Comments on: What Would You Do If You Were In Charge At Tottenham?

By: spurs_fan_intheLBC

spurs_fan_intheLBC — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:38:37 +0000

I agree, sacking Ramos is not going to solve the personel problem. He has had great sucess before. He needs to have the backing of the club and it's supporters. This team needs stabilty.
Look at the most consistantly succesful clubs in the EPL, ManU, Arsenal & Liverpool, they have stabilty at the manager position, and I'm sure input on who comes nad goes on their squads.
Comolli is the problem. When Spurs needed a DM he buys Bent for a redicules amount. You think Frank Arsenen would have done that to Jol??

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:51:27 +0000

I keep on doing that! I have to stop

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: Weston

Weston — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:46:55 +0000

Christian Bale sure could help the situation…put Batman out on the wing and he'd wreak havoc!

By: lsmetana

lsmetana — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:40:48 +0000

I don't think sacking Ramos would really help at this point. The club has had a big overturn in personnel and its silly to expect them to gel immediately. This is not Football Manager where you can just buy players throw them together and have it all work wonderfully. Mind you, they probably should have left Jol in charge last season so it wouldn't surprise me if they did fire him. Jol, who supposedly didn't know what he was doing, has Hamburg top of the Budesliga. It's early days but clearly he's not as clueless as Spurs fans and management made him out to be. The fact that he lost his most creative player in Rafael Van der Vaart only underlines the good job he's done to start the season.

Besides who do you bring in if you fire Ramos?

By: The Gaffer

The Gaffer — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 10:41:27 +0000

Excellent feedback chaps regarding how to turn Spurs around. I would sack Juande Ramos and put someone in charge who can inspire his team to win matches. I agree with one of the reader's opinions about Christian Bale. I'll write an article about that in the near future.

Thanks for the kind words about the new addition to the Gaffer family.

Cheers,
The Gaffer

By: Alex Z

Alex Z — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 19:14:57 +0000

Its amazing how few people congratulated Gaffer on the baby. Good luck mate, and hope all goes well. Wish you the best.

As for the Spurs, Ramos knows that something is missing; that is why he has been shuffling lineups so much. Personally, I think its a good, strong workhorse midfielder that can hold the team together and distribute the ball. Its a shame all the shuffling that went on on deadline day – probably really fucked up Ramos' plans.

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:56:20 +0000

PS Congrats on the kid Gaff. Hope all goes well.

By: Weston

Weston — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:13 +0000

Good point - Spurs havent had quality central midfield play since the Davids/Carrick pairing and the one possible replacement (Malbranque) was let go...

Comolli needs to go, he is hurting the team badly and recruits duds.
They need to play 4-4-2. If spurs continue to play with 5 in midfield and Roman on an island by himself up top, they wont win a game until february.

And bring up Tomas Pekhart!!! Giving the kid a shot alongside Campbell would definitely result in some goals. Hes a giant and can bring the ball down for a quick finisher like Roman, Bent or Campbell, much like Berba did for Keane.

By: DoublePivot

DoublePivot — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:56:31 +0000

I'd sell the club

But if I were owner, I would fire Comolli and I wouldn't reinstate the position. Comolli has bought and sold players like he's playing Football Manager. He has not worked with either Jol or Ramos to build a team. Yes there are many good players on the team, but there is no team. And for every good player, there are two completely awful ones. Adel Taraabt and Kevin Prince-Boateng anyone? We haven't had a DM since he ran Carrick out of town. And that was main thing Ramos asked for in the summer. There are clearly two agendas: Ramos' and Comolli's. And that will relegate the club.

By: Simon Burke.

Simon Burke. — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:11:46 +0000

If I was Spurs manager I would get through this year without getting relegated, buy a load of foreign talent without really knowing what to do with it and then wait for blogs like this to pronounce Spurs as TOP FOUR material.. again.

Seriously they need a decent center mid, Diarra would have been ideal and of course they need more depth up top, another decent striker but its the midfield which is the least balanced right now – all their games are being lost there. Bentley is woeful but will thrive when someone can fight for the ball and then get it to him – Modric isnt that man. Modric would also thrive from said mystery man however.