Spurs to reject all Man U and Chelsea pursuits of Pochettino as club's ambition grows

[gusrowe]

There will always be speculation but I feel he will stay with Spurs for many years to come and be a legend.

Read the full article at Telegraph

 

[chico]

I've no idea what Poch earns. But you can guarantee it £3-5 million a year less than Wenger, LVG get paid, and what The Ordinary One was earning at Chelsea.
I'm a massive fan of Poch, like the big majority on here. These are very exciting times at THFC, and it is crucial to tie in your key assets, Poch and his coaching team, Mitchell, McDermott and our key players.
Money talks, let's not make it easy for Mancs and Chels to "steal" our best by paying them as well as we can afford.

 

[Chris_D]

I've no idea what Poch earns. But you can guarantee it £3-5 million a year less than Wenger, LVG get paid, and what The Ordinary One was earning at Chelsea.
I'm a massive fan of Poch, like the big majority on here. These are very exciting times at THFC, and it is crucial to tie in your key assets, Poch and his coaching team, Mitchell, McDermott and our key players.
Money talks, let's not make it easy for Mancs and Chels to "steal" our best by paying them as well as we can afford.

I hope to God he stays but I agree other clubs can probably offer him more money. I just hope he likes it here!!!

 

[Geyzer Soze]

I've no idea what Poch earns. But you can guarantee it £3-5 million a year less than Wenger, LVG get paid, and what The Ordinary One was earning at Chelsea.
I'm a massive fan of Poch, like the big majority on here. These are very exciting times at THFC, and it is crucial to tie in your key assets, Poch and his coaching team, Mitchell, McDermott and our key players.
Money talks, let's not make it easy for Mancs and Chels to "steal" our best by paying them as well as we can afford.

Give it time, lets not get ahead of ourselves. Wenger, LVG and the Ordinary One have all won considerable honours, Poch has not (yet)

 

[ginola007]

I've no idea what Poch earns. But you can guarantee it £3-5 million a year less than Wenger, LVG get paid, and what The Ordinary One was earning at Chelsea.
I'm a massive fan of Poch, like the big majority on here. These are very exciting times at THFC, and it is crucial to tie in your key assets, Poch and his coaching team, Mitchell, McDermott and our key players.
Money talks, let's not make it easy for Mancs and Chels to "steal" our best by paying them as well as we can afford.

We have no problem giving Poch close to what he would earn at Chelsea and not spending one penny above our budget for this year. Remember we are still paying Ade £100,000 a week. That payment ends this summer. Give Poch a raise of £60,000 a week and his assistants (Mitchell and McDermott, et al) the remaining £40,000 and we can be assured they will be with us for the next 7 years or so. Why go to Man U or Chelsea, where they will face tons of problems, Barca or RM, where you'd be slaughtered for every mistake on or off the pitch?

 

[Spur4life]

Why would he leave ? We have a new ground,some of the best young players in the league.Yes money talks but the guy is building something and he knows that so i cant see it happening.

 

[Shadydan]

Give it time, lets not get ahead of ourselves. Wenger, LVG and the Ordinary One have all won considerable honours, Poch has not (yet)

Plus those clubs can afford to splash out and give their managers heavily loaded contracts without a moments hesitation.

 

[spursbhoy67]

I am surprised it has taken this long for the MP rumour mill to start. However, 1+1 = 3 when it comes to in-depth analysis by the English football media.

MP is like Wenger in that he prefers to work with a certain type of player and has been allowed to recruit according to that philosophy. He won't have that at Chelsea, could possibly have it at United, but in truth they will be under pressure to sign proven players.

He is not a Real Madrid style manager, but would fit in with Barcelona as long as they continue to promote from La Masia. They for me would be the real threat or the Argentina national team.

What Spurs offer MP and Man City offer Pep is a chance to build a club in their image, leave a long term legacy, establish a style of play and more importantly work in the two best training facilities in world football and in MP's case move in to a state of the art stadium. In short, they will both be in control and have a say in all aspects of the club. Neither would have that at the likes of Chelsea and Man United.

Yes, MP left Southampton, but what is forgotten is that his ally in the boardroom left the club. From what I hear it is happening again with RK down there, so he may walk. I think we are in a different place right now and MP can be our Arsene Wenger or Alex Ferguson - longevity, style of play, philosophy and winners.

