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Appreciate that this is only part of your post and not disagreeing with you on Mourinho's tactical credentials but the above is simply not truePochettino (love that man) gave us two of the best nights I've ever had as a Spurs fan just last year (City, Ajax), we also smashed Real Madrid at home, have outplayed every team in the league (albeit sadly not always in the same season) and has taken our club from 4th hopefuls to CL regulars, was it time for him to go? Almost definitely, his system was based on belief and as soon as that belief started to disappear, so did the foundations of his tenure,
Poch massively overachieved with his squad by coaching them to play as a unit and by massively improving players' individual decision making and consistency. Belief improved, based on performance and results. Arguably it was actually a lack of belief (in admittedly a young squad) that stopped us converting that into trophies. That he was ultimately allowed to be undermined by some of the same players that we just shipped out will go down as one of the stupidest events in the club's history