Good afternoon.
Carlo Ancelotti left the hot seat at Second Hand Fridge on the 22nd of May to join The Special One and Scolari who waited nine months and a year respectively before re immersing themselves in football.
I have been told that Carlo has been sounded out quite recently by a senior shadowy figure in our ‘Sounding Out Department.’
This ought to happen. But then their isn’t a successful business model in the world based on the word ‘ought’. Just see ‘journalists ought to get paid for writing copy’ and The Times’ paw wall for details.
For all the good that has Arry has done, it is not the work of a media conspiracy that the bulk of fans want him to shut up and focus on managing
For those of you joining us late, I have repeatedly said that I believe Redschnapps is a great crisis manager on that basis he’ll excel for the FA as the England team has been in a permanent state of crisis since they won the World Cup.
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Can never understand the logic of Cheatski: They sack the manager because (I assume) he is not up to the job (i.e. Crap), but them put an embargo on him working elsewhere.
Personally, when HR leaves us, I would be delighted to see him walk into the Manure/Citeh job, especially if he signs PSB and 3MP.
HH
what has arry done to you? you have been running this hate Campaign
Someone else who has a problem with reality. Try reading what I’ve written. This would be an excellent starting point.
Secondly, if you can name another manager who is more likely to take Fabio’s job than Arry, do share.
I praise Arry when he gets it right and I have a pop when he doesn’t. You want a sacred cow, go to India.
The information, whatever its value was given yesterday. You want me to sit on it and become some lobotomised happy clapper?
Or you want me to run it, but say it would be a disaster to let a lunatic like Ancelotti near our club?
You call it a hate campaign. Clearly discussing matters makes you feel uncomfortable.
In answer to your second question: Alladyce. Harry wont get the gig due to his HMRC ‘issues’. The FA wont take the risk, particularly after the Venables debacle. Alladyce has got it all worked out – take over a WHam team that has by far the best players in their division, lead them to inevitable promotion, thereby restoring his reputation just in time to take over from Fabio. He only sigend a 2 year contract to make it easy for him to move – its completely transparent
In my view, they should reinstate Mike Basset with out any further ado.
Seriously though, when He finally departs WHL, I don’t want to see him in the England job. In club football, you can buy a certain degree of success, but the England job is all about managing the resources you have, and tactically, he is in the same mould as Ericsson – no plan B.
Crisis manager isnt a real thing. Its a massive fallacy akin to most of the things people say about Harry and his tenure at Tottenham to try and justify why they dont want him there and why any and everybody would be better at doing his Job.
We werent in a crisis when we beat Inter at the lane last year, or when we beat arsenal at the new library, or in the san siro against AC, or against Man City to put us into the CL.
we were in a crisis when he came to the Lane. there was NO crisis to speak of in terms of our club as whole last year except our lack of a scoring striker.
In fact Harry managed to get us 5th despite us not having a decent striker. we only needed 4 goals in 4 of the draws we had against the low in the league opposition and we would be in the CL now.
I dont blame Harry for us not putting away any one of the 65-70 odd chances our team had on goal in the matches against blackpool twice, wigan, west brom and west ham. I blame the players for missing sitters and the Board for not working hard enough to get us a striker.
Carlo couldnt win the league and didnt overly impress when given UNLIMITED funds and a squad of superstars.
What on earth makes anyone think he is going to anything of any note at spurs
You sir, are in danger of being ‘the voice of reason’. The lunatics will hate you for it.
Finishing 5th in the league was our joint 2nd best finish EVER in the PL. Only one manager has bettered it…and that was Harry himself. And finishing in the last 8 of the CL, beating Milan en route, surely makes up for any disappointment at not finishing in the top 4. At the start of last season almost every SPurs fan I know agreed that a top 6 finish and a good run in the CL would be fantastic. And it was. I recall only too well the dark days of the past, when getting to the last 8 of the Carling Cup was considered exciting, and finishing in the top 10 was considered an achievement. And I’m not talking about decades ago either
The issue I have with this, is that we were capable of and should have finished second last year.
Based on the resources we would normally have to call upon, top 6 is respectable, but last year, we had an exceptional team that on it’s day was better than any other with the exception of Manure. We finished fifth and when you look at the teams we beat, and more importantly, the teams we failed to beat, you have to admit that something went drastically wrong.
Yes but the point is, just because you THINK we should have finished 2nd, it doesnt make it realistic. Money isnt everything in football, but it is not far off. We had the 6th highest wage bill, only a smidge off the 8th highest. And yet you think we should have finished 2nd? With the injuries we had (Jan and Feb saw a shadow team playing) I just dont see where you are coming from.
The following clubs had better squads than us, player for player: Man U, Chelsea, City, Arsenal. And guess what? They finished above us.
Show me what Ancelotti has won with the 6th biggest wage bill in a league. Answer: he has never faced that problem. Ever. And he never will either. Whatever HH’s ‘sources’ say, Ancelotti wouldnt come to Spurs when he sees the financial reality. Until we get that new stadium, a replacement for Harry will not be one of the ‘blue chip’ managers you all seem to expect.
Call me a cnt if you like, its simple reality
Anyone who can come up with a figure that shows there are 10 Billion Spurs Supporters on a planet of 7 Billion inhabitants doesn’t even know the meaning of the word “reality”.
I was going to give a more detailed explanation but my PC has crashed twice while I was doing so, and I really don’t think you are worth the effort, so without referring to such issues as the fact the we thrashed Citeh at WHL, and it was only the superhuman efforts of Hart that stopped this being reflected in the score, or that Cheatski were awarded three illegal goals and we only earned one point instead of six against them, I would like to concentrate on the fact that we finished 9 points off of second place, and the numerous points we dropped to the bottom teams.
If you think it unrealistic that we could and should have taken another 10 points from these teams, then you obviously know as much about football as you do about maths, which is the equivalent of the square root of nought percent of feck all.
Good point well made – In the space of 3 seasons we have become a set of self righteous fans and expect the world and everything on a plate despite in no way shape or form being able to compete with 3/4 teams who financially smash us in every way shape and form. and we still come 5th on a relative shoestring (relative to Manu/chelsea/mancity/and to a slightly lesser extent arse and l’pool)
I dont blame the manager at all – he can say what he wants to the press as far as i am concerned. and unless anyone gets to hear what he sayd behind closed doors we should all just take his ‘act’ with a pinch of salt and remember what it felt like to be managed by Mr Gross.
i put the lack of goals down to narrow minded arry not playing pav but sticking with the guys he bought (at huge cost) crouch, defoe and the biggest embarrassment of all in terms of goas for money spent keane. he paid a bucket load for those three, brought them and continued picking two of them ahead of pav. keane he shipped off twice with in three years of buying him, great manager. the smart guy sold keane for 20 mill when he was a 8 mill player at best. the dumb guy paid 16 to get him back even after several months of further hard proof of what he was really worth
great stuff Duds; like Paul F says; expect the naysayers to come back with the usual tat;
-Cant keep his gob shut
-No idea on tactics (that one always makes me chuckle; he knows more than any blogger on this site and most PL managers added together)
-ex wet spam
-supposed gooner
Yadda fuckin yadda
Welcome old son, welcome indeed
he puts me in mind of churchill
bought in to deal with world war II
a great crisis PM
when it was all over
thanks very much your work here is done
COYS
I really wish they had sacked Churchill with a resounding ‘Come On You Spurs’.
I mean why hate campaign against him
No hate campaign,just opinions.Too many pundits on spurs sites being too precious