This may not age well, but here we go anyway. This Pochettino to return to Spurs story stinks to high heaven. I don’t trust the source and I don’t care for the simplistic manner in which the suggestion is being greeted by most.
It reminds me of a keeper at London Zoo I once saw feeding the penguins. There he was throwing bits of mangled up fish at the poor creatures who appeared very jolly with the routine, but even though I was only very young at the time I remember feeling very sorry for the penguins. The paint on the cement swimming pool was chipped and worn, the bucket of scraps smelled rank and the whole scene looked what it was artificial and forced. Leave them in a wild, I thought to myself. This is grim.
Pochettino’s last year, … his last year and a half were painful. The good times people are choosing to remember were several years further back. The Argentine wasn’t backed as players began to wane and the whole thing became a formulaic washout.
Since then Poch has won a domestic cup and won the equivalent of a Charity Shield, inherited by the work of his predecessor. By PSG’s standards, he has yet to truly succeed. Hence, his 18-month contract. They don’t do big deals b3ecuse the expectations are so high.
If Pochettino were announced as the Spurs gaffer tomorrow, it would signal his failure to master his French Connection and an acknowledgment that he was happy to stay at Spurs come what may, no matter what rains might fall.
There is no money and even if there were, the transfer markets have effectively collapsed and Daniel Levy is unlikely to hold a fire sale when the prices are already unusually squeezed.
Pochettino had certainly lost some of the dressing room by the end and if Levy thinks for a nanosecond that this is a move that would cause Harry Kane to change his mind then we really in more trouble than even I had begun to imagine.
Poch’s return defies logic and perhaps only appeals to people who don’t really care all that much about any of it anymore or millennials whose idea of great football was winning a Champions League semi-final and then phoning in a moribund display that lost them the actual final.
Penguins and one rather smelly bucket.
Sick of watching gutless snarks either stand and watch or jog back when they lose the ball.
Lobotomies for 90% of the squad.
Yep.
The brain isn’t attached to a socket, there is no such thing.. Kane wants to win and he wants to now.. Botch inherited a good squad of players before and won nothing in 6 years.. If he came now then he would be receiving a poor squad, most of the players have already let him down repeatedly… Why on earth would Kane stay another season? For the messiah Botch to win the conference league? He can’t win ligue1 with Mbappe and Neymar up top.. Kanes gone regardless of the next manager. The way we do business our rebuild will take 6-8 years.. Not 1.
Hell YES!
Mr. Levy needs to get his head out of his derrière or wherever it’s at & get Antonio Conte in to shake up the bunch of weak minded, apathetic, under-perfoming squad THFC currently have.
Exactly, en if Poch feels he has “unfinished business” with Spurs, he must know now is not the right time
Of course they love him, they just won the title, lets see how much love he gets frm a bunch of players he’s abusing into 7th every week
I think you’ll find that attitude did not pan out too well for the last guy.
Best FIT of the bunch being touted so far, thats the most positive thing you can say about him. Works on a shoestring, wont cause a scene…
Returning Poch will end in disaster, not to mention be a serious loss of face for all concerned.
Conte will also be a train wreck 18 months from now, he wont lie down for Levy.
Instead of replacing one or two players each window, we now have a a logjam and even with Covid a huge replacement value. Try finding replacements for Toby, Hugo and others at 15-20 million.
That’s a very good point the inter lads love him and I saw yesterday John Terry sent him a note congratulating him on the title. He did fall out with Costa at Chelsea but I think everyone who has coached him has
In a nutshell mate 👏🏾😔
Pochettino had a prime pair of bombing fullbacks in Rose and Walker, managed to work with a prime Dembele and bring the best out of him, he had a prime Verts and added a prime Toby. He had a prime Eriksen pulling the strings. Kanes 150mill fee won’t even come close to replacing that quality. Much harder rebuild for Pochettino this time around and a way higher chance of failing.
I cannot stress enough, no matter who gets the job. He will fail just as miserably as his predecessors. Until there is a significant change either in ownership or the current way of doing things, we are were we are.
Relegation was a sickener. I think a lot is frustration from fans who can’t see a way to break the monied clubs stranglehold.
