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Poch Almost Bites Back: Eventually Mauricio Points The Finger At Levy

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An interesting enough interview with Mauricio Pochettino awaits you over at El Pais this morning, where the Argentine has eventually stopped placing emphasis upon his servicing of the ENIC debts, and actually mentioned the (white) elephant in the room, the lack of transfer budget.

This is very close to a brave move for Mauricio, because he has to retain his professional edge, yet not brush under the carpet the fact that he was hung out to dry in back to back markets.

Yes, Poch did exceed expectation at Spurs, but only within the parameters of the poorhouse, which ENIC is most definitely not. When Daniel Levy rustled up £134 million to add to the stadium build, it signified a transfer famine for the football team.

As former member of staff Paul Mitchell delicately put it, “aligning” the two projects was hard – or in reality – hopelessly impossible.

The failure to balance the commitment to the two aspects of the business created a legacy that few would have wished for. Poch was popular, personable, but painfully under resourced.

It’s not unreasonable to suggest that it was the brave new world of stellar facilities that ended Mauricio. The neglect meant no churn of playing personnel, and so the squad festered.

Two years without a signing. There’s no coherent excuse in the world for that. None at all. What a desperate state of affairs.

If only there had been a lone voice, while everyone was cooing over videos girders and such, to say #BackTheDamnManager, eh?

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Tappaspur
Tappaspur
3 years ago

Oh shut up poch and enjoy the £35 million

Tappaspur
Tappaspur
3 years ago

You’re wrong son. ENIC AINT RINSING THFC

Tappaspur
Tappaspur
3 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

Absolute rubbish

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
3 years ago

I don’t wish to be rude but if you read my post above thoroughly, I have tried to explain that although Enic have not taken a dividend out of the club, they have used funds engendered by on pitch success to acquire more property. In other words, money that should have been used in the transfer market went instead on the new stadium. Do not forget that the football club are Enic’s anchor tenants.

Steve KillerCushion Williams
Steve KillerCushion Williams
3 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

H gave credit when it was due. Berated him for his mistakes too, for there were many towards the end.. Throwing cups to focus on league was his worst. I wonder if Levy ordered Poch to prioritise because it was so dumb…… Many people have claimed to me that Lewis, Levy (enic) do not take any money from spurs. Noone can prove these claims to me though…. As if Joe Lewis would be 70 per cent owner if there was no money in it for him. The man has his fingers and toes in all sorts of pies, everything is about the money for him. Of course they are making money…. Also Spurs would go bankrupt before them thats for sure.. That 200mil loan recently was shocking too. As if Lewis couldn’t afford to keep us going. He is minted.

Steve KillerCushion Williams
Steve KillerCushion Williams
3 years ago
Reply to  mikey hughes

😂 Hilarious man. He does resemble a shiny bell of the end.

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago

TP = Tiny Pecker = Levy?

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
3 years ago

Levy’s ego is too big to admit he knows nothing about football. He will argue that he got top dollar for Bale and that it was the DoF, Franco Baldini, who spent the money badly. We had a well respected head of recruitment in Paul Mitchell but Levy sacked him and put him on gardening leave. I suspect that started Poch’s disillusionment with Levy. I think Poch was naïve enough to believe Levy’s spin and it was only when he realised that Levy never intended to back him , it was the beginning of the end in their relationship. As I mentioned in an earlier post today, Levy’s sheer incompetence in managerial appointments and in the transfer market have cost the club a fortune. A good businessman knows you have to delegate, particularly in areas where you have no expertise, but if you are an anally retentive egomaniac, you do what you like.

Steve KillerCushion Williams
Steve KillerCushion Williams
3 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

He’s copying Sir Alex. He banged on that every year he needed TWO quality players at least to contend for the firsts. Freshen it up, competition for places. Mainly so players never got too comfortable. Our players like tintin, son, etc this is glaring. Need a kick up the backside a few of our lot. With no competition for ones place it becomes too easy. They become complacent.

England Mike
England Mike
3 years ago

How can anyone ignore the mess of how the Bale money was spent, add the french bargain basement signings , and others that I am happy to forget, and that tells us all how poor the recruitment has been , then it’s no wonder we haven’t maintained our level.

