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.
The thinking is that if he can get Spurs to 86 league points (far better than any tally we've managed post-Fergie), and reach a CL final with a net spend of a midtable team, he'll be able to make that final step with the sort of players we can attract to the club, and the sort of squad depth we can build. Now football doesn't work that way that just because you can buy better players then you'll be more successful. But at the very least there's
some logic to the appointment. With Ole, he had no credentials to even suggest he was a premier league level manager, arguably not even a championship level manager.
Put it this way, if we'd have given Poch the job 3 years ago and he'd have got the £450m Ole has spent, I suspect we'd have a very, very good footballing team right now that we'd be excited about. Unfortunately we've ended up with a team that can't pass, can't press and can't defend.
And no matter what you think of the job he's doing at PSG, the fact he's there in the first place is telling. The likes of Ole and Moyes would never dream of getting a top European job, they wouldn't even be on the radar. Poch was destined to be chosen by an elite club when he left Spurs and it was just a matter of which one was going to pick him up first, and I can't believe they're all fools for recognising his potential.