Pochettino has done ok over the Xmas to Feb period. The only specific downers are the Palace PL and Leicester FA Cup games. The very evident slump into complacent play after the Chelsky game is a more general concern. I hope that with the League Cup business done and dusted, we will get more clean sheet results like yesterday.
An article has been bought to my attention regarding a radio interview that MP gave a Catalan radio station last week. It paints him in a very uncomfortable light: http://www.fansnetwork.co.uk/football/southampton/news/37764/pochettino-bad-mouths-koeman BTW this was shown to me by my boss and assures me that the Saints person commenting on this is not after an "I told you so headline" just upset at his attitude towards the club. Also it apparently has been printed in the Mail. I think what he has currently achieved with us he was ill advised to make such statements to the media. Thoughts?
I'm sure the Saints guy is just as slanted and biased in his view of thingsas M.P. seems to be. Without investigating in detail, I suspect the truth lies in the middle somewhere, as it usually does in these spats.
Trying to look at it objectively, the challenges Pochettino has had to face here are quite different to the challenges he would have had to face if he had stayed at Southampton. He would have faced a rebuilding job had he stayed, but there were clearly going to be funds available to him as there were to Koeman. At Spurs he has had to change the culture of the club, had had to clash with senior players, face far more intensive media scrutiny...all different challenges. While it is of course true to say that Koeman is doing a great job with Saints this year - far better than anyone, probably even Saints fans thought he would - its also fair to say that Pochettino (and those before him) ensured that Koeman had a core of hardworking, talented players with the right attitudes. Its easier to buy players to fit an established mentality and way of playing than it is to instil that mentality in players, and clash with senior, influential players who won't adapt in the process. All that said, Pochettino shouldn't be shooting his mouth off about other clubs like that, it smack of a lack of professionalism. Even if he was asked a leading question by the interviewer, its surely better just to shut up.
It would not surprise me if this is yet another case of selective use of an interview. This one was probably in South American Spanish given to a Catalan radio station and translated word by word by a Fail hack. I would like to hear the whole interview and translate it myself. The interviewer may have been an Español supporter wanting to blame Pochbecause of their poor displays when he was manager there,ev
Erik Lamela shines a little light on the differences between AVB and Poch - which may also explain the habit of conceding late goals a couple of season ago: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/tottenham-...k-training-injuries-poor-debut-season-1487245
