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Jose Mourinho - SACKED
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DeanoAustin
Jimmy McCormick
There is a strong argument that keeping Jose for this game would have been our best bet because he knows how to win one off games better than any other manager. However, I don't subscribe to it because he was still tinkling about with formations and personnel on Friday. He's done. I believe the squad was too fractured for us to have had any chance against City. Anyway, I'd rather no league cup and Jose gone than him winning and perhaps sticking around because of that.
It'll also be hard for City to prepare for playing us. F**k knows how Mason and Powell will set us up to play. Maybe they'll get an inkling v Southampton but Pep would have known exactly what to expect from us if Mourinho was in charge.
I think City will beat us but I've a glimmer of hope for us on Sunday now.
The day was the Europa League exit, this is just the timing/details part.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Was my first thought.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I don't think Jose would have shown his cards for this game against Everton anyway. More likely to use it a misdirection than anything else.
I've been thinking about it a lot
- In theory Jose would have been a good option but I think the team has lost belief in that (probably what he brought most over tactics to other teams)
- Our players (for good or bad) seem to respond well to a hand around the shoulder manager (Jol, Redknapp, Poch)
- Dead cat bounce?
If I was Levy, I'd sit them down and go -> it's up to you, don't blame managers, you have a final, go fudging make it happen.
I'm still weirdly optimistic, City has been on their great run for a little too long, they have PSG at midweek, KDB out and Pep isn't going to play Aquero. We still have a really hard game, but not impossible.
Cliques exist in pretty much all training rooms up and down the country and all over the world - very rare you get the type of togetherness there appeared to be in the first half of Pochettinos time, that's why it was so frequently referred to in interviews at the time
Daisuk
Dimitar Berbatov
Oh, come on. The Frenchies hang out because they speak French (surprise!), and someone calls them a "clique" - means fudge all.
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
Lol..... Come on mate, spill the beans on what other profile you were using in the interim? ;o)
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
That would paint our chairman in a bad light I think.... i.e. prove that he had badly negelected investment on the team.
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braineclipse
Steve Sedgley
We'll see what happens with the superleague. I think banking on that vak coming in now would be rather risky. Is being one of the players "in it" might make us a better option for a manager, perhaps Levy wanted the timing like this for PR reasons, other than that I don't think that's much of a factor.
Levy would never put himself in a situation where he couldn't get rid of the manager for financial reasons if he really wanted to imo.
I think your point about players supporting him is key. And the overall morale and attitude in the dressing room. I'm guessing Levy thinks the chance of winning the final is higer without Mourinho than with him so pulled he string. Could be wrong about that, and so could he even if my speculation is accurate.
NoLimits01
Goran Bunjevcevic
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
I was cleaning up laying us on the exchanges after we had gone infront.
Still got a crap defence but with Mourinho gone it is not such a dead cert that we will give away a lead.
RunTMC
Steven Caulker
He’s back!! Welcome back buddy. Good to have you around
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
One thing about Spurs is that it is never boring (except for some of the football)
Mr Gogolak
Noé Pamarot
It's never nice to see someone lose his job, no matter the circumstances. That said, it was always a matter of when rather than if - even more so since the performances remained turgid after what happened in Zagreb. He needed the team to bounce back and that didn't happen. From then on, the writing was on the wall and I think pretty much everyone knew it.
I just hope the players didn't have a hand in his demise. They had, of course, because of their mediocre performances but I really hope they weren't asked about his sacking directly. That happened more than once in the 90s and it turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. They have enough power as it is - you don't want to next guy to crawl before them because they know for a fact that they get to decide whether he keeps his job or not.
Good luck to whoever comes next. I hope he'll get to make the changes that we need.
I just hope the players didn't have a hand in his demise. They had, of course, because of their mediocre performances but I really hope they weren't asked about his sacking directly. That happened more than once in the 90s and it turned out to be an unmitigated disaster. They have enough power as it is - you don't want to next guy to crawl before them because they know for a fact that they get to decide whether he keeps his job or not.
Good luck to whoever comes next. I hope he'll get to make the changes that we need.