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Et er at vores optræden er pinlig for os fans, men hvad tænker trænere, spillere og agenter som vi skal forhandle med denne sommer?

Hvis ikke Paratici mindst er involveret i at hente en ny træner, så virker det vanvittigt i mine øjne, så det vælger jeg at tro at han er. Så har han muligvis ikke det afgørende mandat til allersidst, men involveret skal han simpelthen være.

@Keane - Ja, klubbens strategi virker ikke videre gennemtænkt, og vores rekruttering ser ud til at nærme sig et amatøragtigt niveau. Forhåbentlig kan Paratici gøre det lidt mere seriøst.


@Pedro - "jeg tror bare jeg venter i spænding og bliver skuffet over valget, intet nyt under solen der"

Så sandt som det er sagt. Spurs i en nøddeskal.

Årsagen til, at Conte blev fravalgt af Real Madrid, var, at 10 spillere nedlagde veto mod ansættelsen overfor Florentino Pérez.

De ville væk, hvis Conte kom, og det kaos ville præsidenten ikke være tændsatsen til.

Nu skal vi altså huske på at mange af de trænere vi har været linket til har været gennem pressen.

Personligt tror jeg ikke vi har været helt vildt langt i forhandlingerne med nogen af de nævnte.

Poch er gammel kærlighed hvor man sikkert har hørt psg. Den blev hurtig lukket. Nagelsman og Flick var rygtet gennem pressen. Ten Hag var man nok interesseret i, men her udnyttede Ajax hurtigt sin klausul.

Man har givetvis indledt dialog med Conte, men et par dage senere afbrød man dialogen.

Syntes faktisk det er fint at klubben tager sig god tid til at finde den helt rigtige og ikke bare hopper på det første store navn som dukker op.

Må dog medgive at jeg som fan er lidt utålmodig

Der skrives meget om trænere og spillere der kan løfte klubben til det næste niveau. Men hvad med de folk man sjældent nævner nemlig vores scouting team. Der kan ikke være tvivl om klubben har nogle af de bedste faciliteter i England.

Steve Hitchen er min optik fuldstændigt fejlcastet til sin rolle og det rod han efterlod i Derby burde have givet et tydeligt tegn på han på ingenmåde er manden der kan levere på et nogenlunde niveau i hans rolle. Han er sikkert en udemærket scout men ansvaret er han ikke voksent. Jeg kan tage fejl men hans tilgang til januar transfervinduet er jo næsten komisk.

"Nu skal vi altså huske på at mange af de trænere vi har været linket til har været gennem pressen.

Personligt tror jeg ikke vi har været helt vildt langt i forhandlingerne med nogen af de nævnte.

Poch er gammel kærlighed hvor man sikkert har hørt psg. Den blev hurtig lukket. Nagelsman og Flick var rygtet gennem pressen. Ten Hag var man nok interesseret i, men her udnyttede Ajax hurtigt sin klausul.

Man har givetvis indledt dialog med Conte, men et par dage senere afbrød man dialogen.

Syntes faktisk det er fint at klubben tager sig god tid til at finde den helt rigtige og ikke bare hopper på det første store navn som dukker op.

Må dog medgive at jeg som fan er lidt utålmodig"

Du er ikke helt forkert på den men jeg synes dog det er underligt at Levy ligefrem skulle offentliggøre hvad det var man ledte efter I den næste træner. Attack minded possession based og brug af unge spillere fra akademiet men hvorfor så alligevel spilde tid på at forhandle med Conte når man I for vejen nok kunne regne ud at man ikke ville blive enige det synes jeg er meget rodet og man har trods alt haft 6 uger efter hånden til at finde en. Jeg ved godt at det tager tid men jeg undrer mig over hvad man har brugt de 5 uger før man forhnadlede med Conte på. De kan ikke allesammen være brugt på at kigge på at få Poch tilbage

@Don

Så er det godt at vi snart får en DoF der kan tage det ansvar Hitchen ikke magter

Skal man tro Alisdair Gold så gik vi efter Nagelsman som første prioritet, men så sagde Flick op i Bayern og så var det løb kørt. Flick kom så også ind i billedet, men han var kun efter landstræner jobbet, så det blev aldrig seriøst.

Ten Hag, Potter og Brendan Rodgers var blandt de øverste på listen, men pludselig var der to store kandidater der meldte sig selv. Poch var utilfreds i PSG angiveligt pga familie og Leonardo. Conte var den anden og han sagde op i Inter.

Kritierne for jobbet var næsten lavet i Pochs billede, så da originalen meldte sig selv, så gik man All in på ham, men man undervurderede PSGs vilje til at holde på ham trods det glippede mesterskab og måtte give op.

Conte var et navn man ikke bare kunne overse, selvom han ikke passede på profilen, samtidig med var Paratici sagt op i Juve og ham havde man jagtet før til sportsdirektør jobbet, så var det pludselig oplagt at prøve med Conte og Paratici.

