My favourite manager until maybes a couple of years ago was Pochettino. Loved how his teams played and how he got Southampton and Tottenham playing so similarly with two total different groups.
His first job was Espanyol, where he started off well in his first couple of years but was sacked with them bottom of the league (9 points from 13) before getting the Southampton job a couple of months later who pretty unfairly sacked Nigel adkins.
Point is, sometimes a change in club, players, league style can sometimes suit different coaches. He had pretty decent success in his first year so he’s capable and his youth experience suits us. Also according to Phil smith this deal looks to have been in place for a couple of weeks with transfers and other plans already discussed, so maybe we’re not as far behind with preseason plans as we were fearing.