I just want to return to getting excited about watching Spurs again unlike the current feeling of dread and foreboding, I'm unable to walk away from my team no matter how much Levy and Enic try
Poch to Chelsea confirmed. Levy can go **** himself for allowing this to happen but Poch is also a snake for taking that job.
No but he has a phone that can call a manager who’d have been perfect for the job, instead of wasting weeks and months doing nothing and seeing us crash and burn.
Would he, though? Last time Poch was here we were in relegation form and, more than anything else, he needed to adapt his tactics as the 4231 system that worked so well at first was becoming outdated across football as a whole and the incoming meta was 433 with a rock hard midfield and directness coming from attacking FBs, but instead he tried to replicate his existing system at great expense with inferior components - while both his squad management and especially his handling of introducing youth players had unraveled at least a year prior And this is the issue nobody wants to admit: if Poch returned and things didn't work out, who would be the blame for that? And more importantly, would our fanbase lay the blame at their door, or would they blindly lay the blame at who SpursWeb told them to blame for it?
It's going to hurt like hell seeing him in that scumbag dugout but it's hard to blame him. He's been out of management for almost a year now and it's clear that the likes of Real or Bayern don't consider him the right fit (yet). We didn't make a move and I'm glad we didn't for reasons I and others have cited many times over. The PL is by a distance his favourite league and tbh he wasn't getting a bigger job than Chelsea. Rumours were that Leicester approached him but he told them to go forth and multiply. So I don't blame him but playing that lot just got 100x more horrendous. I might have to extend the cave.
The last 6-12 months doesn’t define Pochettino’s reign though. At Espanyol, Southampton and Spurs he’d proven he can improve teams via his coaching, then done the obligatory league win in his full season with PSG. We’re in dire need of a head coach more so than a manager and he’s exactly that. If he failed on return? It’d depend on how well he was backed, financially and with incomings and outgoings before deciding who to point the finger at. What’s for sure though is that Levy hasn’t the foggiest of what he’s doing at the moment and in the process our club is suffering for it whilst simultaneously becoming a laughing stock.
The problem is the last 12-18 months do define parts of Poch's reign: his distrust of loaning youngsters yet his refusal to play them, leading to the likes of Edwards and Madueke wanting out (among others) really should not be overlooked, especially as this issue still persists More than anything else, though, there is a very simple reason why Levy did not get on the blower to Poch: Levy wants a DoF in place to handle the incomings and outgoings, yet Poch does not want to work with a DoF - he said so when he was with us the last time, and he certainly did not get on with Leonardo when he was at PSG (although given how many PSG coaches over the years seemed to clash with Leonardo, he does deserve some benefit of the doubt) Ultimately that's the Catch-22 we have: if fans want Levy away from transfers we would need a DoF - but hiring a DoF means Poch is highly unlikely to come back, as are any other manager who refuses to work with a DoF either due to wanting full control, or due to ego, or due to 'Nam flashbacks of working with Leonardo or Damien Comolli or Ed Woodward. On the other hand if people want Poch back above all else, that means no DoF and Levy having more of a hand in negotiations. Either way, it is highly unlikely that we could have both
So there's another off your list lads... should be looking at Thomas Frank but would he take the job ?
It's very interesting that Poch was only given a two year deal. Strikes me as weird that that's all they offered when all the talk was about bringing in a long term project manager, and equally weird that he accepted. Does it reflect a lack of confidence on both sides? Or does this further confirm that Tedd Boehly is actually the patron saint of fairness and justice in human form, and he was heaven sent to bankrupt the club before relegating them, something Poch reckons can be done in the course of two seasons?
For all the talk in the announcement of them viewing him as an elite manager it’s more likely that they see him as someone to help them trim the squad and lay the groundwork for another coach in 2/3 years time. They have an option to extend him and no doubt if he achieves the PL or CL with the club somehow over the next couple of years he’ll sign a new deal.
Hard to blame a guy that once said Chelsea were a bigger rival than Arsenal who then goes to take the Chelsea job?
