Club Statement 19 Nov 19 - Pochettino leaves

[yankspurs]

Seeing many replies to Jesus Perez's tweet plus the general people I follow on Spurs Twitter I'm glad I'm not alone in harbouring a desire that one day somewhere down the line Poch and his team could return.

He's still relatively young as a manager and while his stock has taken a hit in the last six months, people inside the footballing world are a lot more open-minded. Look at Sarri and how he went from favourite to be sacked at Chelsea for a while to getting the Juventus job not long after. Poch will not be short of offers although I expect he'll want a break. My preference is he goes abroad and I think he'll do very well and perhaps in 10 years or so if he is still cemented as a top class manager he'll feel he has unfinished business.

I really hope they return. I miss and love Poch. Levy can fuck off. As for the bulk of these players? They can fuck off too. Pissed off with the lot of them. Only Son, Sissoko and Lamela come out with any credit.

Time for Jose to win us an international/domestic double one year

 

[DiamondLites]

I dunno if it's people of grieving or what. But the crying over poch in one post. Whilst rubbing one out over Jose in the next. Is weird.

It’s called crymaxing you uncultured swine

 

[bat-chain]

I am heartbroken and I don’t mind admitting it, I keep reading stuff on twitter and tearing up, seeing him in his training gear writing that message just seems awful to me, 5 months ago we were in Madrid. My brain can’t actually compute how we have got here. He’s got 12 million reasons to be happy of course in the future, but if I feel like this and I’m just a fan I expect he's somewhat crushed. I hate to think that.

I dearly hope in the future he I back with us, no slight on José I respect how he is trying to navigate through this and wish him all the success in the world but we have lost something so special in Pochettino.

Maybe he was jaded by the end but looking back now I feel he was let down in so many ways, how could we not put a structure in place that got him better signings than the likes of Njie, Nkoudou and Janssen and then no one at all for a whole year while everything he built stagnated. The players we were giving him in many cases were not even premiership standard, it's bizarre.

While all this was going on Walker lost faith and was replaced by Aurier another downgrade, Rose was wanting a move and letting everyone know, while at the same time being reduced by injury, Dembele had one eye on China and was declining physically, Wanyama was utterly destroyed by injury, Dier started to head down the same route.

When the club does start to sign him some genuinely class players they too are injured often (N'Dombele, Lo Celso and Sessengon meaning he has to rely on the same squad. Add to that having big named in the squad who openly wanted to leave, add to that failing to replace his plan b in Llorente.

Yes at times he made mistakes but I can’t help feel he has been let down by various different people while at the same time having some genuinely rotten luck with injuries. Yet for the majority of his time with us he had us competing with the best in Europe while spending almost nothing. He was utterly magic.

I don’t think for one moment José will put up with some of the things Mauricio did and with very good reason.

 

[spuradik]

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[riggi]

 

[dimiSpur]

The internet is going to turn a wonderful, emotional photo into a meme isn't it?

 

[dimiSpur]

I dunno if it's people of grieving or what. But the crying over poch in one post. Whilst rubbing one out over Jose in the next. Is weird.

It's weird. I was watching a Poch montage crying yesterday, then I was watching the Jose press conference laughing at the "I don't know, I never lost a final" answer and my girlfriend was like "I thought you were sad?".

I am sad. I'm gutted. Heartbroken. Yet at the same time I'm excited in that we have a world class new manager. I think that's part of the problem, I think part of the heartbreak is that we feel like we have upgraded perhaps, whereas we all wanted to see Poch reach Jose's level with us.

 

[easley91]

It's weird. I was watching a Poch montage crying yesterday, then I was watching the Jose press conference laughing at the "I don't know, I never lost a final" answer and my girlfriend was like "I thought you were sad?".

I am sad. I'm gutted. Heartbroken. Yet at the same time I'm excited in that we have a world class new manager. I think that's part of the problem, I think part of the heartbreak is that we feel like we have upgraded perhaps, whereas we all wanted to see Poch reach Jose's level with us.

You can be sad over the way Poch went and also excited about the future. You do not have to be one or the other. Poch did wonderful things for us, but Jose is the final step it feels like.

 

[vicbob]

Gonna be FEELS when WHL sings the Poch song next time out, which of course they will.

English please (for us over the age of 20 anyway)

 

[HW61]

It's weird. I was watching a Poch montage crying yesterday, then I was watching the Jose press conference laughing at the "I don't know, I never lost a final" answer and my girlfriend was like "I thought you were sad?".

