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No...I firmly blame Poch for CL finals for not having the balls to back inform Moura over unfit Kane.
But My point is not a single finals in a year...My point is over a 13 year period, as a club we have failed.
Thats completely on club management, not on any single manager.
In those 13 years:
- 4 FA Cup Semi-Finals
- 2 League Cup Finals and one Semi-Final
- 1 Europa League Quarter Final
- 1 Champions League Final and 1 Quarter final
So 8 times in those 13 seasons we've been in the last 4 (last 8 in 10). The odds on not getting one trophy in that time are ridiculous.
The one and only thing I can truly attribute to the door of ENIC on that one is hiring managers who have no experience in winning things. That changed when they hired pretty much the most successful manager in football.
It's a paradox for people to complain about "boring football" and being impatient on one hand, lusting after people like Pochettino, and yet complain about not having trophies. We have to pick one. We can be the Pochettino/Redknapp club who look good not winning things, or we can suck up a bit of aesthetically challenged football for a bit and it's highly likely we will quell the trophy cabinet argument.
I mean, Poch basically said he wasn't prioritising trophies we could/should have won, too. On more than one occasion we've looked down our nose at the League Cup and Europa League.