Steve KillerCushion Williams
Steve KillerCushion Williams
3 years ago
Reply to  ministers cat

TP? Whos that mate? Travis perkins? Toilet paper?

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

Your last paragraph reminded me of a Attenborough nature documentary on chimpanzees whereby the mammals, which have very similar DNA to us, quickly learnt to not make the same mistake twice under test conditions. The conclusion I draw from that is that in Daniel we have the missing link.

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago
Reply to  Marbella Spur

Your last paragraph reminded me of a Attenborough nature documentary on chimpanzees whereby the mammals, which have very similar DNA to us, quickly learnt to not make the same mistake twice under test conditions. The conclusion I draw from that is that in Daniel we have the missing link.

Billy the yid
Billy the yid
3 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

The people we have been linked with are bang average. Not why you build billion pound stadiums unless the whole point was sod the football club in the first place

ministers cat
ministers cat
3 years ago

Mitchell’s statement pertains to a top side. We are upper mid table again thanks to TP but I do apportion blame on Poch. as well he was always too deferential to TP. Last time he complained he was called in and given a lovely new contract i.e. sold his soul

Marbella Spur
Marbella Spur
3 years ago

I was very happy to read this piece by you HH, as I have often thought that you never rated Poch. “Back the Damn Manager” was right, funnily enough Levy didn’t hear it. At the risk of repeating myself, if he had listened to Mitchell and others, he would have realised that zero recruitment in two windows sounded a death knell for this squad despite Poch warning the board to be brave. Is there anybody on the Spurs board who understands how football at the highest level works? Clearly Levy doesn’t, but I suspect that in his semi autistic world he thinks he’s always right. Siphoning off available transfer funds to increase investment in the Enic property empire was both a dereliction of duty, but also sheer wanton stupidity as evidenced by the potential loss of revenue to the tune of approximately £60 mill by failing to qualify for the CL for next season. Claiming to be a self funding club, whilst using monies engendered by the club’s on field success to fund it’s burgeoning property portfolio is a betrayal of the supporters who spend their hard earned cash on the club, whilst being misled for twenty years by Levy pretending that he wanted on field success.
Whilst he has made a lot of money for Enic and himself, I wonder if anyone could extrapolate from the hiring and firing of innumerable managers, his ineptitude in the transfer market, and his failure to back managers with good teams in strong positions by accepting their advice how to strengthen the team at the apposite moment, the actual amount of money that Levy has cost the club. They say the first sign of madness is to constantly continue making the same mistakes.

mikey hughes
mikey hughes
3 years ago

Once Jose susses out what sort of a little monster Levy is, then he’ll be off too. At that point and with their history of neglect and hanging managers out to dry, they will find it very difficult to find another mug who wants to destroy their reputation by becoming manager of ENIC fc. I reckon diddy Daniel should become our next manager, on the proviso that if we don’t win a trophy he gets the same treatment of course. It seems to me that the little control freak basically pulls the strings of his managers and then blames them when things obviously go wrong. It’s about time somebody cut the strings of the puppet master too.

Harry Hotspur
3 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

Mitchell of course, who was bundled out of THFC…

16 months gardening leave.

His career is now back on track.

James McKevitt
James McKevitt
3 years ago

Mitchell’s statement is really damning, he says you need two to three to four players every window of the highest quality that can break into the starting eleven. Of the highest quality. That last sentence hits home. Maybe we’ll get two players of the highest quality in this window, I’d settle for that.

Billy the yid
Billy the yid
3 years ago

Rednapp, avb, poch, now Jose. Every one of them has asked for certain things. None of them will get what they ask for. This isn’t how you run a football club. This is the polar opposite of how a football club is run. He used the chicken and the egg scenario whilst he built his dream. Reality was there is no chicken and egg. Liverpool proved that in abundance. Half the Premier league doesn’t need gate receipts at all, yet we build a billion pound stadium to play some unheard of Korean, and potentially 3 players who have just been relegated. Let that sink in. Anus about breast I think

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