Pochettino wants Levy to sell five big names

[Shadydan]

He maybe one of our most professional players but the fact remains he has not signed a contract and therefore is not committed to the club long term. Poch should therefore be brave and make an example of these players. He can’t play Toby and make an example of Eriksen, he has to treat alike or he will well and truly lose the dressing room.

As for Rooney, maybe Fergie did but Poch is clearly not in charge of contracts and as such the ball lies in Levy’s court. Maybe this is one of the issues that Poch has?

Sorry mate but that's just not realistic.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

Absolutely this - I'd rather end up in 10th place with a team of players that want to be there and give everything they have in a match than end up in a EL place with this current situation.

Can you imagine Poch sticking all those boys in the reserves and finishing 10th?

It’s not realistic to bomb them all out without the incoming players Poch was hoping for and luck with injuries

Spurs Community would be in meltdown and don’t even think about the media

He’d be sacked by Levy in the summer. Then where are we?

 

[Treacle]

Depends on how much Poch wants to stamp his authority on this team. If he doesn’t believe in the project anymore then may be its time for him to stick to his guns and go.

Sorry mate but that's just not realistic.

 

[Metalhead]

Can you imagine Poch sticking all those boys in the reserves and finishing 10th?

It’s not realistic to bomb them all out without the incoming players Poch was hoping for and luck withi injuries

Spurs Community would be in meltdown and don’t even think about the media

He’d be sacked by Levy in the summer. Then where are we?

Unless things pick up it could get just as nasty with them in the side.

 

[dude573]

This was a fairly obvious fact, but why does Poch still insist on playing them though?

 

[whitesocks]

It's happened quite a lot before though, shit, even we paid a fee for someone once (can't remember who - maybe that lad from Everton) just to get them in that 6 months earlier.
Granted, it won't be much in the way of a fee but it can be done.

Holtby.

 

[ostrov]

How credible this media is?

 

[Japhet]

How credible this media is?

'World War 11 submarine found on the Moon' levels of credibility.

 

[JimmyG2]

Don’t understand why he doesn’t just stick the contract rebels in the reserves and play people who are actually committed to the club. He did it before with poisonous characters and if the Eriksen situation is indeed upsetting the dressing room then deal with it.

Obviously we don’t know what is going on behind closed doors but what ever is causing disruption needs to be nipped in the bud asap and its the managers responsibility to deal with that. As much as I detested Alex Ferguson he wouldn’t have tolerated this bollocks.

What reserves?
Most of the rebels, malcontents, befuddled are too old for the Under 23's.
Ergo
Deal or bench or omit from the squad
bu don't cut of our noses to spite our faces.

 

[wizgell]

Any interested club can even sign a precontract with them in January.

Only clubs outsideof England can do that

 

[Gb160]

Only clubs outsideof England can do that

And any English club interested would just tap him up.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

The more you see performances like today the more it affirms you belief that If Levy/ENIC had backed our best manager for decades then we wouldn’t be in such a horrendous mess

Imo it was a business decision to try and replace the manager rather than half a dozen players thus saving themselves money

It seems that this may not be possible and we will have to spend fortunes to replace all the rotten apples anyway

All this and without the man that told us all ages ago that it was going to be painful

What a clusterfuck from the boardroom

 

[chinaman]

The more you see performances like today the more it affirms you belief that If Levy/ENIC had backed our best manager for decades then we wouldn’t be in such a horrendous mess

Imo it was a business decision to try and replace the manager rather than half a dozen players thus saving themselves money

It seems that this may not be possible and we will have to spend fortunes to replace all the rotten apples anyway

All this and without the man that told us all ages ago that it was going to be painful

What a clusterfuck from the boardroom

They won't save any money here. When Moanino doesn't get big name players, he'll engineer his own firing, and Enic will end up paying up his contract just like Chelscum and Manure did.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

They won't save any money here. When Moanino doesn't get big name players, he'll engineer his own firing, and Enic will end up paying up his contract just like Chelscum and Manure did.

Serves them fucking right then

Unfortunately Levy etc always end up smelling of roses and it’s US the supporters left to suffer, over and over

 

[Joely]

Poch knew what was around the corner and now the chickens have come home to roost. In the end knew he was fighting a losing battle with Levy and no longer had the energy, appetite or enthusiasm in overseeing a situation he saw coming.

 

[sausage]

The more you see performances like today the more it affirms you belief that If Levy/ENIC had backed our best manager for decades then we wouldn’t be in such a horrendous mess

They did, and that's why we're in a horrendous mess.

It was quite clearly a Pochettino driven issue that caused the "no signings" thing, and we spent heavily on his players in the summer on players who were unfit or not where near fit enough.

The man made his bed and slept in it, so let's not resolve him of blame for the stains on the mattress.

 

[southlondonyiddo]

They did, and that's why we're in a horrendous mess.

It was quite clearly a Pochettino driven issue that caused the "no signings" thing, and we spent heavily on his players in the summer on players who were unfit or not where near fit enough.

The man made his bed and slept in it, so let's not resolve him of blame for the stains on the mattress.

Last time I checked Vertonghen/Alderweireld/Rose/Wanyama etc etc etc were still at Tottenham?

 

[sausage]

Last time I checked Vertonghen/Alderweireld/Rose/Wanyama etc etc etc were still at Tottenham?

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

 

[southlondonyiddo]

What's that got to do with the price of fish?

Poch was not backed. He wanted them all out and replaced I would imagine

He told the Club to be brave and that it was going to be painful

Well we're experiencing the pain. Unfortunately there was no bravery. Nor will there be

 

[sausage]

Poch was not backed. He wanted them all out and replaced I would imagine

He told the Club to be brave and that it was going to be painful

Well we're experiencing the pain. Unfortunately there was no bravery. Nor will there be

Yes, you would imagine - because Danny Rose pretty much said that Poch didn't want him to go.

As per normal, we'll forgo reality to support the Pochettino fantasy. The reality is that everything that happened has happened because of his choices. If he wanted all those players gone, they'd be gone.

It's amazing how much of a script has been written off him saying "brave". He named his book that - it's a one-size-fits-all soundbite with no specific meaning other than to fuel some narrative that he was hard done by, when in reality we're suffering from the decisions he made that eventually got him the boot.