thanks for the feedback, very interesting what you've said. Most of us are very willing to give him a chance, even if we are not absolutely certain about him yet. But posts like yours make me more optimistic and it's good of you to post in the circumstances.
I think Wanyama's a really good player, for what it's worth. Didn't see too much of him at Southampton but he was excellent at Celtic whenever I saw him play.
Any new manager, just like any new signing, is a risk of course. But this seems to be a relatively calculated one, and I personally think he has a lot more about him then many seem to believe. Perhaps it won't work, but as has been said in the previous post, it's all very well wanting proven winners, but even proven winners need to start that process of winning somewhere.
And which proven winners are available to teams like Spurs and Southampton? Not many unless they're actively looking for a bigger challenge. I thought the reasoning behind hiring AVB was sound. Young, enthusiastic, knowledgable manager who mihgt, just might, build a team/name for himself/legacy at the club. It didn't work out for whatever reason (not necessarily all AVB's fault), those sort of appointments aren't gonna be gimmes, some will miss, you're looking for the one that hits, our Wenger, our SAF. In the same way hiring an Ancelloti/Benitez/Mourinho (if they were even willing) is hardly guaranteed to work either.
I think and hope Poch's high pressing is very different from AVB's high pressing. The Bielsa style as I've seen it implemented by Chile is simple, sensible and attractive: work really hard to attack the goal when you have the ball, and work really hard to get the ball back when you don't. AVB's style didn't include attacking the goal quickly. The style Southampton played seemed more or less a variant of the Bielsa style. You can definitely see it when Chile play. Their hearts are completely in it. It's very different from AVB's style, which he himself I think would have called more technical. I hope Poch modifies his style to a certain extent, though. Pressing the other team in their end generally proves to be a bad idea, IMO. It exposes your defenders. When Sherwood let the other team get past the halfway line before pressing we did much better.
