The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[spursfan77]

Started reading that and realised that it was all about how much that person hates Levy and Enic. I'm no BSODL but anyone who agrees with that clown is deluded.

Levy might be tight with the finances, but we've only progressed with him at the helm. We were nothing before he took over. We might not have won much under him but we've become challengers for the big trophies, at last. We're a big club now. All that's left is to win something major.

If he was in charge of another club I'd hate it.

It’s absolutely terrible. Talk about picking and choosing moments to suit your agenda. It’s probably an account set up by a gopher anyway, I doubt it’s a spurs fan, just someone on the wind up.

 

[spursfan77]

Gosh, fantastic insight there from the Telegraph.

I posted on Monday how before AVB was sacked that there was no ITK that he was on his way, there was only one bit from Hertyid on COYS that AVB’s job was safe a few days before he went. But there were similar newspaper articles to this one that appeared in the run up to it.

I think if more credible Spurs linked journos start putting their names to similar stories then it’s close. It will be sad when he goes.

 

[Gb160]

Can't let West Ham the team to end the Poch era, they'll make T-shirts about it for one and the man deserves better than that.

It could well be whichever manager loses that gets the sack.

I agree it would be fucking awful if they were to end Poch's reign, we'd never hear the end of it.

 

[LDNYid]

I will be incredibly saddened by Poch leaving - but we look so abysmal and totally bereft of ideas, that I just can’t see how he turns this around.

 

[Seafordian Spurs]

I posted on Monday how before AVB was sacked that there was no ITK that he was on his way, there was only one bit from Hertyid on COYS that AVB’s job was safe a few days before he went. But there were similar newspaper articles to this one that appeared in the run up to it.

I think if more credible Spurs linked journos start putting their names to similar stories then it’s close. It will be sad when he goes.

Perhaps, I guess my point was that anyone couod (and indeed should) come to the conclusion that Poch will be gone if WH beat us.

I was going to travel back to Rayleigh, Essex, to watch the game with my brother and dad but, er, I don't think I want to be around for this one. ?

 

[easley91]

this is some thread that Gards is pointing to:

I never fully believe an account named in a way to bash Levy. He has his faults, but he has brought us up over the years and run us superbly financially. Got the training ground and the stadium.

 

[Gb160]

But waiting to the end of the season would widen Levy’s options and give him a more realistic chance of appointing Bournemouth’s Eddie Howe

 

[Ghost Hardware]

I think in the event he leaves we are bringing in Marcelino

IV always liked Marcelino but I don't see how he would be our go to. He's tactically astute but very defencive and, as someone else said, tends to play a flat 442.

 

[Primativ]

Whilst Levy and ENIC aren’t perfect (transfer spending never ambitious enough) they’ve progressed the club remarkably since they took over. Clubs like Everton, West Ham and villa can only look on with jealousy at the progress we made. You can’t blame Levy for Poch and the team bottling numerous finals and semi finals over the last five years. Nor can you blame him for Harry Redknapp losing the FA cup semi final to Portsmouth etc we’ve had loads of chances to win trophies and the fact is we just haven’t been good enough. It’s a mentality thing more than anything.

That is why our next manager needs a proven trophy winning manager and not Eddie Howe ffs

 

[dudu]

Started reading that and realised that it was all about how much that person hates Levy and Enic. I'm no BSODL but anyone who agrees with that clown is deluded.

Levy might be tight with the finances, but we've only progressed with him at the helm. We were nothing before he took over. We might not have won much under him but we've become challengers for the big trophies, at last. We're a big club now. All that's left is to win something major.

If he was in charge of another club I'd hate it.

We all know who it is.