I have seen much much worse Spurs teams but I haven’t seen too many Spurs teams as full of gutless quitters as this one. I love the club like everybody else but my love for a particular group of players isn’t unconditional. I want something back, some effort please.
I just don’t understand the Graham Potter repetition. Brighton failed to beat any of the 3 appalling teams, relegated from this seasons EPL, in 6 matches. Brighton had 38 points on the last day of the season. Potter would need to improve on that for a couple of seasons before being offered a top job surely? What other top 6 team would offer Potter the job? Eddie Howe is arguably a much stronger candidate having kept Bournemouth comfortably mid table, for several seasons, on a tight budget. Mention of Howe’s name is often ridiculed. I just don’t get it.
You’ve given the matter a lot of thought. Well done for that excellent summary. I’m against it for one reason and one reason only. Poch would be likely to retain Harry Winks and Lamela. Poch canned Sigurdsson Bentaleb, Chadli, Edwards & Wanyama but kept Winks and Lamela. I can’t let it go.
Chris Wilder to WBA.
I don’t know that ANYONE will succeed, do you? But I do know which one has succeeded the most in his managerial career to date.
If what you are saying is that Spurs have not changed so we won’t spend big – then again what I know is that Poch cannot win with a mediocre transfer budget as proven in over 5 years with us, so I would rather try someone else.
Levy uses managers to use as a shield and scapegoats and he discards them no matter what manager he is and he proven again and again.
So in short he won’t succeed unless you know what I don’t know cheers.
If you were a domestic or European club chairman, would you even bother to answer if it was Levy on the phone or would you decline the call. Answers on a postcard please.
I know exactly where the problems lie at Spurs, right at the door of Levy and I have reiterated this on many posts on this site. I cannot imagine that Levy wants to employ a manager who is more volcanic than Mourinho.
Leicester have a great blueprint.
He would only succeed with a big transfer budget and a turnover of players, exactly what is needed at the moment.
Why didn’t you just say that? 🙄 ‘Gone and this summer gone are two different things’… read it back mate does that sentence make sense to you?
You think Levy will be terrified by any manager the same Levy who has the habit of sacking a manager every 18 month, sometimes makes one wonder if Spurs fans has any clue where the Tottenham problem lies.
Yep that’s the way to do it everyone is happy including the selling club which means the next time the club’s do business it’s all good.
Levy has burnt so many bridges home and abroad other chairman just dismiss him now.
i dropped my sandwiches in that pool from the ledge above, circa 1956 to this day I find the memory of their loss traumatic. agree on poch – and in this moment i don’t believe there is a manager for us or a top manager who wants to come here including poch -i would prefer Potter to R.M or Southgate = because he at least he could deal with what will be a middle table team of players. whereas the two i have mention have not built top ten teams they look good from the talent at their disposal as national mangers- i have supported spurs from 59 a somewhat hazy collection of memories due to my age at that time. but these times feel the worse.
What changed in Spurs that makes you think Conte will succeed? can you share please thanks.
Which supports my point – I’ve got the chance to hire Conte but he will give me grief until I buy him the players he needs to win us titles – I don’t want the grief so I’ll hire a lesser man instead.
He makes Mourinho look and behave like a choirboy. Levy would be terrified by him.
Whoever the new guy is I shall wish him well and continue to support the team. But if there was / is any chance at all of getting Conte and we don’t try then there really is no hope becuase the people in charge cannot be trusted to make sound decisions. Poch is a top 4 coach and I am struggling to believe he has learnt that much in his 6 months at PSG to make him that much better than when he left us.
Conte is a proven current winner. It is not even close.
Just a reminder to all Levy apologists Leicester City have signed Soumare , aged 22 from Lille and are interested in Ryan Bertrand who is on a free from Southampton. This is how to get your transfer business done, quickly efficiently and in time to bed new recruits into preseason training and friendlies. They clearly identify their targets well in advance rather than waiting for Levy’s mobile phone to ring in the last hour of the transfer window.
This has all over Levy spin propaganda why on earth Poch wants to come back a place he has been sacked 18 month ago and nothing has improved or changed but to the contrary it become worse since he left.I don’t see Poch leaving PSG but even if that is big (if)he leaves he won’t come back to Spurs any sane and self respecting manager won’t do that.
