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I still maintain that the Spurs side that lost the league to Conte Chavs was the better team. Just that they had little bit of luck to get them across the line.
It’s pretty simple when challenging for the league you are competing with clubs who are playing twice a week . The best teams challenging for titles are obviously competing in Europe, this causing fatigue , injuries and fixture congestion as they progress . Spurs title challenges Leicester and Chelsea are the exception , at least I can’t think of any team winning the league in the CL era without European football bar those two.
I firmly believe Poch wins both titles if normal circumstances prevailed. Happy to be corrected on stats , maybe Blackburn is an exception , but they were the most financially invested in team for a few seasons .
Poch was very unlucky in that regard, as were all of us long suffering Spurs fans
100% however for those that think we would have given him the money to rebuild an entire team BEFORE we moved into a new stadium that was designed to generate the income to rebuild a squad are deluded.
The timing was very frustrating but he knew the deal and we knew the deal but we gloss over the fact that this was the reality at the time. We peaked a couple of years too early under Poch, this was the reality. It was also referenced by Poch too but seems to get totally ignored.
To add to the frustrations we then had COVID that basically fucked the revenue stream for two seasons.
We are now in a position to use those new revenue streams, wages have been increased and money has been spent. We all need to keep our fingers crossed that any spending actually improves the team. Early signs are that Paratici isn't shit.
^^^^^ T. H. I. S.
We spent money during his years but we spent it very badly. Brilliant guy, superb manager, took us to heights that noone expected, but the man is very bad at choosing and selecting the right players to buy.
Just one example, and I know that during that summer he wanted the likes of Mane or Saha, but why the heck did Poch agree to the signing of Sissoko. He was the manager, he always had the final say on who comes in or out, what was going on his mind to bring in such a player. Absolutely shocking the number of wrong players we signed whilst he was here.
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Mauricio Pochettino: I'm not in charge of transfers, maybe Spurs should change my job title
I am not in charge, I know nothing about the situation of my players. I am only coaching them, trying to get the best from them.
Shame cause if he would have just agreed to getting a DOF then maybe things would have worked out differently...
Because it's not a choice between them. I guess he had no choice.
We didn't get Mane because Liverpool offered to pay him more in wages, the same was the case with Wijnaldum. We couldn't offer the wages because we didn't have the revenue to support it (amplified more so because we were building a £1.2b stadium financed by our own resources).
I'm not disagreeing with you however on his recruitment record, I don't think it's all that sound but then, just to flip the coin, if he's going after Mane/Wijnaldum/Salah then it could also be argued he's not far off either!!
I even think that it is a demand by the Dortmund top brass. They only hire German speaking coaches.
But it would be an interesting project for him. But again one where he wouldn't have full control of transfers. Which is probably for the best.
Again, and not for the sake of an argument, but to play devil's advocate for a second, we didn't have a DoF and we sacked Mitchell (a DoF like character but mainly focused on transfers) BECAUSE we wanted to keep Poch and not have him plucked by Real Madrid or Man U. We backed him by promoting him from Head Coach to Manager, we gave him the power.
(This changed at some point further down the road, one of the reasons why things started to unravel, and hence the article posted above by
Deuterz
. Perhaps the Club thought his ability to bring in players was poor, we don't know the exact reasons but for sure it was one of the issues between him & the Club)
Mauricio Pochettino: I'm not in charge of transfers, maybe Spurs should change my job title
I am not in charge, I know nothing about the situation of my players. I am only coaching them, trying to get the best from them.www.skysports.com
Players themselves have exposed that as either a) pure BS or at best b) a dubiously skewed take.
He was in a perpetual strop after the CL final.
Poch wanted Mane, Mitchell wanted Mane.
Levy balked at Mane wanting 100k and ended up paying £4 mil and 10k less for Sissoko.
The Mane incident triggered Mitchell’s departure.
Timmy was ahead of the curve. £10m!!
Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood wants 21-year-old Senegal sensation Sadio Mane to be one of his first big-money buys.
Sherwood has twice sent new chief scout Ian Broomfield to watch Red Bull Salzburg’s £10million-rated left-winger in action.
Tottenham boss Tim Sherwood wants 21-year-old Senegal sensation Sadio Mane to be one of his first big-money buys.
Sherwood has twice sent new chief scout Ian Broomfield to watch Red Bull Salzburg’s £10million-rated left-winger in action.
It really is a circus of a club. Cringe.
Tuchel and Poch had to work under these bullshit conditions. It’s not the managers that are PSG’s problem it’s the club.
Players > Manager for PSG. The manager is a monkey at that club.
Just think about Zidane coming to PSG, Mbappe doesn’t like him and sacks him.
Pretty sure Mane’s agent would have just used Spurs as a negotiation tactic.
No way we could have matched Liverpool wages back then.
Handy place to send Mane to look around etc. I think he ended up getting £100k + plus Liverpool? And then they upped it to £150k relatively quickly.
They're giving up their arse to him due to the political/sportwashing capital attatched for each of LigueUn/PSG/Qatar by having him on the books during the WC.
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From what I remember reading, he started on 130kpw; not 100kpw.
Some of these figures are surely exaggerated but if it's even half of any of that then it's absolutely fucking revolting how twisted football has become.