The Sir Alex Ferguson Thread (For Manager related news)

[Captain Kirk]

Supposedly Spurs about to announce gravy veins as manager. Good luck. 😂

Will get absolutely battered off teams with any sort of tactical nous.

[Kaney]

11 minutes ago, Captain Kirk said:

Supposedly Spurs about to announce gravy veins as manager. Good luck. 😂

Will get absolutely battered off teams with any sort of tactical nous.

Blue nose, I take it?

[Captain Kirk]

2 minutes ago, Kaney said:

Blue nose, I take it?

Yeah, tactically it works in the worst SPL there's probably ever been. His tactics won't work in the EPL where he leaves his team open to any decent counter.

St Mirren showed if you keep the press to the halfway line too, they offer nothing.

[Lineker]

 

[DavidMarrio]

The social media warriors that didn't want him aren't going to be happy about this. 

 

 

[gunnar hendershow]

It's a particularly puzzling hire for many of the reasons people have outlined here already. I'd at least want them to hire someone who has found success in a top league. And sorry to our Scottish friends, but the Scottish Premiership is not a top league.

[The Lusophone]

The only reason you don't go for Ange Postecoglou is because you don't want to build your squad to play his kind of sometimes suicidal play out from the back at all times mentality. People shouldn't be looking at Celtic for how his Spurs will play, they should be looking at his Yokohama Marinos side, who played like this:

Spoiler

They'll probably get caught out a lot during the early Ange days, but with the right squad building, they could be superb.

[DavidMarrio]

23 minutes ago, damhausen said:

It's a particularly puzzling hire for many of the reasons people have outlined here already. I'd at least want them to hire someone who has found success in a top league. And sorry to our Scottish friends, but the Scottish Premiership is not a top league.

Tbf, he is retiring from winning silverware by going to Spurs 

[The Lusophone]

28 minutes ago, damhausen said:

I'd at least want them to hire someone who has found success in a top league.

Why? Conte didn't work. Jose didn't work. It's not like there's a bevy of available managers out there with top league success - and the ones that are guys like Luis Enrique who inherited a great Barca team and never had to build a great team.

[METALMAN]

55 minutes ago, damhausen said:

It's a particularly puzzling hire for many of the reasons people have outlined here already. I'd at least want them to hire someone who has found success in a top league. And sorry to our Scottish friends, but the Scottish Premiership is not a top league.

That’s true. Managers who have done well in Scotland have famously not really been able to cut it down in England. Like the guy this thread is named after, for example.

[gunnar hendershow]

7 minutes ago, METALMAN said:

That’s true. Managers who have done well in Scotland have famously not really been able to cut it down in England. Like the guy this thread is named after, for example.

That was also 35 years ago and things have changed significantly since.

[METALMAN]

There are plenty of other examples. But let’s just limit ourselves to managers who have left Celtic for the English Premier League relatively recently then.
 

The last time a Premier League team hired a Celtic manager was when Brendan Rodgers went to Leicester City, and sure, it didn’t end too well but it was a solid start and in winning the FA Cup (more than Spurs recently lol) he is the second most successful manager in their history. Last manager before that to go from Celtic to Premier League was Martin O’Neill to Aston Villa who saw them to three consecutive sixth place finishes: comfortably their best spell of the century so far.

By managing Celtic you have experience of intense media scrutiny, highly demanding fans, an expectation to win all the time, dealing with possibly the most intense footballing rivalry in the world and playing European football. Seems like a decent enough apprenticeship to me. In many ways you will learn things that are invaluable for a job at a top club that you’re not going to learn from a couple of good seasons at, say, Brighton. Sure you’d rather get someone with a top CV at the top level but this is a Tottenham team who finished mid-table last season. Taking a punt on a guy who did well in Scotland is their level now. 

[Moses Julep]

The Ange situation is very reminiscent of bringing Nuno on.

[Lineker]

1 hour ago, Moses Julep said:

The Ange situation is very reminiscent of bringing Nuno on.

Not even close.

 

Careful about mentioning MON, Andy, lest you risk drawing @Summers ire.

[Summers]

I loved Martin O'Neill. He hurt my heart when he left. 

[METALMAN]

 

8 minutes ago, Lineker said:

Not even close.

 

Careful about mentioning MON, Andy, lest you risk drawing @Summers ire.

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[Chris2K]

I think I can get on board with this. Just don't let Davison Sanchez get involved in the playing out from the back stuff.

 

[Lineker]

2 hours ago, Summers said:

I loved Martin O'Neill. He hurt my heart when he left. 

But one million cocks?

[Chris2K]

Postecoglou has agreed to a 2 year contract as Spurs manager.

Imagine if he actually stays for 2 seasons, what a novelty that would be.

 

[Baddar]

Confirmed, 4 year deal.