[QUOTE="SmithAndJones, post: 2798874, member: 144974"
A management team with strong Spurs links, that will command respect throughout the Club has to be the way forward. That's why I've opted for a combination of Hoddle as DOF, and Klinsmann as manager with Ledley as his assistant.[/QUOTE]
All this "must find a manager steeped in Spurs history" is a load of bollocks!
Spurs legends that fitted that frame were Ardiles & Hoddle and look what that got us. We must look outside of the box.
Next to Bill Nicholson
(our greatest manager who did bleed lillywhite), Keith Burkinshaw won more major football competitions at the club than any other Spurs manager.
Burkinshaw, a Yorkshireman, came to Spurs in 1975 after being sacked by Newcastle. A young forty year old and with a relatively short management career, with no Spurs history.
That needs to be repeated!
Now is the time to take similar action! Step outside the box. Appoint a young home-grown, vibrant, ambitious, new breed, exciting manager ,with an aggressive intelligent football philosophy,
That guy is Graham Potter: age 45, born
Solihull (midlands), no Spurs history (baggage ??), professional
football management career spans eleven years, came up through the lower ranks, currently has PL experience with BHA. All good grounding.
Levy has to be advised to go 'home-grown', stop looking at 'names' and bite the bullet,
do a Burkinshaw.....