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Pochettino ready to manage again but yearns for Tottenham return
  • ‘Deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special’
  • Newcastle’s prospective new owners linked with Pochettino

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Mauricio Pochettino said he wants to finish the job he didn’t finish at Tottenham: ‘We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.’ Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus via Getty Images
The former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is “motivated for his next project” – but wants to return to the club one day to finish the job he started.

Pochettino left Spurs in November, six months after leading the club to the Champions League final, and has been linked with Newcastle in recent days. Reports claim the Argentinian is the main target of the Magpies’ prospective new owners should they complete a takeover but Pochettino could not disguise his desire to return to north London at some stage in his career.

The ex-Southampton boss, who spent more than five years at Spurs, told BT Sport: “It was an amazing journey that finished the way no one wanted it to finish. But deep in my heart I am sure our paths will cross again. From the day I left the club, my dream is to be back one day and to try to finish the work we didn’t finish. We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.

“Of course I am looking forward to moving on and I am so motivated for the next project. But deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special. Maybe in five years, maybe in 10 years, but before I die I want to manage Tottenham.

“I want to feel what it means to win one title with Tottenham because the fans are amazing, all the love we received was amazing and that is a good opportunity to pay back all the love they showed us from day one.”


THE GUARDIAN

*sigh*
 
Pochettino ready to manage again but yearns for Tottenham return
  • ‘Deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special’
  • Newcastle’s prospective new owners linked with Pochettino

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Mauricio Pochettino said he wants to finish the job he didn’t finish at Tottenham: ‘We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.’ Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus via Getty Images
The former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is “motivated for his next project” – but wants to return to the club one day to finish the job he started.

Pochettino left Spurs in November, six months after leading the club to the Champions League final, and has been linked with Newcastle in recent days. Reports claim the Argentinian is the main target of the Magpies’ prospective new owners should they complete a takeover but Pochettino could not disguise his desire to return to north London at some stage in his career.

The ex-Southampton boss, who spent more than five years at Spurs, told BT Sport: “It was an amazing journey that finished the way no one wanted it to finish. But deep in my heart I am sure our paths will cross again. From the day I left the club, my dream is to be back one day and to try to finish the work we didn’t finish. We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.

“Of course I am looking forward to moving on and I am so motivated for the next project. But deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special. Maybe in five years, maybe in 10 years, but before I die I want to manage Tottenham.

“I want to feel what it means to win one title with Tottenham because the fans are amazing, all the love we received was amazing and that is a good opportunity to pay back all the love they showed us from day one.”


THE GUARDIAN

Yeah he'll be back, I've thought that the moment he left.

I think us parting ways was the best move for both parties, the players had gone stale under Poch and Poch himself seemed 'off' but the time away will do him some good, hopefully he gets a job in the meantime so he can continue to grow as a manager and then return to Spurs in x amount of years, ideally to then continue/ improve on the success Jose will hopefully bring. Really do think if the club (Levy) gives Jose the backing he can do something pretty special and if Poch can then return to a Tottenham with somewhat of a winning mentality, it's a recipe for something quite sexy.
 
Pochettino ready to manage again but yearns for Tottenham return
  • ‘Deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special’
  • Newcastle’s prospective new owners linked with Pochettino

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Mauricio Pochettino said he wants to finish the job he didn’t finish at Tottenham: ‘We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.’ Photograph: David Blunsden/Action Plus via Getty Images
The former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is “motivated for his next project” – but wants to return to the club one day to finish the job he started.

Pochettino left Spurs in November, six months after leading the club to the Champions League final, and has been linked with Newcastle in recent days. Reports claim the Argentinian is the main target of the Magpies’ prospective new owners should they complete a takeover but Pochettino could not disguise his desire to return to north London at some stage in his career.

The ex-Southampton boss, who spent more than five years at Spurs, told BT Sport: “It was an amazing journey that finished the way no one wanted it to finish. But deep in my heart I am sure our paths will cross again. From the day I left the club, my dream is to be back one day and to try to finish the work we didn’t finish. We were so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League.

“Of course I am looking forward to moving on and I am so motivated for the next project. But deep inside I want to go back because the fans are so special. Maybe in five years, maybe in 10 years, but before I die I want to manage Tottenham.

“I want to feel what it means to win one title with Tottenham because the fans are amazing, all the love we received was amazing and that is a good opportunity to pay back all the love they showed us from day one.”


THE GUARDIAN

if that’s genuinely how he feels I’d love to have him back

but I’m not sure I want to see him let down by Levy again

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A mate sent me this picture yesterday, Who remembers the Corner Pin, warm beers and the cheese rolls so hard they could be used as a weapon
It closed to become the ticket office , when was that I think about 2009/ 2010 , is the building still standing
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A mate sent me this picture yesterday, Who remembers the Corner Pin, warm beers and the cheese rolls so hard they could be used as a weapon
It closed to become the ticket office , when was that I think about 2009/ 2010 , is the building still standing
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Yup, it's still there but no longer as a Ticket Office. I can probably count on the fingers of one hand how many times I've drunk in there.

When I was obsessed by the stadium build, I probably knew what it's going to become...but if I did, I've forgotten.
 
So something struck me the other day

Over on r/coys somebody posted a tweet with some Berbatov stats, basically the usual karma whoring you get on subreddits, and the response could pretty easily be split into two camps: people who didn't know that Berbatov played for us, or people who said that Berbatov only ever saw us as a stepping stone so shouldn't be considered one of our greats

Now this last part struck me, because the logic behind that argument isn't anything he has ever said (barring trying to twist a comment he made after the fact of being unsure he wanted to join us, even though at that time we were barely qualifying for the Europa League so we were a step down from Leverkusen in that regard at the time) but because he played 70 league games for us, which is apparently "proof" that his heart was never really at the club

Now that last part is bizarre, because basing a player's commitment on the number of games is just absurd, especially when you consider the number of players who had less games than Berbatov, not least Rafa van der Vaart playing 63 league games or Sandro playing 76. I mean, there's a hell of a lot of reasons to criticise him for the way he left the club, especially as if he was going to be kidnapped he really should have at least had the courtesy to be gagged and blindfolded at some point on the way to Carrington, but saying his heart was never in the club doesn't make sense because he looked like he gave as much of a **** playing for Man Utd as he did for us after all
 
Two things spring to mind in this picture, this Sampdoria kit was one of the best and how the hell did Souness manage
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a career with half his left leg missing, I'm sure when Spurs sold him he had the full set
 
A mate sent me this picture yesterday, Who remembers the Corner Pin, warm beers and the cheese rolls so hard they could be used as a weapon
It closed to become the ticket office , when was that I think about 2009/ 2010 , is the building still standing
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I've often wondered what became of that historic lamp post which served as our first club meeting. Must have been close to this site! I think Spurs aught to put up a lamp post statue in remembrance!!!!!
 
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