Mauricio Pochettino

[bonaspur23]

Regardless of other peoples views Poch’s Spurs managed to choke countless big games. I get that people respect him as a man, so do I, but he’s miles off the elite coaches.

If pep came to spurs, do you think we’d be competing for the league in year 1-2?

Probably not, because pep needs a half dozen expensive signings to play his way.

Name me an “elite coach” that is not reliant on a huge budget for success.

All these “elite coaches” just always happen to be at clubs with the biggest budgets. What a coincidence.

In reality, there are a few difference makers out there, but managers can only have so much impact when so many clubs are just buying titles nowadays.

 

[blackburn]

If pep came to spurs, do you think we’d be competing for the league in year 1-2?

Probably not, because pep needs a half dozen expensive signings to play his way.

Name me an “elite coach” that is not reliant on a huge budget for success.

All these “elite coaches” just always happen to be at clubs with the biggest budgets. What a coincidence.

In reality, there are a few difference makers out there, but managers can only have so much impact when so many clubs are just buying titles nowadays.

Oh yes you’re right, but Poch lost too many semi finals, finals and crunch games when we could’ve won the league to be considered elite. Nothing he’s done at PSG suggests otherwise with all that talent at his disposal.

 

[Mick Cooper]

I think that my perception is shared by a fair few others.

Poch had us playing brilliant football, and I adore him for his time here. But we were not a much respected footballing outfit under him to the broader European football sphere. We were still just plucky little Tottenham, bottlers supreme.

righto

 

[Mick Cooper]

If pep came to spurs, do you think we’d be competing for the league in year 1-2?

Probably not, because pep needs a half dozen expensive signings to play his way.

Name me an “elite coach” that is not reliant on a huge budget for success.

All these “elite coaches” just always happen to be at clubs with the biggest budgets. What a coincidence.

In reality, there are a few difference makers out there, but managers can only have so much impact when so many clubs are just buying titles nowadays.

funny how we always "bottled it" against those type of sides - isn't it?

Nothing to do with the fact that they had purchased megastars and we were playing players cast off from the clubs that had purchased better players, making ours surplus to needs.

 

[Mick Cooper]

Oh yes you’re right, but Poch lost too many semi finals, finals and crunch games when we could’ve won the league to be considered elite. Nothing he’s done at PSG suggests otherwise with all that talent at his disposal.

epic analysis

 

[bonaspur23]

Oh yes you’re right, but Poch lost too many semi finals, finals and crunch games when we could’ve won the league to be considered elite. Nothing he’s done at PSG suggests otherwise with all that talent at his disposal.

Agree his performance in semi finals and finals was poor. But his overall performance at spurs had us punching well above our financial weight. I would not say he is at the level of pep and klopp, but the difference is not astronomical.

Obviously getting to a semi final or final isnt the ultimate goal but it is a sort of accomplishment and an indicator of consistent performance. If a manager is 2-6 over semi finals and finals over 3 years but another manager is 2-2, which is better? I’d say the one that managed to reach 6 semi finals versus one that only managed 2 and was knocked out early otherwise.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

Yeah, I think he was. He got fed up of asking for players and probably thought - fuck it, what's the point?

Then that is unforgivable.

 

[SpiderSpurs]

Regardless of other peoples views Poch’s Spurs managed to choke countless big games. I get that people respect him as a man, so do I, but he’s miles off the elite coaches.

Oh yes you’re right, but Poch lost too many semi finals, finals and crunch games when we could’ve won the league to be considered elite. Nothing he’s done at PSG suggests otherwise with all that talent at his disposal.

Don't think I've agreed with you before. Think I might lie down...

 

[blackburn]

Don't think I've agreed with you before. Think I might lie down...

Everything comes to those who wait

 

[Mick Cooper]

Then that is unforgivable.

Not really, working for someone who actively prevents you from achieving what you are capable of through a total lack of support, it can reduce your will to persevere.
I've quit and moved on under similar circumstances - albeit for much (much) less money and for a company with a significantly lower turnover.

 

[ShutUpPatrik]

Lopetequi is leaving Sevilla.

That would be a great next destination for Poch.

 

[r-u-s-x]

If pep came to spurs, do you think we’d be competing for the league in year 1-2?

Probably not, because pep needs a half dozen expensive signings to play his way.

Name me an “elite coach” that is not reliant on a huge budget for success.

All these “elite coaches” just always happen to be at clubs with the biggest budgets. What a coincidence.

In reality, there are a few difference makers out there, but managers can only have so much impact when so many clubs are just buying titles nowadays.

Ancelottti didn't win a league or CL final at Everton or Napoli but did at super clubs... Funny that

 

[r-u-s-x]

Lopetequi is leaving Sevilla.

That would be a great next destination for Poch.

Amazing first 2/3s of the season then awful... Was he pushed?

 

[CroSpurs]

Amazing first 2/3s of the season then awful... Was he pushed?

Don't know, but they played awful football.

 

[Shadydan]

Lopetequi is leaving Sevilla.

That would be a great next destination for Poch.

Would be good for him IMO, he's a hipster manager - he clearly works at clubs who don't have massive expectations and with players who want to be improved, Sevilla are a big club but not a massive one and his profile fits them pretty well.

 

[ShutUpPatrik]

Amazing first 2/3s of the season then awful... Was he pushed?

It looks like the players either could not handle the pressure of actually chasing Real Madrid. Or Lopetequi's message stopped connecting with them.

 

[Shadydan]

Would love to see this

 

[Nabil Bentaleb]

Would love to see this

The thing is that very rarely German clubs hire managers who don’t speak German. And Poch doesn’t speak any German. But would be cool.

 

[TeamSpirit™]

Spurs fans who slander Poch are pricks to me. He had flaws but Klopp lost 3
finals with Liverpool (16 LC, 16 EL, 18 CL) before the club backed him with top quality signings before his squad got stale and burnt out. Funny how nobody points this out now.

I will go to my grave saying that that was the sliding doors moment between Poch’s Spurs and Klopp’s LFC. No signings in 2018, not striking whilst the iron was hot and momentum was on our side was criminal.

 

[Deuterz]

Spurs fans who slander Poch are pricks to me. He had flaws but Klopp lost 3
finals with Liverpool (16 LC, 16 EL, 18 CL) before the club backed him with top quality signings before his squad got stale and burnt out. Funny how nobody points this out now.

I will go to my grave saying that that was the sliding doors moment between Poch’s Spurs and Klopp’s LFC. No signings in 2018, not striking whilst the iron was hot and momentum was on our side was criminal.

Man got us to a CL final, an 86 point season and had us in the top 4 every full season but one. Brilliant manager. I love Conte & what he's doing but under Poch at our best we bossed teams, bullied them in to submission. Hopefully we get there soon again.

(All btw with a budget at the time more comparable to bottom half sides than our top 4 competitors..)