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PleaseNotPoll said:
They clearly lined someone up and expected him to lose to City, so they could use that as an excuse to get rid.
I doubt he'll be that bothered, as they already broke promises to him about selling players and he'll get another job quickly, if he wants it.
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And his contract is/was ending in 6 months
 
Interesting article on the BBC website which included this: . "The atmosphere in the dressing room, it is said, is better than anything that existed in the past few years of Pochettino's time in charge, apart from the three week build-up to the Champions League final in 2019."

The article claims 'numerous sources at the club'
If that is true it throws an interesting light on the Pochettino years which from the outside looking in looked quite different. So are we to believe that there was a poor atmosphere in the Pochettino dressing room apart from the 3 week run up to the CL final?

Article is :
Jose Mourinho: Has Tottenham Hotspur manager rediscovered his mojo?
 
Spurf said:
Interesting article on the BBC website which included this: . "The atmosphere in the dressing room, it is said, is better than anything that existed in the past few years of Pochettino's time in charge, apart from the three week build-up to the Champions League final in 2019."

The article claims 'numerous sources at the club'
If that is true it throws an interesting light on the Pochettino years which from the outside looking in looked quite different. So are we to believe that there was a poor atmosphere in the Pochettino dressing room apart from the 3 week run up to the CL final?

Article is :
Jose Mourinho: Has Tottenham Hotspur manager rediscovered his mojo?
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I’ll back the BBC article up on this <ok>.
 
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Spurf said:
Interesting article on the BBC website which included this: . "The atmosphere in the dressing room, it is said, is better than anything that existed in the past few years of Pochettino's time in charge, apart from the three week build-up to the Champions League final in 2019."

The article claims 'numerous sources at the club'
If that is true it throws an interesting light on the Pochettino years which from the outside looking in looked quite different. So are we to believe that there was a poor atmosphere in the Pochettino dressing room apart from the 3 week run up to the CL final?

Article is :
Jose Mourinho: Has Tottenham Hotspur manager rediscovered his mojo?
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It's funny how the current manager is always better than his predecessor...until he's sacked and the next one is better again.

That said, from the summer when we failed in the transfer market after finishing second with 86 points, there was a steady decline across the board. I don't think that book helped at all and after we thumped Everton away, it's difficult to recall 2 consecutive good performances. By the time he was sacked, we were bloody awful in most matches, the CL run apart.

Whatever Poch brought in his first 3 years, had long gone in the last two. The performances don't lie.
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
It's funny how the current manager is always better than his predecessor...until he's sacked and the next one is better again.

That said, from the summer when we failed in the transfer market after finishing second with 86 points, there was a steady decline across the board. I don't think that book helped at all and after we thumped Everton away, it's difficult to recall 2 consecutive good performances. By the time he was sacked, we were bloody awful in most matches, the CL run apart.

Whatever Poch brought in his first 3 years, had long gone in the last two. The performances don't lie.
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Except for the run to the CL final.
 
Spurf said:
Except for the run to the CL final.
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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
It's funny how the current manager is always better than his predecessor...until he's sacked and the next one is better again.

That said, from the summer when we failed in the transfer market after finishing second with 86 points, there was a steady decline across the board. I don't think that book helped at all and after we thumped Everton away, it's difficult to recall 2 consecutive good performances. By the time he was sacked, we were bloody awful in most matches, the CL run apart.

Whatever Poch brought in his first 3 years, had long gone in the last two. The performances don't lie.
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You don't say...? <laugh>
 
Spurf said:
I was just highlighting what you said.
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No problemo...

It's easy to forget the nightmare that was Wembley in his decline and fall. After we lost to Juve, that place was a graveyard. It dragged everything down even further...especially when the press started weighing into the stadium delays. Given that Lewis and Levy don't shoulder any media burden and our PR Dept. is a joke, Poch was left to deal with the fallout on his own and it must have really got to him as he became a proper sulky bastard in press conferences.

Eventually, he had to go but he did a lot of good beforehand and Levy and Lewis owe him big time. If I divide our managers into good and bad, he's in the former camp...easily.
 
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End of the month! Finally looks like we get Ivar vs Alfred as well. Finale better go out with a bang, looking forward to the spinoff though, some very interesting characters gonna be involved.

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"Thanks for that Brian" said:
It's funny how the current manager is always better than his predecessor...until he's sacked and the next one is better again.

That said, from the summer when we failed in the transfer market after finishing second with 86 points, there was a steady decline across the board. I don't think that book helped at all and after we thumped Everton away, it's difficult to recall 2 consecutive good performances. By the time he was sacked, we were bloody awful in most matches, the CL run apart.

Whatever Poch brought in his first 3 years, had long gone in the last two. The performances don't lie.
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The thing with Poch is he knew the team couldn't control games in midfield due to the decline of the players who had made that possible, hence he implemented the Air Raid tactics to try and get us over the line before addressing this the following summer

The problem was he went too far in addressing it, hence the implementation of THAT BASTARD DIAMOND which was supposed to give us so much more control of midfield...but what that actually did was leave our flanks exposed while also making our buildup play easier to predict by having Winks and the FBs the only available out balls, meaning that all the opponents needed to do was put pressure on Winks and that removed our ability to build up quickly from the back and things very quickly unraveled

At the risk of playing "What If...?", imagine if we signed Ndombele, Lo Celso and Hojbjerg that summer. While things would've been tricky in the early going, considering we'd be looking to bed in an entire midfield engine room simultaneously (in other words, Winks and Sissoko would have been dropping in and out of the team as and when) the odds are Poch would've been braver than he was last season, which in turn would have led to less reactive team selections when things were going wrong
 
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