So how is last season can be used as sign progress for Spurs’s project? Do you mean So how can last season be used as sign of progress for Spurs’s project? If so, like I said he steadied the ship and got us in Europe (already stated that, or should be pretty obvious).
So no progress then this season since you said he reverted to his old ways? So what was the thing you called playing some good football again, what type of football is it? Results against Southampton and yourselves were good, the Match against City was good, first half against West ham and Newcastle. He had us joint top with the best GD. Since West Ham its been pretty dire football apart from the City match.
This is tiresome.
Last season was a sign of progress? He got you 45 points in 26 games (1,73 ppg). That sounds quite okay. But after the first few games your games were really bad. You can go at understat and use 22nd November as start date. You will see that you were quite lucky to get this amount of points - expected points had you as 11th best team for this 26 games he was in charge. Just as a comparison, when we sacked Mourinho we had 26 points after 17 games. The football was atrocious and everybody laughed at how bad we were. We were on 1,53 ppg. That is funnily not even that far away from the level he has you until now.
Yes, results against Southampton and us were really good. I'll give you Southampton. But against us? You played against 10 United players who were clearly unfit and not even close to being able to compete. At that time Crystal Palace outplayed us at OT and Brighton created a week earlier as much chances as you (but against 11 United players) - they were just unable to finish them. There is nothing to be to proud of.
Against city the result was excellent and you defended quite good but they still missed some good chances. You had 4 shots in this game. I'd say the game you played against Liverpool was a lot better than the one against City - just that you were lucky against City and unlucky against Liverpool.
I can't really see progress. To be fair you already said that now there is no progress. But i could never really see progress with this Spurs team. A few results but nothing else. E.g. you went onto a winning run of 3 games against Burnley, Brighton and West Brom. For me that was the moment i realized you will have nothing to do with the title because the football was just so bad.
The only thing that is acceptable until now are the results. But they were better under Pochettino apart from the start in his last season. That was not your actual level under Pochettino and Mourinho still took over a pretty good squad as the last few seasons before showed. Of course you can say there is progress from the level Pochettino had you in his last few games but that is not the actual level that Spurs had.
Just compare Mourinho with Ole in the league. Ole was widely seen (before his winning run this season at least) as one of the worst managers of the league. Since he took over from Mourinho he got 40 points in 21 in his 1st season. Than in his first 22 games in second season he got 34 points. So that combines for 74 in 43 games. For most people he was done at United and the job was simply a level too high for him. Now Spurs got 75 points in the 43 games that Mourinho is here. That is quite shocking as his results somehow are seen 1000x better than Ole at this point. And this was the lowest point of his United career until now.