After a long, hard and ultimately disappointing season for Tottenham Hotspur, we have a busy summer in store now as we look to both sort out our managerial situation as well as strengthen the group via the transfer market – as massive question being Harry Kane’s own future.
Whilst we’ll hopefully have our new manager in within a few weeks (or maybe our old manager given the Mauricio Pochettino rumours) it’s unlikely much will happen on a transfer front until we see the culmination of this summers European Championship competition.
In a world still dealing with Covid, personally, I think international football is slightly ridiculous at this moment in time, but money makes the world go round doesn’t it – Spurs fans will however have a natural interest in the tournament given the players and former players that should be on show.
If nothing else it’ll be a distraction for a few weeks – so anything Euro related can go in here VSers.
I’d sell Davies, a change is needed for both parties
I just hope we don’t go for GS when he gets sacked or resign after England’s next game
Last 2 posts totally agree 123, Davies is a decent back up, steady enough LB and occasional CB, but he does lack something, I suppose for me GS as a manager is something similar, steady enough but actually lacks that bit extra.
Nuno the new favourite tonight.
Is Nuno an abbreviation for no one? I heard that Nuno wants the job after being turned down by everyone.
So a guy who was available since day one, is suddenly in the mix. 10th choice.
It will end a Nono or Yano
If Nuno is appointed as manager, will I be giving him my full support – absolutely not. Levy has lied to the fans yet again, we will be appointed a manager that matches our DNA playing attacking attractive football. Lies again from Mr Levy who promised that the new stadium build would not affect our ability to sign players, who said that every penny the club earns goes back into the football whilst the very next day he proudly puts on the website the new extreme sports centre is being built along with other property developments. How are these being funded?
The appointment of Nuno is nothing more than a cosy business arrangement between Levy, Paratici and Mendes. He is an average coach who plays dull football – his teams do virtually nothing in the first half of games. Yes he lost Jiminez last season which was a massive blow but he proved himself to be totally inflexible when he needed to adjust tactics. We will not finish above mid-table with him in charge.
Levy is taking the fans for a ride yet again, he was happy to spare no expense on the stadium build creating the largest debt in football history, he is happy to charge the largest prices in Europe and yet he runs the football side of the club (we are a football club aren’t we) with an unrivalled level of deceit and incompetence. He has appointed Paratici as a director of football. His last two managerial appointments at Juventus lasted less than a year each, his recommendations for the Spurs job have been Fonseca, Gattuso and Nuno.
Shame on you Mr Levy for treating the fans with utter contempt. It’s time for fans to stop going to games, to stop buying merchandise and for protesting as strongly as possible for ENIC to go. Enough is enough.
I’m not feeling very inspired by the news that NES is now the front runner, I think I would rather appoint Mason for one season and wait for Poch next summer. If reports are true he may end up leaving PSG before then anyway in which case Mason would probably be happy to step aside and let him take over.
DH…….didn’t the club recently agree a £250m fanancing package £175m of which was to pay off the BoE loan? That still leaves £75m of funds available which hasn’t come from club earnings.
Re ES, dont hate the guy but don’t want him either, I feel we could do much better.
Wolves are OK, just that, OK, they don’t play an inspiring brand of football and have consistently finished below us in the Premiership by playing this type of football.
Just don’t want him, so it looks like we’ll get him then.
Strong rumours of Grealish to City for around £100m, you have to think if this is true then it’s unlikely there would be a second signing of a similar amount within FFP rules.
Hi Niall…… NES did get Wolves playing some decent football when he first arrived which was largely as a result of investment in some good players including Neves, Neto, Jota, Moutinho, Traore and the centre forward whose name escapes me that he lost to injury. He also had the current Portugal goalie. I think after his initial success they lost their way as a result of attempts to change playing style and of course the loss of their leading goalscorer.
