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Manager Mauricio Pochettino

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A rare piece by DailyFail that excellently depicts the type of coach that Poch is.
It's lengthy, but is very much worth the read...

Mauricio Pochettino made stars do triple training and walk over hot coals...

They say you need two hearts to play for him. They say that Monday to Friday he is hated by his squad but come match-day they love him.

Mauricio Pochettino has risen from a manager barely anyone in England had heard of 18 months ago to take charge of one of the biggest clubs in Europe. Appointed by Tottenham in May, he faces the biggest challenges of his relatively short managerial career: a chairman with an itchy trigger finger, fans with high expectations and a squad of disjointed, expensive stars.

Southampton supporters were furious when their former chief executive Nicola Cortese sacked local hero Nigel Adkins and brought in this unknown Argentine from Espanyol. But he staved off relegation and a quarter of the way through last season the club stood third in the table. It was not down to luck. During last pre-season Pochettino often demanded triple training sessions from his players. They would train from 10am-midday, from 2pm-4pm and from 6pm-8pm.

One club source said: ‘The main change when he joined Southampton was that the intensity was stepped up.’

Pochettino will arrive at the training ground at 7am and won’t be gone until 7pm at the earliest. During the season he lightens the load but is still unrelenting in his pursuit of fitness. In a typical week Monday is a rest day, but then on Tuesday and Wednesday he expects hard training again, often with double and occasionally triple sessions. On Thursday it is lighter training and on Friday Pochettino does tactical work, looking specifically at the team’s next opponents.

‘He brought the best out of me and gave me self-belief,’ Rodriguez said. ‘To work with him was brilliant, it was hard work but the lads loved it and we got results. ‘His tactical awareness gave you confidence, you wanted to go out for him because he’s such a great guy. You can talk to him. The players respected him so much.’

At Southampton they were prepared to walk over hot coals for him. Quite literally. Pochettino brought in motivational speaker Xesco Espar. As the culmination of the session the Southampton squad were told to walk over hot coals. Pochettino led by example and went first. The players all followed him.

But Spurs chairman Daniel Levy has sacked eight managers in his 13 years at the club. Why will Pochettino be any different?

The Argentine shared a strong working relationship with Cortese. When the former Southampton chief executive threatened to leave the club last summer, Pochettino vowed to follow him out the door. When the Swiss-Italian resigned in January this year, Pochettino was prepared to honour his word. But, over a glass of wine, Cortese persuaded him to stay.

One thing is very different for Pochettino in his new job. He will finally be speaking English in public, something he very rarely did at Southampton. But he always spoke to his players without any problem, and on Saturday, when Spurs open the new season away at West Ham, we will find out whether the message got through.
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Now I'm picturing the Spurs squad doing trust falls and team-building exercises on a low-ropes training course at some summer camp, with a pack of 8 yr olds telling them to hurry the fuck up and move on to the next obstacle.
 
berko_kev said:
So this is how Forest fans welcomed Stuart Pearce last weekend, reckon we can emulate this at Upton Park ??

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what by shouting 'Psycho' at him?? ...not sure he'll get the reference!

I know... how about an Argentina '78-style TICKER-TAPE WELCOME, like we did for Ossie & Ricky???!!
and I think I remember where there's some still hidden in my jacket pocket!...
 
shangweibaliu said:
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Adam Clark said:
It appears that Poch has a long lost Kurdish twin brother fighting off mi
1882 said:
what by shouting 'Psycho' at him?? ...not sure he'll get the reference!

I know... how about an Argentina '78-style TICKER-TAPE WELCOME, like we did for Ossie & Ricky???!!
and I think I remember where there's some still hidden in my jacket pocket!...
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1882 said:
what by shouting 'Psycho' at him?? ...not sure he'll get the reference!

I know... how about an Argentina '78-style TICKER-TAPE WELCOME, like we did for Ossie & Ricky???!!
and I think I remember where there's some still hidden in my jacket pocket!...
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Quality! Gave me goose bumps. Almost like starting with a goal advantage. Not that imaginative but I kinda like the idea of breaking Pochettino down into four syllables. Poch-et-ti-no within 2 groups, increasing in tempo. Half a dozen reps then a burst of applause. Bit shite?
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