Thanks for playing Mikey
Allegri is going to return to Juve, Zidane will probably go to PSG and Poch will be likely rejoin Spurs . Utter madness in the managerial merry go round. Jovanovic is the new manager for Sheffield Utd if anybody cares.
Put yer brain back in it’s socket; HE MIGHT STAY ANOTHER SEASON IF POCH RETURNS then leave when he has just 2 years left on his contract.
Eh?
Because Levy didn’t back him. The whole world and his brother knows that.
I was joking people always say how lucky we were but we got there on merit beating good teams along the way
Another rebuild. Poch would win the league once he gets a full season with pre season at PSG, surely he wants to prove that rather than walk back into groundhog nightmare Levyworld??
I don’t get this “fluked our way to a final” thing, did we do it on penalty shootouts each time then? I seem to recall us doing it playing normal, fair football.
Gone and this summer gone are two different things though.
Forgot them. It is strange. Probably Covid finances hitting home. Probably a good few more to follow.
No no no
Remember that January we were only 2 points from both Liverpool / Man City at the top, then Kane Son etc were all out for good periods of time. I agree it wasn’t the same and we ‘flukes’ our way to the final but the team needed a change / revamp Summer we got players in but Levy did his usual and came in last minute and by November there was no way back but did Liverpool think the same when Koop was struggling this season ? Whoever comes in needs to know they will be supported and that’s why we won’t be anyone’s first choice
Don’t forget Nuno, Gattuso and Galtier. It’s managerial madness month.
😂
Must be some sort of record for top line managers leaving their jobs in so short a space of time, Juventus, Inter, Real Madrid, Bayern Munich, West Brom.
Conte doesn’t often lose the dressing room. It’s usually a fall out with the owners. The Inter squad are rumoured to be absolutely furious that he’s gone.
😁😭
Like the glorious 18 months we endured under the (used to ) Special one
Very much so.
Do you get invited to a lot of parties?
You were right the first time .
Which will just result in him losing the dressing room. You can’t tell these precious c@@@s these days without throwing their toys out.
Sorry should read sh*thole!
Yes and qualifying twice for champions league while playing at that sh*thome Wembley.
I’d take him over those two!
Yes and not winning a away game in the league from Christmas till he was sacked
Wasn’t our previous manager also sacked by the same club twice? Down to the bookies me thinks.
He’s gone mate don’t kid yourself.
I did hear the David Moyes interview on talk sport yesterday. When talking about signing a contract extension he mentioned about being sure he was backed by the club and not just in a monetary way was key to a deal.
Levy probably thinks he can get Zidane, we’ve a special relationship with RM don’t we….
You Clearly have a lot of time on your hands. Still on furlough or retired?
Levy couldn’t cope with Conte, see how he was in Inter and Chelsea. You can see Levy sweating when you mention the syllable of his name. Now that’s a thought let’s get him.
Reliable sources saying that PSG are sounding out possible replacement managers.
If Poch did return then Kane wouldn’t leave this summer imo.
People seem to forget that the painful loss of the CL final and the fact that our leading playmaker Eriksen had downed tools and wanted out played big parts in the first half of Poch’s last months in charge. It wasn’t him that needed clearing out. Eriksen needed replacing sooner as did parts of the waning defence.
No just sell them !
I actually think this is driven by Zidane leaving Real, PSG have coverted him and being able to move on Pochettino depends if Zidane wants the PSG job now or in a year, as rumours are Allegri is back at Juve which is the other club Zidane could go to. .
Poch ..again ??
Conte please. And give him free rein to tear into the multiple lazy and talentless sh*tes in the squad.
Martinez or Potter??? Leave it out mate.
Yes, Yes, NO !
Utterly rubbish
Do you ever have anything positive to say? Yes you are most likely right about Poch not coming but let’s face it when compared to most of the rubbish that has been touted as Spur’s next manager, the idea of Poch is a glimpse of light at the end of a very dark tunnel. Would you rather have Martinez for example , or Potter or Gerrard?
