When a football manager tells you the next transfer window holds answers, and you’re only a handful of games along from the close of the last window, you know you’re officially in trouble.
Again, I must plead the case for a mire nuanced approach than sacking Pochettino.
Whilst the man irritates the bejesus out of me pretty much constantly, the list of people who do not, is a short one.
Predictable fayre on Social media with the overwhelming bulk of commentators missing the point.
Anyone who believes there to be a single name on the above list that could fix what’s wrong at Spurs – didn’t understand the question.
A source close to the club told the Harry Hotspur blog recently that Poch felt he was drifting.
Mauricio has already hinted at behind the scenes problems, announcing that the team had never been so unsettled.
Now the source close to Spurs claims that Poch has lost the dressing room. “The esprit de corps isn’t there any more – banter has been replaced by talk about futures outside Tottenham”.
Too many key players haven’t been looked after with the appropriate contract extensions.
I take a view that Tottenham pretty much set themselves up for a fall on the back of a business model that has distinctly prioritized the commercial side of the business over the actual football side.
Pochettino needs some serious help to take the club past the train wreck that was the Champions League final loss.
Will this help arrive in January? Maybe a little will, but certainly not enough.
Add to which, none of this current squad is getting any younger – and we have a situation where the momentum has definitely dissipated.
Hold on tight, we’re in for a bumpy ride.
I have said before possession wins nothing.Spurs 75 percent and Colchester 25 percent.Spurs 684 passes mostly sidewards or backwards and Colchester 234 passes means nothing.They didn’t have a shot on target.On paper yes Poch would assume they had enough to win,but I watched the game and Wanyama was embarrassing laughing when he he miskewed his third pass in a row!! Why? did Pochettino insist on playing his absolute weakest team.The players all looked at each other as if they should be playing with Kane&co and not at Colchester midweek with the reserves.
Never have I seen such a disjointed team in my life. The older players were left to do the work while the new players were on trial. That was one of the reasons for yesterdays plastering we got from a team that should have been dismissed in the first half hour of the match. How could a team with so much possession not kick a ball into the net? My answer to that is that the older players are being ridiculed by Pochettino by his comments on them By old I do not mean age but players that have represented the team for such a long time. As far as I am concerned a player who is refusing all the money that Levy seems to be offering him should be forgotten because from what we are seeing he has lost the flair he had. He is not half the player he was.So let him go before we loose more money on him. That being Erickson. We also have the likes of Vertonghen and Alderweireld who have not been offered a contract thus leaving us with no protection at the rear. Also we want , as it seems to build a house while destroying the one that served us so well. If we want to rebuild a team it is necessary to do that without wrecking the old team before the team is built. If we want to end up in the upper part of the league table we had better do that by keeping the old players and extending their contract by at least a couple of years so that the new players can be integrated into the new team. After which sell the players who are then deemed surplus to requirement But please treat the players as players and not as whipping posts as has been done
Poch is well within his rights to think that team should have won. With possession and the like. The issue really was we never created – however, called it before the game – Wanyama and Dier??
Why would Brendan Rodgers leave the progressive Foxes. IMO having earned the right to manage a big club IMO Eddie Howe would be a perfect fit!
he needs to win next 3 games. No if’s or buts. 9 points from next 3 PL games is a must.
As I said just a few days ago 8 points from 6 game’s, and now we’ve been knocked out of a cup by Colchester. If he’s lost the dressing room then yes I believe anyone of that list could do better. Once you’ve lost the dressing room you’ve lost. Could any of those do a better job my answer is who knows, but what i said 3 day’s ago and again now is poch better address this and fast because if he doesn’t then I believe he’ll have to go. Break’s ny heart to say it but the club has to cone first
Personally I see us struggling to attract who we need in January anyway. We will be likely struggling for top 4, and likely have already lost Toby and CE to pre-contracts elsewhere. Kane will be clearly wanting to leave. Why join us on a downward trajectory, this summer was the last chance saloon to push for top players. We should have done it last summer!!
I’d say muddy rather than bumpy. Go 4wding on the weekend. Bumpy is much better.
He would want to keep all the ones that would want to go I expect. The players that want to leave are not trying to leave because of Poch, if anything, some are staying because of him.
I am not advocating that Poch should be sacked, it would be ridiculous, but he has gone as far as he can under Levy. Would any of the potential appointees want to work for Levy? You would be working for a property group, with the football side as a secondary priority, if that. For example, Eddie Howe has a very good relationship with the owner and Bournemouth is a nice place to live. Levy will have to make up his mind whether to substantially back the manager in the transfer market as opposed to his normal practice of one out, one in, with a zero net spend and that won’t happen. The current team is finished. How many of the existing players would a new manager want to keep?
Tim Sherwood is busily texting TV producers, advising of his availability…
Is Pochettino denying our first choice players any chance of winning anything by sending out such weak teams in the cups.They look at them as the more realistic chance of silverware compared to winning the PL or getting to another CL final.Who would Kane and the other senior players have been more annoyed with last night, the mismatch of a team or Pochettino?Yes the players on paper should have won but half the team were either recovering from injuries or playing their first match of the season,plus two debutants.Is Pochettino suggesting we need to wait till the Jan transfer window to have a team capable of beating Colchester,he should just stop talking he digs himself into a bigger hole with each press conference.
Chris Houghton neva get a mention. 😢
So CE is not about the money I’ve heard?!?!?! Really then why not extend last season and get on with it. Me personally he has done us a favor. Don’t let the door hit ya where the good Lord Split ya pal.