Poch coming back to Spurs?

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Do you think Pochettino would be a good choice for our next coach?

  • Yes

    Votes: 175 60.3%

  • No

    Votes: 115 39.7%
  • Total voters
    290
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Everyone excited about Poch returning when in his first game back and he has moved Dier back into midfield and he is starting alongside Sissoko and Winks in a diamond:

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I love poch but voted no. I’m kind of mixed.

It could mean the board knows they made a mistake and actually has the capability of self reflection.

It would also be hilarious seeing the poch haters freak out.
 
if he is to return the first thing he should have is a decent war chest . As we all know what a disaster this season has been. We need fresh blood and most important winners not bottlers . And mr levy just leave him to do his job and back him to the hilt if not piss off .
 
I remember when Poch first came in he had so much energy, he was utterly ruthless with the likes of Ade and Kaboul, players who stayed like Dembele had to get themselves ultra fit.

That Poch right now given the state of things would be better than Conte, Ten Hag, Potter whoever, that Poch could fix any broken team. The Poch at the end looked tired, smashed, warn out and he had warned of the state of the club before he left.

We need Levy to properly back this time and we need a reenergised Poch from before not the warn out one.
 
Tart said:
I think it's way too soon for Poch to return. The emotion is still raw. Especially when Levy asks for his £12.5 million back.

That said, I'd love to see him come back. Love the bloke 🍋🍋🍋🍋🍋💔
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Will you stop changing your name, I'm easily confused 🥴
That goes for all of you
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TheSprocketMan said:
Anyone post the article I'm brassic
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From the athletic...

Tottenham’s world could become much simpler. Mauricio Pochettino’s return to the club would have tremendous symbolism, but also plenty of practical worth. It would surely immediately alter the dynamics of the Harry Kane situation, as well as soothing relations with several other first-team players. If what it is to be a Spursplayer has grown vague over the past 18 months, then there could be no better sort of clarity.
The hope is that this would also be a lesson learned. To reinstate a sacked manager so quickly would involve a great deal of humility from Daniel Levy. It would necessitate the admission of mistakes and, if Pochettino were to be convinced into a return, involve significant promises about the club’s direction.

In fact, were this circle to be completed, then the past year and a half could almost be seen as a privilege. Events off the pitch have left deeper wounds that will take far longer to heel but — from a footballing perspective — it has been proven that the grass isn’t necessarily greener, that Amazon documentaries don’t change status, that new stadiums don’t intimidate opponents and that — most crucially — there is really no such thing as a coach who guarantees success. The only real truth in the game — and hopefully this penny has dropped — is that process and culture matter, and that there’s a heavy price to pay for not knowing that.
The real value, then, is in what this might inform. Pochettino would return with plenty of issues to fix, but perhaps with many more people now prepared to listen to what the remedies should be. The case for sustained and timely investment has been made for him. The need to refresh the squad at the right time and with the ingredients is now obvious to everyone. Pochettino left a club that had, by its own admission, become distracted and which had lost itself in the shimmer of its new stadium. Now, though, that same organisation’s eyes should be wide open; what better way to learn a lesson than to experience the cost of making all the wrong decisions?

Some of those wrong decisions will have to unpicked gently over time. The defence that Pochettino left behind has deteriorated further. Jan Vertonghen has departed, Toby Alderweireld is now a further year beyond his prime, and the situation at full-back is – if anything – even more nebulous than it was in November 2019.

The midfield is a muddle, too. Whether Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndomble can play together remains a debate, and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg is too much of a Mourinho ideal to obviously be a Pochettino player. It’s worth remembering that even if he were to return, the era over which he presided so successfully is over. The rebuild may still be long, it may still be painful.

The difference would be in agency, though. Tottenham have learned these lessons the hard way. The Champions League has gone and the great revenues that come with it have vanished too. Pochettino represents another misstep, though, and the opportunity not to repeat the error of his sacking would surely afford him a different standing at the club. He and Levy have a good personal relationship, but — were he to be reinstalled — their dynamics would surely be different. And better. Perhaps his vision for where the club should go and his warnings over inertia would carry a little more weight this time around? They should do; he has been proven largely right.

The effect, then, wouldn’t just be a seductive storyline and a hard dose of vitamin B. Instead, a more all-encompassing sense of renewal — a feeling, at least, that the many errors of the past few years had at least informed some proper reflection.

