Pochettino Interview, finally!

[Misfit]

Definite hamster face. Nice to hear Steffen will still be knocking around the place.

Would be nice to have one or two of our own coaches (not all of them coming in with the new guy each time) stay around with a view to a potential succession plan, or at least as an emergency caretaker boss.

Anyhoo, best of luck to Poch et al. Let's hope DL can hold his nerve with this one.

 

[eddiebailey]

It concerns me the way managers these days feel the need to bring in their own entourage of coaches; and it is more of an issue when the manager is a non-native speaker and surrounds himself with compatriots. The loyalty of such a crew is inevitably going to remain attached to the manager rather than to the club, and it inevitable that they will form a coterie set apart from the rest of the staff. If Freund stays around it is difficult to see him being any less peripheral under Poch than he was under AVB.

 

[whitesocks]

Definite hamster face. Nice to hear Steffen will still be knocking around the place.

Would be nice to have one or two of our own coaches (not all of them coming in with the new guy each time) stay around with a view to a potential succession plan, or at least as an emergency caretaker boss.

Agree - it would be very worrying if Ramsey, who is qualified up to the eye-balls,
assessed Pooch's 'philosophy', and did not buy into it.
Perhaps because it would not work with our level of player,
at a club like spurs, with our expectations and fixture load.

Of course he spoke much of this philosophy without saying what it was, other than joking about the triple training.
The real joke is that unlike at Southampton,
he'll be lucky to get in a warm down session for much of the season.

But that's OK, as the true assessment of a manager is his ability to adapt
and think up new methods on the spot, as all the philosophies go up in flames.

 

[riggi]

Needs to lose weight.

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Y

Does Carol know?

Yes. Cooks Ferry and all that.

 

[spursgirls]

Y


Yes. Cooks Ferry and all that.

Tell us more!

 

[HotspurFC1950]

Tell us more!

Suffice to say she was a very lovely 16 year old.

 

[RButch]

I have always wondered how players suffer from extra training (except injuries), I mean they get ripped to **** whilst getting paid too, leading to banging worldies and being idolised. What is there not to like about that.

Anyways go Poch seems like he knows what the fans want.

 

[GetSpurredOn]

So no confirmation on the futures of Ramsey, and to a lesser extent Les. Can see Ramsey being retained if he wants to stay, had a decent reputation, maybe not so much Les.
Going back to Pochettino, interesting little glimpse at the guy. Comes across as quite personable, but with an undertone of authority. Could be just the blend to mould our squad of talented players into an organised unit, you know, an actual team...

 

[Flashspur]

Agree - it would be very worrying if Ramsey, who is qualified up to the eye-balls,
assessed Pooch's 'philosophy', and did not buy into it.
Perhaps because it would not work with our level of player,
at a club like spurs, with our expectations and fixture load.

Of course he spoke much of this philosophy without saying what it was, other than joking about the triple training.
The real joke is that unlike at Southampton,
he'll be lucky to get in a warm down session for much of the season.

But that's OK, as the true assessment of a manager is his ability to adapt
and think up new methods on the spot, as all the philosophies go up in flames.

Ramsey might be qualified up to the eye balls but if he had anything to contribute to the awful team structure and tactics that Timmy put out then Au Revoir Chris

 

[antti19]

Tim wants Ramsey and Sir Les to baggies with im

 

[guiltyparty]

Oh, it's absolutely this. I'm sure that he (or someone else from Southampton) said that he didn't speak English to the media so that they couldn't use his unfamiliarity with the language to twist his words.

I write about tech and video games and they do this a lot in Japan. Most of the developers speak very good English but do interviews in Japanese with a translator, who acts almost as a PR sense check - the translation won't be word for word, but give a gist of tone and even advise towards an answer. I've had interviews translated and what they say differs from what you've asked. Enables more time to consider answer too, it's clever

 

[guiltyparty]

It's also why Mourinho wasn't "just" a translator - in major companies a translator is a media interpreter/manipulator too

 

[SamR]

It concerns me the way managers these days feel the need to bring in their own entourage of coaches; and it is more of an issue when the manager is a non-native speaker and surrounds himself with compatriots. The loyalty of such a crew is inevitably going to remain attached to the manager rather than to the club, and it inevitable that they will form a coterie set apart from the rest of the staff. If Freund stays around it is difficult to see him being any less peripheral under Poch than he was under AVB.

I see where you are coming from...but bringing In a familiar team to help settle you, who share your vision and who will help get across your philosophy on the training pitch is invaluable. Keeping a familiar face was a smart move because it will help create that link between the playing and coaching staff, but just replacing the manager who has a philosophy that a current setup may not support would make the appointment redundant. I'm all for the club comes first, but the players get off lightly and it is usually the manager who comes off worst, so giving him the right support and setup he wants to make the change we need was definitely the right move for me

 

[newbie]

I think poch is slightly sexier

 

[spurs9]

It concerns me the way managers these days feel the need to bring in their own entourage of coaches; and it is more of an issue when the manager is a non-native speaker and surrounds himself with compatriots. The loyalty of such a crew is inevitably going to remain attached to the manager rather than to the club, and it inevitable that they will form a coterie set apart from the rest of the staff. If Freund stays around it is difficult to see him being any less peripheral under Poch than he was under AVB.

In kings autobiography, he talks about times when the manager didn't bring an assistant he was familiar with (Ramos & Poyet ws an example) and they would be told one thing by the manager an another by his assistant which caused confusion. It's important that a manager has a backroom team that understands what his philosophy etc.

 

[Romulus]

all i can ask from spurs fans is that we back him even if it doesnt go so well 1st season. we all agree its a good appointment so lets stick with him and see where we go.

id hate to see him hounded out from spurs fans like previous managers

 

[nasescoba1985]

I was in the FDB camp all summer to be honest but the more I read about poch and the more I see how much fantastic plaudits he is getting the more I realise we have made the best most realistic appointment. I am also glad the vast majority of spurs fans are all for Poch and geniunely excited for next season. Don't think we have had this feeling as a collective bunch for years.

 

[Air Jordan 3]

Very early days and not a ball kicked but am pleasantly surprised with some of the things I am reading and seeing. Also seems to be a lot of work going on behind the scences.

Everything feels as though it has a freshness about it!

-Various positive quotes in different threads from players (Dembele, Verts etc) saying Poch has contacted them.

-A few pics of him and Baldini together. Hopefully that means they are working closely on identifying targets etc.

-Although mainly down to Levy, I have felt since Redknapp was at the club we had to many people with voices in the background. With the removal of Sherwood and his crew it feels a lot slicker in terms of background staff.

Most of the above is just common sense management but I believe a lot of managers would not do it!

COYS