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Manager Mauricio Pochettino
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Fair enough - a top manager should be able to do both. I guess it's easier to buy a type of player rather than mould one through coaching, but I'd like to see how he measures up when it comes to buying. Not sure if I'll get to see that though, so I take your point about working with what he's got.
We also talk about a lack of leadership in the team.
I wonder what people would have said if Tim named a captain, and a third captain, then within a month dropped both from the matchday squad for the next 5 months.
What kind of influence can they possibly be having, and why havent their captaincies been revoked and passsed on to someone else.
Personally, Id prefer to see Jan, Bentaleb and Lloris as the three captains. At least they are on the pitch, and they should have some responsibilities to help them mature and grow (lloris obviously doesnt need that. hes just a pillar already).
Its actually inexplicable
I wonder what people would have said if Tim named a captain, and a third captain, then within a month dropped both from the matchday squad for the next 5 months.
What kind of influence can they possibly be having, and why havent their captaincies been revoked and passsed on to someone else.
Personally, Id prefer to see Jan, Bentaleb and Lloris as the three captains. At least they are on the pitch, and they should have some responsibilities to help them mature and grow (lloris obviously doesnt need that. hes just a pillar already).
Its actually inexplicable
I can't find the link, but didn't he admit he got the captaincy thing wrong? That doesn't make it better I know.
Coulda gone for brobdingnagian beasts or gargantuan colossus lol
Well personally I believe that the intial captaincy choices were strategical to undermine problem players, but you're right... they shoulda been changed by now
Its good if he admitted it, but we still lack leadership, and he should have renamed them by now.
Jan and Bentaleb are automatic starters for Poch, and are prime candidates (as is Kane)
sammy, i think because poch is much more likeable than avb or tim, we are all a lot more softer on him. its hard not to naturally go easier on someone u like & also harder on someone u dont like. if tim or avb had done some of the stuff poch has done, we would say there idiots. poch does it & we say he is young & learning. i am guilty of this too.
True man, he is very likeable...but also Poch has showed signs of having an influence in a positive way and has got some good results.... which helps to give faith to the whole "work in progress" ethos.
When there's tangible signs to hold on to, it's much easier to back someone
the amount of people who have said poch has done well because at the start of the season they thought we would finish 6th or 7th but we are doing a lot better. we were 6th or 7th when they wrote that. but its cause they like poch & want him to do well & look for all the positives even 1s that arent true. ps. i like him & want him to have 3 years to get his project in place. time will tell if we were right to back him. i wouldnt have gone for him. but now we have, i see enough positives to back him for the next couple of years.
agreed but if u actually look at what matters most & thats results. i think he has done worse than avb & tim.
I don't think the rest of the squad are competent enough to be worth incorporating, at this point in their careers. They are either too far down the slope to perform to the required level, or are players who never could reach that level in the first place.
Either way, trying to incorporate them just puts everyone else two steps behind, so it's not worth the bother.
Why would you want to give Adebayor more than 12 minutes though? He hasn't had a decent showing in about a year at this point, and isn't showing signs of improvement. He's actually showing signs of age catching up pretty dramatically. His shooting locations and volumes are terrible, he doesn't work well in the system used, and if you're not scoring enough to compensate for not being a team player, why bother?
Chiriches over Fazio makes sense because he's not just the 4th CB, he's also the back-up RB. More versatility makes him a more useful bench option. Paulinho made no sense, but I don't know what does about Paulinho/Capoue/Stambouli at this point. We don't know what they're like behind closed doors, so it's hard to say.
Because Sherwood rated him and AVB didn't and the infidels must be shamed daily
Not really.
Many coaches from Europe place a lot less emphasis on the captain's position than UK football culture does. If Pochettino felt that who wears the armband was a trivial point anyway, then he likely wasn't too fussed about who got it. Add in the fact he didn't actually know the squad at that point, and letting the team identify their own leaders made sense. He's had time to observe, and Kaboul is pretty clearly not in his plans, but rather than making things into a media soap opera about who wears a silly armband, he's correctly ignoring the issue and expecting leadership on the pitch from those who are there.
It's pretty explicable.
Sherwood also played Kyle Walker as a 10 against Chelsea. I wouldn't trust him to tell me the sky was blue.
Only Mickey boy is older than you, pleb
I can't remember. I remember him saying he though Nacer could become a striker, which Pochettino seems to feel is partly true, since he lets Chadli cut in from the wing as a second striker to good effect. As the lone "big man" I don't know if that works.
I like our dolphin breaking hearts from the left wing as it is, myself.
Get to know him well in the Bin? Arcy