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  1. Barry Mead

    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    The thing is you could have said Soldado, Lamela, Eriksen, Paulinho etc all looked very promising and maybe with the right coach and tactics they could have been. Paulinho looked very good in his first season for us, Capoue looked very good in his early games before getting injured, Davies...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    I actually don't think it's a well balanced squad and I think we are short more than a final piece, I actually see us moving away from a balanced squad, over reliance on youth and energy, a lack of skill, experience, character and leadership, far too much emphasis on attacking play and shape and...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    That's true but neither does it make any other option a fact, it's certainly plausible though and at the end of the day the owner is the guy who gets to call the shots. Lewis seemingly took a back seat for a number of years but there have been a number of rumours in the last couple of years that...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    I don't really go along with that, it might be easy to make the assumption that the club want a manager prepared to bring a few youngsters forward to save us money in the transfer market, but that flies in the face of the fact that our net spend has been flat of given us a profit for about 5...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    It's not really if Lewis has been unhappy with the turnover of managers and so makes a suggestion. When you are the main shareholder the chairman has to listen. Then there was the supposed addition to the board rumoured to be put there to keep their eye on Levy. It's certainly possible that...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    I heard it said too, but how true it is is another matter, as chairman, particularly someone who has always seemingly made all the big decisions you have to think if it was Lewis's idea and he didn't really agree with it then he could have found reasons to change his mind Lets be fair neither...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    I understand your point and I have some sympathy with that view, but Levy was the guy who decided Poch was the right choice. There were warning signs at Espanyol about Poch and some of the more senior players, add that to his dogmatic tactical approach you have to question how Poch made the...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    Well your probabilities are what I would describe as possibilities and what you feel are my possibilities are the probabilities, both are opinions
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    But that's the point managers with belief believe they can win and will thrive, they don't think they'll get the sack, if five managers have been sacked in the last five years a good manager will think I can do that job and they won't want to sack me, I'll show the previous managers how to do...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    I wasn't referring to ours but to the coaches of the likes of Soldado, Lamela, Paulinho, Capoue etc. They were all playing really well at their previous clubs when we bought them, it's not that we bought bad players, so how did those coaches manage to get that much more out of them. Yes we can...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    Well if the manager isn't capable of getting the players he wants then you have to ask what is the point of that manager. It's also fair to challenge the statement, are all our buys so bad that a good manager can't get some decent football out of them and how did the previous players managers...
  12. Barry Mead

    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    Or it would seem idiots who can't tell a kneejerk from longer term concerns about the direction we are going
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    That's a fair point, but I think Harry's problem was that a number of fans got upset not with his football but that they thought he would take the England job and maybe had taken his eye of the team in those weeks of speculation and cost us a CL place because of it
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    The thing is I saw how dull Espanyol were after Poch had been there 3 seasons so you'll forgive me if I have a rather jaundiced view about him taking us forward I'm really not bothered about what other teams do in the PL I want to see us playing attractive football, so what Southampton do or...
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    The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

    We have already sold Stam and had agreed to sell Fazio two players that arrived under Poch's tenure. If we carry on selling half the players we buy every year under Poch it might take a while to build this squad of his players The fans are disappointed with the dull football Poch delivers and...
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