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Manager Mauricio Pochettino
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This predicament baffles me... Where did the flexibility of early this season dissapear to over the latter half of the season?
There was a point where we were changing formation 2/3 times per game yet we've reverted to our previously 1-dimensional selves of Pochs first yr or 2.
All that said, i acknowledge that a patient 'keep doing what your doing" approach has bagged the points for us in the 80th+ on a number of occasions...
Presents tricky dilemmas this management malarkey eh? ...Who'd have thought it eh? ...All seems so easy on a computer game!
Aston Villa saved themselves from being double relegated to League 1 by sacking him while still in the Prem.
Challenge succeeded.
I'd rather give credit to the players for getting 6th in spite of him...
Under Sherwood we also lost 5-1 to City, 4-0 to Chelsea, and 4-0 to Liverpool.
Meanwhile he almost pushed Lloris and Vertonghen out the door, and in one match played Sigurdsson and Chadli in center-midfield.
Well dont let the truth get in the way of a good witch hunt
Tottenham Hotspur 0-5 Liverpool
The table never lies Im afraid
He had no badges, yet was no worse than AVB who had PL experience
If people expected top 4 under Tim, then they should be expecting titles under Poch....should have reigned in your expectations in 2013.
Did get them to an FA cup final though.........
ochfacepalm:Yeah keep telling yourself we would have come 6th with no manager.....the wins were fluke, the losses Tim.
How convenient your world is
Didn't he also play Kyle Walker central midfield one game? Truly embarrassing scenes
"Relegation" is a rather OTT tho, no?
We were 5th!
Edit: Seems 5th incorrect but point still stands.
I said relegation scrap, which usually follows a manger losing the dressing room.
AVB rode the coat tails of Redknapps team in his first season, but much like Ramos after Jol the novelty wore very thin later on.
He had already turned us from the most exciting team in the PL
(Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson says 'Tottenham are Premiership's best team at the moment') into a turgid pile of shit which is what got him sacked at Chelsea.
Against Chelsea and we were doing well until the ref fucked us over, if we'd had son back then maybe we could have played him at right back..... you know like we did last seaon....
Not sure what that has to do with anything... You were complaining about hyperbole only to then suggest we were in such peril which is a gross exageration.
More than a bit rich is all...
Got nothing to do with what i think of the individual managers past or present.
I remember how I felt at the end of AVBs tenure even if no one else does
So what is it? Tim was unfairly maligned because he saved us from relegation, or we were wrong to expect him to do better?
We were flat-track bullies under AVB that got blown away by the big sides, and we were flat-track bullies under Tim that got blown away by the big sides. The results really didn't change very much, only the methods did. They were both absolutely woeful managers, but I do grant Sherwood credit for giving youth a chance.
He was clueless like the football we started playing under him. Adebayor had a brief renaissance under him having not played for months and being desperate for a new contract but his enthusiasm soon wavered and he soon reverted to the half hearted headless chicken he was before. Sherwood has not exactly shined since leaving us which speaks volumes and his interviews at the time and his punditry since show he has little tactical nous and he was clearly out of his depth in the premier league.
Just an opinion but to me that means he was shit!
I never said he saved us from relegation, and when I posted it I was careful to make that distinction, but predictably everyone ignores everything else I said and jumps on something I didnt say.
You give him credit for playing the youth, that would be Harry Kane for the most part, but the words just cant leave your mouth can they. As Ive said, Sherwood had never managed a team before in his entire career, so if people expected him to do better than 6th, then that really is their problem.
He did a decent job, considering his lack of experience. Ive said he wasnt good enough for the long haul, Im not sure what everyones problem is and why they are dragging it on and on and on.
People take exception to the words "stopped us getting dragged into a relegation scrap", but no one gives a shit when someone says he took us from 5th to 6th, when we was 7th after AVBs final game.
Noooooooo, noooo thats fine
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He was clueless like the football we started playing under him. Adebayor had a brief renaissance under him having not played for months and being desperate for a new contract but his enthusiasm soon wavered and he soon reverted to the half hearted headless chicken he was before. Sherwood has not exactly shined since leaving us which speaks volumes and his interviews at the time and his punditry since show he has little tactical nous and he was clearly out of his depth in the premier league.
Just an opinion but to me that means he was shit!
Yeah Caretaker with zero experience in crap football shocker, oh my, why didnt he get 4th?
He still won at Old Trafford and beat Poch's Southampton twice.
Again. Nothing to do with my comments.
So....
Hypocricy... Discuss???