• The Fighting Cock is a forum for fans of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Here you can discuss Spurs latest matches, our squad, tactics and any transfer news surrounding the club. Registration gives you access to all our forums (including 'Off Topic' discussion) and removes most of the adverts (you can remove them all via an account upgrade). You're here now, you might as well...

    Get involved!

Manager Mauricio Pochettino

Latest Spurs videos from Sky Sports

Guido said:
Personally I don't think so. Stambouli has been threading balls through/between a well marshalled defence and in his last two games has also hit the best +30yrd pass of the match one of which resulted in an assist. I'd have Bentaleb and Mason ahead of him but I have no issue when I see his name on the team sheet.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

I don't have any issue with his name on the team sheet either, I just don't think we'll ever be able to fluidly pass the ball if he is playing next to Dembele, Paulinho, or Capoue.
 
TDub said:
I'd be curious to see the numbers under AVB. I don't doubt that we'd be close to the top.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Some numbers from 2012-13 were title winning good. Others were really bad, and indicated last year's heartbreak wasn't a freak occurrence.

He liked his teams to do some pretty weird things, which only worked if you had someone working miracles. Hulk did that for him at Porto, and Bale did that for him at Spurs. When they didn't happen though, he didn't know how to fix the problem.

Pochettino has an idea, and knows why it can work, and what he needs to do to make it work. Our problem right now is having only half a squad able to do those things properly. When everyone who can is fit and playing, we will look great. When they're injured/out, we're going to suffer.
 
Met him in July love this guy a leader never frazzled - has done a magnificent job with a bunch of misfits, we have a mentality a philosophy I love it COME ON YOU SPURS!!!! drunk

image.jpg
 
ArtyB said:
Kenny Dalglish on Tottenham: Mauricio Pochettino is proving managing Spurs ISN'T an impossible job

He's almost slipped under the radar with his progress at Tottenham, but Mauricio Pochettino looks like he has quickly turned things around there.

I remember the beating they took from Liverpool early in the season - and they were well beaten, believe me - and he must have realised then it was a wee bit more difficult of a job than he first thought.

in fact, people said it was an impossible job, and he was mad to take it on, given the number of managers the White Hart Lane club have gone through. But you don’t know the stipulations he put on when he accepted the job.

Put it this way, they did well to get him away from Southampton, so maybe they had to come round to his way of thinking to persuade him to do that.

Maybe they had to come to an understanding with him - allow him to put his own personality on things - even though they have a director of football in place there.

It’s a system that is much maligned, but Pochettino has an advantage above many of the managers in the Premier League, in that he came from Spain and a situation working with a technical director. He understands how it works... and how to make it work for him.

That’s the key.

There’s nothing wrong with having a technical director if you can find a way of making it work with the manager, and I suspect that’s what happened at White Hart Lane – Pochettino addressed that before he went in.

Look at him now. After that difficult start, they’re still in four competitions.

They are in form in the Premier League and can make the top four in what is going to be a hell of a race, they’ve got a lead in a semi-final of the Capital One Cup, and a home tie against Leicester for a place in the last 16 of the FA Cup.

Progress to the last 32 of the Europa League - where they face Fiorentina - has been comfortable for them too, though I know myself about how that competition is tricky in the way it affects your league programme.

I like what he’s done there at Spurs.

It’s a fantastic club to go and manage, no matter what people say about the set-up there – Tim Sherwood did well, and enjoyed his time there. He spoke about how much he enjoyed it, even if he was unlucky to not be offered the job full time.

It’s not the impossible job people seem to make out.

Let’s face it, what Premier League manager’s job IS easy? There’s pressure at every club, every day, and from the top to the bottom you hear rumours about the man at the top’s position. That’s the way it is these days.

What Pochettino has done is to put his identity on things quickly, which isn’t always easy. He’s identified the problems, looked at the faults and rectified them.


He has also promoted a lot of the younger players, which I like. You don’t look at the birth certificate of someone to see if he’s going to play for you, you look at the quality and what he is going to give.

He’s pushed Harry Kane along, trusting him where maybe others weren’t ready to, and given chances to Ryan Mason, Nabil Bentalab, Andros Townsend and the like.

Pochettino had a decent track record of putting the Southampton youngsters in his team too. You get the right kids, and it’s a way of competing at the top. Funnily enough, Southampton are a great example of that, even after Pochettino has moved on.

GettyTottenham Hotspur's Harry Kane celebrates scoring the opening goalHot Spur: Striker Kane has come from nowhere to enter the England discussion
You can give yourself a migraine trying to work out who’s going to finish in the top four this season, but the way he has worked quietly at Spurs, they’ve got a good chance now of getting one of those places.

But why is everyone dismissing Southampton?

They’ve got 42 points and are playing as well as anyone right now. They’ve got a good mix of players, and a lot of younger lads who give them quality in key positions.

I reckon a few tears are going to be shed between now and the end of the season for those clubs who want to make the top four... but I think Spurs are on the right lines, and it doesn’t look such an impossible job now.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/kenny-dalglish-tottenham-mauricio-pochettino-5030595?
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...

Now read that in Dalglish's accent... It's like your gargling mouthwash
 
Juicy Sushi said:
Some interesting insight here:
http://www.sbnation.com/soccer/2015...r-united-tactics-high-press-tottenham-hotspur

Fits with our struggles to find midfield pairings with enough steel to cut up the opposition.

The idea is there, but Pochettino's hamstring by squad limitations for now.
Click to expand...
Click to shrink...
Good analysis. For me, the answer lies in other players falling in more, as the problem with pressing high up the pitch is that a single misplaced pass and you are left exposed with too many players forward of the ball when the opposition take possesion and spring themselves. The game against SU was a good example where Lamela worked his socks off to back track and get back ball side which slowed the oppositions attack allowing others to get back also. Paulinho did not. It's also why I like the return of an in-form dembele because you avoid losing the ball in the first place - though occationally he still picks the wrong pass option and that can hurt us, he is difficult to disposses. It's also why Mason and Bentaleb are good for us because they are well-rounded midfielders with energy and commitment who can close down, tackle, pass well, chase back and tackle. I think our midfield players need all those attributes, especially in the center and Mason and Bentaleb are young and improving and will only get better at all these things.

The other thing that would help is another striker whotakes his chances. If you're more than a single goal ahead their is less belief in the other team spuring them forward when they intercept.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top