“I do think the next move has to be the long-term future. It cannot be someone in and gone again. Without stability you’re never going to achieve anything." - Tim Sherwood
I agree with some of this but the truth is none knows what stability is in football.
In football years, 2 years is enough time. Managers should just be given 2 year contracts and be done with it. As the 2-year contracts near an end there can be an internal assessment too see if the manager should get another 2 years. All these 4-6 year contracts aren't worth the paper the are written on.
If you take on a Multi-million pound Job/company and you can't have a positive effect or achieve goals based on your resources within 2 years then you clearly deserve to be released. Football is very well paid and with highly paid jobs performance is key.
If Football wants stability in terms of 4-6 year contracts then they should reduce their wages, costs, and prices and run a subsidised league where results aren't everything and the monetary gains and extortionate wages/contract are non-existent.
The real reasons most of these football managers call for stability is for their own personal gain. How many actually care about which club pays their wage? The Same manager will move to the next club and plot how to take 3 points off his old club.
I might be wrong but given our record with managers. Stability for a Spurs fan would be 2 years of peace with the same manager. That does mean we also need to stop moaning and booing when the manager is not even had more than a year to implement his tactics. in this scenario I believe fans are hypocrites so by and large those type of fans deserve all the instability that Levy can feed them.
A few may say the above applies to Sherwood but in his scenario he was appointed as an interim manager. He knew it and we knew it, so Levy's 18-month contract was a daft offering to appease 'Good lad Tim'.
However we would hope the new appointment would be done with better care and consideration of what we should be achieving with our current status and resources. Once this is done then for better or worse the manager will have my full backing whoever it is. I just pray it's an intelligent one that understands tactics and has his coaching badges.
Our next manager should just be given a clear two year contract and Levy should hibernate and not re-emerge until Month-16 of the said contract.
What is stability in football?
posted on 4/5/14
"Our next manager should just be given a clear two year contract and Levy should hibernate and not re-emerge until Month-16 of the said contract."
posted on 4/5/14
It depends on the club. Teams like City and Chelsea do not need managerial stability as they are willing to back managers with money.
At teams like Arsenal and United who want to mix big signings in with young players with potential it is vital to have stability through the club.
For some teams lower down a bit of stability can be good, but sometimes they need to change manager to take a step forward. This, however, tends to be a big risk (Charlton/Curbs, Bolton/big Sam)
Dont think stability has helped Newcastle though.
For Spurs I think stability is pretty vital for the next few years, as you aim to move into a new stadium. However you have to find the right man first, no goid sticking with someone for the sake of it.
posted on 4/5/14
Imo this summer is Levy's last chance. If he sacks the new manager in a year he should walk too.
posted on 4/5/14
For us two years would be stability.. with the squad we've got now and the number of promising youth players I'd like to see a manager get more like 5 years, so we can see him bring through the youth and develop the first team.
Levy seems set on the idea that we can be successful with a succession of managers, but it's not working and as DJ said it costs money - money that comes from selling our best players.
Hopefully we get De Boer - he's had to cope with that and has won the league four times in a row. If that's not enough for the fans to be positive about him I don't know what is.
posted on 4/5/14
comment by D'Jeezus Mackaroni (U1137)
posted 55 minutes ago
It depends on the club. Teams like City and Chelsea do not need managerial stability as they are willing to back managers with money.
At teams like Arsenal and United who want to mix big signings in with young players with potential it is vital to have stability through the club.
For some teams lower down a bit of stability can be good, but sometimes they need to change manager to take a step forward. This, however, tends to be a big risk (Charlton/Curbs, Bolton/big Sam)
Dont think stability has helped Newcastle though.
For Spurs I think stability is pretty vital for the next few years, as you aim to move into a new stadium. However you have to find the right man first, no goid sticking with someone for the sake of it.
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Seconded, very well put!
However, I would like to add that I see stability in the team as more important, and I think that teams that can put out the same squad each week, with only the occasional tinkering for injury, are more successful.
Perhaps our Tim would like to take that on board rather than looking to feather is own managerial nest.
For example, early in his reign he brought in Bentelab, flavour of the month, continually starting over more expensive signings, now, can't even appear from the bench occasionally. Has he really gone bad that quick?
And this continually changing the team because "I do not know what my best team is" that he fessed up to is quite bad for anyone who professes to be a manager of what is, after all, one of the biggest clubs in the country!
posted on 4/5/14
What if, after 4 months of said contract (Ramos) we are bottom of the league and in utter turmoil, should Levy remain in hibernation then?
posted on 4/5/14
Whom ever is in charge of the team should have his say , ie if FDB is manager he should be able to try and buy the players he wants , none of this director of football jazz.
posted on 4/5/14
What about Rafa? Won another cup last night and Phil Thompson a couple of weeks ago said he would be keen. Frank De Boer may have blown his chances as he opened his mouth too early...
posted on 4/5/14
LukaBrazil
Id love to see Benitez at Spurs, he wins trophies wherever he goes, knows the premiership inside out. Would be a real coup if we got him