Levy hires you as DoF - What do you do??

[spids]

That was the first alarm bell when Mourinho was hired when he said 'I'm very happy with the squad I have and don't need to make changes'. That, to me said that he had no idea how our players had been performing under Poch and that they'd all suddenly shape up simply because he'd arrived.

But he didn’t mean it. He only said it as he was stuck with those players until the following summer and we were 14th and he was trying to boost their confidence and positivity. The next summer we signed 7 players. That says a lot. (And we were still crap). I think Mourinho would have changed more had Levy facilitated it (e.g. offload Dele and sign a replacement).

 

[spids]

All this assumes no European football next year and no transfer budget from Levy (my first instinct is still not to take the job).

First up, I’d tell Kane and Son that them leaving this summer is not happening for any price. I’d even offer Kane a new 5 year contract on £300k per week with a release clause of £150m (£120m Euro clubs) next summer if we don’t qualify for CL, then reducing by £30m per year thereafter. Similar deal for Son (but lower release clauses). Either signing a new long term deal would be a massive boost for the club and a signal of intent.

Then I’d go back to basics and sort out the back 4. Dier and Sanchez would be sold. I’d get Anderson from Fulham / french parent club on loan with an option to buy next summer, and partner him with Rodon, with Toby as back up (and Tanganga as 4th choice). If Levy made any funds available I’d be looking to buy another top class CB. Otherwise I’d bring back Foyth.

I’d sell Aurier and Doherty and try and sign Aaron’s as a replacement. With Tanganga as competition.

At left back I’d keep Reguilon and sell Davies (to generate funds) and bring back Sessegnon.

Centre midfield we can make do with Skipp, Højbjerg, Lo Celso and Ndombele, with Alfie Devine providing additional back up (as there’s no money). Slightly worried about a lack of athleticism but the intention is to make these players fitter and moulded into a more effective 3 man midfield.

I’d sell Winks, Sissoko, Dele, Moura, and Lamela, and go all-in for Grealish for £100m plus whatever wages Kane is on. Grealish is the player that takes us from top 6 to at least top 4.

Attacking options would be Kane, Son, Bale, Bergwijn, Grealish and Scarlett. I’d keep Bale to be a flat track bully and a super sub (although with fans back singing his name I think he may offer more than that!).

I’d hire Potter as first team coach. Mason would return to the development squads. Club ethos would be aggressive full backs pushing on with a DCM dropping in between CBS when needed. WFs would both tuck in to make inside forwards when FBs bombing on. Picture Bale and/or Grealish tucking in behind Kane with genuine attacking FBs overlapping.

Emphasis would be on being the fittest team in the league, playing progressive attacking football, and the goal would be to win the league (especially assuming no European football).

If Levy was prepared to release significant funds (and I really think he will now this summer), I’d sign another CB, another offensive RB and an upgrade in DCM (I think Højbjerg has flattered to deceive and had some athletic limitations).

Squad (22 players):

GKs: Lloris, Hart, Whiteman
RBs: Aarons, Foyth
CBs: Andersen, Rodon, Alderweireld, Tanganga
LBs: Reguilon, Sessegnon
CM: Skipp, Højbjerg, Lo Celso, Ndombele, Devine,
Attackers: Kane, Son, Bale, Grealish, Bergwijn, Scarlett

Summary:

Coach = Graham Potter.
Sell/Release (11) = Aurier, Doherty, Sanchez, Dier, Davies, Winks, Sissoko, Lamela, Moura, Dele, Vinicius (~£180m)
Buy (3) = Aaron’s, Anderson, Grealish (~£180m).
Bring back (3) = Foyth, Sessegnon, Skipp,

4 of the 6 coming in are young English players.

If we did then qualify for the CL next season we’d need to spend at least £150m on three extra players to be competitive with European fixtures.

 

[CoopsieDeadpool]

Any DOF worth his salt will have any amount of players scouted and well known by now, that won't be the big problem. The big test will be getting levy to sign off on the transfers out at realistic prices. If he leaves that to the new DOF I believe we could see a pretty quick squad overhaul. We desperately need to offload atleast 10 of the current squad.

That last sentence.

If we did get a new DOF, the first thing Levy should instruct him to do, is get rid of every single player that didn't (willingly) go out to do the lap of honour on Wednesday night. Those ****s didn't just disrespect the club, they disrespected the very people that keep the club going & pay their monumental salaries. The supporters.

Get rid of all of the cowardly ****s!

 

[stormfly]

That last sentence.

If we did get a new DOF, the first thing Levy should instruct him to do, is get rid of every single player that didn't (willingly) go out to do the lap of honour on Wednesday night. Those ****s didn't just disrespect the club, they disrespected the very people that keep the club going & pay their monumental salaries. The supporters.

Get rid of all of the cowardly ****s!

Who were those players?