Maybe there would even be a broader catharsis? Pochettino is an emotional man and he’s an easy person to have affection for. That naturally encourages a romanticised perspective of his previous reign and lends itself to mythologising over his potential effect in the future.

But he does seem essential to Spurs at this point in their history. Beyond the improvements he might oversee on the pitch and how he might alter the local mood, Pochettino is someone who seems to have the game in his soul. The football he teaches is highly sensory. It’s blue-collared, intense and tough, and the environment in which it’s performed is part of its tension.

And that connection matters. And having someone like that inside a club who knows that it does is really important. Especially now.
 
This is a bonkers story but I would absolutely love it if he came back and stuck around for a good long while, with the proper backing from the club this time. Nothing would make me happier than seeing us win a trophy the second time round under Poch.
 
SuperHansForPM said:
From the athletic...

Tottenham’s world could become much simpler. Mauricio Pochettino’s return to the club would have tremendous symbolism, but also plenty of practical worth. It would surely immediately alter the dynamics of the Harry Kane situation, as well as soothing relations with several other first-team players. If what it is to be a Spursplayer has grown vague over the past 18 months, then there could be no better sort of clarity.
The hope is that this would also be a lesson learned. To reinstate a sacked manager so quickly would involve a great deal of humility from Daniel Levy. It would necessitate the admission of mistakes and, if Pochettino were to be convinced into a return, involve significant promises about the club’s direction.

In fact, were this circle to be completed, then the past year and a half could almost be seen as a privilege. Events off the pitch have left deeper wounds that will take far longer to heel but — from a footballing perspective — it has been proven that the grass isn’t necessarily greener, that Amazon documentaries don’t change status, that new stadiums don’t intimidate opponents and that — most crucially — there is really no such thing as a coach who guarantees success. The only real truth in the game — and hopefully this penny has dropped — is that process and culture matter, and that there’s a heavy price to pay for not knowing that.
The real value, then, is in what this might inform. Pochettino would return with plenty of issues to fix, but perhaps with many more people now prepared to listen to what the remedies should be. The case for sustained and timely investment has been made for him. The need to refresh the squad at the right time and with the ingredients is now obvious to everyone. Pochettino left a club that had, by its own admission, become distracted and which had lost itself in the shimmer of its new stadium. Now, though, that same organisation’s eyes should be wide open; what better way to learn a lesson than to experience the cost of making all the wrong decisions?

Some of those wrong decisions will have to unpicked gently over time. The defence that Pochettino left behind has deteriorated further. Jan Vertonghen has departed, Toby Alderweireld is now a further year beyond his prime, and the situation at full-back is – if anything – even more nebulous than it was in November 2019.

The midfield is a muddle, too. Whether Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndomble can play together remains a debate, and Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg is too much of a Mourinho ideal to obviously be a Pochettino player. It’s worth remembering that even if he were to return, the era over which he presided so successfully is over. The rebuild may still be long, it may still be painful.

The difference would be in agency, though. Tottenham have learned these lessons the hard way. The Champions League has gone and the great revenues that come with it have vanished too. Pochettino represents another misstep, though, and the opportunity not to repeat the error of his sacking would surely afford him a different standing at the club. He and Levy have a good personal relationship, but — were he to be reinstalled — their dynamics would surely be different. And better. Perhaps his vision for where the club should go and his warnings over inertia would carry a little more weight this time around? They should do; he has been proven largely right.

The effect, then, wouldn’t just be a seductive storyline and a hard dose of vitamin B. Instead, a more all-encompassing sense of renewal — a feeling, at least, that the many errors of the past few years had at least informed some proper reflection.

Maybe there would even be a broader catharsis? Pochettino is an emotional man and he’s an easy person to have affection for. That naturally encourages a romanticised perspective of his previous reign and lends itself to mythologising over his potential effect in the future.

But he does seem essential to Spurs at this point in their history. Beyond the improvements he might oversee on the pitch and how he might alter the local mood, Pochettino is someone who seems to have the game in his soul. The football he teaches is highly sensory. It’s blue-collared, intense and tough, and the environment in which it’s performed is part of its tension.

And that connection matters. And having someone like that inside a club who knows that it does is really important. Especially now.
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So you are voting no then ?
 
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