The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

[jonola]

No idea if this has already been posted, apologies if it has, but I thought it was well worth the read. It certainly got me looking forward to next season already

http://bankruptspurs.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/levy-and-learning-to-love-poch/

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

AVwho?

Oh FFS, I was almost over him too. Now back to sleepless nights and crying in the dark while the process starts again...

 

[wpd659]

"He", as in Pochettino or whoever the head coach is, does not decide who we sell or not. Those decisions are made by Levy. But i agree, we should cash in on Lennon

This is wrong...... When a bid comes in Levy would speak to Baldini who will then ask the head coach if he wants to keep the player. Unless it is a crazy bid or if that player is already on the list of players that can go.

 

[danielneeds]

I was probably leaning slightly to De Boer, but now it's looks like Poch is the annointed one, I'm excited to see how he tackles the job.

Love the fact all the reports say that he's a workaholic and doesn't accept 2nd best.

The worry is that he's thrown his toys out of his pram a few times at Espanyol and Southampton, and we're a much more political club. Hope he plays a canny game with Levy.

 

[kaz Hirai]

Should imagine old arry will be in for Lennon in the summer.

Along with bae, Dawson, naughton, adebayor, and maybe even Townsend and Sandro trying recreate spurs at QPR.

I'll watch with great interest what kinda say poch gets in the transfer of players and if it will piss him off big time as it did AVB.

I'm hope levy clearly explained to him that at this club if you ask for steak you will get a tin of corned beef instead.

 

[Sarsipius]

OK. Fine. Whatever.
I'm super excited about this new project/experiment and believe Pochettino will bring us loads to talk about over the next 12 months.
We must find a good nickname, Poch or MP does not serve him.

El Pocho Grande

 

[ravo]

Don't get all this fear from the anti-Poch brigade. Think about it rationally for a moment and also accept that FdB and Benitez are not coming:

-He'll more than likely bring Lamela into the team- like a massive new signing.
-Our other signings have had a year to settle in
-We had no tactics under Sherwood. At least we'll have some sort of gameplan now.
-Looks like Jan is staying
-We'll probably sign a couple of defenders (Already linked to Lovren)

Now, without most of that, we finished 6th last season. So, what is all the worry about? Can you honestly see him making such a clusterfuck of the job that we finish below 6th/7th? Cos I can't. I can understand those that have the opinion that FdB/FSW are better options but that does not mean that Pochettino will send us back to mid table. Just relax, because we have no right to be demanding the Champions League spot, so let's just enjoy the nice football we're probably going to play instead.

Cracking post.

 

[southgatespur40]

"He", as in Pochettino or whoever the head coach is, does not decide who we sell or not. Those decisions are made by Levy. But i agree, we should cash in on Lennon

I think you have got the wrong end of the stick...Levy acts in the best interests of the club, and he would not sell a player irrespective of what the manager says. If the manager wants to keep a player, we keep that player.

Yes, you will point to the likes of modric, bale, berbatov, carrick. But you have to understand that they were offered more money to play for bigger clubs and win trophies which they all did, and you can't begrudge them for it. We are in a difficult position with respect to breaking in to the top 4 and keeping ahold of our players, but I firmly believe that the everyone at the entire club is trying their utmost to make sure we get there.

 

[Sarsipius]

OK. Fine. Whatever.
I'm super excited about this new project/experiment and believe Pochettino will bring us loads to talk about over the next 12 months.
We must find a good nickname, Poch or MP does not serve him.

Hotch Poch

Aka His Potchness

 

[thinktank]

Don't get all this fear from the anti-Poch brigade. Think about it rationally for a moment and also accept that FdB and Benitez are not coming:

-He'll more than likely bring Lamela into the team- like a massive new signing.
-Our other signings have had a year to settle in
-We had no tactics under Sherwood. At least we'll have some sort of gameplan now.
-Looks like Jan is staying
-We'll probably sign a couple of defenders (Already linked to Lovren)

Now, without most of that, we finished 6th last season. So, what is all the worry about? Can you honestly see him making such a clusterfuck of the job that we finish below 6th/7th? Cos I can't. I can understand those that have the opinion that FdB/FSW are better options but that does not mean that Pochettino will send us back to mid table. Just relax, because we have no right to be demanding the Champions League spot, so let's just enjoy the nice football we're probably going to play instead.

I'm guessing their eyes glazed over at that point.

 

[Sarsipius]

Some people call him Maurice

 

[Yid]

Good point and i think you could say the same for the FDB backers. There has been plenty of posters giving their reasons why they prefer one or the other and i do not think most will change their minds now, i still think FDB would be the best choice but if Pooch gets it i will back him. I hope that all fans will do the same whoever gets the job, though i have my doubts.

Levy better not "screw the Pooch" on this one then.

 

[SpunkyBackpack]

Some people call him Maurice

I'm calling him Chett, i can't spell the rest. Makes him sound like a high school quarterback, which makes him the coolest person of all.

Go gettem Chett!!

 

[Tom Pops]

http://bankruptspurs.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/levy-and-learning-to-love-poch/

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

Some people call him Maurice

Because he speaks of the pompitous of love?

 

[LexingtonSpurs]

I know it's article another, but this one is worth reading.

http://bankruptspurs.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/levy-and-learning-to-love-poch/

Well, there is no way that site is going bankrupt - with as many times as that article has been posted in here

 

[Tom Pops]

Well, there is no way that site is going bankrupt - with as many times as that article has been posted in here

You can proceed to giving that post a d'oh rating

 

[Mr Pink]

When I watched Southampton under Pochettino I saw evidence of a manager who could get his players to enact a very specific system. Though I am an Ajax fanboy, this observation is what still makes me excited about Pochettino.

Off-the-ball movement is by far the biggest reason Southampton had so much success last season. They weren't creating tons of sweaty chances strictly through the individual brilliance of players; they had consistent attack patterns and types of runs that forged chances systematically. They very rarely had games where they looked completely bereft of ideas.

AVB was great at articulating his ideas in interviews but I never saw anything to suggest he was actually capable of getting a group of players to perform them. How many occasions can you remember where our players literally just fucking stood around over the last two seasons? And when runs were made, how many occasions did our players actually have the balls to try to pick them out?

This is the biggest thing that needs changing with our side. Our movement is abysmal.

Great post.

 

[beats1]

No idea if this has already been posted, apologies if it has, but I thought it was well worth the read. It certainly got me looking forward to next season already

http://bankruptspurs.wordpress.com/2014/05/26/levy-and-learning-to-love-poch/

It has overlooked some of the stuff that happened in spain like failing out with some of his players and teammates which is funny since he lists there is a great atmosphere in southampton and he will bring that to Tottenham

As for the shots conceded, there was a similar stat about AVB 12 months ago but unlike AVB he does play good football and doesn't just keep the ball for the sake of it

The tempo thing doesnt mention how it is difficult to sustain over 90mins and a season, the teams that do this struggle when they have too many games but poch does use his youth players more and hasn't had a huge squad

The point of working in a structure like ours is a silly one since you could say that about every foreign manager, its only british clubs that don't operate in that structure

As for FDB moving soon after utter bollocks, it seems this was deduced from the fact he said he wanted a project like tottenham.

There are alot great things about Pochettino but that article is purely based on the last 18 months whilst ignoring the last 4 years at spain tbh.

Talk about Pochettino getting the best out of players

Talk about pochettino getting the best from his youth and trusting them

Talk about his style and chances created

Talk about how his teams fitnesses are peak

I like Poch but not going to pretend that article is on the money when its not

 

[thinktank]

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