Martin Jol

[jmurphyc]

Well Martin Jol wouldn't be managing Ajax until at least next summer according to this article, so that takes him a step closer to taking over us. Still very unlikely to happen IMO though.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/7069316.stm

[Stuttgart88]

I think we all know about Jol's time at Spurs but I knew little about him before he took the job & I couldn't remember how he got the Spurs job.

Here's what wikipedia says about him:

Jol's coaching career began in the Netherlands in 1991 when he took over at the amateur side ADO Den Haag and took them from the Third Division to the First Division. Jol then moved to Scheveningen for one season where he won the national non-league championship. Jol then spent two years at Roda JC during which time he won the Dutch cup (Roda's first trophy for 30 years). Between 1998 and 2004 Jol managed the Dutch professional team RKC Waalwijk where he saved them from relegation and was honoured as the Dutch Football Writers Coach of the Year in 2001 and Dutch Players and Coaches Coach of the Year in 2002. Manchester United spoke to Jol about becoming their assistant manager in 2003.

RKC Waalwijk denied reports in June 2004 that Jol was about to become assistant manager of Tottenham Hotspur.[3] However, several days later, Jol was given the job under Tottenham's new coach Jacques Santini.[4] When Santini left the job after just over a dozen games Jol was first made caretaker manager and then later confirmed as head coach.[5] In his first season in charge Jol improved their league fortunes and scrapped the defensive nature of play that Santini had instilled. He won the FA Manager of the Month award in December 2004 and was strongly linked in the press with the then vacant managerial job at Ajax of Amsterdam, however Jol ruled out moving clubs early. In August 2005 he signed a new three-year contract with Tottenham.[6] Jol led Tottenham to the verge of European qualification but the season ended with a 9th place finish in the Premier League after a final day draw at home to Blackburn Rovers. This meant Spurs missed out on the UEFA Cup spot by two points.

The 2005-06 season marked an improvement in the league, but there was no Cup success this season with the exception of the pre-season tournament the Peace Cup which featured PSV Eindhoven, Lyon, Boca Juniors and others with Tottenham defeating Lyon in the final. During the season Tottenham never once dropped out of the top 6 places in the league and Jol eventually took Spurs to 5th in the league qualifying them for the UEFA Cup via the league for the first time since the Premier League was formed. However, the season is remembered more for narrowly missing out on a Champions League place on the final day of the season after the team were forced to play despite the majority of the squad suffering from illness.

The 2006-07 season saw Jol end Tottenham's lengthy hoodoo against Chelsea with a win, the first against them since 1990. Although away form was poor in the first half the season, a run of form consisting of just two away losses in the last five months of the season helped Tottenham to a second successive fifth place finish. Tottenham also reached the semi-finals of the League Cup and the quarter-finals of the UEFA Cup and the FA Cup.

[eekers]

good interview with Jol in the Observer today

http://football.guardian.co.uk/News_...204892,00.html


Here's the bit on what we might do next.

He also wants to continue managing in England. Jol has already fielded strong interest from a couple of clubs, including PSV Eindhoven, but elected instead to take a family holiday in Brazil. The Dutch federation has expressed an interest and the Football Association could do worse than add him to any shortlist to succeed Steve McClaren.

'International football is great,' says Jol. 'I'm 51, I'm not too young. You tell me I want to be in the Champions League. Of course it's an ambition or to be the champions of England. I still have ambitions in Holland, where I have won every title at all levels apart from the championship. I want to apply my philosophy, because I still feel in England you still play too rigid. I want my team to play and move, exploit the spaces which are created by movement. That's what Arsenal do, what the great Liverpool did and what I always wanted from us.

'I live here. I've been in my house in Essex three-and-a-half years. For me it would be easy to go back to Holland, but what more can you want? A year ago I got offered a job in Holland at a club who get 50,000 a week. That's more than Spurs, but it's not the same. I love the people here because they love their football. They have a crazy love for it but they also have a feeling for justice. Perhaps that's why they chanted my name during the Getafe game. I would work anywhere if the job was right but I love it here.'

[Colbert Report]

Wigan just gave their manager the sack, surely they have an offer for Jol in mind?

[Dr. Ogba]

Wigan just gave their manager the sack, surely they have an offer for Jol in mind?

nah hopefully its an offer for Souness instead

[paul_oshea]

nah hopefully its an offer for Souness instead

I like yer thinking

We can keep Jol then

[Sligo Hornet]

nah hopefully its an offer for Souness instead

With David O'Leary as his number two!

[eekers]

appartenly Jol wants to stay in london and is looking to start a new job in december

http://www.skysports.com/story/0,195...896195,00.html

[eekers]

with Pleat on board (possibly) he has to be more of a contender now.
Pleat is a big Jol fan. he came out strongly against the spurs board when he was sacked.
i notice his price has dropped on betfair a lot