Some words of wisdom here for those still holding a candle for Mauricio Pochettino from talkSPORT’s Simon Jordan who effortlessly reminds us that tangibility is what separates great managers from truly elite managers. Poch to date has established himself as a great manager.
It is nothing but a crying shame watching him have to cope with further disappointment when had he been comprehensively backed at Tottenham, then he would’ve had the certain knowledge in his mind now, that he is a winner. Psychologically, that makes a significant difference.
This incidentally makes Daniel Levy a bridesmaid too…
Simon Jordan is dead right about Poch. But, I do wonder what the effect of winning that CL final with us would’ve been, in terms of his gravitas and conviction, moving forward. Let’s not forget, he got us there in spite of that other, vital missing ingredient – adequate financial backing in the transfer market. And whilst his abilities, or lack thereof, can be debated until the cows come home; the conditions under which he operated are clear for all to see.
Fair comment but after his ‘we have to be brave statement’ why did he sign a new deal when it was obvious the leopard Levy was never going to change his spots? If Poch had been brave and walked at that point who knows where he would have ended up. His stock was never higher.
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How about?. “I met 3 C€@&s in my Life, and Levys the 3 of them.”
For a while it worked – think Soton, City, Utd, Arsenal. Then we stopped posing much of a threat on the counter, as we dropped too deep and were unable to move up quickly as before.
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It was fairly clear that we weren’t able to maintain that league position playing like that. Palace away was the first example of it being unsustainable as the default approach, and it unravelled after that. We got sussed…
I’m not disputing that terms something afoot, I just question that it’s got anything to do with ‘Maoist Communism’. Amazon rule the world, communists the lot of em? Nah…
This
True, Champagne footy. Trophies and great entertainment together… what’s not to like?
World Economic Forum has been pushing it for years. The great reset, build back better, Agenda 2030, Event 201. The sheep dpnt want to see
This.
But he won stuff
When we were top I was having mild bouts of dizziness and guilt😂
Winning is a mentality. Poch, like the majority of our players and England’s players don’t have it.
No, Poch wasn’t backed. But ! There were a number of occasions to get us over the line where collectively he and the players failed.
Fast forward, even with a wealth of talent he still couldn’t do it.
That and the Radar system…
I agree but for me all of that falls under ‘backing’. Giving whoever it is the tools to do their job.
Without the Spitfire and the Hurricane things might well have turned out very differently. If we’d have been at it with WW1 Biplanes I suggest we might not have repelled the Luftwaffe quite so effectively! 🤔
True, but people were moaning about the style even when we were top of the league for a short time. The football wasn’t pretty most of the time, but what we’ve seen late under Poch and early under Mason is basically the same thing.
Occasionally very good against poor sides is our peak currently.
Really? 🤔
15m a season to lift the League Cup? I personally get the feeling that (not to mention his 2m top 4 bonus) was all about getting the club into the Champions League.
I even think Levy expected him to do it last season ahead of the planned Super League announcement, if he wasn’t going to do it this season then he was of no use to Levy.
JM was 100% brought in to win silverware – but on the “I know better” man’s terms.
This is it, the guy ALWAYS knows better
Yes, a fair system is needed. Its neo Maoist Communism that’s being ushered in.
It’s not just being backed though, it’s what you buy and how it’s deployed. Utd spent a load. Chelsea back managers but have to deliver. There is no fairytales in football, money makes the world go around….
Mugs mate…
Probably some sort of odd cobblers like that, it’s so predictable with Levy. I struggle to even get wound up about it anymore… I’ve sussed him and I know what he’s all about. What else is there to say?
Ex players are in awe of his use of several syllables in a row… 😂
Like I say, Jordan talks a good game.
There’s something in that, I agree. Bielsa is the same. Pep on the other hand has an embarrassment of riches to work with…
‘Jose BAD’ Would have changed very quickly if we’d had ‘football GOOD’… 😂
Where have Pep or Jose won things when they haven’t been backed?
Michell had a transfer strategy and Levy didn’t like it so he pressed the ejector seat again. Levy doesn’t even listen to the experts he employs, which is why we have little hope with the baldy man continuing to run the show…
I’m very worried that after Kane’s departure, we will try to replace one of our own, and the feelgood factor he brings, with Bale coming back on loan, and that will be that.
Of course we always faded at the end, the squad wasn’t strong enough in depth because Levy wouldn’t spend the money.
I thought Mitchell was the ideal fit – he knows how to unearth very good players at decent prices consistently. The way I understand it, he doesn’t suggest 50-100M players; rather 25-40M players who can turn into 50-100M, which would be ideal for us on a long term basis – keeping the “churn” going, overseen by a guy who’s proven to be a successful recruiter, in tandem with our best manager in years.
Instead, we have a guy who hates his job occasionally signing somebody or other.
I said exactly that some years ago on this blog at a time when the brainless sheep were in the majority. I got laughed at. Well they ain’t laughing now you dum dums.
if you really think Jose was brought in to win stuff for us then you’ve been sucked in by Levy’s usual faux ambition I’m afraid.
Levy fell out with Poch and the Amazon thing was imminent, Levy needed a new manager and a big name like Jose fitted the bill, he was also free and available. There clearly was no plan beyond that, now we know there wasn’t don’t we?
Very true H. We had a top class manager and Levy ballsed it up as usual. If Danny fell in a bed of roses he’d come up smelling of manure. The Mr Bean of PL chairman. Incompetence and extreme tightness are an unusual combination, add to that what seems to me to be a case of being a sociopath (judging by how easy he finds it to screw people over), and we have a worrying skipper at the helm. No wonder we have been likened to the Titanic..
