Alone in the Park - it's the Prem 2020-21 thread

aww :(

also, and who knows if it will happen, but i strongly suspect he is Not What Spurs Need, tho at least he has form for offloading Doherty

I dont think hes in the running but there is no managerial appt that covers any of the top three things of What Spurs Need

i tell you what, when you look at the next manager odds (i have an unlikely outside tip from an old friend) there's a lot of v depressing (and v unlikely) names that mugs will put money on

I see Nuno is now odds on favourite and you can get 20-1 on Poch 👀

1/3!

I’m not particularly convinced he’s a good choice but it at least means we can continue to get ‘£50m-rated’ Jorge Mendes clients to fill spots on the bench for a season at a time.

lol, I hadn’t actually seen the stories about Mendes being paid €7m of Fabio Silva’s €40m transfer fee until I googled it a minute ago.

Appoint Eddie Howe, Claudio Ranieri, anyone who isn’t on Gestifute’s speed dial.

Silva is gonna be the real deal imo

almost tempted to subscribe to The Athletic just to read Tim Spiers's in depth piece on how the Fosun-Nuno relationship broke down and why they've basically sacked him

SUAREZ WINS THE LEAGUE FOR ATLETICO MADRID. BINNED BY BARCA, NOW WINS THE TITLE WITH A DIRECT RIVAL. GLORIOUS. pic.twitter.com/xYJCNl0ZXx

— Mark AFC (@BergHenryVieira) May 22, 2021

almost tempted to subscribe to The Athletic just to read Tim Spiers's in depth piece on how the Fosun-Nuno relationship broke down and why they've basically sacked him

― Chickpeas, Scamps and Beeves (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 22 May 2021 16:37 (six hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I keep getting advertised the article that suggests Spurs players openly talking about how bad Jose was and wanting to read it. I mean I can’t imagine someone is breaking Mayfair so openly and quickly but I love some Spurs and Jose schadenfreude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrwnwO7m0Ys

;_;

I'M NOT READY

There's nothing really that juicy in The Athletic article NV

tldr: small squad got tired, Nuno didn't react well to losing Jiminez, bit of scuttlebut about the manager choosing Mendes clients for transfers instead of other targets. Fosun is barely mentioned

thanks :)

this is why i'm too tight to subscribe

the majority fan narrative lays all the blame on Fosun, of course. which is funny because they bought the club with a plan to be in Europe and they made no bones about being serious/ruthless in achieving that

bit disrespectful

lol City respond by scoring 2

Willock has just scored for the seventh consecutive game.

3 of those as subs too.

7 in 320 minutes

Spurs inability to pass sensibly out from the back might make an onlooker think the problem wasnt jose mourinho, but......???

Think Bertrand Traore might be the best player in world football? Weird

Chelsea finishing fifth is absolutely the funniest possible outcome.

People wont believe me when i tell them davinson sanchez had a really good start to his spurs career

No, Spurs, what are you doing?

You kiss of deathed it dude

Im madly fucking confident in these lads, dont worry

If Leicester do bottle this, Rodgers’ credentials as a future Spurs manager look watertight.

lol

Conference League, here we come.

Nothing spursier than fighting harder for the uropa conf than for poch, mourinho, cl final, top four, league cup or pride

Cunts

Get dier on

Disgraceful shithousing by Grealish to get Azpilicueta sent off, you uh, you just uh, hate to see it

lfc winning 8 and drawing 2 of their last 10 games despite playing just ok is a headscratcher. weird season.

that was standard Liverpool for the second half of last season too though

Congratulations to Tottenham Hotspur on an inspiring late charge to pip Arsenal to a place in the UEFA Punishment Moat

Newcastle 12th hahaha

well done for defying the odds, Spurs!

Napoli and Lyon both following Leicester’s lead in blowing completely winnable games against teams with nothing much to play for. Juventus and Monaco qualify for the CL unless something dramatic happens in the next ten minutes.

seems a bit two-faced idk

𝘕𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳.

The end of an incredible journey.

💛 pic.twitter.com/e2PDdos12t

— Wolves (@Wolves) May 23, 2021

Unsure why Nuno has left.

I see Nuno is now odds on favourite and you can get 20-1 on Poch 👀
― groovypanda, Friday, May 21, 2021

He wouldn’t but has just failed to win the title in France so there’s speculation he could leave PSG, though that seems unlikely.

20-1 is throwing money away but you cant beat sentiment as a bookie

Nuno and Rodgers are still no.1 and no.2 favourites despite the rumours that the former is seen as too defensive, and has been ruled out by the board, and the latter explicitly saying he won't leave Leicester, which suggests nobody really knows anything.

Ten Hag also still floating near the top despite him signing a contract extension with Ajax only last month

Nuno has been sacked basically but they've done it with a veneer of no blame no shame

this is from aforementioned Athletic article

A source close to the club says: “There has been a few problems there since October. Players were questioning things about Nuno’s approach. He didn’t lose the dressing room, but they were wondering whether he was as good of a manager as people were making out. There’s a real lack of structure and leadership there, too. Kevin Thelwell (the former sporting director) was very good at bringing departments together, he was very good at managing processes, but things haven’t run as smoothly since.

“It goes as far down as bringing together the medical team and the players, basic things that used to be very clear in the past.”

Fosun began to look elsewhere and it seems Nuno did too. Jorge Mendes, Nuno’s agent and close friend (and of course a close friend to Wolves), began talking to other clubs to explore the possibility of where could be an option for Nuno’s next move, should he leave Wolves this summer.

Chairman Jeff Shi spoke to Nuno at the beginning of this week before Wolves’ trip to Everton and a parting of ways was agreed, believed to have been instigated by Wolves. While the timing of the announcement, before Sunday’s final game, wasn’t ideal, too many people were beginning to share the news and it was felt it couldn’t be kept secret any longer. As far as statements about a departing manager go, the one Wolves released on Friday lunchtime was about as positive from both sides as it gets and that reflects the amicable nature of Nuno’s exit.

For Wolves, acting now rather than dithering and perhaps seeing things take a turn for the worse next season was at the forefront of their thinking. But Nuno is also believed to have come to the conclusion that it was the right time to leave. He had anticipated that a Champions League level club may have approached him by now, preferably in England, but in the absence of that there was a risk he could damage his reputation should this summer’s rebuilding job (with a small budget in terms of net spend being offered to him) not go to plan.

“It’s just the end of a cycle,” a source close to today’s developments said. “It has been four successful years but he decided that the right time has come to go out and close this beautiful journey. That’s all there is to it.”

They added: “The decision to leave Wolves was not due to the interest of others clubs. He will now consider the future, but there are no clubs behind this decision.”

sad for Nuno :(.

i would have preferred he stayed but i'm not shocked because the signs of what was bubbling away under the surface were there on the pitch. he's built a great foundation for the Wolves and now it's the classic dread/excitement of what happens next. it was obvious that something needs to change this summer, whoever oversees it.

Slight air of Alex Ferguson being sacked by St Mirren about this.

How does he feel about Europa Conference level clubs? Asking for a friend xps