dudu
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Poch: In or Out? - You CAN change your vote
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Everlasting Seconds
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When I'm saying this I know I'm not generally regarded as the optimist on SC, so I think people will know the level of realism that I'm applying to this.
What I think will happen, is that we'll keep tailing 3-6 points behind 5th for 8 weeks from now. Meanwhile we'll get all our ducks and a few swans in nice rows and target 4-5 new players in January. We'll take this from our competitors as well as uncovering the foreign gems our scouts have spent the last decade sourcing, and half of Leicester's team are dying to come here anyway.
Levy won't have any problems paying for those players knowing that half a team of our own will be leaving on a free transfer in June.
Then, from that moment, Pochettino will start integrating new players not on a 12 months time line but on a 12 minutes timeline, so all those 4-5 January signings will hit the ground running vs. Liverpool at home on the 11th of January. And we'll just go from strength to strength and also take the FA cup seriously leading straight to our first major domestic cup trophy. And we'll forget 2019 ever existed.
January will be fun.
What I think will happen, is that we'll keep tailing 3-6 points behind 5th for 8 weeks from now. Meanwhile we'll get all our ducks and a few swans in nice rows and target 4-5 new players in January. We'll take this from our competitors as well as uncovering the foreign gems our scouts have spent the last decade sourcing, and half of Leicester's team are dying to come here anyway.
Levy won't have any problems paying for those players knowing that half a team of our own will be leaving on a free transfer in June.
Then, from that moment, Pochettino will start integrating new players not on a 12 months time line but on a 12 minutes timeline, so all those 4-5 January signings will hit the ground running vs. Liverpool at home on the 11th of January. And we'll just go from strength to strength and also take the FA cup seriously leading straight to our first major domestic cup trophy. And we'll forget 2019 ever existed.
January will be fun.
I don't think that Poch or anyone else has dismissed winning trophies so much as 'prioritised' some over others. That's another way of saying that when resources are finite they have had to be used to best effect. It's also been Poch's way of getting his Spurs players to take setback in their stride and to quickly look forward to the next task.
It's really only people with spare time on their hands — people like us —and often at a distance from the intensity of team effort, and media types with so much media space to fill with chat, who have the luxury of dwelling on what gets to matter less with each passing week and month.
archiewasking
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I respectfully don't agree with the bit about not playing to our capabilities being encouraging. If we'd gone down playing as we can, all guns blazing, shots cleared off the line, hitting the woodwork, the Pool goalie pulling off worldies, at least we would have been able to take pride in heroic, rather than damp squib failure. That's what hurts most about that final for me.
NickHSpurs
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I'm amazed there's no ITK coming out of the club at all, either in support or concern.
McFlash
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The penalty was a kick in the stones and ruined the game but I don't really find any solace in the fact we didn't turn up.
I'd much rather have lost, knowing that we tried to win.
spursfan77
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Nothing in the papers either. When AVB was sacked we had loads of coverage in the papers, mainly from Ashton. Maybe we need to look back to then and see if there was any ITK then that he was on his way out or whether it was just newspaper pressure.
Edit: just had a look back through the ITK threads from December 2013 (there's 3 before the 13 December when AVB was sacked) and there is nothing. The only ITK I found talking about the manager at all was Hertyid saying the manager's job was safe and that was on 10 December.
So basically, don't expect to hear anything until it happens (if it happens)!
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danielneeds
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I really don’t see it that way. Both teams struggled after the three week break. There was no rhythm to the match. Liverpool got their goal and just sat back and hoped to catch us with a counter. We controlled the ball and had some decent openings, but Van Dijk and a lack of quality in the final ball let us down.
Shadydan
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That was the final in a nutshell.
Shadydan
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JJ says the club are fully behind Poch.
dagraham
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Quite. Failing to perform in the biggest game for a generation and a chance that is not likely to come around again for a long time is hardly a cause for celebration.
Geyzer Soze
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Am I being dramatic? Haha ?
WiganSpur
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He's going to be here for West Ham now. Think it'll mean he will go when Bayern likely give us another gubbing next month and our league form is no different. But that would be far too late to salvage the season and I highly doubt Mourinho or other qualified coaches would be interested in taking over in that scenario.
Blackrat1299
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I am not surprised that, that is the party line. Those same people need to look at the 10's of thousands of supporters/followers and give a public re-assurance.
Shadydan
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He only has 5000 followers so not sure they'd be any point to that, if they wanted to give a public reassurance they'd do it through the media.
Well much like on the pitch, the club doesnt have a clue off it either. Itks are in a state of flux like we are
Blackrat1299
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What to make of it? Those most likely to be voting against Poch in such polls are fans of rival clubs who can see full well how destructive of Spurs such a departure of Poch from our club would be. The kind of people who must be pissing themselves laughing at the nihilism and sheer clueless numptyism of some of our Mr Angry and Mr Fickle types who have spent weeks on their online campaign of knocking, slagging off and denouncing Spurs players, owners, tactics, performances, coaching staff and every other thing to do with Spurs.
So those minority-poll-votes mentioned above, are not just minority but padded-out-by-rivals minority votes. You'd find too, I suspect, that the majority votes in such polls above comprise many Spurs supporters furious with the kind of destructive manoeuvre that has been attempted in recent weeks.
riggi
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Tiberius Gracchus
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Foolish to have confidence that the club will invest in around 10 new players with the needed quality by next summer.
And as we have learned by Poch it takes us two years to fully integrate new players.
A process Kane , Son and co. in their prime surely support with patience.
I think the rebuild could take a couple of years (rather than signing 10 top players by next summer( with a phase 1 to be completed next summer and then a phase 2 over the following year
Agree that the top players probably won’t stick around
