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The links with Pocchettino coming in as our manager are resurfacing again already and it’s rumoured he has a £32 million buyout clause, is Pocchettino the man to take us forward ? Is he worth £32 million ?

On the pros side Pocchettino is tactically very astute and meant to be great with man management, he has a set style of play and is great at squad building even though he’s done it on a budget at Spurs.

What he’s done at Spurs with the lack of money he has is amazing and he’s not afraid to take a chance on youth or a player with potential rather than just going with finished articles, I’d personally have Pocchettino as third best manager in the league only after Pep and Klopp.

On the cons side he’s forever getting questions of being a bottler due to never having won a trophy as a manager and at United the pressure would be far greater than at Spurs, you only have to look at us post Sir Alex to see nothing less than Champions League football and trophies is good enough and in my opinion that’s the very least that should be consistently achieved with our resources.
 

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If we're getting nowhere with Ole then I'm all for it. At the very least we need to be a team that can consistently get top 4, which Pochettino has been doing with Spurs very well over the last few years.

Once we're a consistent top 4 team and we're bottling trophies then at that point you'd look towards replacements who can take advantage of the work Pochettino has done. All we need right now is some damn consistency in good performances and Pochettino can definitely offer that.
 

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I'd take him. He's not as attack minded/exciting or as tactically revolutionary as I'd want our next manager to be. But his development of players has been brilliant in his time at Spurs. My only worry would be Spurs' form during 2019. Are we catching him at the wrong time, and should be instead going for a manager who is just about to explode - ideally we'd get somebody like that but I don't know if there's anyone of that type available.
 

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We shouldn't pay 32 million to sign him, he will resign or sacked if the results don't improve, then we can sign him for even cheaper price.
 

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Definitely but I'd probably wait til he's sacked instead of paying that clause.

I also can't see the club sacking Ole mid season unless things go REALLY bad.
 

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We don't need to pay that clause. If Poch decides he wants to move on it will be by mutual consent.

No chairman in his right mind will keep an unhappy manager.
 

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The club gave into populist wave and see where we are. Will say it again. Club should have waited till the end of the season before making a decision.
 

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We won't be paying £32m. If he really wants to move, he can just tank them into sacking him.

And Levy might just sack him anyway if they don't make top 4 this season. There's already something a bit off this season.
 

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I am the last one who can say anything about grammar and spelling in general but the name of our future manager should be correctly spelt:wenger:
 

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Pocchettino :lol:, Jesus that's horrific.

Bullshit story ad he doesn't have any clause in his contract, that was covered when Real were linked to him. Anyway in his presser he stated he is the man to take us onward.

"“Yes, I believe I am. If I didn’t think I was, you would have found out quickly.”

This is in the DailyMail FFS. :lol:
 
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Look I would take him but I don't think it's realistic.

Levy will make it hell for us; I don't think Pochettino would come here or, for that matter, to another PL side - I think he'd want to try something else. Finally, I've always just had this weird vibe with Poch, and this is just personal opinion, that he actually dislikes us. Just the way he's spoken on occasion has suggested that he doesn't hold in us in very high regard as a club.
 

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Is he any better than Pochettino?

It's bad enough having two threads on the guy
 

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Alabaster Codify7 said:
Look I would take him but I don't think it's realistic.

Levy will make it hell for us; I don't think Pochettino would come here or, for that matter, to another PL side - I think he'd want to try something else. Finally, I've always just had this weird vibe with Poch, and this is just personal opinion, that he actually dislikes us. Just the way he's spoken on occasion has suggested that he doesn't hold in us in very high regard as a club.
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Levy can’t do shit. If he wants to quit he quits, what’s Levy gonna do, tie him to the dugout?
 

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InLevyITrust said:
:D

Seriously though I do think its far too soon to be calling for Ole to go, I would say Poch would take at least a season to implement any style of his own to your team.
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I don't think there's any point in getting rid of Ole this season unless we're actually sitting in the bottom three (which actually isn't as farfetched as it sounds) but if Poch is available next summer I think we'd be mad not to get him, unless by the end of the season Ole has shown himself to not be a terrible manager.
 

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I don't think there's any point in getting rid of Ole this season unless we're actually sitting in the bottom three (which actually isn't as farfetched as it sounds) but if Poch is available next summer I think we'd be mad not to get him, unless by the end of the season Ole has shown himself to not be a terrible manager.
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I honestly think IF Poch leaves us he will move abroad, just my feeling. He has been in England for 7 years and won nothing, a lot of Spurs fans are starting to question if its time for a change. I am still to fully make up my mind but I am willing to see out the season with him, in his last press conference he seemed to be back to his normal self and much more positive and direct than he has been.

The reason why I think he will go abroad is her is competing here again he is up against the 2 best coaches in the world and he could feel that City and Liverpool are simply so far ahead.
 

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I have a good feeling about Pochettino, despite the missing trophies, but I don’t know that anyone can succeed in this toxic commercialism, low ambition environment that Woodward and his team of cronies have installed at the club.

Also it would be great if we could just for once do something a bit bold and unexpected. Like bringing in a Nagelsmann or something like that. Of course it has to dovetail with a strategic blueprint based on medium to long term success. And then we’re back to the total lack of sports ambition at United. It really is a constant stumbling block for any kind of rational speculation about the way forward.
 
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Would take Poch Nagglesman Tuchel.

Solskjaer is finished as a manager of this club and the reason being is because when results slip he's unable to get the team to reset. It's happened last season and now is being dragged into this campaign. It's not so much that we are losing games which is the problem, it's that it's in a consecutive manner with dreadful performances. One aspect to me which is a guarantee is that our season is going to get worse.
 

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I don`t know the market that well, so i`ll ask the redcaf oracle (high on drugs as the one in Delphi) :D -

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Why would Florentino Perez appoint Pochettino as a first choice Real Madrid manager?

I know RM want away from the galacticos mania (that`s probably why they bought Hazard i guess :smirk: ..) and are also in need of a rebuild .. but that would be the best argument

The fact that Poch has not won anything, would count as a something in the biggest club in the world? Man United is a rightly so highly ambitious club with loads of pressure, but Real Madrid demand even more in a shorter space of time .. that lack of trophies would backfire sooner rather than later ..

When RM fans would check his Curriculum Vitae would they not be a little sceptic .. (I like Poch, just stating what i would think of as factual) ..
 
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