes of AVB, Ramos and co as they were big names who had won trophies, ironic maybe that the most successful three were steady the ship ordinary types in Jol, Harry and Poch.
Lets see how a winner works out now-be very US for him to win fuck all and finish 7th and 8th for a cupla seasons and get the boot!
 
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