Mauricio Pochettino

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Mick Cooper said:
dreadful posts
completely ignores the football landscape and the influence of money over accumulated success.

Some of us can remember the days when there were no sugar daddies, and vanity project football club owners. When football was actually a reasonably level playing field.

You see Poch as a failure, because he let you down......

and fail to recognise what he achieved with a club driven by a desire to be fiscally successful over that of success in footballing terms, he turned average footballers into achievers and good footballers into great ones.

You genuinely seem to have absolutely no grasp or idea of what modern football is all about - and see everything from a selfish and personal perspective

the modern football fan - in a nutshell.
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That's a lot of words with little substance I'm afraid.

You keep mentioning what Poch "achieved" without providing any examples....
 
Radical Rei said:
That's a lot of words with little substance I'm afraid.

You keep mentioning what Poch "achieved" without providing any examples....
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He made us believe and played some amazing stuff. Success isn't always merited with silverware. If you are successful at your job, do you have wall to wall trophies and decorations of your success? Or is doing your job well not related to prizes?
 
Murphy said:
He made us believe and played some amazing stuff. Success isn't always merited with silverware. If you are successful at your job, do you have wall to wall trophies and decorations of your success? Or is doing your job well not related to prizes?
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Thats not really a comparison though is it. Theres not trophies there to be won for your normal job. At the end of the day sport is about winning. Winning trophies.
If he wins nothing at psg is it a success no.
Definitely think we left behind a cup and league
 
Go on son said:
Thats not really a comparison though is it. Theres not trophies there to be won for your normal job. At the end of the day sport is about winning. Winning trophies.
If he wins nothing at psg is it a success no.
Definitely think we left behind a cup and league
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Perhaps; but is that a failing of Poch, the players, the owners or a mix of all three...? ....Is that even a bonafide "failure" to begin with?

Sport (i.e. competition rather than entertainment) is about winning; but in a 92 team pyramid where we regularly see doubles and sometimes trebles for the financially dominant; does this honestly mean the other 89 or 90 teams are failures?

Perhaps; if one is of a militant 'ultimate success at ALL costs' mind-set; but personally I don't believe so..... Otherwise, why waste time and money being a Rotherham or Shrewsbury Town or a non-league fan and travel up and down the country every other weekend knowing you'll never win the Champions League?

Success in the football INDUSTRY (make no imstake; that's where we're at) is a relative concept rooted to history, stature, wealth, commercial/marketing clout, fan-reach and more.
 
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