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I don’t think my post can be called reactionary at all.
My view is Poch has done an excellent job overall and Ali is right that this is a difficult time.
I don’t believe in putting all the blame on Levy anymore than Poch.
I do believe that Poch is not managing the current situation well though that alone is not reason to fire him.
I am on the fence with regards to sacking him. I err on the side of firing as I believe very few managers turn things around when performances are bad for such a long time. I also don’t believe the players that want to stay are busting a gut for him which is a worrying sign.
You put up an article, I assume so we could read it and discuss it. So why get defensive over the fact you didn’t write it?
I got 3 replies and so tried to reply to all, rather than write out 3 separate ones, apologies if I came across curt or short.
Yours was one that was discussing the article rather than attacking Pochettino and I should have replied separately to yours.
Performances have been fairly poor for a year, which the article discusses but during that year we've also had a CL final beating Man City over two legs and an Ajax 2nd leg 2nd half which can only be described as magical.
Kane obviously wasn't fully fit yesterday after an illness and a full 90 mins on Wednesday, I lost count of the times that instead of going up for challenges from long clearances he was still coming back from offside, giving the Sheff Utd defender a free header and allowing them to keep possession, that's on Poch for not having a back up and Levy for not allowing the funds to get one but is easily sortable.
There have been glimpses this season of where we are going and the 3 signings have all been positive although I think Ndombele gets a bit of an easy ride on his defensive side because he's so very good on the ball but I digress.
The next month and Christmas is when we will really see where we will end up this season, we've had Arsenal, Liverpool and Man City away in these opening months and only 1 defeat in there, it's the home form that is the major problem but the new stadium cannot be discounted as a factor, it takes time to adjust, it did for Wembley (the last time people were saying the same things about Poch and the team).
I just feel that the eternal negative posters (why I don't go in the match threads anymore) are just so very tiring that even when we are doing well they pick on individual players mistakes. United fans are the worst, they feel they still have a god-given right to be winning everything and some (not all) Spurs supporters (due to the relative success of the last few years) have fallen into that trap.
Look, I cheat...I've written about it before, I celebrate the wins and meh the losses 35+ years of supporting Spurs and I know that we will have waxes and wanes, that there will be dips to go with the peaks. I used to take the losses to heart, I used to let it affect my mood but 22 millionaires being coached by a millionaire and owned by a billionaire is so far away from me individually having any influence that screaming into the void about Sissoko being shit or Dier's terrible passing yesterday is all pretty pointless and so I enjoy football and Tottenham winning and let the losses go, I'll still be supporting and hoping Tottenham win against West Ham though.
That all being said if we had managed to get Eriksen, Toby and Jan on new contracts and signed a RB to balance Rose we may have actually had a real chance this season but we didn't so I'm not angry, just accepting that this is where we are and considering where we have come from and the stadium we now have, the long term future doesn't seem too bad.
Sorry for the rambling reply but I'm just at the point in which this season may be a disappointing one but making massive changes to a formula that has seen us move into CL regulars, just doesn't sit right, especially when you consider that whoever we get instead probably won't be better than what we already have, Pochettino is only 47, that's only 5 years older than me and 10+ years into a possible 30+ year career, Ferguson, Wenger, Mourinho just from the PL all had rebuilding seasons and the 3rd who's won everything has been sacked loads, sometimes the grass isn't always greener
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