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Poch or Rogers will be next United manager, we will finish 8-10 and Ole will get sacked its as simple as that. If not now, (which should be) then at the end of the season.
 

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I think its irrelevant whether Poch bought the players or not. Whats more important is that he got them playing good attacking football while spending (net) considerably less than other clubs.

His Spurs side challenged for a title and reached a CL final (where they were the better team), achievements which one would scarcely believe to be possible in 2014 when he was hired.

Spurs have improved their squad, profile and standing in the league because of him. One cant hail the players when Spurs win and fire the manager when the team loses. He's one of the best coaches in the world and theres no doubt about it.

However, his demeanor strongly suggests that he needs a break. He will definitely have a job by summer 2020. I highly doubt we are smart or brave enough to fire Ole and hire him in the summer.
Look at his PL record. It speaks for it self. Anyone who tries to downplay it as massive moron. Poch just reached the end of the cycle with Spurs just like Klopp did with Dortmund.
 

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Poch did well at Espanol initially as pointed out by a poster in the know. Did very well for Southampton and did extremely well for Spurs. It is a no brainer as Poch is in a different stratosphere in managerial ability to Ole. Different planet. We're just incompetent and dithering to pull the trigger and do what's right.
If so then why has Ole achieved more points (10) over nearly a full year of football with a weaker squad than Spurs?
 

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If so then why has Ole achieved more points (10) over nearly a full year of football with a weaker squad than Spurs?
Because it was the end of the road for poch at spurs as I explained that happens in football. Lest we forget how Ole did with a newly promoted side and shortly after in the Championship. If Ole were to get sacked now you think anyone would be on the phone to his agent from the top two tiers of English league? Now ask the same question for Poch.
 

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Because it was the end of the road for poch at spurs as I explained that happens in football. Lest we forget how Ole did with a newly promoted side and shortly after in the Championship. If Ole were to get sacked now you think anyone would be on the phone to his agent from the top two tiers of English league? Now ask the same question for Poch.
So the last year can be excused for Pochettino (the fairest side by side comparison) but Ole taking over an already doomed, terrible Cardiff side is definitive proof that he is a bad manager?
 

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If we never beat Brighton , Poch could have been manager now. Still need to stand by Ole I feel and we should be going all out now to get Kane and giving Ole a warchest to buy some midfielders too
 

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So the last year can be excused for Pochettino (the fairest side by side comparison) but Ole taking over an already doomed, terrible Cardiff side is definitive proof that he is a bad manager?
No Poch got sacked and rightly so. The thing is Poch had 6 successful years in England. How many has Ole got. Id struggling to call Ole's tenures in England as underwhelming - that's being polite, in fact.
 

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I think we’ll be sounding Poch out to potentially take over if we fall too far short of top 4. Basically, don’t accept any other offers.
 

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No Poch got sacked and rightly so. The thing is Poch had 6 successful years in England. How many has Ole got. Id struggling to call Ole's tenures in England as underwhelming - that's being polite, in fact.
But that's the problem, you're talking about a manager being in a 'different stratosphere' of ability yet you've got barely any real comparison.

Points wise Solskjaer has us 4th over his time in charge which is seen as some kind of miracle with Poch at Spurs.
 

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Come on man. No matter how badly you want to believe that or how many times you repeat it does not make it any more true. Its not like there is conflicting reports on the matter or this is just hearsay from dubious sources.

Poch himself said this: “I am not in charge and I know nothing about the situation of my players. I am only coaching them and trying to get the best from them. Sell, buy players, sign contract, not sign contract – I think it is not in my hands, it’s in the club’s hands and [chairman] Daniel Levy. The club need to change my title and description. Of course I am the boss deciding the strategic play, but in another area I don’t know. Today, I feel like I am the coach.” Can it get any more clear than that?



Yeah we have done for the past 6 years. The rebuild really should have started with Moyes, but he failed miserably in that. Then came LvG and Jose and for whatever reason they ignored all the obvious signs that this was a long term project that had to be done carefully and strategically with long term planning, but both of them was so caught up in their own ego they failed. LvG had his head to far up his own arse with his whole philosophy nonsense and Jose as the instant success merchant he is failed because he tried just that and then had a meltdown when things did not go his way. What is clearly not working is changing managers every one-two years either

Moyes got sacked because he took the champions to 7th and it was clear as day he had lost the dressing room. To be fair though, Moyes had an "impossible" job and i think the only ones who could have followed Fergie would have been Jose, Pep, Klopp or Ancelotti
LvG got sacked because he did worse in his second season than he did in his first
Jose got sacked because he had a full meltdown. If he had acted like an adult he would still be managing us

