Spurs were transformed by Poch, who earned the right to a Ferguson rebuild
This part is certainly true. Pochettino obeyed the ENIC protocols to the letter, including sitting out several transfer windows where his squad was the only one in Europe’s top 5 divisions not to buy a player.
There’s no denying Mauricio had earned the backing of Daniel Levy. This blog went through a protracted phase of signing off posts with #BackTheDamnManager
They took the short-term fix of changing the manager rather than squad, and that looks like it could be way more costly in long term
This is to fundamentally misrepresent (intentionally or otherwise) what Levy was up to. Despite Pochettino’s good works, Daniel Levy was not to be stopped in his desire to go all in on infrastructure. As I wrote recently, only a psychopath could have ignored the opportunity that Tottenham had nudge Spurs into a genuine contender, opposed to one that “competed”.
There wasn’t any money for a squad rebuild, because a squad rebuild was never a consideration. Levy threw THFC’s £340million reserves into the stadium project.
Now, the prudent financial decision would be another managerial change
Prudent? Nice try Miguel, but throwing Mourinho into the skip with the other dozen plus managers Levy burned through won’t solve anything. Levy has managed to leverage Spurs to the point that the club is unsellable as the assets are all maxed out.
For the foreseeable future, the only alterations to the squad can be made by selling existing players and reinvesting.
Sacking Mourinho would be as helpful as bringing back Pochettino – which would also achieve zip.