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To be honest, his comments before the CL final were almost a sacking offence. If you're managing a team, and you get to the very pinnacle of what you've been trying to achieve and then just before the crunch you start on about this maybe being the end of the line. Terrible management. Just do what Zidane did if you're so fed up. Win and drop the mic. Or lose and drop the mic. But before, keep your mouth shut and focus on getting your team ready.My confusion in all this is.....
When we sacked Poch, he was going on about needing a painful rebuild, he was clearly getting fed up and you could see that in his press conferences. Our form and play had become stale.
Now it appeared to me, that he was sacked because it was felt that he was underachieving with the squad and there were those who firmly believed that we just needed a winner who could push this squad over the line. Hence some excitement over Mourinho replacing Poch.
Mourinho himself was claiming he was excited with this squad and that he was refreshed and ready with a new brand of football.
It was music to levy's ears to hear a manager with Jose winning CV saying how great our squad is, when he had Poch bemoaning we needed investment. Jose was the cheaper option and Levy expected to see the trophies to compliment the world class stadium he has seen built.
So where are we today?
Mourinho hasn't given us a new brand of football, it's the same Mourinho and the football alongside the performances are painful to watch. Things could potentially change with some signings, but this points to the fact that our squad clearly wasn't underachieving and Poch was indeed correct in his assessment that we needed a rebuild.
So do we stick with Mourinho, give him a budget and hope we win a trophy, in the meantime putting up with the dire football that we now play?
I don't know the answer to that question, but there is growing unrest about where we are heading and i fear Mourinho needs a decent result or at least performance against Arsenal tomorrow or things will start to turn toxic.
Also a lot of the psychological preparation was completely idiotic. Basically telling players it's once in a lifetime, the walking on fire. It undermines the confidence that you need to get over the line.
I say this as someone who enjoyed the Poch years more than any other years of football in my life. I got it wrong. Hopefully he'll learn from that, as Klopp learned from all the near misses.