Spurs’ issues came from not backing the manager who actually made them competitive and then spending heavily for every manager since despite each one being worse than the last.
If there’s a lesson to be learned from Spurs it’s don’t sack a manager unless you’re confident you can appoint a better replacement because the wrong move is worse than no move.
Stadium hit them a bit it restricted what they could do. Of course they’ve just compounded it with more and more mistakes.
Enrique is really a good coach. His team presses like mad men OOP. I tend to see him as a more patient Klopp with a lot more tactical flexibility. However, I think his arrival might have a few hidden pitfalls.
Strikers. The successful Enrique teams don’t play with a out and out CF. Luis Suarez wasn’t one, neither is Ousmane Dembele at PSG. However, our team has 2 CF with Hugo probably closer to the Luis Suarez mould but not as deadly or inventive as Suarez. Isak will have to be sold either this season or the next at probably a loss even after depreciation. This is bad for us because our wingers right now are blunt as fuck.
Resources. In Ligue 1, PSG reigns supreme due to its crazy resources at hand compared to the other clubs in Ligue 1. In La Liga, as long as you are in Barca/RM, you are pretty much guaranteed a top 2 finish depending on who fucks up more. With that, the superior resources coupled with Enrique’s brain allows the team to focus more on UCL and allows a higher degree of rotation in the league.
However, EPL is kinda different in terms of resources distribution. Yes, there is still differences in the provided resources but the gap is not extremely big. Managing in the EPL will really be a fire test of his tactics, man management and Squad building where the importance of the league is suddenly as important as the European adventures. This is where Slot fell into the trap of having a small squad to maintain quality and that fucked him up.
The English game. It is well known that the English game is very much more physical compared to Ligue 1 and La Liga. The physicality actually got ramped up in the last couple of years. For Enrique’s current experience, to ramp up the physicality for 1 or 2 matches in Europe against English teams is still do-able. However, to do it 38 league games a year requires a whole different physical prep altogether like how Slot found out the hard way
Age. Enrique is about 4 years away from his own plan of retiring at 60 years old. Probably just enough to build a playing culture but not enough to have it ingrained in the club. Certainly, it is also not enough to ensure a work ethics standard in the club as well…Klopp took 9 whole years to do all that…
All in all, what I think is that FSG might be playing the long game for the eventual long term head coach role where Enrique is one to steady the ship. That eventual role might be Iraola’s. Iraola’s only weakness is that he lacks the European experience that Slot got while with Feyenoord. He will get that at Leverkusen or CP.
However, all these mean fuck all if Enrique says no to the EPL.
My point was the bigger picture. If you don’t pay attention to warning signs your club can drop precipitously regardless of stature. Past performance is no guarantee of future results.
I thought that was exactly the sort of forward Dembele was in his earlier years?
True, but he has pace that most centre forwards don’t have and is truly ambidextrous. Because of being used as a winger at Dortmund and Barca, he now has the natural positional fluidity and, allied with his ridiculous natural gifts, makes him a unique weapon. Little wonder he won the ballon dor.
You will, eventually.
Well, you see any hope with Slot??
Yeah but he got shuffled around at RW and CF in his earlier years too…
nope.
i’d bring in a caretaker manager at this point if the primary candidate gives an indication that he will be available at a later time.
we cannot let our player investments be ruined any further by slot.
Welcome to Liverpool Andoni Iraola you semi autistic SOB 
He was in Germany yesterday talking to Bayer?
Enrique wins the CL, says, “I’ve enjoyed a wonderful time in Paris, but now I’m off to Liverpool!” Mic drop…
It is quite plausible! But it all depends if Enrique has an appetite for the EPL.
However, I think it is more likely to be Iraola…
It’s time
I don´t know too much about managers nowadays but in England Iraola and Emery seem to do a good job and Glasner at Palace has won three trophies.
I want a manager who knows how to play forward through the midfield. Not this modern rubbish of the midfield passing it to the fullbacks or centre backs and calling it possession football.
He’s on record as saying he wants his next stop to be the PL.
Welcome Andoni
Not going all Rosenior here but I hate how it´s now head coach and not manager.