Despite the results being pretty arse in the league (16 points in 12 matches is fecking terrible) there are some positive signs as well. We are harder working, squad seems happier and more harmonious than it has in a while, transfers both ways have been good and young players are getting plenty of chances. Every manager that has achieved something of note in the league has had time to do so. Some do it faster than others, but that often depends on where they start. Pep won the league his second year and Klopp (if they pull it off) will win in his fourth year. The difference here is not the quality of the managers, but rather that the City team Pep inherited was vastly superior to the Liverpool squad Klopp took over so naturally it would take more time to get them up to standard

And just for the record. If it was Poch we hired last December and not Ole and they had identical results my stance would be exactly the same. Who they are and what they have done in the past means almost nothing. Simply because i think its ridiculously unfair to expect anyone to bring us back to the top with only one preseason and one window
Who they are and what they did in the past is exactly what makes them the manager they are now. It’s naive to ignore this especially when it’s the reason Jose currently just got a job. End of the day Ole is just basics and I doubt your not even impressed about hard work squad harmony.
 

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Pochettino is a very good manager. The Tifo video of him and comparing his end with Klopps end at Dortmund is fascinating to watch. People really need to watch it, to understand how things fell off at Spurs.

Ole deserves his chance but the problem is, he will be scrutinised even more with Poch available. I just want my club to be winning again, so with Ole or Poch, I don't care. But if Ole doesn't get us top 4 at the end of the season and there's no real sign of progress, he needs to go. But in the meantime, incompetent Ed needs to have sounded out Poch and tapped up Marco Rose. So if Ole needs replacing, it would be one of these two, hopefully Rose.
 

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Poch or Rogers will be next United manager, we will finish 8-10 and Ole will get sacked its as simple as that. If not now, (which should be) then at the end of the season.
And by then Poch will be in Madrid, Rodgers will be playing CL football with a more exciting project, Allegri will be at Arsenal, leaving us Emery but the club will decide to go with Steve Bruce because he's a club legend.
 

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Why are we so unlucky? We always seem a step behind. Why did Spurs sack Poch right now? What if they waited until end of March? He may well have been our next manager. Now we will stick with Ole and probably end up midtable and Poch will get hired by another club before the end of the season and we will be stuck as usual.
Highly likely. We missed out on Jose when Sir Alex Ferguson retired and unless we move quickly we will miss out on Pochettino as well.
The most successful organisations are those who are agile and move quickly.
The least stressful are those who dither and shy away from making tough decisions.
 

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I hear what you're saying and this seems to be the common narrative but Spurs only achieved what they achieved in a time when United, Arsenal and Chelsea have been going through major transition. All things considered, Spurs would have still been the 5th or 6th best team in the league if the other clubs hadn't dropped the ball.

Also, all the players Pochettino 'brought through' were there when he joined. He had a slight clear out and didn't have the money to spend so he had no option to trust the likes of Kane, Ali and Dier. He's got lucky with a couple of them but the rest aren't much to shout about.

The only reason I think Rodgers is a better fit than Pochettino is because of the experience he has in a title run-in. Moyes had a similar profile to Pochettino (most people are forgetting this) and he was handed a title winning side that were certainly not on the decline. We all know how that turned out.

If you've won titles you know what it takes to win titles and you know how to deal with key situations that happen throughout the season. I'd even be happy to bet that Rodgers wins the PL, or equivalent before Pochettino does. I have a feeling he's going to really struggle in his next role if it's at a big club with big expectations.
Regarding the first point, you can’t criticise him for others failings. Plenty of managers have been better resourced and achieved less. The bulk of United’s success in the PL has been at a time before there were 4 or 5 teams potentially capable of winning the league (and often it was one, or at best two). I wouldn’t use that to criticise Fergie. You can only compete against what’s in front of you.

The second point is a plus for me. He used what he had and improved those players. But he also largely bought well, when needed. There are (or have been) numerous players over his tenure who would have been regulars at top 4 clubs and few who did come in did so for big money.

I don’t get the Rodgers love in. Celtic is irrelevant - Martin O’Neill and Neill Lennon won titles up there. He’s doing very well with Leicester, under very little pressure and with a good squad he’s had little impact in building so far. He may go on to do very well but he hasn’t performed as consistently in the PL as Pochettino, in my opinion.

Pochettino took an average side and made them an established top 4 side, developing young players and investing wisely. He’s the reason a Jose Mourinho now sees them as viable. There is no guarantee he’ll make the step up but he’s as likely as any manager to do so.
 