TQ2spurs – you are right – the club did agree an additional £250m of funding. It is now long term debt and the £175m loan has been repaid to The Bank of England. Levy will have you believe that we have been affected by the pandemic more than any other club but that simply isn’t true. What he has effectively done is defer any losses we have incurred – for around 30 years I believe. This is actually a great piece of business, I don’t think any other club has managed to do this but it does mean that our short term losses from the pandemic are significantly less than other clubs. We now have approximately £750m of long term debt which is quite frightening. I suspect this will never be repaid, more likely be converted into equity i:e the first step along the way to ENIC selling up.
I see the media has finally got on to my suggestion of Manchini, whilst I would take this in a heartbeat I just don’t see Roberto leaving the Italy job, but if he feels he has taken them as far as possible then, who knows after the Euros, he could sign for us, pie in the sky, I know.
Our erstwhile excuse for a chairman is rapidly turning our club into daily Red Top fodder, and a laughing stock. He is a joke working his way through a “whose who” of failed or unemployed European manager/coaches. Some reports now have Lampard as yet another candidate. When push comes to shove the real problem is not the succession of managers at Spurs since the advent of ENIC as owners of the club, but the ever present totally incompetent, and inadequate chairman, who if Lewis had any interest in footballing success, and Levy had a modicum of self respect, he would consider his position. This of course will not happen, as making the necessary investment required to support any manager in an attempt to succeed on the pitch, is not, and never has been, their priority, both preferring to build a property empire, and maximize the value of the organisation In the future. One can mock all we like the owners of Man City, Man Utd, Liverpool, Chelsea, and even little Leicester City, but they all share the same ambition, to win football matches and trophies, and to make the necessary investment to attempt to ensure this happens without spending close to 1 Billion pounds in bricks and mortar, or as Doncaster has already said feeding blatant lies and falsehoods to supporters for 20+years.
It seems as though Nuno is a nono with most fans on this site. Can’t say he impresses me. We do seem to have reached the bottom of the pile and Levy is becoming desperate.
The great worry now is how many of our mediocre squad members will be sold and how many decent signings we can make. Watch out for the bargain bin has-beens at the end of the window and some of our present squad still hanging around as bench warmers.
This has ben one of the most depressing periods in our history after the excitement of the Poch era and christening of our new stadium.
I began to lose interest as Mourinho’s reign drifted in to the negative, boring football that everyone had forecast.
Levy has so much to answer for. Will he be able to do anything to stop the rot and bring some pride into the club instead of embarrassment and humiliation. I somehow doubt it. We are in for a dismal ride.
For me this is levy last hand, could nuno do any better or worse then Potter, Rodgers, ten hag or even poch if he came back, nobody knows how the players will react etc. If the spurs players on the field were able to do the bloody basics top4 would of been easily achieved.
Is Nuno going to attract new signings to our club? If you were a top notch player looking to move to a new club, would that club be Nuno’s Spurs because Nuno, the Espirito Santo, is named manager?
Espirito Santo, indeed. The Holy Father, the Holy Son, and the Holy Ghost–the Espirito Santo. Who knows? With sufficient genuflection and chantings of belief in the name, a miracle might occur. But outside of a miracle associated with the Espirito Santo, do we have any other motive to expect the world’s class players will be beating down the doors to the world’s most spiffy training grounds and match-day pitch because the Holy Ghost is managing there? Having an NFL pitch under the removable football pitch does not make the grounds per se sanctified. Daniel best sign the Holy Son as an assistant manager so that his track record of Sanctified Miracles arrives to fulfull the vision based on the holy spirit.
Surely a football club requires not only spirit, but the bodily incarnation, if spirit is to be translated into performance. Pray all we’d like, but it takes the body as well as the spirit to bring about miracles. If we’re not careful, we might see the lads get crucified to Daniel’s visions of corporeal investments.
Yep TQ
Wolves did relatively OK and I’d argue, it was more of a springboard season for them initially.
But has been said, Nuno lost some players and tried to play the same way, IMO, he relied just too much onTraore at the tail end of the season, and for me looked a bit lost.
BTW If you were a player, would you come to Spurs under a Nuno rebuild
Or come to Spurs under a, Manchini rebuild?
I’m not saying he’s coming to us, but he is the calibre of manager we need to take us forward.