Does he spell colour without the u? @yankspurs

 

[Aay_Jay_Dee]

The way I see it you've got the following types of buyers:

• Local lad done good/boyhood fan of the club who's made his (or her) millions and wants to fulfil their ambition of owning their favorite team. - these types of owners are pretty much non-existent at the top level now because the costs involved are just too much
• Investor types who want to buy a cheap club, build it up, and sell for a profit e.g. ENIC - Right now in the aftermath of the stadium etc. Lewis and Levy will presumably want so much money for the club, that it's not a very attractive proposition for that type of investor i.e. someone looking to flip houses doesn't go in and buy a brand new fully renovated house, they buy a wreck at auction and gut it.
• Mysterious Asian consortiums who buy these big clubs with grand ambitions to maek them "the next Real Madrid" - this seems to absolutely never work out and the consortiums inevitably don't have as much money behind them as they make out and it all ends in tears
• Insanely rich and even more dubious Russian/Arab billionaires who want a toy - personally I think they're the most likely type to be able to buy Spurs if ENIC wanted to sell. However, as things are theoretically getting more and more difficult in terms of pumping money into clubs, I'm not sure if the market is as big as it once was for this type of investor either.

No Arab buyer as we chant yid army. No chance

 

[Kspur]

No Arab buyer as we chant yid army. No chance

Chelsea’s anti-semetic chanting didn’t stop abramovich...

 

['O Zio]

No Arab buyer as we chant yid army. No chance

It may factor into some people's decision but I wouldn't say "no chance". Plenty of them reportedly secretly own all kinds of businesses and land in Israel etc. for example. The kinds of people that have that kind of money don't usually have much in the way of morals and ethics so I doubt they'd let something like that get in the way of what they want. If they were that bothered they'd presumably just clamp down on the yid chanting and israeli flags, which righty or wrongly some people want to see happen anyway.

 

[bubble07]

I find it very uncomfortable that the 45% that want Poch out would probably want the team we all despise beat us

 

[JonnySpurs]

I find it very uncomfortable that the 45% that want Poch out would probably want the team we all despise beat us

I can see why you'd say that but I don't think thats true. I'm one of the 45% but I want us to win. I think the large majority simply want Poch to get us winning again but just can't see it happening and the longer this goes on, the worse it gets and the season is unsalvagable. If we make a change now, after 10 months of horrible form, we can then still make something of this season, maybe even get back into the top 4 if we really went on a run.

There are endless examples of massive uptick in form after a new manager comes in, far more than there are where a new man takes over and it doesn't work. Equally there are very few examples - I can't think of any - where a manager has been in the situation Poch is in and managed to turn it around. Football is a cruel bastard and generally when it starts to go wrong it's almost impossible to turn it around.

 

[bubble07]

I can see why you'd say that but I don't think thats true. I'm one of the 45% but I want us to win. I think the large majority simply want Poch to get us winning again but just can't see it happening and the longer this goes on, the worse it gets and the season is unsalvagable. If we make a change now, after 10 months of horrible form, we can then still make something of this season, maybe even get back into the top 4 if we really went on a run.

There are endless examples of massive uptick in form after a new manager comes in, far more than there are where a new man takes over and it doesn't work. Equally there are very few examples - I can't think of any - where a manager has been in the situation Poch is in and managed to turn it around. Football is a cruel bastard and generally when it starts to go wrong it's almost impossible to turn it around.

But if we beat them this will prolong it...

 

[BringBack_leGin]

I’m really sad that we’re talking about next managers as if it’s a given that Pochettino is off.
I’m even sadder that it’s a valid conversation.

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

I’m really sad that we’re talking about next managers as if it’s a given that Pochettino is off.
I’m even sadder that it’s a valid conversation.

Yea it’s pretty sad considering what he’s done for us but that’s football I suppose.

 

[TEESSIDE1]

I’m really sad that we’re talking about next managers as if it’s a given that Pochettino is off.
I’m even sadder that it’s a valid conversation.

Sad yes but unless he reverts back to his former happy, enthusiastic self and the players miraculously turn up and pummel West Ham then he’s dead in the water.

 

[freeeki]

Look at the difference in pressing and intensity, absolute night and day lol

My word.

I've only just seen this as thankfully I didn't actually watch the game on Saturday and felt an evening of trying to suffocate in an electric oven would be a more productive use of time than catching up on the highlights.

It would be embarrassing enough letting Chelsea or Liverpool dance around us like this, but a team who have just been promoted and who, in fairness, didn't have to work particularly hard for that goal as we just let them play around us, verges on unforgivable.

What a sad state of affairs that it's come to this. Sadder state of affairs that some fans are happy for it to continue because they seemingly value the manager above the club.