With small and subtle improvements in Tottenham Hotspur’s performance against dogged and resilient Burnley in our midweek EFL Cup victory, simply put, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side will have to be a hell of a lot better as we go up against Manchester United on Saturday.
Welcoming under fire Ole Gunnar Solskjaer to White Hart Lane is going to be no easy task at all given the form we are in and unfortunately for us, the fact they are on a run of four without a win means we can expect some kind of reaction from them. If we click again like we did at the very beginning of the campaign, defend well and be clinical (albeit not quite flowing) in attack, we can get back to winning ways here, but that’s easier said than done.
Perform as we have done in some matches this year, and if they give Ole a response, this one could be quite painful.
TQ2 That is exactly the problem . The club had an excellent opportunity to get someone like Conte in the Summer but didn’t wish to meet his or anyone else’s demands and so Levy left it to appoint an untried manager in Nuno .
As true supporters we wanted to support Nuno but realised by mid October , if not before , that Levy had made yet another managerial disaster appointment .
Who the hell are they to recruit and who really wants the job given the present crop of players and an employer like Levy /
Being reported that Conte talks are at an advanced stage, could even fly to London today. This would be a big surprise if it happens and a poke in the eye to United who would have been viewing him as a replacement for Ole if they pull the trigger.
According to Sky, after revealing the “Bombshell” haha, they reckon on one hand Conti is in London to hold talks with Spurs on the other hand they say he is flying in to blah blah!
Plus that spurs want to appoint a permanent manager to be in charge for the Vitesse game!
Well the shoot out at the TH stadium between Nuno and Ole has been decided . No contest !!
Inevitable news at 09.50 today.
Well, who is really responsible for our demise.
The faceless one with the padlocked wallet.
a) Failed to support Poch when he and all fans were crying out for investment in new players.
b) Appoints the miserable Mourinho.
c) Oversees some poor transfers in….Bergweijn, Lo Celso, N’Dombele etc.
d) After Mourinho, decent coaches/managers turn their noses up at Spurs because of his track record.
e) Appoints a 6th choice coach ” so that we can play the Spurs attacking football lost under Moaninho.”
f) Fails to accept that Kane has “gone” and misses opportunity to bank massive fee.
e) Kane now worth about £80 million.
g) Failed to appoint understudy for Kane for at least 6 seasons. Also failed to sign Grealish at £25 million by offering £ 20 million.
h) Failed to attract young players or produce academy stars.
h) Has made Spurs the laughing stock of the football world.
This man is the Spurs problem. No English coach will touch Spurs with a barge pole.
A top foreign coach will expect a massive salary and control over transfers. ( No Chance!).
And yet,this man is untouchable. Paid a fortune but clueless and well past sell by date. Do the honourable thing Mr Levy and resign.We want our Super Spurs back. Hmmm …no chance.
TK is right, we need supernatural intervention if we expect this mess to be turned around quickly. Success this season will be to consolidate mid-table and a deep run in one of the cups. The squad is just not capable of anything better whoever is brought in. We will ship loads of goals if we open up and with no HK goals to rely on it will be a brave manager to try to play the old Spurs way.
Nuno had to go… Next!
Our season is not lost. But the new coach will have to have an immediate and positive input. We have some very good players at Spurs. But they will also need to step it up big time to get us back on track, whoever the next guy may be.
Up the Spurs!
Our season certainly isn’t lost, I think we can say we are still in every competition……ok, the PL title is toughish ask , but we are still in the mix for top 4 and all three cup competitions. Let’s see if our players have the same passion and desire to win as Conte does if he is to be our new manager.
if levy is so involved in buying players etc why doesnt he the give the managers role a go, conte in , COYS
Just a wee reminder to those that seem to have forgotten.
We currently have a Managing Director of Football. He is in charge of all footballing matters at THFC. His name is Fabio Paratici, not Daniel Levy! 🙂
And, if we are to get Conte in, then it will more than likely be down to Fabio more than anyone else at the club. Of this I’m sure. After all, didn’t he already try to get him in? And didn’t they work together at Juve?
And if it is Conte, and Conte does a good job, then there’ll be no need to congratulate Levy, will there… We’ll have Fabio to thank.
Of course, if Conte, or any other guy fails miserably in his task, then we can all still blame Levy, anyway!
It’s a lose, lose situation, if we choose to be negative.
Me, I’ve got my positivity back, for now. That is, until it all goes wrong again! LOL!
Come On Tottenham!
But Levy is in charge of the Managing Director of Football and the Coach/Manager. He also dictates transfers. Levy is the one that decent coaches/managers do not want to work for unless they can pick and choose their transfers. Levy will not let go of that. So we are stuck.
