There isn’t a yes or no answer to your question. Something wasn’t right with Poch’s Spurs. We don’t know the reasons for this. We can speculate that the players (what players? old or young or new, all of them????) were not responding to his demands under him, this is fair given the intensity they are asked to train and play (same also happened to Klopp at Dortmund). But did Poch get the rebuild he asked for a n order to avoid this very issue? One would suggest he didn’t.
Football, as many things in life, have context and nuanced with a lot of variables. So, assuming he didn’t get his painful rebuild is it fair to sack the manager? I’d say no.
But if these players stopped playing for him then of cause it’s right to change the manager for one that they will play for.
Is that manager José? My answer is the same as I’ve already given you. Yes, for the short term, I can’t think of a better manager to come into the club to get he results this season. (My prediction was we would still play quite shit but scrape our results, turn losses into draws and draws into wins looking at our games under him right now that’s absolutely on the fucking money wouldn’t you say?)
For the long term, well you already have my answer on that too.
To your last question again it’s not an and or. If you are competing for the PL and the CL (as we have been) then you will be playing an attractive brand of football. I want us to play an attractive brand of football because it also improves our chances of winning something. Just look at City, PSG, Liverpool, Bayern, Barca for your evidence of this. This is what we should be aiming for.
Final point on pragmatic football, it’s fucking boring to watch and painful to on the wallet when paying for the highest price tickets in the World.
