The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[feet01]

So you will trust these players under another manager?

Players aren’t innocent here, but there is clearly some underlying issue. Poch flirting with other jobs hasn’t helped as players must’ve thought there’s some double standard going on.
I won’t ever boo Poch for the great things the man has done for my club, but the manager always is the first to fall. Rightly or wrongly

 

[bubble07]

Hes been learning it over the summer.

So not to the level that's required which is a shame

 

[$hoguN]

Has to go ASAP. Love him, best manager I’ve seen us have. However he has clearly lost the dressing room with his tactics.

Have to make the change now

 

[Doctor Dinkey]

I’d rather make the decision and change now before our top 6 chances disappear for good.

They've probably gone already. Not bothered about league position this year. It's all about making personnel changes in the right places this season to enable us to build and improve next season. If we could have a run at FA cup that would be fantastic.

 

[double0]

Players aren’t innocent here, but there is clearly some underlying issue. Poch flirting with other jobs hasn’t helped as players must’ve thought there’s some double standard going on.
I won’t ever boo Poch for the great things the man has done for my club, but the manager always is the first to fall. Rightly or wrongly

He never really flirted did he, he was linked to jobs he can't control that. He signed a contract not like some other players

 

[George94]

When a team is this far gone and in the shit, doesn't matter who you are, no manager is turning it around. It's finished. It's done.

 

[Danny1]

They've probably gone already. Not bothered about league position this year. It's all about making personnel changes in the right places this season to enable us to build and improve next season. If we could have a run at FA cup that would be fantastic.

Worryingly I think we need an entire new defence, and a new goalkeeper by the looks of things. Add that to the new DM and all of a sudden that is a serious spending spree!

 

[Archibald-CPH]

It's funny how so many of you think this is not Pochs fault.

I can't name them for obvious reason but I would wager if you knew which players agents I was getting my info from you'd probably have a different opinion.

It will be the same bunch of players under a new manager. And the same bunch of want away players. Don't think it will change anything right now. Maybe after the season if things doesn't change

 

[joelstinton14]

Sigh, It feels like Poch and Levy don't want to play agents games, but it seems that both are being bent over by them when it comes to contracts and signings, they've managed to fight against the tide for many years but the damn's burst.

 

[Coyboy]

That has to be negotiated. Poch can just stay put until sacked and he gets the full contract paid off.

I'd doubt it, he would have to mitigate and so we could fire him offer him a deal (which is probably a fair bit lower than the value of the contract) and then usually the lawyers deal with it. Whether Poch would directly, I don't know.

People often say that it is expensive to fire managers as you have to pay them their full salary for the remainder of the contract but I am not sure if that's what happens. No idea/ITK , just a thought.

 

[Seafordian Spurs]

Just read some of our sainted ITKs posts.

I'm sorry but when did players' agents become the paradigms of truth?

Those fucking snakes.

 

[RikkiRocket]

Looks like Farke is off the replacement list ?

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I think I remember Allardyce whinging that these days managers only get a year paid.

 

[VancouverSpur]

Watershed moment right now. Said last week if we lose today he has to go and I stand by that. Not a knee-jerk reaction or agenda driven. I have loved Poch at Spurs over the last 5 years and want nothing more than him to be successful. However he is finished at Spurs. The Moura decision in the CL final along with saying he would leave if we won was the tell-tale signs for me. And if you go back further it started with that fucking book he "wrote".

When things are going badly you cannot keep doing the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. After conceding 7 goals at home for the first time in our history we needed a reaction today and what we got was absolutely nothing.

 

[Liamyid28]

Just read some of our sainted ITKs posts.

I'm sorry but when did players' agents become the paradigms of truth?

Those fucking snakes.

All we hear all summer is how much agents lie and they are snakes and now we are supposed to believe them when they supposedly slag poch off ha.

 

[Hazelton]

Reminds me of Mourinho's last year at Chelsea, when the players obviously wanted him out. If he couldn't recover that situation, I doubt Poch can. Once the players stop trying for you, it's over.

 

[thelak]

He NEEDS to LISTEN to what his players are saying! If he doesn’t, then let’s pray. They want the system changed. It is so evident now ?

Seems like he did this today....?

 

[Coyboy]

I think I remember Allardyce whinging that these days managers only get a year paid.

I don't remember that but I think it was him (after being fired a few times!) who said that basically what happens is they get told they're fired and then both sides let the lawyers thrash out a deal.

 

[razzmaster]

Poch is paying the price for letting the squad get stale. So important to freshen up the squad every season but we are left with the same core we had 3 seasons ago, half of which no longer want to be here.

 

[feet01]

He never really flirted did he, he was linked to jobs he can't control that. He signed a contract not like some other players

Never once shot the rumours down and said he was completely committed to us. Could’ve asked reporters to stop asking, like Klopp has done, but didn’t.
The threat to quit before the final can’t have helped either