My team for the next 2 games..Vitesse and Everton.
Lloris, Emerson, Romero, Sanchez, Reguilon(back 4); Dyer, Skipp, Hjobjerg (midfield..thou shalt not pass), Moura Son and Dele (front 3). Subs Kane (to come on in midfield if needed.), Tanganga, N’Dombele, Gollini, A.N. Other, any Spurs youngster?
Manager/Coach D.Levy.
Thinking about it… I don’t think that Paratici was in his Spurs job when we were first linked with Conte. ???
But the rest of what I wrote, stlil stands…
So I lied Wentworth!
Paratici doesn’t really exist… I made him up!
Come back Mourinho! All is forgiven.
Only joking. But I bet he would!
Sorry HT, I had forgotten that Levy had resigned and Paratica was running the club.
Morning folks,
Hate to say I told you so but…
I was underwhelmed by Nunos appointment at the time.
His footballing nouse and indeed tactics werent exactly forward thinking at Wolves.
As I said his win rate at the time was well below, JM whom we sacked, Brendan Rodgers, and lite years behind Klopp and Pep whom we were trying to usurp.
His playing style was defensive and uninspiring, and whilst for a while it looked like we had improved our defence, unfortunately the results show different.
In his defence he did however have an incredibly difficult introduction to Spurs given the international schedule, I think he only had around 5 matches with his full squad available.
However I do feel that the job was to big for him, it would be a big task for any manager to take on.
The Kane situation certainly hasn’t helped, for some reason he isn’t scoring nor is he seeming to put the work in from previous seasons. I have my views on this whilst others have theirs.
Indeed the whole team is in a current down ward trend, and needs fixing.
I do feel sorry for the guy and was prepared to give him until Christmas, but if we are all honest whilst he apparently is a nice enough bloke, the football he was producing was lack lustre.
His team selections, substitutions and tactical decisions at times were verging on ludicrous,
(see Saturdays sub of Lucas our best player on the day).
I agree that the team were not helping him out, they were pedestrian, lacking in ideas, negative in possession.
The movement and shooting stats are there, some of our players need “yet again” to look at themselves, I honestly thought that the bad apples or the ill feeling was gone with, the movement of Rose, Aurier, Vertongen (never smiled in his last season), and Ericsson who for me was, a template for Kanes current performance.
Others who weren’t making the mark we leaving Lamella and Sissoko, with some more in the pipeline for January.
We should’ve psychologically been turning a corner.
However Nuno is gone, I wish the guy well.
If we do get, Conte we won’t be playing the Cavalier style we all want, but much like Mourinho, he has a history of bringing success but (maybe) at the cost of entertainment.
Why be facetious Wentworth?
Paratici is indeed the THFC Managing Director of Football. And so he must be Managing and Directing the football side of things I will presume.
Levy is still the Chairman. And he is busy doing Chairman-like stuff, I would imagine. Such as running the club.
I’m not saying you or anyone has to like what Levy has done at Spurs. Or like Levy himself. But at least you should accept that he has actually once again employed someone else for the footballing side of things. And that that man (Paratici) is highly respected as being one of the best in his field. He is also a former player…
So we can all so easily say the cliched stuff like;”Levy is not a football man” etc., but we can’t say this of Paratici, surely?
What exactly is the definition of a “football man” when it comes to being the owner/chairman of a football club anyway?
Is it Abramovich? Sheikh Mansour? A bunch of Saudi Arabian multi-billionaires!
Well, they sure nuff know bout money don’t they?
So the Holy Spirit has been sacked!
DL soon to name Pope Francis as the new club manager. At least that will bring a prayer to the club. God knows we need divine intervention after sacking the Holy Spirit. What’s the Archbishop of Canterbury doing other than trying patch the Royal Family together? Maybe he’s too busy trying to block Sad Prince Charlie from ascending to the manager’s job?
Another Humpty Dumpty task. Any King’s horses or King’s men available to patch the club together again? Perhaps that’s too much of a Cold Spurs group from which to recruit.
Do we have a Ghost of a chance now? As of now the best bet is for a phantasm to be on the touch line vs Everton. But we just sacked one phantasm. What do you think the Espirito Santo was? One desperate prayer gone. Which desperate prayer comes next? I’ve been praying for the return of HK, but it’s been a forlorn hope.
Levy always has a very tight rein on everything that happens at the club hence his bargain buys and stubbornness over exit transfers e.g. the Kane saga and no doubt he will want a king’s ransom for Winks.
Also didn’t he sack Poch and appoint Mourinho. In desperation, he appointed Nuno.. didn’t he. Who sacked Nuno. Was Levy consulted?
The club is being badly run, whoever is in charge. Fabulous house but crap furniture.