That spurs team had a great shape and worked really hard. He did a similar job at Southampton.
Mauricio Amadaeus Pochettino | Chelsea sack watch
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So scary but possible...
Ah, yes. I see now.
Basically a Sainsbury's David Moyes.
Nope.
Tuch 2.06, Poch 2.22
It’s your own side, get it right. It’s a 7 point difference over a season that.
You should totally get a new hobby.
Not even the 'Be good to yourself' range.
Mmm I would love for us to be total shithouses when we play City. I just hope Fernandinho is on the pitch to cry about it.
Fair point
Dont we desperately crave a lot more though? What Poch offers sounds worryingly like what Ole offered to me, and the stick a lot of people used to beat Ole with
Stabilise the club, get us back in the top four, but ultimately not good enough to challenge the top dogs.
For what it’s worth I do think he’s a better manager than Ole. I just struggle to get excited by it.
As much as I hate to say this but being completely realistic the likelihood of any manager coming in and bridging the huge gap between us, City and Liverpool in the next 18 months is extremely unlikely.
I hope that we hire with that in mind so that we are ready to pounce once Pep and Klopp both leave. Build on the foundations of what is a squad full of talent and with the right guidance will be a genuine force at that time.
My preference is Ten Hag but the job that Poch did with Spurs a manager who knows the demands of this league and clearly has a huge desire to come here makes him a good choice to take us forward.
What makes this all irrelevant is if we have the footballing structure the same as it is now. Experienced football men who can make competent football decisions is the fundamental change required
I hope that we hire with that in mind so that we are ready to pounce once Pep and Klopp both leave. Build on the foundations of what is a squad full of talent and with the right guidance will be a genuine force at that time.
My preference is Ten Hag but the job that Poch did with Spurs a manager who knows the demands of this league and clearly has a huge desire to come here makes him a good choice to take us forward.
What makes this all irrelevant is if we have the footballing structure the same as it is now. Experienced football men who can make competent football decisions is the fundamental change required
Watching Football isn't a hobby.
That means almost nothing.
I only point out those attributes relative to the aimlessness of this squad. It's almost exactly what this bunch of players are crying out for.
Uh?Fergie’s side never took a hiding.
Didn’t Pep once get twatted 2-5 at home to Leicester?
And Klopp lost to the same score line last season vs Aston fexking Villa
6-1 against City, 5-0 against Newcastle, I think we even got battered off Middlesborough once. Not sure if that was sarcastic, I don't want to be that idiot who sees an online joke going over his head but we got plenty of a drubbing under Sir Alex.
we don’t need to “get back” into the top 4, but a manager who picked up 85 points for fecking Spurs could improve on that here. Improving on 85 points gets you close to a title challenge.
Yeah was 4-1 at Boro in Oct 2005 and led to Keane's infamous MUTV interview
I think on your last point you probably will be surprised about how much better of a manager he is than Ole. I still love Ole to death as a person but it is like comparing a League One manager to a Premier League manager.
Don't be mean, I put a disclaimer which means it is fine. Sort ofWell yer are.. obviously
I’m gonna assume Ten Hag was a no go. After him I can’t really think of a better choice. Looks like there’s a lot of smoke coming out suddenly.
Maybe we did go all in for him but got the impression he wasn't keen enough to take the job
Not really.
1. He made them a top 4 side in 4 out of 5 full seasons which is far beyond what Spurs achieved before or after, if it was that easy they'd have done it before him and they'd be doing it after. United have regularly finished outside the top 4 in the last 9 years despite spending a fortune every summer, Liverpool pre-Klopp were in and out of the top 4 for years (mostly out). Arsenal have been out the top 4 for years.
2. His best season was 2nd place with 86 points - that's a step beyond scraping a top 4 finish.
3. Reached a CL final, again far beyond what people thought was possbile for Spurs.
4. He wasn't "given" a 30 goal a season striker. Kane was playing on loan in the championship until he was 21. Poch brought him into the 1st team, you make it sound like he was gifted prime Aguero for £100m.
5. He did all this with the net spend of a midtable team.
It's not that I have no doubts about him, but you have to give credit where credit is due.
Can't believe we are going in for him we should be all over Ten Hag.
The longer the caf goes without a "Poch-now-vs-Ten-Hag-guaranteed-at-end-of-season" poll, the more the Glazers get to feel 'Poch now' must be good enough.
1. Poch now
2. Rangnick now and Ten Hag guaranteed at the end of the season.
Do you think you could give them FIFA player card-type scores? (AKA ETH 90, Poch 86 that sort of thing.)
I'd go with that, too.
Which would you choose between:
1. Poch now
2. Rangnick now and Ten Hag guaranteed at the end of the season.
Do you think you could give them FIFA player card-type scores? (AKA ETH 90, Poch 86 that sort of thing.)
2 managers since Pochettino have tried and failed to make them a top 4 team already
Yeah I think so too. Sounds like we were even prepared to employ a 6 month stop-gap while we kept his seat warm, but if he still wants to remain with Ajax even after that then fair fecks to the guy. You move on.
Yeah fair points there
I don’t necessarily agree with everything you wrote but I was being a bit harsh
What about his time at PSG? He hasn’t exactly impressed there has he? Are people not worried he might not have that big club mentality in him?
I think the problem with waiting for Ten Hag is that it could end up putting us in a bad position.
We get to the summer hoping to get him then he decides to sign for City, or Madrid or whoever else. Pochettino feels like second choice and has just had a good Champions League run, Mancini, Enrique and Flick are all focused on the world cup. Zidane takes the France job and doesn't want to come here anyway. We then end up with a fourth or fifth choice or worse keeping someone like Blanc to save face after knowingly wasting the remainder of this season. I can understand the reservations despite him seeming incredibly talented. If we could get the second most attractive option now it does make sense.
There must be a better interim than Ragnick... more I learn about him, more he seems a bit exaggerated
Option 2 definitely but don't think it's going to happen with so much Pochettino noise today
I watched that live. Painful match.
think of Pochettino as a modern day Bielsa.
Hardcore, high pressing
Neat small passes in many triangles
But problem with bielsa’s disciples is that they hardly win trophies.
Hardcore, high pressing
Neat small passes in many triangles
But problem with bielsa’s disciples is that they hardly win trophies.
Yeah was on Prem Plus in those days
He's like my nightmare for a manchester united manager.
Look at the way the club was desperately hanging onto Ole as he went one low to another. He'll probably be too good to actually to sink to the depths Solskjaer had to get himself sacked. So we'll be stuck with him in 3rd-4th place for 6 years, with nothing else to show for it.
Look at the way the club was desperately hanging onto Ole as he went one low to another. He'll probably be too good to actually to sink to the depths Solskjaer had to get himself sacked. So we'll be stuck with him in 3rd-4th place for 6 years, with nothing else to show for it.
Insert any non-ex-United player interim of your choice.
Even Tuchel didn’t look like a top manager at PSG.
What a rip off that was!
If Ole wasn't a former United player, he would've been let go 3 times before he was eventually let go.
They did, it was shaped like a huge bottle
He got 86 points for bloody Spurs, with a pretty crap wage and transfer budget. You don’t think he has potential to improve on that haul here?
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