The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[aliyid]

Poch is good friends with him, the club we're aware of the meeting.

Agree, would be interesting to see if he would go if offered the job though...

I'm probably looking at this from a very rose-tinted and biased perspective but at Spurs he has a young / hungry team who have fully bought into his style of play whereas at Barca he'll manage probably the best forward line in the world but he'll also just be another manager struggling with player power (shocking the abuse they've given Erique when you look at his record).

Add to that his history and love of Barca's local rivals (Espanyol) it would be the equivalent of Gary Neville becoming the next Liverpool manager.

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

Poch is good friends with him, the club we're aware of the meeting.

Hmmm. They may well be aware of it. But you'd have to be very naive to think that the topic of the vacant manager job didn't come up once in their conversation.
Basically if they want him he's gone. This meeting suggests he is being seriously considered. I think there's a good chance he'll be their next manager.

 

[CornerPinDreamer]

PSG job fight off between Poch and Wenger

blud, i wan Wengs to take
Yes, i agree Wenger is the most appropriate candidate
fam, you makin me vex
Yes, i agree yours is the most suited and
blud, i'm gonna give you a swift cap'n stabbin
etc

 

[DotNetCoder]

Tottenham knew of Pochettino's meeting with Barcelona chief - source

http://www.espnfc.co.uk/tottenham-hotspur/story/3088669/tottenham-knew-of-mauricio-pochettinos-meeting-with-barcelona-
chief-source

 

[Gb160]

Hmmm. They may well be aware of it. But you'd have to be very naive to think that the topic of the vacant manager job didn't come up once in their conversation.
Basically if they want him he's gone. This meeting suggests he is being seriously considered. I think there's a good chance he'll be their next manager.

Hmmmmn, you'd have to be pretty fucking dim to conduct that sort of meeting in a public restaurant no?... exactly the same when he met SAF last year...bet u also thought he was off to Man U then didn't you?
Plus there's the small matter of a dealing with Levy and a whacking great contract to buy out.
I think there's a very slim chance personally.

 

[King of Otters]

I was actually less worried about this before the club revealed that it was just two close friends catching up.

Surely the Barca president is going to take into consideration one of his 'close friends', who also happens to be one of the most highly rated coaches in the world, for the vacant managerial role at his club?

 

[Lemon]

No no no no no.

 

[King of Otters]

I fucking hate the word 'Spursy'. Such a load of bullshit.

Is it though? We consistently grab failure from the jaws of success in the most comical way imaginable. Little point pretending otherwise, particularly while the end of last season is fresh in the memory.

 

[nugsie]

Is it though? We consistently grab failure from the jaws of success in the most comical way imaginable. Little point pretending otherwise, particularly while the end of last season is fresh in the memory.

It's not called 'spursy' though. It's called modern day football.

Refuse to belive there's some mystical energy that keeps us from reaching our goals.

 

[King of Otters]

It's not called 'spursy' though. It's called modern day football.

Refuse to belive there's some mystical energy that keeps us from reaching our goals.

It's got nothing to do with any kind of mystical energy, it's more an aptitude for the inept, a penchant for the improbable collapse.

I don't like the word myself, but i recognise that it is apt.

 

[nugsie]

It's got nothing to do with any kind of mystical energy, it's more an aptitude for the inept, a penchant for the improbable collapse.

I don't like the word myself, but i recognise that it is apt.

Happens to loads of other teams. PSG the other week against Barca, Liverpool and the Gerrard slip, Arsenal in the champions league final, Leicester V Watford in the play off final a few years back to name a few off the top of my head.

Point is, some fans think we're unique in failure.

We're not.

We just have lofty ambitions and expectations for a club of our size. Nothing wrong with that. Some may feel let down more often. But for the love of God there's nothing fucking SPURSY about it.

 

[King of Otters]

Happens to loads of other teams. PSG the other week against Barca, Liverpool and the Gerrard slip, Arsenal in the champions league final, Leicester V Watford in the play off final a few years back to name a few off the top of my head.

Point is, some fans think we're unique in failure.

We're not.

We just have lofty ambitions and expectations for a club of our size. Nothing wrong with that. Some may feel let down more often. But for the love of God there's nothing fucking SPURSY about it.

I think the missing element in all those examples is consistency of ineptitude. I don't want to delve at length into the successes of those clubs over the years and the failures of our own, it's boring as well as depressing, but I can't forget all the false dawns, all the let downs and all the public humiliations we suffered, even in the good years. Maybe that happens to every club, but my impression is that we're unique in misfortune, and particularly unique in the spectacular nature of our misfortune/ineptitude (do I need to mention the end of last season again?).

 

[DIEHARD]

So who do we think Poch will try to take to barca with him... I really hope he takes Sissoko argh

 

[yankspurs]

Happens to loads of other teams. PSG the other week against Barca, Liverpool and the Gerrard slip, Arsenal in the champions league final, Leicester V Watford in the play off final a few years back to name a few off the top of my head.

Point is, some fans think we're unique in failure.

We're not.

We just have lofty ambitions and expectations for a club of our size. Nothing wrong with that. Some may feel let down more often. But for the love of God there's nothing fucking SPURSY about it.

Just last season we managed to finish 3rd in a 2 horse title race between us and Leicester, remember? Or remember that time we finished 4th only to miss out on CL because another English club won it? Or when the whole damn team got food poisoning(fucking lasagne) and so we failed to qualify for CL? How about all the times we managed to bottle finishing above Arsenal at the end of the season? I can go on. The word for it is spursy

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

It is simply a myth that "Spursy" is a myth.

 

[Jody]

The only thing spursy about spurs is the spurs fans. Bunch of girls in my opinion.

 

[tiger666]

No no no no no.

There's no limits?

 

[Spursh]

@GuillemBalague
On Pochettino: he went for break with his wife to BCN and met by chance in a restaurant FCB president Bartomeu whom he has known 4 ages 1/2

Pochettino has fans at FCB but he isn't the profile they looking for. Plus I don't see him leaving behind what he's building at Spurs 2/2

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

The only thing spursy about spurs is the spurs fans. Bunch of girls in my opinion.

Truly?! Where are they?

 

[npearl4spurs]

@GuillemBalague
On Pochettino: he went for break with his wife to BCN and met by chance in a restaurant FCB president Bartomeu whom he has known 4 ages 1/2

Pochettino has fans at FCB but he isn't the profile they looking for. Plus I don't see him leaving behind what he's building at Spurs 2/2

if they met by chance how could the club know in advance he was seeing him?