I was clearly jokingEh?
The only other team that wanted him were Everton and he was halfway there when we came in with the money and he came to Spurs.
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I was clearly jokingEh?
The only other team that wanted him were Everton and he was halfway there when we came in with the money and he came to Spurs.
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I think the only way back is to bring Poch back. Most of the players have gone. But he’s got to want to come back and we have to be proactive about is should he leave PSG (which isn’t guaranteed) before Man U get him.
It was right for Poch to go when he did. He’d had enough and the team hadn’t won away from home for over a year.
Appointing Mourinho was the wrong move, then not sacking him when Tuchel became available was idiotic. Then that was compounded by sacking him and not having a replacement ready. Nuno was the wrong man brought in when we completely fucked everything up.
I think the only way back is to bring Poch back. Most of the players have gone. But he’s got to want to come back and we have to be proactive about is should he leave PSG (which isn’t guaranteed) before Man U get him.
It felt it at the time, and maybe it was, but nobody that's followed in his footsteps has performed demonstrably better than we can say Poch would have had he been given more time/funds to steady the ship and rebuild.Sacking Poch was still the right move at the time. Things were just not working any more. The after effects have obviously not been ideal but I would probably still have sacked him. But I would have gone in a different direction than Jose to replace him.
If I knew how the following months would transpire I would never have wanted Jose out, having said that, if I had known how the following years would transpire I would never have wanted Poch out!
I was vehemently for Poch going, I genuinely fell into the trap of thinking our squad was great and he was underachieving by not winning anything, and I still think we should have silverware to show for that stint tbh... but he was right in that the squad needed refreshing and whilst he was far from perfect, I would much rather see how he would have fared with the investment afforded since his departure than those we moved on to. And he had earned it too.
Having said that, I fail to see how even Daniel Levy could preside over a further appointment that would be any more disastrous than Nono, so I am firmly Nono out.
We have no idea how much worse it would have got if we hadn't moved Poch out. Mourinho wasn't that far away from CL football. We seemed to be getting close to the bottom half under Poch.It felt it at the time, and maybe it was, but nobody that's followed in his footsteps has performed demonstrably better than we can say Poch would have had he been given more time/funds to steady the ship and rebuild.
I'm not about to argue that keeping him on would have been a sure thing, but with hindsight I strongly doubt we'd be in a worse position than we are now. At the very least he wanted to see us entertained.
Play attacking football but still finish 7th/8th, that's not good enough me. Sounds like something the likes of West Ham, Palace, Brentford would be happy with.Points wise, probably not a lot, if any. But he would 100% have us playing better football, and our attacking players especially would enjoy him more. For now, that's good enough for me.
Play attacking football but still finish 7th/8th, that's not good enough me. Sounds like something the likes of West Ham, Palace, Brentford would be happy with.
I think Newcastle still owed us money for Yedlin, which probably was get another financial incentive to 'do a deal' as Levy likes to put it. Finance over football again.Eh?
The only other team that wanted him were Everton and he was halfway there when we came in with the money and he came to Spurs.
Steve Bruce??? LOL!Would they be worse? I don’t think so in this current situation as a caretaker until the end of the season (which is essentially what this scruffy mute tramp is)
It's possible that it's all about the aesthetics when comparing Mourinho to Nuno, the results and football are much of a muchness between the two, but at least Mourinho was charismatic and things were often entertaining off the pitch if not on it.The drop from Poch to Jose was far worse than Jose to Nuno. Nuno is about par with Jose when you look at the results;
20/21:
West Ham (a) L
Newcastle (a) D
Aston Villa (h) N/A (Mason)
Woolwich (a) L
Chelsea (h) L
Crystal Palace (a) D
WBA (h) W (replacing Watford)
Wolves (a) D
Man City (h) W
Nuno is currently 3 points up. We’ve stepped sideways.
I'm sure he'd get on really well with our lot then...Because he is beefing with some of his players. Out soon may have been a stretch on my part. But the reports out of Italy were of him questioning if the players wanted him out after yesterday's defeat to Hellas.
Not that much more preferable.It's still preferable to playing shit football and finishing 7th/8th which is what is currently happening week in week out.
Finishing 9th/10th with Nuno playing suicide worthy football is better?Play attacking football but still finish 7th/8th, that's not good enough me. Sounds like something the likes of West Ham, Palace, Brentford would be happy with.
I think Newcastle still owed us money for Yedlin, which probably was get another financial incentive to 'do a deal' as Levy likes to put it. Finance over football again.
Poch didn't even want him ffs and he was shite for us for the majority of his time here.
Saying it was the right time for Poch to go is daft.
Yes it was, but only in the same way it's the right thing to go to a hospital after you've been shot.
Ideally you wouldn't get shot in the first place.
The problems were literally the direct consequence of severe underinvestment.
If Pool or City backed their managers like we did it would have been "right" for Pep and Klopp to go too, many many seasons ago.
Let's be sensible and not try to make ourselves feel better for wrongly ever being Poch out.
Yes but why did he have enough and want the sack?The time was right because he'd had enough and wanted the sack. There is no two ways about it.