Most top clubs wanted and wants Pochettino. Many fans on here taught after spurs, he would not go to a big club, yet they were wrong. Pochettino landed one of the biggest job and attracted some of the biggest players in football. If United have any ambition or high standard, then pochettino should be our number 1 target. At psg, he has started of better than Tuchel in his first full season, and United shouldn’t make the same mistake of losing another top manager. However, I feel that Pochettino might go to city if we don’t act quickly.
There is a big disdain for Pochettino in this forum. Every time, he loses or even draw
the forum go crazy and bashes him.
Is it all those Mourinho-fans from back in 2016, who kept arguing that Pochettino never won anything? They stopped loving Mourinho, but never stopped hating on Pochettino?
I do not watch PSG much. I dont think that squad suits him. But what he did at Spurs was, and still is, undervalued. Took over a club that basically never made it into top four, and finished 5th (64p), 3rd (86p), 2nd (77p) and 4th (71p). A team with not history in the CL to a CL-final. After he left, they appear to be back where they used to be. They made it past 70 points once before he arrived (72 points in 2013).
I think he was a bit of a victim of his own success. Quite a few people started talking about how good Eriksen, Ali, Dier, Alderweireld, Dembele and Rose were. Few realized that they were actually not that good before Pochettino came. After watching that Spurs side after he left, they probably should. Pep called them a one man team for a good reason.
Levy never really backed him either. Grealish was considered to expensive, and when he wanted to get rid of a few players (Rose) Levy prevented him.
I think it was a similar case with Southampton. He made Liverpool wanna buy every single player at the club (Lallana, Lambert and Lovren). His Southampton team had the highest possession—figures in the PL in 13/14. Similar to Spurs their build-up was great, they had good transitions, could defend well with a low block, but also put up a really good high press. They were a unit and a team!
Southampton were probably the first team to play a «modern» type of football in the PL. Similar to Liverpool, Man City or Bayern, but without the quality players. It was very good, proactive football, but he was also quite pragmatic about it.