Club Statement 19 Nov 19 - Pochettino leaves

[kaz Hirai]

I have no doubt he’ll take to a higher standard but they want to be Prem champions. They are miles away from that! Would they be happy with always making the top 4? I think they will expect more.

For now they'll definitely accept a team that doesn't get dominated at home by teams from the top 6
I'm pretty sure if he goes there they'll eventually be playing good football and be much stronger all round

 

[Shadydan]

From me not that "he wasnt that good anyway" because he for a small period, but he is hugely over rated by all non Spurs fans and a few of ours too. Definitely isnt close to the elite bracket of managers

I think what's obvious is that the majority of his tenure at Spurs and Southampton he's shown that he's a very good manager, despite our last season where his time was clearly done the previous ones would put him up there amongst the best, if not just below it.

I think he's as close to Pep, Jose and Klopp as you're gonna get, he's certainly better than Arteta and Lampard and I'd trust him over any other manager in Europe right now to manage a team in the Premier League.

 

[spursfan77]

No offence, but that (the second half of the post) sounds.... really unhealthy!

Why? I hated football, not life!

 

[sausage]

I think what's obvious is that the majority of his tenure at Spurs and Southampton he's shown that he's a very good manager, despite our last season where his time was clearly done the previous ones would put him up there amongst the best, if not just below it.

I think he's as close to Pep, Jose and Klopp as you're gonna get, he's certainly better than Arteta and Lampard and I'd trust him over any other manager in Europe right now to manage a team in the Premier League.

I think he had the potential to be, as Poch and Klopp were, in PL terms, neck-and-neck in terms of perceived ability.

Where it diverged and Poch kind of failed, comparatively, was in the face of failure*. Klopp galvanised and came back stronger, where Poch seemed to completely fall to pieces. I think that's what separates the two of them. Well, that an an evolution - our style of play peaked around 16/17 and we struggled to evolve.

I think his next job will be a very big point in his career, and I worry that he'll go the same way as other United managers if he goes there. It has destroyed every manager since 2013.

(*One of the reason I rate Hasenhuttl is similar - it takes a manager of real quality to turn around a team that ends up at a really low ebb. I don't know many who could take a 9-0 spanking among a 1-point-in-seven-games run and turn the team around like he did)

 

[Jamturk]

If he goes to United I don't want him to do well.

 

[nailsy]

Just extended his contract didn't he?

They triggered a contract extension a couple of days after he said he was thinking of leaving on a free when his contract expired

 

[Spurs' Pipe Dreams]

Still love him



I think we're in a better place now (think, not sure) but he's just class and will probably be my all-time favourite manager

 

[soflapaul]

I loved Poch and wish him nothing but the best outside of the EPL. It seems that there were at least two issues with him as a coach which wouldn't bode well at Man U. First, our best years were when we had young players on the rise who could run all day long and would run thru brick walls for him and the club. as the players aged, that worked less and less. Not sure that that style is MU's current player profile. Second, tactically, he wasn't consistently effective. And as much as i was against his sacking, the lack of support from the senior players as a coach, not as a person, is/was the damning evidence that suggests he is a very good coach, but not yet at the top of his craft.

 

[Spursmatty87]

Good luck to him, I think he did a good job for us and was what we needed at the time. He’ll definitely improve them but I still think they’ll end up moving on from him to win things in two or three years time.

 

[Nayim60yards]

Get ready and prepare yourself for Poch to United boys and girls.... makes me feel sick to say that

Ole always seems to pull out a result when he's on the brink. I think Poch should look elsewhere for his next job.

 

[Alex4487]

utd winning today will keep him in a job until xmas very happy indeed let poch go to psg and utd can flop once again

 

[ardiles]

Ole always seems to pull out a result when he's on the brink. I think Poch should look elsewhere for his next job.

i hope Poch gets impatient and accepts a job at another club from another league.

 

[Bobbins]

Hopefully Zidane loses his job at Real soon and Poch goes there - would like to see how he performs at the toppest of top jobs, and means we won't see him managing another PL side for a while at least.

 

[neogenisis]

Wait a sodding second! Poch has left the club? when did this happen /sarcasm

 

[Shadydan]

Wait a sodding second! Poch has left the club? when did this happen /sarcasm

Good thing you told us that was sarcasm mate, wouldn't have known otherwise.

 

[neogenisis]

Good thing you told us that was sarcasm mate, wouldn't have known otherwise.

I know right.

 

[SecretLemonadeDrinker]

Good thing you told us that was sarcasm mate, wouldn't have known otherwise.

...he says, sarcastically.

But without telling us. Sneaky bastard.

 

[dtxspurs]

Hope for his sake he gets the Real job and they’re patient with him and let him rebuild that team. But we all know that won’t happen.

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

We used to think he spoke like this in press conferences on purpose to mislead the media. When all along he just couldn't speak English

Some actually did think that but I said it from the start that if that were the case he should take his acting skills to Hollywood and stop being a coach.

Either my memory of his grasp of English is wrong or he's spoken it very little since leaving the club and has regressed. I'm sure I never had this much trouble understanding him.

Nah, he was always bad. From day one his English was rubbish, and even worse it never got better despite many, many years in the country.

Out of interest. How good is your Spanish, French and Italian skills?

And before I get one of these in my direction. My Italian is actually fairly good. I admit my Spanish it rubbish, but my French is OK.
English, as my third language, totally eclipses Pochettino. Sherwood too, come to think of it.

 

[tototoner]

Dele will not be far behind him