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Village Idiot

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BTW, Levy had a couple of meetings with Txiki Begiristain earlier this month.  Seems like we are going down the DoF route again.

 

Good news ........so long as the DoF and Head Coach are singing from the same hymnsheet ..................

 

 

no problems on DoF, just depends on their remit. people forget Robson had  Gordon Milne as a DoF when here.

 

Txiki :lol:

 

He's awful man... have you looked at our transfer record under him? Plus all the suspicions he took brown envelopes. He's going to piss away your finances before you can say "45m+Eto'o for Ibrahimovic".

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Ketsbaia

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At Spurs he'll be given the freedom and money (boosted by player sales) to build what he wanted to build at Chelsea. He's a good manager, so he'll be able to take them to another level, unfortunately.

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BTW, Levy had a couple of meetings with Txiki Begiristain earlier this month.  Seems like we are going down the DoF route again.

 

Good news ........so long as the DoF and Head Coach are singing from the same hymnsheet ..................

 

 

no problems on DoF, just depends on their remit. people forget Robson had  Gordon Milne as a DoF when here.

 

Txiki :lol:

 

He's awful man... have you looked at our transfer record under him? Plus all the suspicions he took brown envelopes. He's going to piss away your finances before you can say "45m+Eto'o for Ibrahimovic".

ah but you overlook the "omg he worked for Barcelona he must be good!!" line of thinking from short sighted chairmen

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He was given a fair bit at Chelsea wasn't he?

 

Not always the manager buying them though is it ?.

 

I mean they signed that German lad without a permanent manager in place, definitely a head coach rather than a manager the way Chelsea are run.

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aussiemag

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Let's never stop laughing at Roflham Lolspurs!! - Redknapp gone lol!

 

 

:memelol:

 

Time for a new title? Im not a fan of this one .. done laughing at spurs now.

how can you be done laughing at Spurs?

 

Im OCD and like things neat. Think it has more to do with that to be honest :/

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OzzieMandias

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Delusions of grandeur haunt the men running Tottenham Hotspur

 

There are two ways to ask the same question about the Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy, the club's owner, Joe Lewis, and the three directors who sanctioned this week's sacking of Harry Redknapp. Do they have delusions of grandeur if fourth place in the Premier League is considered not good enough? Or, to put it more bluntly: what more do they want?

 

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/jun/16/tottenham-hotspur-delusions-grandeur

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I think yes that cockiness was part of it however the implosion in the 2nd half of the season was the big reason I think. And also I just don't think Levy really liked Arry.

 

The cockiness was the cause for the implosion. He let it all fall apart because he couldn't have given a shit imo. So while the CL failure wasn't the reason as such, it was another consequence of the reason that he was sacked.

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aye, he and his press mates were so certain he'd get the England job that he stopped giving 2 shits about spurs then suddenly when he was as the media would put it "the peoples manager shamefully snubbed" by the FA it was too late to turn it around and thus starts furious spinning "oh the champions league isn't all that" and "I deserve a new contract give me loads of money in my back pocket and 100m to spend in the transfer market and let me sign my aging targets on huge wages".

 

It is strange how highly he is regarded, the way some of the media are going on you'd swear Spurs had sacked a serial winner like Mourinhio rather than someone who had done well but had he done as well as Spurs team could and maybe should have.

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Yeah, all of that really. It's a disappointing article, as I quite like David Conn (a proper old-school Man City fan too), but not the first time the Guardian have taken a swipe at Spurs.

 

It's blatantly obvious that sacking Harry was not simply a question of "fourth place in the Premier League is considered not good enough". There have been many positives during Harry's time at Spurs, but warning signs too, and predictable ones at that. I think he's done a cracking job, but I'm not shedding any tears - I'm just annoyed that the whole England manager saga took so long and contributed to fucking up our season, and that we missed out on Brendan Rodgers. Hopefully I'm proved wrong about Rodgers, and Parky takes him out as well as all the others, but I'm not holding my breath. Managerial stability is all well and good, but to achieve that the manager must always have an eye on the future; a vision. I was never convinced that Harry had that in him, and it's clear that Rodgers does. It just remains to be seen if he's the complete package.

 

That's where I disagree with David Conn. Sacking Harry isn't a displacement activity, it's an integral part of Levy's quest to make us bona fide contenders. We need to build a new stadium, of course, but we also need to maximise our resources in the meantime, and have a clear idea of how the playing side is going to develop over the next few years. I think that Harry was about to hit a brick wall in this regard. He was excellent at putting together a team and allowing them freedom to "express themselves", which suits VDV, Bale, Ade and Modric, but there were some disappointing tactical decisions after Christmas, unconvincing use of the squad as a whole and question marks over the development of individuals. Couple that with his usual embarrassing antics in the press and the courts, Harry's advancing age, and his apparent refusal to sign a rolling contract and there are ample reasons to justify his "sacking" outwith an unfortunate failure to qualify for the CL.

 

You know what, we had - and have - a fucking good squad. I think it's pathetic to trot out this "delusions of grandeur" argument when considering teams like ourselves and yourselves. We should be aiming for the top, I mean, just look at what we both achieved this year. It's a bit of a punt for Levy to lose Harry, but until we get that extra gate money rolling in then he has to keep the plates spinning to keep us where we are.

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At Liverpool Rodgers will have to get his system to produce multiple chances against teams sitting back and defending. Given Liverpool's finishing, it will have to be lots of them. Had he gone to Spurs, he would have had to do it against even more defensively set up teams. For all their possession, Swansea didn't create all that many chances last season. They had the fourth worst record against teams in the bottom half. Consistently beating the minnows is the easiest way to finish high up the league. We got 16 more points than Liverpool against the lower half and finished 13 ahead of them.

 

Keeping possession is a massive help defensively, but Liverpool's problems aren't defensive ones. I don't think that's such a problem for Spurs either.

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