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It's bullshit.
I remember clearly people getting angry at Pochettino not playing youth players in the cups - Marcus Edwards being a prime example of this.
There is so much hyperbole being thrown around about Pochettino. He did great things for the club but he is not this Christ-like figure that we should revolve everything around.
Kyle Walker-Peters comes to mind too. Didn’t get go out on loan, didn’t play him either.
Yeah, my post was more negative than intended.
It’s more that he helped forge a young team with players that were already there, rather than integrate new blood, which he helped identify. Poch’s involvement in player recruitment was pretty shaky, although that’s obviously a whole
different question with lots of factors that has already been flogged to death.
I love the guy. I just don’t want him back because I think Levy will fuck him over again.
...remember when Leverkusen did us in the Monaco CL year? Yup, Roger Schmidt. They picked us apart. Can't remember why it went bad for him there but it did.
Better than under Mourinho Nuno and Conte. But Poch fucking diamond made me bald.
Seems like he reached the end of a 3-year cycle where the club didn't work on the weaknesses really, and he didn't either, and eventually things got stale. Which happens to most coaches, including Pochettino. I think the biggest problem is people keep imagining Alex Ferguson length-tenures instead of a regular cycle of change within a longer-term plan.
If we're going to sack Conte now, then Pochettino or Mason are the most realistic options. There are no guys we would want to build a team who are also currently unemployed. If the idea is to stick it out until the summer, and let Conte go, then the conversation is about who can we find who can start on June 1st. Those are very different conversations, and different lists of people.
Or at least, you would think so. That's the kind of joined up thinking which THFC seems to lack, which is why we're in this mess.
Or at least, you would think so. That's the kind of joined up thinking which THFC seems to lack, which is why we're in this mess.
Given the number of managers we have had it almost impossible to imagine anybody lasting more than a couple of seasons not enough time to build anything .Proberly attractive to someone who fancies a nice pay off for about 16 months work .
I strongly believe, if you did a blind taste test and showed some if the worst games of Poch to someone who doesn't know, they would struggle to say that he was the coach and not the others.
Some of that football was boring and unwatchable. Losing at home to crap like Newcastle, West Ham, draws at home to crap like Burnley and WBA, getting utterly murdered by Bayern.
There was 2 full seasons of good, competitive football. Before and after that, it was often boring as fcuk.
I agree. And that spring ending up with the CL final was really dreadful after Dembele left. We reached the CL final, not because of Poch but despite Poch.
As we seem to destroy every successful manager we hire, why don't we sack conte and bring in a complete ass hat like pardew? Would love to see him doing a dance when we score in the cup final
That's going to happen to any club if they go about 2 years without buying any new players... Weren't we the first club ever In the premiership not to sell or buy during the summer transfer window...
That about sums it up, we really are Half Assed FC :contebored:
I'd rather have Bielsa than Poch. If we bring Poch back, we aren't serious about being successful. They might have some intent to be successful, but they wont be willing to do the hard work to get there. It'll be more attempts at a shortcut to success and hope that they get lucky.
Either try to be successful and go through the short term pain to get there or bring in someone like Bielsa and at least entertain us each week. This half-hearted approach is a total waste of time.
Either try to be successful and go through the short term pain to get there or bring in someone like Bielsa and at least entertain us each week. This half-hearted approach is a total waste of time.
Quite moving, also quite different when a manager is away from home and on £15m. But yeah, these are people at the end of the day
There’s always players caught in the middle. Not good enough to play but handy to have around incase they are needed.
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