 

[shelfmonkey]

I'd be wary if this story! We are now looking like a serious, long term threat to the SKY cabal, the media have tried to unsettle Kane and now they're trying to unsettle the whole club (remember how we nose dived when Redknapp was being touted for the England job) with this 'Chelsea want Pochettino' story!!!!

If it's true then Pochettino himself should say he's staying publicly, if all we get is silence then I fear he will off to those shitebags!!!!

 

[Japhet]

I think he has something at Spurs that he'd never get at Chelsea or Utd, namely the opportunity to build something from grass roots. Elsewhere he'd be expected to deliver immediately because bucketloads of cash had been thrown at the project but here he's seeing his (and Levy's) plan beginning to reap rewards. I hope he'll want to see it through.

 

[chinaman]

Don't worry folks. I'm sure that Levy will hold a big press conference together with Poch at an opportune time to announce a shiny new contract.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

He's only halfway into his 2nd season.
We don't want to do a Newcastle and give him a stupendous amount of money too soon and be stuck with him if something goes horribly wrong.

Chelsea, City and United can afford to piss money away in these circumstances but we can't.

 

[whitesocks]

Er, We could not just reject their pursuit, and he could resign at any time - we do not hold his registration papers as with the players.

 

[newbie]

I don't think Chelsea will go for poch, I think they are just trying to unsettle him I am sure clubs are trying like mad right now to unsettle him. I think his to Spurs for Chelsea fans to handle.

I think they will go for another big name like Diego or the juve guy, I think United will make an attempt if they don't get Pep.

I think poch is a man who needs time and will need a massive clear out at United and Chelsea I think there will be to many problem players.

You can't have terry and poch in my opinion I think it will be a massive problem.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Er, We could not just reject their pursuit, and he could resign at any time - we do not hold his registration papers as with the players.

So why do teams typically have to pay a sum in compensation to a managers club?
We had to pay Southampton did we not?

 

[King Yid]

So why do teams typically have to pay a sum in compensation to a managers club?
We had to pay Southampton did we not?

Because managers and players are not strictly employees of a club in the way we are employees of a company under a contract of employment. They are effectively freelance contractors whose employ has a finite date under a short-term contract. If a club decides to release a player or manager early, due to an offer from another club for example, the club has to agree a severance from the player/manager in the form of paying up the remaining term on the contract.

The 'selling' club will then try to recoup that and then some by reaching a separate agreement with the buying club.

I thinks that's how it works anyway. There's a chap on Twitter who regularly publishes articles on things such as sporting contracts, image rights etc.

 

[slartibartfast]

Fk me, you can tell its a slow week in the world of football can't ya.
Fkin space filling drivel.
Piss off please.

 

[whitesocks]

So why do teams typically have to pay a sum in compensation to a managers club?
We had to pay Southampton did we not?

At the risk of producing more drivel, Southampton did not have a choice in the matter - any compensation would have been small beer and related to the size of his salary and length of contract.

HR famously had a transfer fee built into his contract - £10m, but I think it unlikely we could have ever collected on that.

 

[N17Jack]

I like to think of a Manager and a football club like a Man and Wife. At this time we are in love, the bird up the road with the expensive clothes and nice car have started to look admiringly in the Husbands direction. Only time will prove the measure of the man. Will he leave the wife he loves because he is shallow or will he stay and grow a beautiful family. Only time will tell but you cannot make somebody love you, only they themselves can do this.

 

[Dave-F]

As has been said above...I've been expecting this rumour to start in the same way it was inevitable about the Kane rumours. Also, expecting to see the same rumours emerge in regards Ranieri soon as well.

Never say never, but it seems very unlikely for now. Poch has often said he wants to see this one through, although I have no-doubt that once he has achieved whatever his goals are he might then be looking beyond us.

For the moment, it seems likely Pep will go to Chelsea and Jose to Man U (or the other way around depending on who you're listening to). That just leaves Man City whose period of signing managers like Poch ended around 2012 and I suspect will stick with what they have for one more season anyway.

Also, Man U, Chelsea and Man City are now the 'Galacticos' of the PL. They expect big name players and quick results. Not really Poch's style as he clearly has a philosophy that requires time to bed in using players who will do it his way or the highway (e.g. Ade and Townsend).

Frankly I was far more concerned Liverpool would try a move for him as they are in a period of rebuilding, but they went for Klopp.

So, probably not now, but I can see this happening in 3-5 years time once we've won the league or a European Cup. Just depends on whether Poch wants to be a Wenger or a Jose really.