TCIB said:
GHoddle, you seem a decent chap what is your view for the future of spurs and what if any mistakes the current hierarchy need to avoid making again ?.
When i see future i mean next 3 years from what you know atm.
It's hard to say because there are many unknowns at the moment. The one thing Levy and Baldini need to do is pick the right manager. I don't think people realize what a difference it makes, but the evidence is at Old Trafford this season. United will finish 20-30 points worse off (maybe more) with the same exact squad. One more draw and they've dropped the same number of points as they did in all of last season. So the manager makes a huge difference, there's no doubt about that.
The unknowns are how certain players will perform under new management. My personal opinion is that it is not a coincidence that every attacking player we have bought has not looked the same quality as they did at previous clubs. I'm thinking of Sigurdsson, Dempsey (who scored 17 goals at Fulham the season before), Dembele, Paulinho, Eriksen, Soldado, Lamela, Holtby (who had something like 10 assists half way through the season at Schalke), Chadli, Walker (who has never looked as good since AVB came in), and Adebayor. The only one who ever looked improved was Bale, but basically every other player has suffered under AVB. So one of two things is going on: 1.) Whoever is buying the players doesn't know what they are doing. 2.) AVB's style and tactics limited the players ability to express their talents. My opinion is that option 2 is correct, because I don't think that the "system" AVB was setting up was very conducive to our attacking players. It was about pressing the opponent back into an extremely defensive shape, which meant that our attacking players played with very limited space and time on the ball. Made it basically impossible for them imo.
And it would be too big a coincidence that whoever is buying the players seems to get it right with the defensive players (Vertonghen, Chiriches, Lloris, and Capoue all having been good for the most part), but have gotten it wrong with almost all the attacking players. I don't see that as a plausible explanation, especially having watched some of these players at their previous clubs. To me it makes far more sense that AVB's "system" limited their effectiveness, so I'm going to judge them all from a clean slate now.
So it will be difficult to answer until we know how much of the problem was AVB's system. I'm excited though personally, in the short term Sherwood and Ramsey will take charge of the team (Ramsey is a very highly rated coach), but longer term Levy needs to make sure he gets the next manager right. Clearly this is what he's not good at. My opinion would be to go for Prandelli after the world cup, my gut feeling though is it will be Frank De Boer either fairly soon or in the summer. Hard to say if that would be a good choice.
It won't be Hoddle.