Yes a shocking final 18 months under Pochettino that included the most amazing moments in Spurs recent history. How awful that poor, suffering Spurs fans had to suffer that CL run to the final…
Boring
Poch had so clearly come to the end of his cycle/’story’ at Spurs
If it wasn’t obvious as an outsider…hey, watch the documentary, that makes it 100% clear to everyone. Poch was spent, did well, than k you very much, we all move on…
“millenials” I knew it was all their fault! First I thought it was the owners but luckily we now have the millenials to blame for all this mess.
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….(apologies this post relates more to the image after H’s text) 🙂
Nevermind that.
How many more times are you going to repost this mate lol.
Ahh Jesus 10 lines is enough
Imagine walking back into an untenable, dead end position you’ve just walked out of…??
It can’t be true. It would complete a meaningless dour cycle and prove if it needed anymore proof the chairman is flailing around in an unreality that is far removed from footballing sense. It’s #Bales Back mark 2 for the lobotomized Levy reference numbers. Stop the ride…..I’m going to be sick.
LEVY LOOKS TO RINSE AND REPEAT ………………………………….
It is never a good idea to revisit a previous romance, especially when the parting was acrimonious. The prospect of Pooch and Levy retaking their vows to each other has disaster written deep all over it.
Reports stated a few days ago that ENIC was looking for a manager that was “softer” and “easier to manage”. The word patsy springs to mind and is there a better fit out there for that role than Pochettino. ENIC and Levy in particular are desperate for their own Great Reset. A reset to times before the stadium construction when Pochettino was managing to extract blood from a stone with a squad that had come together without a cohesive plan and had the great fortune to have amongst its midst a fledging world-class striker in Harry Kane driven by a burning ambition to become one of the best. Kanes exploits alongside a young squad who bought into the Pooch /ENIC different project narrative sustained themselves on the promise of jam tomorrow.
This young squad had the benefit of youthful expectation and energy to drive them towards CL qualification for several seasons and a CL Final with a huge dose of a charmed life en-route. I am not sure that Pooch or the squad truly believed they should be there and they performed like they had not shown up for the biggest match in the club’s history. As the final whistle blew you could sense the wind disappearing from the squad’s sales and Pochettino’s own realisation that once again he was the bridesmaid and not the bride.
The stigma of serial losers began to associate itself with Pochettino and the players. In an attempt to deflect this spotlight of failure from shining too brightly on him, Pochettino spoke of the club needing to be brave, meaning to start investing in rebuilding the squad and that he was just a coach and ultimately it was not his responsibility for the lack of success.Levy stepped in with a contract enhancement for Pochettino and suddenly Pochettino was happy with the squad again. However, the squad was far from a happy camp and the terminal decay had set in leading to a steep slide into midtable mediocrity and the sight of Mourinho and Levy showing signs of affection for each other. Pochettino found out that Levy and ENIC have short memories and sharp knives as they shovelled him out of Hotspur Way.
Since then Pochettino has gone on to prove he is still a serial loser by failing to secure the Lique 1 title in what is usually a one-horse race with PSG as the Man City equivalent. ENIC and Levy have succeeded in creating a generational debt legacy, and have dragged the club’s name through the mud with aborted furlough schemes and an ESL attempt to take the club effectively away from its legacy fans, plus another failed new manager appointment with Mourinho that has seen us slide like a counter on a snakes and ladder board to the ignominy of a European Conference league placing.
Pochettino knows his jig is up next season at the latest as PSG will only accept success. ENIC and Levy are looking to sail the good ship THFC into calm and still waters as they look to re-establish the relationship with the fanbase to facilitate season ticket sales and to buy them time to start flooding the stadium with non-football related activities to raise revenues and service the weight of the loan debt slowly sinking that ship.
The prospect of Pochettino and Levy, therefore, coming together in an embrace may help them both feel warm and cosy but will it serve the aspirations of the long-suffering fans of this once great football club who have been systematically and deliberately denied any prospect of real and tangible success? I suspect that once again it will be jam tomorrow. It remains to be seen whether that will be enough to satisfy the wallets of the client reference numbers. It looks unlikely to satisfy Harry Kane’s ambition and desire for titles and trophies.