I'm more worried about a moronic team selection and tactics.
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Poch can be blamed for a few things. Not taking the FA and League cups seriously, not making tactical changes mid game or making them to late but the squad issue, that is the board. Poch took what squad he had and ran them as hard as he could to get us 4 CL qualifications.
The board employ the scouts, buy and sell players not Poch. We never seem to be able to sell our players when we need to, probably because we are asking for too much then we can’t bring in players because we are waiting to sell so we go stale. This squad is for the most part vintage a few years ago.
Our squad issues sit with the Board, they have to take full responsibility. It is Mourinho’s job to get the best out of the players, but the players he has, that’s not his decision, he can have input but he has to dealt with the hand he is dealt.
The board employ the scouts, buy and sell players not Poch. We never seem to be able to sell our players when we need to, probably because we are asking for too much then we can’t bring in players because we are waiting to sell so we go stale. This squad is for the most part vintage a few years ago.
Our squad issues sit with the Board, they have to take full responsibility. It is Mourinho’s job to get the best out of the players, but the players he has, that’s not his decision, he can have input but he has to dealt with the hand he is dealt.
No unlike the happy clappers who love certain players far more than the actual team, i want whats best for the team
But talking about feeling superior, how are you pot?
Please show us where Enic are making a profit John, come on, the accounts are available year on end, where do Enic take money? ... i keep asking you this question and you never answer .... wonder why?
Poch has been vindicated, but not completely exonerated. His overzealous training methods are also arguably to blame for the persistent injuries that have plagued our squad over the past few seasons, which resulted in many players' physical deterioration.
Also, Poch has not been cleared for his poor usage of subs, etc. Way too often under Poch we saw ourselves - even under leading circumstances - suddenly chasing the game at 60 minutes gone, 70, 80 minutes gone, for Poch to have still not made his first substitution, and then WHAM we concede and everyone is screaming bloody murder for not taking Dele, etc. off to bring on a fresh pair of legs to change things up.
Also, Poch has not been cleared for his poor usage of subs, etc. Way too often under Poch we saw ourselves - even under leading circumstances - suddenly chasing the game at 60 minutes gone, 70, 80 minutes gone, for Poch to have still not made his first substitution, and then WHAM we concede and everyone is screaming bloody murder for not taking Dele, etc. off to bring on a fresh pair of legs to change things up.
That is absolute nonsense. If the players are doing double training sessions everyday then there's no time for recovery, and it will eventually begin to be counterproductive to the goal at hand.
15 a year for Jose is mental when you can’t pay players the wages they ask for.
I still am on the side that our run of form is down to mercenaries and misuse of the squad. I don’t by it that Jonny Evans is now a better CB than Toby or that SU have a better midfield than us.
Our displays, for me, are down to really poor use of the squad, continuing to play players that don‘t want to be here, and shit tactics.
Why we are pushing for contracts for people like Toby and Eriksen is beyond me and just pushes the root even further into the fibers of this team.
Imagine being one of the players that wants to play for the badge and seeing players like Toby not commit and then suddenly changes his tune once that manager leaves. To me that is just poor management of mentality by the club.
Can you remember when this problem first reared its head?
He took control of one of the biggest names in English football 20 fucking years ago and we've seen 1 capital one cup since!
Yet he's still worshipped by many as the second coming.
It's one of the mysteries of modern humanity.
I'm sure, in decades / centuries to come, scholars and historians will look back on it with incredulity.
Yes, I have issues with both of those things, too.
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Meanwhile, we have an uder invested mess of a squad going into new decade with the worst points tally for 12 years.
You must be so proud.
Not trying to cause a fight or anything, but let us give this premise a go;
Using the squad wrong. Well, how exactly should it be used?
Poch is best modern day Spurs manager. Jose is the most winning modern day PL manager, probably. So both those managers used the squad wrong.
Who is good enough for Spurs and how will they use the squad differently?
I think Poch lost the plot when he lost Dembele. He thought he couldn't play the high line anymore and turned off the intense pressure. Was he right? I am not so sure and I really think that is what caused his downfall. He finally got some players in with Lo Celso, Ndombele, and Ryan that would eventually help with the pressure game, but he was too far gone and was sacked.
Enter Jose. He has never deployed the high intensity game plan that Poch won us over with and has preferred a more direct route. We have seen this in abundance since he has come here and although we have scored some brilliant goals, the squad is less built for this style of play.
I was a proponent of bringing in a younger coach that isn't afraid to fail. I think Jose, for all his talk about being reinvented, is the same old dude that has too much ego to change. I wanted Nagelsmann, Marsch or Potter. I wanted a manager that would turn the press back on and that would get the most out of the attackers we have in this squad.
Is Jose the answer? I sure hope so, but I think we all saw the real dude come out today. His childish behavior on the sideline is pathetic and I do not care if the other manager did something to piss him off.
Probably weren't gonna get that.... Still aren't...... Then what? ...Do nothing? Let the players continue to phone it in and have the manager continue to skulk about in emo-mode?
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We have a world class manager in place already you fucking imbecile.