The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[Mr Pink]

You are mental if you think Rodgers would leave Leicester for us at the moment. They have a decent chance of getting top 4, we do not.

Yeah, but the big picture is look at our stadium, facilities etc

We're a bigger Club.

 

[SpursD22]

Listen today was a awful game from us, awful. Poch made questionable decisions. But we could see the team was just scared of making errors, we lack confidence. And we need some luck and we currently have no luck. We just need one win in the league and things can change

I’m sticking by his side, one win in the league and our confidence will grow. We’re in a very shitty situation but we need to stick it through

 

[Timberwolf]

If we want any chance of top 4 we need to move now. At the moment the season is still salvageable but if we wait much longer we'll be lucky to have European football at all next season.

It already looks like Allegri will be off to Bayern and we might've had a decent shot at getting him a few weeks back if we'd been decisive.

 

[Hazelton]

Yeah, but the big picture is look at our stadium, facilities etc

We're a bigger Club.

I do think he would join us but certainly not before the summer.

 

[EnfieldYiddo]

I could forgive him if he was picking the right personnel.

He isnt easy to support with his lack of positive team selections, proactive in game management and general tactics

 

[mrlilywhite]

We seem to be getting worse and worse every game.

How does he turn this around? I genuinely have no clue.

Neither does Poch and if you listen to his recent comments, then it is as clear as day that he never truly understood anything outside of his own system.

 

[muppetman]

Listen today was a awful game from us, awful. Poch made questionable decisions. But we could see the team was just scared of making errors, we lack confidence. And we need some luck and we currently have no luck. We just need one win in the league and things can change

I’m sticking by his side, one win in the league and our confidence will grow. We’re in a very shitty situation but we need to stick it through

 

[Sandros Shiny Head]

How many times will he say ‘difficult’ in his presser?

 

[rossdapep]

Next league game is at home to Sheff U. Can anyone see us winning that?

It'll go 1 of two ways.

They'll come and have a go at us and win.
or they'll come and have a go and we'll somehow not lose.

I have no faith we will turn up with the right team and mentality. That's one person's fault.

 

[Timberwolf]

Listen today was a awful game from us, awful. Poch made questionable decisions. But we could see the team was just scared of making errors, we lack confidence. And we need some luck and we currently have no luck. We just need one win in the league and things can change

I’m sticking by his side, one win in the league and our confidence will grow. We’re in a very shitty situation but we need to stick it through

I thought the same before but we've had good wins and things haven't changed. We whipped Palace and Red Star and quickly regressed back to being shite. I think the run of bad form has simply gone on too long now and I struggle to see us turning it around.

 

[WiganSpur]

If we want any chance of top 4 we need to move now. At the moment the season is still salvageable but if we wait much longer we'll be lucky to have European football at all next season.

It already looks like Allegri will be off to Bayern and we might've had a decent shot at getting him a few weeks back if we'd been decisive.

Top 4 is done today, we're 10 points off. Best we can hope for is a Europa League spot.

 

[ajspurs]

So sick of watching us under Pochettino, I just really couldn't be any more fed up.

Listen today was a awful game from us, awful. Poch made questionable decisions. But we could see the team was just scared of making errors, we lack confidence. And we need some luck and we currently have no luck. We just need one win in the league and things can change

I’m sticking by his side, one win in the league and our confidence will grow. We’re in a very shitty situation but we need to stick it through

Mate it's been almost a whole year though. We had that 'one win' multiple times in the second half of last season when we were also struggling, as well as a CL final and as well as a good win at home to Palace this season and it didn't change a thing so it's no guarantee that a win now will suddenly turn things around and help us hit form that has been missing for the whole year.

Pochettino is not helping himself but making highly questionable decisions, almost every week.

 

[rossdapep]

Yeah, but the big picture is look at our stadium, facilities etc

We're a bigger Club.

He's also proven that he's not the most loyal person in the world.

The bloke left his wife for a more attractive woman and he left Celtic midseason.

If Levy put a package he finds tempting he'll take it. Anyway, I want a winner next

 

[JayB]

Regardless of the extremely unfortunate and unlucky (for us and for Gomes) series of events toward the end of the match, that was an absolutely dreadful performance on the whole. Top four has completely gone now, and we're genuinely being dragged into a relegation scrap. 24 points from 23 league matches and no away wins in 10 months absolutely, without a shadow of a shred of a doubt, would have led to every single other manager during Levy's tenure being given the sack, and Poch should not be any different. We aren't even remotely close to what this group of players is capable of. He's got to go.

 

[mrlilywhite]

Listen today was a awful game from us, awful. Poch made questionable decisions. But we could see the team was just scared of making errors, we lack confidence. And we need some luck and we currently have no luck. We just need one win in the league and things can change

I’m sticking by his side, one win in the league and our confidence will grow. We’re in a very shitty situation but we need to stick it through

You can't be a Spurs fan dude - you are too optimistic! Poch makes terrible choices week in, week out with the odd abnormality such as Red Star, which makes it even harder to understand his recent choices thereafter. Poch is such an enigma, that even he can't understand himself.

 

[thecook]

If anyone actually fucked Eriksen's missus it must have been Poch and this is his way of saying sorry to him. Unbeliveable this guy is getting all this game time otherwise

 

[JCRD]

So I may backtrack on myself here. I always thought it was the year of not bringing anyone in that impacted on us this season but watching that game it runs deeper than just a couple of windows.

I dont know how we have become so shit. There is something fundamentally wrong in our club, it isnt just players running down contracts and isnt just injuries or a year not buying anyone... there is something fundamental

I think the players have let down this club and so has the Manager. Im hesitant to also blame Levy for what he has done with us as a club but he also has a part to blame.

The solution isnt just to bring another Manager in but something needs to be done before we end up in Manure territory

 

[Mandy Dingle]

I've been fairly ambivalent towards the whole Poch out stuff, I knew, and often agreed with, where people were coming from, but I always held some modicum of hope that he could turn it around and prove everyone wrong.

I think today finally proved to me that the end is, or at least should be, nigh.

There was no heart. Drive. Passion. Vision. There was little fight or flamboyance in our attacks. Our tactics are suffering from RSI and it's painfully obvious. Yes, the players must take some responsibility. Yes, the chairman takes a little, too. But at the end of the day the manager takes the biggest bullet, rightly or wrongly.

I'm going to be scared when it happens, but just like my nan dying, it's inevitable. It's going to hurt... But I'll pull myself together and welcome what comes next with open arms and an open mind.

 

[Timberwolf]

Top 4 is done today, we're 10 points off. Best we can hope for is a Europa League spot.

Unlikely but not done. Leicester and Chelsea are both good sides but it's early days and they're both young teams. I think it's feasible we could catch one if we brought in a good manager and started playing to our potential. As a comparison, we were about 10 points ahead of Arsenal and Utd with a handful of games to go last season and we almost threw that away. Far crazier things have happened.

However if we don't make a change now then yeah, it's definitely done.

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

I was waiting for this game to make my judgment. I've been team Poch forever and over the past weeks/months almost refused to buy into the propaganda against him. I just don't think I can defend him or his position at the club anymore there were so many things wrong with today, taking away VAR, red card, Gomes, that it was almost like watching a comedy. Eriksen?