 

[RosieFTL]

Resign.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

DoF....what a crock of shit. About as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest all the while the ultimate footballing decisions are being made by Levy. There is no DoF, there's just a fall guy. A buffer of blame. BoB for short.

If I were the BoB, i'd last right up until his meddling started, then i'd quit and tell all in a 3 part expose in one of the Sunday rags. And I wouldn't be signing one of his please don't bubble me up to the fans confidentiality clauses either.

So, whoever any new BoB is, we need to give him an easy ride, because he'll be getting ridden hard by Rumpel.

 

[Metalhead]

DoF....what a crock of shit. About as useful as a one legged man in an arse kicking contest all the while the ultimate footballing decisions are being made by Levy. There is no DoF, there's just a fall guy. A buffer of blame. BoB for short.

If I were the BoB, i'd last right up until his meddling started, then i'd quit and tell all in a 3 part expose in one of the Sunday rags. And I wouldn't be signing one of his please don't bubble me up to the fans confidentiality clauses either.

So, whoever any new BoB is, we need to give him an easy ride, because he'll be getting ridden hard by Rumpel.

I guess that is the problem. I like a lot of the (sensible) posts but they all rely heavily on Daniel Levy giving his 100% backing to whoever is in the role.

 

[mos5679]

Sell:
Dier £15m
Sanchez £20m
Winks £20m
Doherty £10m
Lamela £15m
Sissoko £10m
Davies £10m
Aurier £20m
Foyth £15m
£125m

Buy:
Anderson £20m
Grealish £70m
Vestergaard £20m
Hakimi £30m
£130m

return of Sess and Skip. I would also keep Alli as there is a player there - he needs a manager who loves him and gets him playing like he can. Also would keep Bale for another year - we know what he can do

that should keep Harry happy? I would say we’re quite fortunate that we have a huge squad which can be used to generate some cash. I don’t actually think we’re that bad...we just need some leadership and a proper manager to motivate these fuckers.

 

[ohtottenham!]

That last sentence.

If we did get a new DOF, the first thing Levy should instruct him to do, is get rid of every single player that didn't (willingly) go out to do the lap of honour on Wednesday night. Those ****s didn't just disrespect the club, they disrespected the very people that keep the club going & pay their monumental salaries. The supporters.

Get rid of all of the cowardly ****s!

Levy should have been first to do the lap of honour given the control of the club he has from top down. Leicester chairman was an example.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

I guess that is the problem. I like a lot of the (sensible) posts but they all rely heavily on Daniel Levy giving his 100% backing to whoever is in the role.

Indeed. The problem is (for me anyway) that he can come out and say as much as he likes about him stepping away from the football or 'backing' BoB, but how could you tell? You'd need several transfer windows to spot any real difference in approach so three or four years. I'd actually be surprised if anyone lasted that long anyway. He's had a number of them, they never seem to last long really, we flit from having one to not having one and i'm not sure how that isn't seen as a great big arrow of blame hovering over Levy's head either.

Not that I ever really trusted him so this is probably biased by that but if I try to put that to one side, I still can't see any way he hasn't broken our club or its fans

Sorry for taking this off topic. I did say what i'd do in my first post

 

[ohtottenham!]

Indeed. The problem is (for me anyway) that he can come out and say as much as he likes about him stepping away from the football or 'backing' BoB, but how could you tell? You'd need several transfer windows to spot any real difference in approach so three or four years. I'd actually be surprised if any BoB lasted that long anyway. He's had a number of Bobs, they never seem to last long really, we flit from having one to not having one and i'm not sure how that isn't seen as a great big arrow of blame hovering over Levy's head either.

Not that I ever really trusted him so this is probably biased by that but if I try to put that to one side, I still can't see any way he hasn't broken our club or its fans

Sorry for taking this off topic. I did say what i'd do in my first post

I agree with you. For me, it's about the level of control he has over everything to do with Spurs. It works in some areas, but for sure it doesn't in the football areas, which is all us "legacy" fans care about! He needs an intervention and a constantly-firing rocket up his arse to get the fuck out of the way where it matters.

That means fan protests, booing at games if necessary; whatever it takes to force him to give up control where it hurts us.

 

[stov]

Been enough cocks up there I think...

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Only see one cock, all the rest are cockless.

 

[stov]

What's the fm thread doing in the spurs chat?

 

[spids]

Can’t understand why every thread has to get hijacked by Levy haters..... oh wait.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Can’t understand why every thread has to get hijacked by Levy haters..... oh wait.

