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8 hours ago, OneMoSalah said:

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Jesus if Wolves over the last 18 months are anything to go by Spurs are going to be utter dogshit. 

Nuno not at the level for a team like Spurs. They’re going to have to appoint a Hasenhuttl or Nuno or somebody of this ilk though, because they’ve somehow missed out on every half decent manager available. 

I don't know if the 9-0 losses against Leicester and United are counting against him but am surprised Spurs haven't tried to go for Hasenhuttl. Think he's a good manager.

5 hours ago, Blues Forever said:

 

First of all, is Paratici even going to last at Spurs? He has barely been in the job and there already seems to be differing ideas between him and Levy.

Is Nuno really known for developing players, especially younger ones? Would say someone like Hasenhuttl has a better track record with that.

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1 hour ago, Jas said:

I don't know if the 9-0 losses against Leicester and United are counting against him but am surprised Spurs haven't tried to go for Hasenhuttl. Think he's a good manager.

First of all, is Paratici even going to last at Spurs? He has barely been in the job and there already seems to be differing ideas between him and Levy.

Is Nuno really known for developing players, especially younger ones? Would say someone like Hasenhuttl has a better track record with that.

He’s nothing special, maybe he will get there but him and Nuno are mediocre. Hasn’t really achieved anything of note with Southampton in 2 full seasons after keeping them up when he came where as at least Nuno has constantly had Wolves punching above their weight, in European competition, another 7th place finish etc to maybe push his case a bit.

Few things with Hassenhuttl though, like has he actually signed a good player yet for Southampton bar Danny Ings permanently (who was actually signed by Mark Hufhes originally on loan) and maybe Che Adams (even then hardly done anything for Southampton)? I really don’t think his transfers have worked well for Southampton because every season they don’t look like they improve and either way they end up around 14/15/16th in the table after battling relegation for 80% of the season although they did get 11th the season beforehand so maybe unfair. And then the who has he really improved aspect to the point they should definitely be playing at a higher level? Hojbjerg, Ings, JWP? Not exactly inspiring is it?

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7 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

He’s nothing special, maybe he will get there but him and Nuno are mediocre. Hasn’t really achieved anything of note with Southampton in 2 full seasons after keeping them up when he came where as at least Nuno has constantly had Wolves punching above their weight, in European competition, another 7th place finish etc to maybe push his case a bit.

Few things with Hassenhuttl though, like has he actually signed a good player yet for Southampton bar Danny Ings permanently (who was actually signed by Mark Hufhes originally on loan) and maybe Che Adams (even then hardly done anything for Southampton)? I really don’t think his transfers have worked well for Southampton because every season they don’t look like they improve and either way they end up around 14/15/16th in the table after battling relegation for 80% of the season although they did get 11th the season beforehand so maybe unfair. And then the who has he really improved aspect to the point they should definitely be playing at a higher level? Hojbjerg, Ings, JWP? Not exactly inspiring is it?

TBF, am not sure Southampton really have that much spending power for the manager to bring good players in. Excluding loans, they have bought only 7 players in the last two seasons and one of them was a free transfer.

Let's not forget that Southampton were also known for selling their best/better players a few years ago and once that set in, they never really got anywhere, certainly not after the Pochettino and Koeman regimes. 

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20 minutes ago, Jas said:

TBF, am not sure Southampton really have that much spending power for the manager to bring good players in. Excluding loans, they have bought only 7 players in the last two seasons and one of them was a free transfer.

Let's not forget that Southampton were also known for selling their best/better players a few years ago and once that set in, they never really got anywhere, certainly not after the Pochettino and Koeman regimes. 

That is true but again, I think the players he’s brought in, they are maybe more for the long term as opposed to trying to instantly improve their side.

They received crazy money for van Dijk but had almost squandered the same amount in the summer looking at some of Pellegrino’s summer buys. Horrendous. But would say that Hasenhuttl still hasn’t brought them on much much further which is maybe why top clubs don’t get linked with him. They are quite bold playing the way they do 442, high line, counter pressing but getting pumped 9-0 in 2 games in 2 seasons cannot help either when top clubs look at managers. 

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21 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

That is true but again, I think the players he’s brought in, they are maybe more for the long term as opposed to trying to instantly improve their side.

They received crazy money for van Dijk but had almost squandered the same amount in the summer looking at some of Pellegrino’s summer buys. Horrendous. But would say that Hasenhuttl still hasn’t brought them on much much further which is maybe why top clubs don’t get linked with him. They are quite bold playing the way they do 442, high line, counter pressing but getting pumped 9-0 in 2 games in 2 seasons cannot help either when top clubs look at managers. 

He has been linked with the Spurs job before, TBF. 

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5 minutes ago, Jas said:

He has been linked with the Spurs job before, TBF. 

Was that when they sacked Jose? Or beforehand? Could have maybe seen the links after his time at Leipzig but even then Poch was there wasn’t he?

I think he was actually/maybe linked here when FL was sacked but if the links were true, would definitely be more because he had worked with Werner as opposed to anything else I reckon. And well probably because he couldn’t have done a worse job either but who knows.

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15 minutes ago, OneMoSalah said:

Was that when they sacked Jose? Or beforehand? Could have maybe seen the links after his time at Leipzig but even then Poch was there wasn’t he?

There were some links around the time when Mourinho got sacked. And think he may also have been linked when Pochettino got the boot 18 months ago. 

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Why not Blanc? Unlike Poch he always delivered Ligue1 at least. 

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53 minutes ago, Jas said:

 

Ooh it's back on..before was off cause of backlash though most likely media stirring up a drama

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Black manager finally. 

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