Pochettino's post match interviews

[dondo]

Seeing as it's been talked about in other threads thought it might be an idea to start a new light hearted thread about Pochettino's interviews and how many times he mentions "his philosophy" or "my player", In his media interviews and how his English is coming along

 

[Strikeb4ck]

Seeing as it's been talk about in other threads though it might be an idea to start a new light hearted thread about Pochettino's interviews and how many times he mentions "his philosophy" or "my player",
In his media interviews and how his English is coming along

Probably better than yours.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Zing!

 

[dondo]

Probably better than yours.

You should shud upper your face

 

[225]

Much prefer his cryptic and close-lipped patter than:

a) Split-personality Mourinho
b) "Honest" Tim
c) Psycho Van Gaal

and so on.

I think, and have always felt, his "poor english" is just a foil to use against the media, and behind closed doors (in training etc.) I bet it's perfectly fine.

 

[dondo]

Much prefer his cryptic and close-lipped patter than:

a) Split-personality Mourinho
b) "Honest" Tim
c) Psycho Van Gaal

and so on.

I think, and have always felt, his "poor english" is just a foil to use against the media, and behind closed doors (in training etc.) I bet it's perfectly fine.

Don't you like getting the managers point of view after the game? Didn't even see his interview after the game today, sky probably weren't bothered either because his interviews are as dull as ditch water

 

[DaSpurs]

Much prefer his cryptic and close-lipped patter than:

a) Split-personality Mourinho
b) "Honest" Tim
c) Psycho Van Gaal

and so on.

I think, and have always felt, his "poor english" is just a foil to use against the media, and behind closed doors (in training etc.) I bet it's perfectly fine.

Better than Mourinho and Lolly, agreed, but frankly I immensely appreciated Tim's honesty. When I was beyond nausea with some of the performances last spring from some of the players in big games, I very much appreciated him flat out calling the obvious players out. I think he cared immensely about that job, and in turn despite my loathing of some his team selections and especially his concept of a "symmetrical" central midfield laughably as a "balanced" one, I appreciated how much he cared about it.

I do agree though about your suspicion that Poch may be more communicative behind closed doors, but I don't think it's much. I know a bit of Spanish myself (I live in the American South, I have no choice), and the points in questions in which he struggles to answers are indeed ones in which the transition to Spanish is not smooth. So yes, I do think he may consciously throw up a bit of a screen, but even so I do think his English should be better at this point.

That having been said, he could very well astutely be recognizing those points of rough transition, and selectively using those as a part of his screen - in which case, fair play to him and he's gotten me.

 

[DiscoD1882]

Pretty standard stuff

Win

Ehhh ithoughtnyplayersplayedwell.wedeservedtowin

Draw

Ehhh ithoughtnyplayersplayedwell.wedeservedtowin

Loss

Ehhh ithoughtnyplayersplayedwell.wedeservedtowin

 

[muppetman]

I used to enjoy Andre's interviews. I suspect Poch's English is better than he shows and it is a ploy to not have to give many interviews - it's certainly working!

 

[225]

Don't you like getting the managers point of view after the game? Didn't even see his interview after the game today, sky probably weren't bothered either because his interviews are as dull as ditch water

I used to, before it became so political.

FA, Daily Mail, Twitter and so on all watching like hawks, waiting to jump on the smallest comment. It's meaningless these days, and I doubt we'd ever get his honest opinion, so why bother pretending.

 

[yankspurs]

Perez speaks much better english and is alot more understandable than Poch.

If this is a smokescreen and he speaks much more clearly and is understandable in training away from the media, than fair play to him and it's working.

 

[225]

Better than Mourinho and Lolly, agreed, but frankly I immensely appreciated Tim's honesty. When I was beyond nausea with some of the performances last spring from some of the players in big games, I very much appreciated him flat out calling the obvious players out. I think he cared immensely about that job, and in turn despite my loathing of some his team selections and especially his concept of a "symmetrical" central midfield laughably as a "balanced" one, I appreciated how much he cared about it.

That joke was that he isn't honest, imo. He says what he thinks people want to hear, which can be massively counter productive at times. I always felt it was a deflection for his own criticism.

There's things you might want to know about the squad, but you wouldn't want to hear it from the guy who is supposed to be taking responsibility for it all, or sorting it, and often it felt like his post-match pressers were the same thing he'd say in the studio of ITV as a neutral.


The manager should be keeping things private, not publicly blaming the players and then wondering why he's lost their respect.

 

[dondo]

I used to enjoy Andre's interviews. I suspect Poch's English is better than he shows and it is a ploy to not have to give many interviews - it's certainly working!

If that's the case I would be pissed. I always like to here our mangers point of view after the match.
One of my favourite memories of spurs is after the ac Milan match when rednapp joined the itv commentary team on their mock up commentary box mins after the final whistle looking pumped up and near tears

 

[Qualsonic]

Did you see Van Gaal s post-match interview yesterday? Hilarious.

 

[DaSpurs]

That joke was that he isn't honest, imo. He says what he thinks people want to hear, which can be massively counter productive at times. I always felt it was a deflection for his own criticism.

There's things you might want to know about the squad, but you wouldn't want to hear it from the guy who is supposed to be taking responsibility for it all, or sorting it, and often it felt like his post-match pressers were the same thing he'd say in the studio of ITV as a neutral.


The manager should be keeping things private, not publicly blaming the players and then wondering why he's lost their respect.

That's fair actually, but I disagree it was entirely to deflect criticism. He may just have been a master of manipulation, but his body language suggested genuinely appropriate emotion which was in line with his words. I don't think he entirely blamed the players as he'd have to be literally dumber than even the most degrading insult suggested for him to not realize he was a walking dead man as soon as February or March.

I was hacked, sickened, and disgusted by some of those performances last spring, and frankly I thought everything he said after some of those matches was absolutely spot on. He didn't cite any specific names, which IMO would have been excessive, but he merely made allusions in times of gutted frustration and I thought they were appropriate. But hey, to each their own. I do think you make a fair point nonetheless.

 

[DaSpurs]

Did you see Van Gaal s post-match interview yesterday? Hilarious.

Was it as good as "Queens Park Raisins?"

 

[Bus-Conductor]

They are pretty pointless. We'd learn more if he was allowed to use an interpreter.

Yeeess, berry berry difficult.

 

[225]

Was it as good as "Queens Park Raisins?"

Better:

https://vine.co/v/ezr5ilmtLuL

I think he's referring to this, though:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/32369922

 

[CarrickSpurgus]

The best interview he gave was a pre match one a few months back,when asked why he'd selected Lennon for the game he replied with "he's been here a long time and he runs very fast"
I think what he was attempting to say was that he was an experienced player with pace.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I used to enjoy Andre's interviews. I suspect Poch's English is better than he shows and it is a ploy to not have to give many interviews - it's certainly working!

If that theory (which has been mentioned before) is true, he's so good at acting that his career future lies in Hollywood.