Lots of what you say is true.
Would you also remind us which players were out through injury through the Mourhino time, Lloris, Kane, Son, Bergwijn, Sissoko et al and the approximate dates.
Also worth commenting that Poch hardly brought any good players into the squad over his time (Son and Winks honourable exceptions), hadn't replaced players like Rose (despite his mouth off and loss of form over 2-3 seasons), had hardly brought any youth through into the first team squad and had generally run the main players into the ground with little rotation. And bought the highest priced player Spurs has ever bought who is a bit of an enigma still, not unlike Janssen in that he was hand scouted by Poch, we just hope Ndombele doesn't go the same way. So the squad JM inherited was on its last legs.
1. NOT according to Jose it not on it's last legs. He "loves this team" he "see's NO need to replace the players". "it's a fantastic squad". I do recognise it was looking jaded, but he's the rub he wanted a rebuild and told us all it will be "painful", he didn't get one.
2. Poch ALSO had to deal with TWO seasons back to back with our worst injury-hit seasons we've had on record. His last full season only five players had a pre-season and they weren't all first-team players on account of most of our first team going on deep runs in the World Cup. I might add not a hint of complaint from him, got his nut down and found solutions to have us finish 4th, get to a League Cup semi-final and a CL final whilst playing virtually every game away from home!!! THIS is called management. This is called managing adversity. Perhaps had he complained every press conference about not haveing (Lloris, Kane x3, Son, Dembele multiple times, Dele multiple time, Rose out for 18mths, Toby x2, Jan x3 last two seasons, Winks x2 long term ankle injuries, Son, Sissoko & Dier) not a single complaint, just got on with it, found solutions.
3. I don't see what Poch record for bringing not enough homegrown players through has to do with anything, Tanganga is the ONLY one who Jose has brought through, Poch had already put in his trust Bentaleb, Kane, Mason & had Carroll playing on occasion, ripping Chelsea to bits 5-3 in the process, as opposed to playing low-block shite against similar or inferior teams in quality to us. He also enabled us to receive appox £100m in the sale of our academy players (none of whom have proved we were wrong not to sell).
4. Ndombele was regarded as one of Europes most talented midfielders before he arrived, the fact Jose hasn't played him is scandalous. But hey Jose's record for ostracize Wolrd Class players is there for all to see, De Bruyne, Salah, Rashford to name but three.
