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Poch smashing us with Bayern will be painful
I think he will, and he definitely should, take a year off from football.
He's earned it.
Go and take a year off with your wife and family?
Poch smashing us with Bayern will be painful
Hahaha brilliant.I shed tears last night when I heard Poch had been sacked. I broke down with disappointment this morning when I was telling my wife the news that Mourinho has been appointed. We've sold our soul to the devil.
No they didn't, Carragher said it, and Jamie Redknapp.No mate. Because every well-regarded football pundit/person/expert has said similar things all evening. What do most of them know though, lonman34 thinks otherwise.
I was thinking about this last night. Apparently JM rates Toby highly, so it wouldn't surprise me if we see him and JV renew their contracts. It also wouldn't surprise me if we see an upturn in Eriksen's form and, dare I say it, a contract signed?Why?
Every player is reset now we have a new manager, I could see a couple of those players flourishing under Jose.
Media starting the anti levy/spurs narrative already. Just seen sky rewriting recent history.
Going to have to batten down the hatches. There’s going to be so many idiotic spurs fans desperate for us to lose with the new guy. Other teams’ fans will be desperate for us to return to shit.
Poch smashing us with Bayern will be painful
I was thinking about this last night. Apparently JM rates Toby highly, so it wouldn't surprise me if we see him and JV renew their contracts. It also wouldn't surprise me if we see an upturn in Eriksen's form and, dare I say it, a contract signed?
CE said himself that he'd happily re sign under certain circumstances, I wonder if this constitutes those circumstances being met.
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.
Gonna miss that little Spanish Steve Carell.View attachment 58508
That broken heart emoji at the end..... ?
I think all of this has been alluded to by some of our ITK too. I have always sensed that ultimately it was the system and the intensity of the training that proved his downfall. In the end, Poch had the biggest hand in his demise. I have very few doubts though that if Poch gets a big club with a lot of money then he will be a success. Poch's system demands a lot and the necessary recycling of players once their legs go is essential.If this is true then it was only going one way. Pitt brooke and ornstein have good contacts so I can’t see it being wrong.
Tottenham appoint Mourinho after Pochettino ‘sulked his way to the sack’
https://theathletic.com/1388073/201...ed-his-way-to-the-sack/?source=shared-article
“Don’t look at the boss.”
Tottenham players had become used to saying those words to each other in recent weeks. Don’t catch his eye, don’t give him an excuse to get you in to trouble, just get on with training and surely this will all be over soon.
Mauricio Pochettino had never been overly friendly around the training ground, that just wasn’t his style. He was the boss after all, not the players’ friend. And after becoming Tottenham’s most successful manager in 50 years, who cared how chatty he was anyway? The team had become regulars in the Champions League, they were beating the biggest teams in Europe and had challenged for the Premier League title at their peak. They were scintillating at their best, hunting down the opposition in packs and entertaining their fans with a team full of improving young players.
But then they weren’t. Then the victories dried up, the tough training sessions caught up with the players’ minds and legs and the manager became surly and distant.
As one dressing room source told The Athletic: “It was the only decision that made sense.” With the team currently 14th in the Premier League, without a win in five, and with no away victory in the league since January, the players really had lost faith. From their last 24 league games, a run dating back to late February, they have taken just 25 points.
On Tuesday evening the club sacked Pochettino and 12 hours later replaced him with Jose Mourinho. This is why.
After a week of talks over Pochettino’s future, in which he had resolutely refused to resign, Levy was eventually left with no choice on Tuesday but to dismiss the 47-year-old and his backroom staff, triggering what is understood to be a £12 million pay-out to the Argentine coach. Pochettino’s assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d’Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club.
Talks started last Wednesday as Levy hoped to use the international break to find a solution to Spurs’ bad start.
There was a growing sense of unease throughout the week as speculation about Pochettino’s future grew. Some first-team players — but by no means all — got wind on Monday night that their manager was on his way out. But with some players still on international duty, and no public statement until Tuesday evening, there was still a sense of confusion throughout the club.
What eventually did for Pochettino was losing the support of the dressing room over the course of this season. The players sensed that he did not have the same relish for the job as in his early years at Spurs. They had once been willing participants in his demanding hard-running style, but their physical and mental energy did not last forever. The players have got older, and recently they have found themselves with less to give. The Pochettino regime of double sessions, very few days off and hard running started to drag. “The old effect of the double sessions had gone, and it was mentally important to regenerate,” said one dressing-room source. “So the moment of the sacking is a bit surprising, but the fuel tank got empty much earlier. At a certain moment, it is just over.”
Gutted for Poch, but the sparkle was clearly no longer there and if there wasn't confidence that he could get that sparkle back then there was only ever going to be one outcome.
As for Jose, if he is on board with this stage of Levy's never ending project and everyone is pushing in the same direction then perhaps it can be made to work.
Never change Spurs, never change!
I have never been a huge fan of Poch's system at Spurs. Not for the reasons that his system is crap, it isn't. It is one of the best counter-pressing systems I have seen, and Poch is a master of it. It is, at its core a simple system, but a hard one to break down when all the tools are in place. However if that system isn't suitably sustained, then it breaks in a big way and tactically, Poch is lost when it doesn't work. It needs constant effort and fresh players, not just any players, it needs a host of players that share certain attributes in order for it to be at it's effective best.Everywhere I look in the media and here everyone is completely certain Poch is heading for colossal success at a huge club .
Don't understand this certainty . After Poch's energy levels/high press innovations he hasn't shown much dexterity in bringing
appropriate solutions to oppo strong points..or much quality in in-game management .
He was all about his energetic teams ,there's not a shed load of evidence that he has the many different qualities needed to make a success
at a big club with famous players who may have their own ideas .
Wish him well but I find this certainty that he's about to become a big success surprising .