I wouldn't blame Poch bro. He deserves a better squad.
Um, ok, where do I start?
Deserving a better squad is an entirely separate issue to dealing with the squad you do have, which by the way Pochettino is employed to do, did better when he first arrived at the club, and has done poorly at finding basic tactical solutions in the second half of the season by anyone's standards. He converted Dier into a DM, which everyone thought was insane at the time, and it worked. Now everyone is wondering why the fuck another CB isn't playing there because we are getting rinsed in that position no matter who plays and no one is covering whoever does play there. He didn't foresee the problem before the season started and we sold our best CM in January with no World Class replacement.
I can blame the players in the squad if they are all healthy and firing and the structure of the formation makes sense, and if they are going into an already winning, or at least functioning team system. Then, I can blame the chairman or the owners if the manager is practical in his set-up and the players are not good enough. But that cannot just be the only case of negligence when we got 45 points in the first half of the season, and 25 points in the second half. Where the fuck have the twenty points gone? Because we sold one player who was already injured?
On top of that, we normally finish the second half of the season stronger by about ten points under Poch, not weaker by about twenty. This is the first time we are finishing it weaker, and it is not just by a small margin, it is by a thirty point swing. This is completely uncharacteristic from the manager, so much so he was lucky to keep his job through relegation form and the stadium opening, because the only thing realistically saving him was our unexpected first half of the season form and Champions League run.
Add to the fact the media and fans like yourself are convinced that squad depletion means he is exempt from all forms of criticism for not finding better solutions. Not to mention how piss poor the teams were below us were. Ok, squad is worse than Liverpools. Ok, he deserves better. Ok, he is still paid to deal with what he has got in front of him and finish the job for the season. His team capitulated after Burnley away, just like after the battle at the bridge, when he prematurely and publicly declared we were going for a title before the game and came up short yet again.
I would blame Poch bro, and I would back him to set it right next season. They are separate issues.