Julian Nagelsmann’s first season as Tottenham manager predicted if he replaces Jose Mourinho

Following Tottenham Hotspur’s 3-1 defeat to Manchester United within the Premier League on Sunday, manager Jose Mourinho led the sack race with the bookies, amid the continuing hypothesis about his future on the membership.

Current Spurs boss Mourinho has now misplaced ten league video games in a league season for the first time in his managerial profession, following the defeat towards United on the weekend, leaving the membership sitting in seventh place within the league desk with simply seven video games to go, and are six factors behind West Ham United in fourth.

RB Leipzig manager Julian Nagelsmann is the present bookies favorite to succeed Mourinho on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, however with hypothesis round the way forward for Bayern Munich manager Hansi Flick, Spurs may face competitors for the highly-regarded 33-year-old manager.

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This received us pondering, if Nagelsmann did exchange Mourinho as Spurs manager, how would the membership fare underneath the German’s management?

And, the place would the membership end within the Premier League with Nagelsmann in cost?

We used the favored soccer administration simulation recreation Football Manager 2021 to have a little bit of enjoyable and learn how Spurs may carry out with Nagelsmann as their manager subsequent season.

Julian Nagelsmann’s 2021/22 season as Tottenham manager predicted

To arrange this simulation, we used the Football Manager 2021 editor to rearrange for RB Leipzig manager Nagelsmann to succeed Jose Mourinho as Spurs manager on July 1, 2021 after which used Football Manager 2021 to run our simulation.

This is what Nagelsmann’s manager profile seems to be like on Football Manager 2021 as of July 2021.

Julian Nagelsmann’s employees profile on FM21

Despite being simply 33 years outdated, Nagelsmann has a superb set of attributes on the sport, with excessive scores in Working With Youngsters (19), Tactical (18), Attacking (16), Tactical Knowledge (16), Judging Player Ability (16), Determination (15) and Judging Player Potential (15).

His profile additionally exhibits that his tactical model is Vertical Tiki-Taka, who prefers a passing taking part in model, with a 4-2-3-1 broad formation.

A little bit of a departure from the model of present Spurs boss Mourinho!

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Before we get into the simulation, let’s take a look at the switch enterprise that was achieved in the summertime of 2021, with Nagelsmann having an enormous say in the entire gamers purchased and gamers offered.

Spurs spent £92million on new gamers, however recouped £56million in participant gross sales, resulting in a internet spend of £36 million.

Ezequiel Barco (Atlanta United), Niklas Sule (Bayern Munich), Idrissa Gueye (PSG), Hans Hateboer (Atalanta), Jaume Domenech (Valencia) and Lukas Nmecha (Man City) have been all signed.

Tottenham's transfers in and out ahead of the FM21 simulated 2021/22 season

Tottenham’s transfers out and in forward of the FM21 simulated 2021/22 season

Erik Lamela (Shakhtar), Moussa Sissoko (Ajax), Matt Doherty (Rangers), Harry Winks (PSV), Serge Aurier (Lyon), Paulo Gazzaniga (Boca), Danny Rose (free), Japhet Tanganga (mortgage) and Joe Rodon (mortgage) all left the membership forward of the brand new marketing campaign.

There was an enormous shift in participant choice, with Dele Alli, Oliver Skipp, Juan Foyth and Ryan Sessegnon all taking part in main roles for Spurs within the FM21 simulated 2021/22 marketing campaign.

And though not an enormous change per se, striker Harry Kane grew to become a fair greater artistic affect on this Spurs facet than ever, with the England captain registering a powerful 21 assists and 128 key passes in all competitions, greater than every other Tottenham participant.

Harry Kane's creative stats for Spurs in the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

Harry Kane’s artistic stats for Spurs within the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

However, this additionally meant that Son Heung-Min took on the mantle of being the membership’s high goalscorer, with the South Korea ahead being the joint-top aim scorer within the Premier League with 16, stage with Everton’s Richarlison.

Son completed the season with 21 targets in all competitions, yet another than Kane, who completed the season with 20, however nonetheless had an enormous affect on the facet.

Spurs top goalscorers in the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

Spurs high goalscorers within the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

At the tip of each season, FM21 work out the perfect eleven of each workforce, primarily based on various key metrics.

This is how Spurs’ finest performing XI, as determined by Football Manager 2021, appeared on the finish of the 2021/22 season.

Full Spurs finest XI: Lloris; Hateboer, Sule, Dier, Reguilon; Skipp, Ndombele; Nmecha, Alli, Son; Kane.

Spurs best performing XI in the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

Spurs finest performing XI within the FM21 2021/22 simulated season

New signings Hateboer, Sule and Nmecha featured in the perfect XI following spectacular campaigns, with Alli returning to his finest with 13 targets in 37 appearances.

Sessegnon made 50 appearances in all competitions, taking part in throughout a variety of positions, and subsequently simply misses out on the perfect eleven, as do Toby Alderwiereld, Gueye, Barco, Foyth, Giovani Lo Celso and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg, who all performed their half.

So, how did Spurs really carry out within the Premier League with Nagelsmann as manager?

Here is how the ultimate 2021/22 Premier League desk appeared in our simulated season.

The 2021/22 Premier League table in the FM21 simulated season

The 2021/22 Premier League desk within the FM21 simulated season

Spurs had a much-improved marketing campaign, ending within the Premier League high 4 and incomes 70 factors in 38 video games.

To put that into context, Spurs have earned simply 49 factors with 31 video games performed thus far on this marketing campaign.

And, the final time Spurs managed 70 factors was within the 2018/19 season.

But their focus within the league meant an early exit from the home cup competitions, though they did attain the Europa League semi-final, lacking out on a spot within the last after defeat to Ajax.

Tottenham reached the semi-final of the Europa League

Tottenham reached the semi-final of the Europa League

Overall, this simulation predicts that with Nagelsmann as manager, the membership’s younger gamers would play an enormous half in Spurs’ Premier League high 4 end subsequent season.

The German manager additionally modified the philosophy of the workforce and led a small rebuild, with gamers like Alli, Dier, Son and Ndombele discovering their finest type underneath the brand new boss.

As at all times, that is only a little bit of enjoyable, nevertheless it’s fascinating to see what sort of impression FM21 suggests Nagelsmann may have on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium subsequent season.

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