I am sad. I'm gutted. Heartbroken. Yet at the same time I'm excited in that we have a world class new manager. I think that's part of the problem, I think part of the heartbreak is that we feel like we have upgraded perhaps, whereas we all wanted to see Poch reach Jose's level with us.

Nice post mate.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I love the guy to bits but he seriously lost a few bricks from the load last season. The erratic behaviour, the form of the side falling off a cliff before the CL final. It was like watching a Greek tragedy in slow motion.

So sorry we could not have had a Poch dynasty and perhaps one day we'll find out why he went bonkers when he did.

I mean, somewhat less patricide and incest, but I take your point.

Finally, someone talking sense. Devastating is someone you love dying in your arms, not a bloody football manager getting the sack!

Even if the language contains hyperbole, pretty sure people are entitled to feel however sad they want without you belittling them, no? It’s not exactly hurting anyone. Far worse things in the world for you to take offence to.

 

[sausage]

Maybe he was jaded by the end but looking back now I feel he was let down in so many ways, how could we not put a structure in place that got him better signings than the likes of Njie, Nkoudou and Janssen and then no one at all for a whole year while everything he built stagnated.

Can we not play the Liverpool (perpetual victim) card for Poch? We're past the in/out thing now.

He wanted Janssen, he got him, he was shit, he's gone. He's pretty much never had an eye for a player at any club so far, so I'd rather we not suddenly make it seem like he never got his players.

 

[Gassin's finest]

It's weird. I was watching a Poch montage crying yesterday, then I was watching the Jose press conference laughing at the "I don't know, I never lost a final" answer and my girlfriend was like "I thought you were sad?".

I am sad. I'm gutted. Heartbroken. Yet at the same time I'm excited in that we have a world class new manager. I think that's part of the problem, I think part of the heartbreak is that we feel like we have upgraded perhaps, whereas we all wanted to see Poch reach Jose's level with us.

Encapsulated.

Its perfectly reasonable to be excited about the future, while remaining respectful about the past.

 

[G Ron]

@Gb160 that’s done me a little.

Man up FFS - need you on top form for the spammers tomorrow.

 

[Mr.D]

Get a fucking grip people. I get tears in my eyes every day.

Not because Uncle Daniel sacked Poch, though.

It's because I'm a builder and get covered in shit for a living and dust gets in my minces.

Snowflakes.

 

[Shadydan]

Don't think people should be telling anyone how to feel, everyone grieves differently.

 

[teok]

"We can't to say goodbye"




Seems desperately sad he can't say goodbye. Is that just the way things are?

 

[Tonio]

Get a fucking grip people. I get tears in my eyes every day.

Not because Uncle Daniel sacked Poch, though.

It's because I'm a builder and get covered in shit for a living and dust gets in my minces.

Snowflakes.

Exactly mate it's a sign of where we've ended up in this day and age. Blokes crying cos Poch got the tin tack. If my missus caught me doing that she'd be gobsmacked and say " what the hell is wrong with you?" And she'd be right. Here's my advice.
If you're a emotionally stable grown up man and you're one of the above then before you start weeping , stop, go and find the nearest mirror and look at yourself. Then ask yourself " What on earth am I doing?" Then go and check you're bollocks haven't shrivelled up and get on with your day.

 

[BringBack_leGin]

So I’m guessing all the big tough macho men condemning anybody who feels teary and about Pochettino being sacked have also never lost their temper and shouted something in anger at a player/ ref/ manager etc? Because, like Pochettino leaving not being a valid catalyst for intense feelings of sadness, surely a bunch of millionaires kicking around a piece of leather at a net (or failing to do so) is not a valid catalyst for intense feelings of anger, right?

Or maybe, just maybe, let people feel however they want as it causes no harm, and frankly if you are irked by something so insignificant it says more about you than them.

 

[Tonio]

So I’m guessing all the big tough macho men condemning anybody who feels teary and about Pochettino being sacked have also never lost their temper and shouted something in anger at a player/ ref/ manager etc? Because, like Pochettino leaving not being a valid catalyst for intense feelings of sadness, surely a bunch of millionaires kicking around a piece of leather at a net (or failing to do so) is not a valid catalyst for intense feelings of anger, right?

Or maybe, just maybe, let people feel however they want as it causes no harm, and frankly if you are irked by something so insignificant it says more about you than them.

Crying at a manager getting the boot and jeering at a player or getting angry at a player is a different emotion. I think you know this.
You can champion it if you want and its nothing to do with being macho. Good forbid if some of you ever get called up for queen and country if we went to war, we'd be fucked.