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Who they are and what they did in the past is exactly what makes them the manager they are now. It’s naive to ignore this especially when it’s the reason Jose currently just got a job. End of the day Ole is just basics and I doubt your not even impressed about hard work squad harmony.
Its not completely irrelevant, but Poch doing what he did at Spurs is no guarantee he would do well here. Apples and oranges really. Regarding Jose, i am pretty confident that will not end well at Spurs. Not for him and not for the club.

And hard work and squad harmony is really fecking important. Lack of those is the reason Jose lost his job here and its also the reason Poch is currently unemployed. You can have the most talented players in the world, but if they are not willing to put in some effort and if they are unhappy you wont do well
 

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Pochettino is a very good manager. The Tifo video of him and comparing his end with Klopps end at Dortmund is fascinating to watch. People really need to watch it, to understand how things fell off at Spurs.

Ole deserves his chance but the problem is, he will be scrutinised even more with Poch available. I just want my club to be winning again, so with Ole or Poch, I don't care. But if Ole doesn't get us top 4 at the end of the season and there's no real sign of progress, he needs to go. But in the meantime, incompetent Ed needs to have sounded out Poch and tapped up Marco Rose. So if Ole needs replacing, it would be one of these two, hopefully Rose.
According to the internet, Woodward tapped up Poch last year but snubbed him and here we are with Ole. I want Ole to succeed too and think we'd be foolish to sack him at this time unless structural changes are made as well.
My guess is we'll keep Ole until the end of the season or we get close to relegation, whichever comes first. Poch will go to PSG or RM, and we'll either stick with Ole or hire whoever wants the job.
 

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According to the internet, Woodward tapped up Poch last year but snubbed him and here we are with Ole. I want Ole to succeed too and think we'd be foolish to sack him at this time unless structural changes are made as well.
My guess is we'll keep Ole until the end of the season or we get close to relegation, whichever comes first. Poch will go to PSG or RM, and we'll either stick with Ole or hire whoever wants the job.
The internet eh? That source of all truth.

Fact is, we never approached Poch as we were on that great run which ended in the PSG win.By that time Poch signed a contract extension,the board went with Ole as permanent which in turn culminated in the cluster feck of a season's end
 

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But that's the problem, you're talking about a manager being in a 'different stratosphere' of ability yet you've got barely any real comparison.

Points wise Solskjaer has us 4th over his time in charge which is seen as some kind of miracle with Poch at Spurs.
There is no comparison to behave. One is one of the best managers in the country the other is not. If Ole was so good, wouldn't at least a Championship club picked him up after Cardiff or even a league one Club? Instead he went back to obscurity, whereas Poch managed a top club for 5 seasons and basically made them into a solid top 4 side. Night and day difference.
 

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There is no comparison to behave. One is one of the best managers in the country the other is not. If Ole was so good, wouldn't at least a Championship club picked him up after Cardiff or even a league one Club? Instead he went back to obscurity, whereas Poch managed a top club for 5 seasons and basically made them into a solid top 4 side. Night and day difference.
You don't know that he wasn't offered a post, you're basing that on pure conjecture. Fact is Cardiff was a mess. He tried to play football there when they were crying out for a Warnock or Dyche. We can use that experience to knock him forever it seems.
 

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The internet eh? That source of all truth.

Fact is, we never approached Poch as we were on that great run which ended in the PSG win.By that time Poch signed a contract extension,the board went with Ole as permanent which in turn culminated in the cluster feck of a season's end
That was the year before.

Anyway, we have no way of knowing whether Woodward did or didn't talk with Poch's agents.
 

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So winning a league title with Celtic is a bigger achievement than consistently finishing top 4,in the most competitive league in the world,competing against teams that are outspending you season after season??Wow....As for his struggles this season,Jurgen Klopp finished 13th in his final season at Dortmund.Unfortunately Liverpool didn’t come to the conclusion that he’s rubbish because he finished 13th....
No. Consistently winning the league season on season with that expectation to do so and every team playing you is a cup final means you have more experience at what it takes to win than someone who gets a medal for finishing in the top 4.
 

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If we had a straight up choice between Pochettino and Rodgers who would people choose ?
For me, I am just on the cusp of saying stick with OGS, but if I HAD to, Rodgers all day every day. He is a good manager, with a good tactical sense and he always seems to get the fans on his side too.
 

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You don't know that he wasn't offered a post, you're basing that on pure conjecture. Fact is Cardiff was a mess. He tried to play football there when they were crying out for a Warnock or Dyche. We can use that experience to knock him forever it seems.
He was given free reigns at Cardiff. He signed a bunch a shite players, had them playing shit football with shit tactics that subsequently got them relegated. Instead of sacking him like any other relegated club would have, they let him have a go in the championship, which was a total flecking disaster. It might be conjecture but I'd wager it's very close to the truth.
 

