Club Statement 19 Nov 19 - Pochettino leaves

[Ionman34]

Yes. A parasite. This tweet puts it as well as I could:

A very rare example of a manager genuinely being *too good for a club. Pochettino was so above Levy the chairman didn't know what to do: when and why to spend money; when to move players on; how to solve current crisis. So he just threw out a genius he never deserved.

And I couldn't agree more. Levy isn't made out to operate a title-aspiring club. He stumbled upon Pochettino who just happened to be a potential generational manager that overachieved and worked miracles in extreme regard for a good period of 4.5 years - when the footballing side of the club needed to be executed and handled as a big club would, Levy have handled it just comically bad.

Carragher put it best - when the likes of Guardiola undeniably chooses to move on, Pochettino is most likely number 1 on that replacement list. That should say enough about what kind of manager he is.

Because Carragher said it?

LOL

 

[funkycoldmedina]

ghostofarmo:
Hmm..
He’s been trying to get the sack for a while

All the evidence suggests this is true I just don't understand why.
He'd done the hard season post WC and stadium build, Levy had splashed the cash on some players it all seemed set up for him to start reaping the rewards

 

[Kspur]

Don't turn on each other people! That's exactly what Sky Sports/Matt Law/Unai Emery/Tim Sherwood/Bale's agent want!

So,,,, you’re saying you’re new around here?

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Would you still be against him if we won a few trophies playing boring football?

But Jose is now 'not' the chosen one, he is now the 'posion' one and having Jose now is also not a guaranteed success anymore, maybe 7 years ago, also he can only SPEND his way to success, we are not a club that spends for success

 

[Johnny J]

All the evidence suggests this is true I just don't understand why.
He'd done the hard season post WC and stadium build, Levy had splashed the cash on some players it all seemed set up for him to start reaping the rewards

Some men just want to watch the world burn.

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

mourinho would be a terrible pick for us. hes a cynical and negative manager who stirs up a shitshow whetever he goes.

its all about Jose

Him and Levy is a head on super collision crash course on the cards, its already written

 

[Dougal]

Him and Levy is a head on super collision crash course on the cards, its already written

Nailed on. Just depends on how much of his ‘golden/silver touch’ we can wring out of him before that happens.

 

[Woodham Wanderer]

Just seems shit but maybe it was time .......all depends on replacement, fingers crossed

 

[Shadydan]

All the evidence suggests this is true I just don't understand why.
He'd done the hard season post WC and stadium build, Levy had splashed the cash on some players it all seemed set up for him to start reaping the rewards

He wanted the compensation, the CL final was meant to be his last match.

 

[double0]

I think we have acted in haste. Player power has won and I'm afraid Levy bottled it with the rebuild. Levy has taken the cheapest option another business move. I can bet my last dollar Arsenal and the rest of the top 4 are loving we sacked the best manager in most of our life time.

 

[Yiddo100]

I think we have acted in haste. Player power has won and I'm afraid Levy bottled it with the rebuild. Levy has taken the cheapest option another business move. I can bet my last dollar Arsenal and the rest of the top 4 are loving we sacked the best manager in most of our life time.

Mourinho will not have been cheap

 

[scat1620]

Do we want to be winners?

Reading Spurs Chat recently has shown me that some of our fans would rather we be likeable losers rather than prickly winners. I can get down with that sentiment in the important things in life (like how you treat the people around around you in real life etc), but for something as trivial and throwaway as the 'character' of the football club you support, I think it's fucking mental. There's nothing important morally riding on supporting Spurs, so why not want to win nasty rather than lose nicely?

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

Nailed on. Just depends on how much of his ‘golden/silver touch’ we can wring out of him before that happens.

With Jose nowerdays its just not guaranteed success any more, just guaranteed drama, media vulture circus. If he can win us the CL this year then maybe its worth it lol hahahahahaha

 

[dricha1]

after his first stint at Chelsea I would have sold my soul to have him as our manager, not giving a monkeys about boring/exciting football.

after 11 years without a trophy i would do anything to win some silverware. The question is whether the Mourinho of 2007/8 is the one we'd be getting or a busted flush. I really don't know the answer to that.

that team in his first spell at chelsea actually played some very good football....Drogba, Robben, Duff, Lampard, Cole etc

 

[spursfan77]

that team in his first spell at chelsea actually played some very good football....Drogba, Robben, Duff, Lampard, Cole etc

But...narrative

We don’t have the players to play his boring football. I think people are forgetting that.

 

[Monkey Bastard Hands]

“I should like to thank him and his coaching staff for all they have contributed. They will always be welcome here.”

Basically the equivalent of your girlfriend saying ‘I’m dumping you but it’s ok because we can still be friends’

I’m just really sad it came to this. Poch made things difficult for himself with team selections and tactics but I think this all came from the catastrophic transfer windows last season and the failure to ship out dead wood and refresh the squad.

Thanks Poch for everything - the best 4 years in my 36 years supporting Spurs.

 

[Mate]

All the evidence suggests this is true I just don't understand why.
He'd done the hard season post WC and stadium build, Levy had splashed the cash on some players it all seemed set up for him to start reaping the rewards

Perhaps it links in with the Redknapp quote about him being set to join Man Utd and then inexplicably falling through?

After all, this was around Xmas last year, which ironically co-incides with our downturn in form...

 

[Shadydan]

I think we have acted in haste. Player power has won and I'm afraid Levy bottled it with the rebuild. Levy has taken the cheapest option another business move. I can bet my last dollar Arsenal and the rest of the top 4 are loving we sacked the best manager in most of our life time.

Nah

 

[funkycoldmedina]

He wanted the compensation, the CL final was meant to be his last match.

You're probably right but I always had him down as a bit more honourable than that. He clearly knew he was either burnt out or at the end of the road with us so thought he may have arranged an exit with Levy that was mutually beneficial

 

[SpursTillIDie1882]

My heart tells me there is something very very very majorly bad has happened behind the scenes that we are not aware of , its the only rational reason for this to happen, if not i want 'EN-XIT' pronto