I'm not at all sure i'll ever recover from the pain

 

[jimbo]

 

[wrd]

Entirely depends on the Kane situation really but this is how I'd approach it;

The first thing I'd be doing is preparing several lists which I'm going to put infront of the different managers I'd be looking at to get their take

my list of players who the club want to move on if we can get offers;

Gazzaniga, Alderweireld, Sanchez, Dier, Aurier, Doherty, Winks, Sissoko, Lamela, Moura

The list of players who we're now resigned to potentially leaving for the right offer;

Dele, Kane, Lloris

So I'd be putting those lists infront of the managers and asking whether any on the list of ones the club want to sell, they'd be interested in keeping and why and try and agree to selling 70/80% of that list. With the list of players we are open to selling for the right offer whether they still feel with the revenue we generate from selling those players whether they'd be confident in a rebuild.

Then I'd be interviewing the managers and make sure that our approach to the game aligns, that we want to build a young high energy team, with a game built based on attack but that is adaptable given the situation of the game so they are happy to approach the game in a counter attacking manner or a possesion based set up depending on the opposition, that they're adaptable to different circumstances but with an emphasis on attack.

I'd be asking them what their preferred formation is so that we can approach the transfer window on the same page in terms of what type of players we need. I'd be keen on a manager who wants to play in a way that suits the players we have i.e 4-3-3 but with the ability to adapt his formation to 3-4-3 and 4-2-3-1 depending on the situation and making sure we agree what players are needed to be able to have that flexibility. I'd also be wanting a feel for the type of player that the manager would be interested in.

The manager in my mind who fits that bill would be in the style of Ten Hag.

The next thing I'd be doing is getting a list of players who we believe are young home grown talents who we feel can replace squad players for cheap and provide good options; Olise, Brooks being examples

I'd be getting a list of players with 1 year left on their contracts who the club has looked at in the past and how the manager feels about them; Sabitzer, Zakaria being examples

I'd have the players who are more expensive but we feel represent good purchases which we've scouted in the past; Aarons, Daka as examples.

Finally I'd be looking into the French league given their financial issues and I'd be drawing up a list of players in that league with high potential who we could take advantage of the situation.

So once we know the lay of the land with Kane we can then approach our incomings whilst also working at shifting the majority of the deadwood.

Once I've got all those lists of various targets coming with different financial situations, I'd then be ironing out the list with the manager and see where we align, what players they have in mind and then discuss whether they're viable or what we'd need to do to make them viable. We can then work together to finalise a list which is built to where we can see how if we got those targets that we would arrive at a balanced squad ready to compete and making sure we work on contingencies should anything not work out but the key would be making sure the squad is balanced to where we arrive with a squad that can carry out the managers primary set up.

I'd also be making sure we agree that we need a smaller squad and be looking to cut that list down to 20-22 players with the young players making up the numbers such as Scarlett.

 

[YB123]

Keep:

GK: Lloris, Hart (HG)
Def: Tanganga, Toby, Rodon, Reguillon, Sessegnon,
Mid: Hojbjerg, Lo Celso, Skipp
Att: Kane, Son, Bale (if details are same as last season), Bergwijn, Dele


Sell:

Gazaniga, CCV, Aurier, Sanchez, Dier, Sissoko, Winks, Lamela, Vinicius


Consider offers but keep if price isn't right:

Foyth
Doherty (HG Quota)
Davies
Ndombele
Lucas

 

[Geyzer Soze]

Start planning my retirement

 

[agrdavidsfan]

Just thinking about it all now if poch comes in what we will have to do!

Hugo - unsure if he was one that stuck with poch or not but he probably stays

Aurier - goes and probably used in the deal for poch

Doherty - not sure if poch would be keen? But probably gets kept.

Toby - goes we know how bad it got with him and poch!

Dier - another that seemed to fall out with poch at the end

Sanchez - Poch seemed to like him

Rodon - think poch will adore him as he has balls

Reguillon - clean slate stays

Davies - never been a minutes problem for any coach poch would keep him

Tanganga - poor kid, Jose gives him his chance poch used him in pre season but looked set to leave prior to Jose. So he could be a surprise sacrificial lamb although we need him for HG quota

Hojbjerg - has balls poch will like

Skipp - poch waxed lyrical about him

Sissoko - tricky one poch seemed to like him but it’s the right time for the club to get rid

Winks - initially poch seemed to love him but then I think he learnt he wasn’t up to it. Again, the fans probably want him out.

N’dombele - couldn’t cope with poch is training initially, by the time he got fit enough poch was out the door.

Lo Celso - poch wanted him and seems to like him.

Alli - Poch loves him will get another chance.

Lamela - poch loves him but he wants to leave

Moura - poch never seemed to like him that much? Probably be sacrificed as he could be the money card.

Bergwijn - can see poch liking as he works hard etc and under poch is training I think he will come good.

Son - no issue will be here

Kane - well we all want him to stay but apparently was one of the ones that wanted poch gone.


So that leaves us with

Winks,Sissoko,Toby,Dier,Lamela,Moura, at least to be kicked out the door.


But then who would poch sign?

If it was me I’d go

Saint Maxim
Sabitzer
Andersen
Skriniar
Aarons
Toney