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No Poch got sacked and rightly so. The thing is Poch had 6 successful years in England. How many has Ole got. Id struggling to call Ole's tenures in England as underwhelming - that's being polite, in fact.

You need to let him get through his first year at United to find out FFS.

This team and Ole are on the cusp. Stop being a kid and thinking Poch or any manager would be instant success. The club needed rebuilding after years and years (including Fergie) of under/bad investment.

No matter who takes over will need 2 years to turn the team around. Let’s give a club legend a chance. He’s bought well and the team is starting to come together.
 

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There is no comparison to behave. One is one of the best managers in the country the other is not. If Ole was so good, wouldn't at least a Championship club picked him up after Cardiff or even a league one Club? Instead he went back to obscurity, whereas Poch managed a top club for 5 seasons and basically made them into a solid top 4 side. Night and day difference.
He made a very poor decision to go to Cardiff and that has tarnished him. Clubs will obviously always go for the 'proven' record. If his first job in the PL was at an up and coming Southampton side like Poch his career might have taken a completely different path, equally if Poch had started at a terrible Cardiff side we might never have heard of him again.

Over the last year with both at similar level clubs (although Spurs nearly everyone would agree have a better squad), same level of competition, Solskjaer has outperformed Poch so to say he's in 'a different stratosphere' doesn't add up.
 

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You need to let him get through his first year at United to find out FFS.

This team and Ole are on the cusp. Stop being a kid and thinking Poch or any manager would be instant success. The club needed rebuilding after years and years (including Fergie) of under/bad investment.

No matter who takes over will need 2 years to turn the team around. Let’s give a club legend a chance. He’s bought well and the team is starting to come together.
One the cusp of what exactly? 5 wins out of 6 mostly against minnows?

It doesn't take a year to sort a team out. It's arguable that were worse off than we were.
 

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But that's the problem, you're talking about a manager being in a 'different stratosphere' of ability yet you've got barely any real comparison.

Points wise Solskjaer has us 4th over his time in charge which is seen as some kind of miracle with Poch at Spurs.
Shall we make a side by side comparison between the two clubs in regards to expectation and status, as well as resources? By the time he was let go, it was expected that Spurs at the very least finish top 4 on a yearly basis, and at the very least qualify from the CL group stage. Now look back at the expectations at that club when he took over, and there's your miracle.
 

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He made a very poor decision to go to Cardiff and that has tarnished him. Clubs will obviously always go for the 'proven' record. If his first job in the PL was at an up and coming Southampton side like Poch his career might have taken a completely different path, equally if Poch had started at a terrible Cardiff side we might never have heard of him again.

Over the last year with both at similar level clubs (although Spurs nearly everyone would agree have a better squad), same level of competition, Solskjaer has outperformed Poch so to say he's in 'a different stratosphere' doesn't add up.
Over the last year Ole out performed Poch? Did Ole reach any of the cup finals let alone a CL final or am I missing something?
 

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Over the last year Ole out performed Poch? Did Ole reach any of the cup finals let alone a CL final or am I missing something?
No you're not missing anything you're just ignoring the PL (10 point difference) and trying to be clever with the CL results (2 lucky results vs Ole's 1 against PSG). Let's forget the waste of time final.
 

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No you're not missing anything you're just ignoring the PL (10 point difference) and trying to be clever with the CL results (2 lucky results vs Ole's 1 against PSG). Let's forget the waste of time final.
Yeah and you're just ignoring 5 previous season Poch had. :houllier:
 

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Yeah and you're just ignoring 5 previous season Poch had. :houllier:
No i'm comparing the two over the same period as per the post you replied to :houllier:.

You forgot to add only 4th round of FA cup, 3rd round league cup exit to the mighty Colchester and a defeat to Solskjaer himself at home (no real surprise with Poch's top 6 record). This is a manager in 'another stratosphere' :lol:.
 

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You need to let him get through his first year at United to find out FFS.

This team and Ole are on the cusp. Stop being a kid and thinking Poch or any manager would be instant success. The club needed rebuilding after years and years (including Fergie) of under/bad investment.

No matter who takes over will need 2 to turn the team around. Let’s give a club legend a chance. He’s bought well and the team is starting to come together.
I don't agree with this unless you mean it will take two years to challenge for the title. To get this team to finish 3rd or 4th it shouldn't take that long even with Ole. After this summer's business we are now in a position whereby just two inspired signings plus a veteran back up striker would see us becoming the best of the rest after City and Pool.

