Why does it matter? Already watched him speak English last season on Revista La Liga, but to be honest i couldn't give 2 hoots as long as the players understand him! I tend to skip watching/listening to his interviews and just read about them it's easier
Where's the option for "when we win the Champions League, Premier League, FA Cup, League Cup and World Club Cup in 2015?"
In a way i'm not looking forward to the day that he speaks English....ATM he has a sort of mysterious aura about him which could be smashed if he started to talk like Claudio Ranieri for example.
It does make me laugh how in his interviews when he says "si", and then the rest of what he says I have no idea what he's saying.
Yep, keep David Salas occupied, if only to please Fran. Poch can speak English to the media when he damn well chooses, as far as I'm concerned. He'll only be at a disadvantage if he starts too early. It's one thing for him to speak English amongst friends or off-camera, it's another when your comments are being recorded. As it happens, he spoke to BBC commentator Steve Wilson, last season, for a good 10 minutes, entirely in English. Wilson only confirmed that a couple of weeks ago in the 1st episode of MOTD Extra, when a journalist joked about Poch's inability to speak the lingo. He said his conversational English was fine. So it's obviously the technical and the detail that Poch backs away from, as yet.
During the press conference before the game at one point the interpreter was in the middle of translating a long diatribe, and Mauricio, obviously following every word, interrupted him to correct what he was saying. I think it's become a little game with him, and I hope he carries on doing it for the next five years at least. What manager wouldn't like to have a buffer between them and the press?
Oh come on, there's also pero. You can hear that because he often says it, then pauses for a moment. Pero means but. I'm very much in the Si and Pero camp as well though.
I've mentioned it before but i have to say the translations are so annoying. I stopped watching the pre-match interviews and press conference's ages ago because it boring me so much. I remember when Perez did the post-match interview after the Barnsley league cup game in English, it was so much quicker and i could actually mentally process what he was saying. So much better!
Yeah, totally agree. He gets double the time to think of a good considered answer, plus he gets to brush up on his language education. I think we should all do it.
