Will Pochettino stay or go?

Anything less than Ancelotti or enticing Fergie out of retirement will just show how little ambition we have in the new boardroom.

 

Pochettino isn't all that. Nigel didn't have the players he has had. Pochettino had the luxury of the fact it was our second season too. The players got older, better and more experienced. Generally speaking he'd an inflexible manager. Very rarely does he have the balls to use a plan B or try something out of the ordinary when his side is behind. It's why we get so few points when we concede first.

I always found it interesting that so many people loved him, and spoke highly of him, just because of our league position. We've spent a lot of money compared to the teams below us in the past 2 years. He is incredibly naive to have not signed an established back up keeper. It was a mistake of an inexperienced naive amateur and cost us big time. Hopefully whoever replaces him as manager signs a decent keeper in the summer.

Hope he fails at Spurs and get sacked. He's clearly a t**t.

 

OMG we can be nuts can't we. He improved us massively. He got the players playing better and made us into a team that people feared.

I'm very disappointed he is leaving and hope that we find someone who can keep us playing aswell as MP. I understand there being bitterness towards him but FFS, lets not be completely ignorant and at least be grown up about it.

 

If this becomes a "Nigel Adkins would have done what MP did anyway" place, I think I'll have to unplug my computer. Nigel was a lovely man and I will always be grateful for what he did; however MP took us on a couple of levels. If you really are unsure about that, ask the players.

 

And another thing, Mauricio...you can give us that ****ing watch back!

 

But, you don't know what Nige would have done. He may have got us relegated, he may have got us into Europe. And its not like he didn't take us up a few levels in his time here.

PS: I don't think asking the players is reliable, as they will likely say anything to brown-nose whoever is in charge.

 

Hardly any of us had heardof MP beforehe arrived. There are a lot of very good managers who would love to come to Saints. Lets not get too despondent. These things happen. Draw a line and look forwards and up!

 

The players were really impressed by Mauricio...a man with a plan that largely worked. Part of this was due to the fact that they weren't massive stars themselves...apart from Dani there isn't a 'big I am' lad in the place. If we get the right man in, they will listen to him as well. The players like us don't like uncertainty, but footballers are used to changes in management...they will gossip, pick themselves up and get back on the training ground.

 

You're nice.

(nice = a t**t)

Yes, but wouldn't it also make him a deserter?

 

You know what will be really annoying...how good Mauricio's English will be at Spurs! I thought he was hiding from the media, but he was deceiving us as well.

 

I don't think the anger towards Mauricio is particularly justified.

 

Understandable though, if a little silly.

 

I know I'll be laughed at for this, but I'd take Moyes over anyone else. Shed loads of prem experience with a club of our stature. One iffy season at Utd is irrelevant. Plus, his association with Utd - successful or not - means that he is a "big name" now. The biggest we could hope for. I'm sure he would convince players to stay.

 

I'd be happy with Moyes...he was handed a poisoned chalice at United. I want a good manager mainly for the footballing side obviously, but the shallow part of me wants a 'name' so that we don't look small time. It would give me more confidence in the board.

 

Logically you are right, especially when you consider how disposable managers are (look at the Adkins sacking after all he did), but logic has little to do with this. I think we were/are on the edge of being a major player in the EPL...Mauricio leaving us now feels like a slap in the face. So I shall carry on wishing a plague of locusts on his first born.

 

Emotions don't need justifying. Actions do.

 

If we want someone in quickly (obviously a good manager and not an interim one), who is available at the moment or coming to the end of his present contract.

 

If he goes thats the way of the world. Managers these days have very short shelf lives.

 

This isn't good is it, no matter which way you look at it. Players will be leaving I'd say, the main indicator being they have all been saying, DON'T GO basically.

I'm prepared for this, hasn't felt right since the end of the season and the no comments. The biggest shame is that we will find it hard to build on this good team if some of the key players leave. Moyes no thanks, which doesn't mean I wouldn't get behind him, but I'd prefer one of the other guys mentioned, Yakin perhaps, not really sure right now.

 

1. I acknowledged what Adkins did for us.
2. You don't need to ask the players; just read between the lines on their behavior at the time he went and their reaction then.
3. You really telling me that we looked the same side under both managers?