Athletic article

Fabio Paratici will walk into Tottenham Hotspur later this week with an unenviable task on his hands in his new role at the club. His first job will be the most important of all: finally bringing an end to Spurs´ drawn-out search for a new head coach.
Paratici is not even a Tottenham employee yet but he will meet club staff in Turin on Tuesday before, all being well, flying back to London at the end of this week to be formally announced, most likely as general manager. He must do so with some fresh ideas to fill the vacancy in the dugout, after a bruising few weeks for the club.
It is now 50 days since Daniel Levy told Jose Mourinho his services were no longer required. Since then the club have been working to draw up a shortlist, in keeping with Levy´s written promises that the new head coach would be in tune with Spurs´ DNA, playing "free-flowing, attacking and entertaining football" and promoting young players.
In that spirit, having failed to convince Hansi Flick to reject the German national team, and having looked long and hard at Ajax´s Erik ten Hag, Tottenham made an ambitious bid to bring Mauricio Pochettino back from PSG. He would have loved to return, but the Paris club flatly refused, and that was the end of it.
When that failed, Spurs went for Antonio Conte, effectively ripping up Levy´s promises about "DNA" in favour of pursuing probably the best win-now coach in world football. But that move collapsed too. A club can afford for one high-profile push for a famous manager to fall flat, but when it happens twice, the whole situation starts to look a real mess.
The result is that with no Pochettino or Conte, but with a new man about to start pulling the strings, Tottenham are almost back to square one. The only advantage they have now, compared with seven weeks ago, is the imminent arrival of a man rated as one of the best-connected and smartest football executives in Europe.
The appointment of Paratici could represent the most significant act of delegation by Levy for years. He has employed various sporting directors over his tenure but the role envisaged for Paratici would be bigger than that. Levy has been battered by criticism in recent seasons, and Tottenham fans are more vehemently opposed to him now than they have been for a decade. The decision to sack Pochettino and replace him with Mourinho in November 2019 was a disaster, and so was the attempt to sign Tottenham up to the Super League in April 2021. Soon after that, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters Trust called for the resignation of Spurs´ executive board.
There are few people in football who enjoy as much power at a club as Levy does at Tottenham Hotspur. He has run almost every aspect of the club for 20 years now, right down to the little details. From contracts and transfers to the stadium and the training ground, and of course the hiring and firing of various managers, head coaches and sporting directors. But more recently, Levy has accepted that the time has come to delegate more. Which is why he wants Paratici to oversee all football matters from now on.
Paratici will arrive at Tottenham with an almost unmatched reputation in the European game. Since he moved from Sampdoria to Juventus in 2010 he helped to deliver the club´s rebirth, overseeing a run of nine consecutive Serie A titles, as well as two Champions League finals. Those who know Paratici say he is a great networker, extremely hard-working and very imaginative. The hope at Spurs is that he will help to drive up standards, bringing some Juventus best-practice with him, that he will add football expertise to the club´s board, and help to take some of the media pressure away from Levy.
But the immediate priority for the club and for Paratici is to find the long-term successor to Mourinho, seven weeks on from his dismissal. Naturally, Paratici was involved in discussions regarding appointing Antonio Conte, who he had previously taken to Juventus in 2011, launching the great modern era of the club.
While Conte was not exactly aligned with the promises about "DNA" that Levy wrote in his programme notes at the end of the season, there is no question that he would have been a hugely impressive appointment for Spurs to pull off. He has won five league titles in his career with Juventus, Chelsea and Inter Milan, giving him by far the best recent record of any coach available right now. Many of the claims made on behalf of Mourinho when Levy appointed him - that he was a proven winner who would guarantee trophies in the short term - would in fact be far truer of Conte than they were of Mourinho.
That said, some of the Tottenham players had their own reservations about the possible arrival of Conte. They had heard from their friends at other clubs just how extreme and demanding Conte´s methods were, and how little attention he paid to the academy and to younger players.
When Conte spoke to Tottenham last week, he was hugely impressive, talking in detail about his ambitions and his plans, how he would get the players fit and organise them defensively again. Conte gave the impression that he was happy to come to the club and there were no issues about salary or terms. But he also warned the club that if they had any doubts about signing him, then they should not do it. He believed that as long as he was allowed to drive this project as he wanted, then it would work, and hinted that if he ever felt that the club lied to him, that he would walk out, just as he did at Inter.
But when it came to reaching a final agreement with Conte, the talks stalled. There are various different theories as to why this was, and of which party pulled out first. One suggestion is that Conte did not think the club would be able to generate enough money in the transfer market to fund the signings he believed were needed. Another is that he did not truly believe Tottenham could compete for trophies. Another is that Levy, knowing how badly Spurs´ finances had been hit by the pandemic, did not want to give Conte what he wanted if that meant putting the club at risk.
Either way, the ambitious bid to bring Conte to Tottenham looks to be over. And Spurs players and fans are left wondering who will be in the dugout for the first Premier League game of the season, now just over nine weeks away. To get close to appointing someone as good as Conte but not completing the deal certainly feels like a missed opportunity.
The big question for Paratici then, over the next week or two, is: what sort of head coach does he want now? Does he want another win-now coach from the same bracket as Conte? Or does he follow Levy´s promise for someone to rebuild the club with an eye on the future? Does he go back to the candidates Spurs have already looked at, such as Ten Hag? Or does he recruit from Italian football, where he has more than 30 years of experience?
The short, medium and possibly long-term future of Tottenham Hotspur depends on how Paratici decides to answer that question. From day one, the pressure is on.

Hvis denne artikel passer og Levy langt om længe er villig til at uddelegere det sportslige ud til en rigtig fodbold mand, så er det noget af det mest positive der overhovedet kunne ske for Spurs.

Det får vi sikkert hurtigt at se, for jeg tænker ikke Paratici bliver på posten længe, hvis Levy blander sig for meget. Han finder let et godt job i en anden klub med hans CV.