I think we are deceived by the fall out from Jose's meltdown into thinking that we have a very poor squad. What we have right now is an unbalanced squad due to losing Herrera, Lukaku and effectively Mata and Matic. Losing Herrera made us feel Matic's decline more so if we sign a DM and another creative midfielder or forward (Maddison if we lose Pogba or Sancho if we keep Pogba) then Dzeko/Mandzukic we will have a very competitive squad. It doesn't take three years to construct, its bemusing to think why the club didn't sign another player in the summer.
 

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Poch is a great manager. Jose, Conte, Allegri, Ancelloti, Klopp most top managers have been sacked in their careers. Either you move around every couple of years like Pep or you are sacked. Continued success at a single club is very hard to sustain. Poch made Southampton a great side, Spurs were proper shite before Poch came in. Not hiring him just because there's a miniscule chance Ole might be a top manager is incredibly naive. PL proven, experience in Europe and can coach young talent, where the feck are you going to find a manger like that? If we dont sign him, I'll be fecking pissed.
 

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You need to let him get through his first year at United to find out FFS.

This team and Ole are on the cusp. Stop being a kid and thinking Poch or any manager would be instant success. The club needed rebuilding after years and years (including Fergie) of under/bad investment.

No matter who takes over will need 2 years to turn the team around. Let’s give a club legend a chance. He’s bought well and the team is starting to come together.
What are you on about? We have been awful tactically, the squad is shite granted but we should be beating the likes of Newcastle. We are 9 points off top 4 ffs. Two good games and we are on the cusp :lol::lol:
Its this sort of short sighted and reactionary BS what landed Ole the job. If the club had waited till the end of the season I'm not so sure he would have got the job.
 

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You need to let him get through his first year at United to find out FFS.

This team and Ole are on the cusp. Stop being a kid and thinking Poch or any manager would be instant success. The club needed rebuilding after years and years (including Fergie) of under/bad investment.

No matter who takes over will need 2 years to turn the team around. Let’s give a club legend a chance. He’s bought well and the team is starting to come together.
Ole is one month away from completing a full year managing United.

Why should he be the one to do the rebuild ? Why shouldn't it be someone else ?
 

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Spurs were on the road to ruin when Poch went there. They were not up and coming at all. Far from it. The year before, they had sold Bale for record money and blown it all on duds. They had big earners willing to sit out and collect their paychecks, Adebayor ring any bells? They were full of flops who came on big money. Paulinho, Soldado, Lamela.

He got rid of all the big earners & players who didn't want to fight, brought in potential on a shoestring budget and got to work coaching them day in, day out to fulfill their potential.
Just to clarify, some of his more favoured squad members are (were) Lloris, Vertonghen, Rose, Lamela, Eriksen and Kane - all of which were first team players when he arrived.

In his first season, he actually ended up with 5 points less than the car-crash season with AVB and Sherwood where we got beaten comprehensively (5 or 6 goals) by most of the top 4 sides.

I get that Man United fans are suddenly going to gloss over stuff if they want to convince everyone that it's a good idea to go for him, but don't try and rewrite history.
 

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What are you on about? We have been awful tactically, the squad is shite granted but we should be beating the likes of Newcastle. We are 9 points off top 4 ffs. Two good games and we are on the cusp :lol::lol:
Its this sort of short sighted and reactionary BS what landed Ole the job. If the club had waited till the end of the season I'm not so sure he would have got the job.
Tactical battles usually takes place when we face other top teams with top managers. Our results against big teams is testament that the tactics is spot on. We're anything but technically awful. We just lack quality to open up lower teams which has nothing to do with tactics.
 

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Just to clarify, some of his more favoured squad members are (were) Lloris, Vertonghen, Rose, Lamela, Eriksen and Kane - all of which were first team players when he arrived.

In his first season, he actually ended up with 5 points less than the car-crash season with AVB and Sherwood where we got beaten comprehensively (5 or 6 goals) by most of the top 4 sides.

I get that Man United fans are suddenly going to gloss over stuff if they want to convince everyone that it's a good idea to go for him, but don't try and rewrite history.
I wasn't arguing that he got rid of the squad completely. Lamela & Kane might have been there to begin with, but they weren't main players. The person i was responding to said ''He took an up and coming squad and cemented them in the top 4 at the expense of us and/or Arsenal and Liverpool, but that was about as much about us being shite as them being brilliant.''

At the time when Pochettino first came in, did you think the squad & first team he inherited was up and coming and ready to achieve what they did? Is that statement not downplaying Pochettino's achievements at your club? That was the point i was making.
 
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