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His biggest test, he failed.
None of the managers before him had the players that he had at his disposal. We started the decade with Kaboul for godness sake. Take the 15-18 squad, and most elite managers would've won something with those players...
You didn't disprove my point about Poch having our best squad in 40 years though... Sure Harry had Bale, VDV and Modric, but that squad as a whole was nowhere near our 16/17 squad. Also, the competition was much better when Redknapp was here than when Poch was here. Leicester fucking City won a title with Danny Simpson at right-back. Poch built the squad, but he couldn't maximise its full potential. Also, show some respect? I have his name alongside Bill Nick in my profile, that's how much I respect him and what he did for us, it's just that it pains me so much that he had that amount of talent at his disposal and won absolutely fuck all with it...
At the end it was pretty toxic with Poch on here anyway.
I think that is more to do with the fact that Mourinho is such a big personality. In the past, most people would back or criticise Poch, AVB or even Sherwood because of how they performed as Spurs managers. With Mourinho, you back or you're against him simply because he's Mourinho. There are people that will criticise him even if we win the treble, and there are people who will justify him even if we get relegated.
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with some solid words and ways to look at it:
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How I Feel
I’ve called this ‘How I Feel’ because, for me, football and the conversations around it impact on my feelings. What a snowflake. When Spurs were playing well and it felt like the …
Our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Norwich, as well as Mourinho’s handling of the Tanguy Ndombele predicament this weekend are allowing those who don’t want him at the club to vent with some legitimacy.
The position I have arrived at is that, without Son Heung-min and Harry Kane, and with other constant injuries cropping up due to a necessary over-reliance on other players, this season is not going to get any better. So I am over it. I have mentally moved on and accepted that this is a bad football team for the rest of the season.
If you think Mourinho is not the man for Spurs – and that’s absolutely fine, of course – then using the rest of the season as a stick to beat Mourinho with as if you’re some kind of soothsayer seems fruitless. We are playing without Kane and Son and with the decomposing corpse of Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur squad. It’s not like Mourinho is suddenly going to invent a new system which fixes these major problems and immediately turns around the mindsets of the players after a year of gradually declining self-belief and confidence. And, crucially, telling everyone else over and over just how badly you think Mourinho is doing is probably going to make you feel worse. And it’ll make everyone else you’re communicating with feel worse too.
How I Feel
I’ve called this ‘How I Feel’ because, for me, football and the conversations around it impact on my feelings. What a snowflake. When Spurs were playing well and it felt like the …
Our exit from the FA Cup at the hands of Norwich, as well as Mourinho’s handling of the Tanguy Ndombele predicament this weekend are allowing those who don’t want him at the club to vent with some legitimacy.
The position I have arrived at is that, without Son Heung-min and Harry Kane, and with other constant injuries cropping up due to a necessary over-reliance on other players, this season is not going to get any better. So I am over it. I have mentally moved on and accepted that this is a bad football team for the rest of the season.
If you think Mourinho is not the man for Spurs – and that’s absolutely fine, of course – then using the rest of the season as a stick to beat Mourinho with as if you’re some kind of soothsayer seems fruitless. We are playing without Kane and Son and with the decomposing corpse of Mauricio Pochettino’s Tottenham Hotspur squad. It’s not like Mourinho is suddenly going to invent a new system which fixes these major problems and immediately turns around the mindsets of the players after a year of gradually declining self-belief and confidence. And, crucially, telling everyone else over and over just how badly you think Mourinho is doing is probably going to make you feel worse. And it’ll make everyone else you’re communicating with feel worse too.
