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Peak confirmation bias.
No doubt there'll be some spouting the same on here before long.
I said to the guy in the pub last week, if Harry has another ankle injury that Poch will leave in the summer because ankles.

I hope i'm wrong ...
 

spursfan77

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Guru Tony Cascarino just said on Talksport the Kane injury means it's more likely Pochettino leaves

Yeah I heard that and don't understand it at all.

Will be interesting to see if posh is asked about transfers. I suspect his answer will be "don't speak about rumour" but he has been a bit more open or long winded recently so we will see if he lets anything slip.
 

MattPhilpott

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Interesting to see Poch mention his “Big Mistake” in over-talking Edwards a couple of years back, saying he is still not happy with that situation. Hopefully not reading too much into it thinking that the relationship between Poch and Edwards is broken??
 

whitechina

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Interesting to see Poch mention his “Big Mistake” in over-talking Edwards a couple of years back, saying he is still not happy with that situation. Hopefully not reading too much into it thinking that the relationship between Poch and Edwards is broken??
By bigging up Edwards - Edwards then got too cocky for his own good.
Let's hope he can be bought down to earth and return in the summer with a better Outlook
 

chinaman

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Didnt this happen last year and earlier on the season and we still kept winning. I have faith, in Poch I trust.


Never have we been so depleted. If Poch can steer us through this patch, there should be no more doubt who is the best football manager/coach in the world.
 

wrd

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The rest of this season is the biggest test in Pochettino’s Spurs career so far, time for him prove he’s as good as we think he is.

I don't think he has anything to prove, he's been pulling miracles out all over the shop this season to be where we are given the circumstances that have been thrown his way, if things go wrong, he's likely the last person I'm going to start doubting in all of this.
 

ghjk_91

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I particular enjoyed the opening segment.

During the days when Mauricio Pochettino was still feeling his way into the English language, he saw the chance to pull out an idiom beside the pitch at Turf Moor. He could hear his opposite number effing and blinding in the other technical area, swearing at everything and nothing as managers do, and thought he would try a mild interjection of his own.

“Sean Dyche was on the touchline: ‘Fucking this, fucking that’,” he says. “At one moment I turned to him and said: ‘Fuck off, Sean. Hey, Sean: fuck off’.”
 

synththfc

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I particular enjoyed the opening segment.

During the days when Mauricio Pochettino was still feeling his way into the English language, he saw the chance to pull out an idiom beside the pitch at Turf Moor. He could hear his opposite number effing and blinding in the other technical area, swearing at everything and nothing as managers do, and thought he would try a mild interjection of his own.

Sean Dyche was on the touchline: ‘Fucking this, fucking that’,” he says. “At one moment I turned to him and said: ‘Fuck off, Sean. Hey, Sean: fuck off’.”

We're all thinking it and he just says it. Beautiful.
 

BringBack_leGin

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Didnt this happen last year and earlier on the season and we still kept winning. I have faith, in Poch I trust.

So far he’s proven himself at every stage pretty much, but this is his latest big challenge and a great manager keeps proving themselves. I have faith he will pass this test, but if he doesn’t then it’s something for him to learn from.

All he’s achieved with the lack of investment proves that already. This would merely be his latest magic trick of many.

Apart from the summer just gone there has been no lack of investment. Every other summer of his tenure has seen at least one player arrive who is still integral to the current side. And there have been no magic tricks, he has been getting the best out of a group of very good players. I call that ‘doing his job very well’. Avb didn’t. And you speak in past tenses. So far yes, Pochettino has proved himself at every hurdle, so in a sense you are right, all her has achieved proves he is great, but a manager is only as good as his current achievements, so just because he has proved himself so far, doesn’t mean there is no pressure for him to pass this next test. In fact, I’d say that he expects far more from himself than you appear to expect from him, and that is probably why he will pass this test, because he does appear to be a winner.

I don't think he has anything to prove, he's been pulling miracles out all over the shop this season to be where we are given the circumstances that have been thrown his way, if things go wrong, he's likely the last person I'm going to start doubting in all of this.

Injury ravaged squad with best player and other most on form player, yes he has to prove that he can keep us at this level, and I never said I’d start doubting him if we falter here, I said that if he’s as good as we think he is (I said we, that quite literally includes me), then he has to prove that he can keep us competing in this next period with these challenges. If he can’t, and we slip away because we suddenly don’t have the benefit of the world’s best striker against Leicester, Watford, Burnley, Newcastle and Fulham, then he has room for growth. That’s not a put down, that’s merely what he will expect from himself to.

You lot are so precious. You infer a put down towards Pochettino where there isn’t one, one of you feel the need to unnecessarily have a dig at the chairman when he is in no way relevant to this discussion, when all I said was that this is a big test for Pochettino and he needs to prove himself, for his sake and ours.

Never have we been so depleted. If Poch can steer us through this patch, there should be no more doubt who is the best football manager/coach in the world.

This guy got it. He’s better than all of you.
 

BringBack_leGin

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Apart from me. I’m amazing
You are amazing.

I just find the level of bed wetting going on right now alarming. The teams we are likely to field over our coming five league fixture are still better man fit man than every opposition player they will come up against. Excepting maybe Jamie Vardy, I can’t think of a single opposition player in the coming fixtures who would improve even our depleted xi, yes this place is apoplectic with fear.
 

cider spurs

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You are amazing.

I just find the level of bed wetting going on right now alarming. The teams we are likely to field over our coming five league fixture are still better man fit man than every opposition player they will come up against. Excepting maybe Jamie Vardy, I can’t think of a single opposition player in the coming fixtures who would improve even our depleted xi, yes this place is apoplectic with fear.


Could it not be argued that it's the in-built fear factor of yesteryear rearing it's ugly head once more.

Maybe some are so apprehensive after witnessing Spurs falter time after time when on the cusp of great achievements.

The current injury crisis allowing for the dread to reappear. I personally think we will get through this tricky period, and yes the upcoming fixtures still see us strong man v man league wise...but, no guarantees of winning any football match.

On that basis. I just try and enjoy for what it is...C'est la Vie.
 
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