Of course Levy wants to win something that was what the Jose appointment was all about. Now reason he wants to win is about sponsorships, naming rights….. ultimately profits.
If the business model is intact, the football side of things can just slide. Bring in Bale, pretend you mean it etc etc repeat, repeat. 22 years of showbiz to mask ENIC’s investment vehicle…
Style of play, Klopp has burn out in players as well.
Mitchell enhanced his reputation at RB Leipzig and now has helped guide Monaco to third place in La Ligue. Levy has done little to enhance his own reputation in the meantime.
And his watch apparently !
I think he’s only 12 months left at PSG at present. A lot is what is being trotted out by Spurs is that we want Poch mkII as manager (if correct).
The thing with elite sports is it’s not the best who wins big it’s who’s the best in moments. This seems to be Pochs downfall at the moment, just look at the so called battle of the bridge, no shows in finals to PSGs player melt downs.
Poch does so much right and is applauded for it, but winning the pots like a Pep or a Jose he falls short at present ( though I hope he gets over that hurdle)
Correct. I am of the opinion that Levy doesn’t actually want to win things very often because winning things ramps up the expectations of the fans. It ultimately creates pressure to spend more on the team, therefore disruptive to the ‘planned’ spend over several years.
its all being stage managed by Levy, expectation management of the fans is his key role…
The squad was too small to fight on multiple fronts and this also had the effect of the players being knackered towards the end of the season, particularly with the high intensity press. Man City don’t have that problem. Didn’t Simon Jordan sell his telecoms business, plough all the money into Crystal Palace and then lose the lot?
Levy’s scattergun approach to hiring managers finally worked for once and he even got in one of the world’s best head scouts in Mitchell to work with Poch – it really beggars belief that it ended the way it did.
Well it is capitalism, utterly just capitalism needs to be managed correctly. Short term solutions never works out well in the end. The free-market cannot survive unless it’s reigned in occasionally, the concept of it being truly free is a myth…
If not for anything else, I appreciate him for being able to go a bit deeper than “Jose BAD” – he was one of the few who knew and acknowledged that the squad is the real problem at Spurs, as opposed to 99 % of pundits who went on about our negativity, and only when Jose got sacked, came out with “he needed more time/better players” etc. etc.
If he had been backed by Levy, Poch might have been the bride rather than the bridesmaid. Taking into account the shambles the club was in before he arrived, Poch did a remarkable job with four CL qualifying places and a final. You only have to read Andros Townsend’s comments about Poch’s success in sorting out the problems with some of the playing staff which confirm this.
For me, he was the best manager since Keith Burkinshaw but he became disillusioned after Levy and the board ignored his advice and his departure was the right thing for him and the club. It is far too early to say that his time at PSG has been a failure but it remains to be seen if he will get backed there either.
Frankly, as I have written on many occasions, it doesn’t really matter who the manager at Spurs is whilst Levy runs the club.
Every season with Poch we faded towards the end, and that was with the domestic cups being disregarded as having no value to the club or anyone else, he still couldn’t get them to lift a trophy.
I don’t listen to this station or what he said but, do we need a man who appears to have opinions on everything and who has no idea on how to manage professional footballers day in day out over a season, to tell Poch or anyone else where they are going wrong, no I don’t think so.
And what football perspective is that?
He’s the guy that bought Crystal Palace but forgot the ground wasn’t included. In his five years he took Palace into administration and sacked a manager a year, so a good judge of the game.
He is a shock jock on a station full of footballing has beens Parlour, Brazil and in some cases never weres, Ohara and Groves.
Poch is unlikely to stung by the criticism of such a footballing savant, that’s if he has even heard of him
No real shame losing to City. Getting past Bayern and Barca was a good run for him. He will win the title in France. If only THFC had owners who gave a sh@t??
I saw Souness and Neville talking about capitalism. Yep, not football or money in football, capitalism. THIS is what’s behind all of this. It’s political, systemic reset.
Jordan talks a good game and is very knowledgeable. However he is a ‘former’ Premier League chairman for a reason and were his business acumen so incredible, i suggest he probably wouldn’t need to be on TalkSport every morning to supplement his income. Then again it might be to purely supplement his ego…
Poch could have easily won a minor trophy like the League Cup or Ropey if it had been given priority. If the reports are true that Levy didn’t want Jose resting players ahead of the final in the league, then it shows league placing was all part of the brief for Poch too.
PSG have had tough draws and got past both Barca and champions Bayern. Citeh are probably the best team in Europe right now and without Mbappe it was always going to be tough to turn it around. You need luck in football.
It’s been a decent first season for Poch in Paris. None of the players are his, an excuse trotted out for Jose constantly. So give him time, he’ll get there.
Agreed. Arrogant, loves the sound of his own voice but articulate and doesn’t give a toss.
Getting mugged wasn’t clever,but Jordan talks a lot of sense from a football perspective.Where a lot of pundits skirt around a subject,so as not to upset anyone,Jordan gets straight to the point and takes no prisoners.The little I’ve heard from him I like.
The big mistake was Levy not prioritising the FA or League Cups to get the winning mentality rolling.
Instead, CL money was the number one target which Poch brilliantly delivered.
Then he brings in a has been to a fading team to correct that which anyone with half a football brain realised was disaster in the making.
Simon Jordan is not exactly the voice of wisdom, hanging is arm out of his supercar to show off his fancy watch and getting mugged for it was dumb.
Klopp was 2nd on many occasions before winning anything.
Pochettino was best since Bill Nic and anyone we get now will fail under Levy.
He’s the bad egg, we all know that