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Can I just check, none of you actually belive Pep will come to you, do you....

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Pep

"Technically he took them from bottom with "2 points from 8 games" to becoming a title challenging team in 3 years and a net spend of £15m"

Actually tis :

Technically he took them from bottom with "2 points from 8 games" to becoming a title challenging team in 3 years ...

... while Levy ensured the NET transfer spend in doing that that was etc.

See the user name, mortal.

I agree with Don. I think Harry is a stobborn man (i know Don didnt say that bit but), if Levy were to try to tell him what to do, it could backfire - so if he shows support, it may make Harry think more positively about his position at Spurs.

Who knows?

Harry will go so get used to the idea and I doubt very much if we will get Pep or Mourinho.

"Harry will go so get used to the idea and I doubt very much if we will get Pep or Mourinho."

Cannot afford Jose.
And if Pep is not money-driven, only the "intellectual challenge" could bring him to Spurs.

I dont want Pep anyway. He's more interested in passing stats than goals.

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Look at the american club owners in this country already have any of them broken the bank to get a top manager ?

RDBD,

I dont know why people say we cant afford Mourinho. Levy can claim anything between £5m-£15m compo for Harry. JM can walk free at the end of this season. I cant imagine JM would demand more than £10m more than Harry in wages, over say, a 3-4yr contract.

I dont know why people say we cant afford Mourinho
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Its not only his wages it will be the transfer budget that he requires and the money he will want to pay superstars

grandspurs

If anyone wants that much £££ to transfer the team, then they're hardly that good a manager then are they?

If thats the case, then i wouldnt want him anyway.

"hen I said that there was no chance of getting Pep, and that I doubted Mourinho would come, I got abuse from all angles"

Keep up, redrob.
The RDBD has been joking for months that Pep will be here come the summer.

And many of us here have our suspicions about the real Jose (can do it on a wet night at Spurs with no Sugga Daddy ?? ) .

grandspurs understands the basic premise on Jose.
I am still waiting to hear how the Jose effect resulted in Portos' rise.

Jose has proved that he is a great manager without necessarily having a big budget but will he want to go back to those times ? I doubt it, we will end up with somebody like Moyes all we need to do is give him a tenner and he will think we are rolling in it compared with what he is used to

"Jose has proved that he is a great manager without necessarily having a big budget but will he want to go back to those times ?"

Really ??
If he lifted Porto on Spurs-esque constraints, to where they got, fair enough. No one here seems to have any STAT/FACT stuff to support that.

RDBD

I was more thinking of the 2nd division Portugese team (cant remember their name) that he took to competing with Porto and Benfica. If I remember rightly he never lost a home game with them either and had them in the top 3 of the portugese league.

They had no money by the way.

OK.

Totally ignorant of Jose prior to his last season at Porto, so was hoping someone ITK could educate me on the reality.

News of this could trigger a burst of "Jose in" now (but should be tempered by your "but would he want to go back to that again" ) .

RDBD

I only know cos I read his autobiography

An interesting quote from him tho regarding money before he took the chelsea job he want to go to pool really.

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Liverpool are a team that interests everyone and Chelsea does not interest me so much because it is a new project with lots of money invested in it. I think it is a project which, if the club fail to win everything, then [Roman] Abramovich could retire and take the money out of the club. It's an uncertain project. It is interesting for a coach to have the money to hire quality players but you never know if a project like this will bring success

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Maybe that was earlier in his career I wonder if he still thinks like that ?

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Jose's an incredible manager, and man-manager, could have us challenging for the title no doubt, but I would not want him because of his horrendous personal antics.

Bill Nich would turn in his grave at some of the things he has done (I do NOT say that lightly).

Still, if others can look beyond that then good luck to you, if we get him. If he did ever come to us I would like him to acquaint himself with something called 'fair play' for starters. He's good enough, no doubt at all, but not a decent enough person for Spurs imvho.

kim might have a point he is a stunt puller for sure

kimchibaka

Good post Sir.