Pochettino sacked

[Toast]

I dont think it does really, i dont think many of his teams were that good on the counter, may be the team that had Duff and Roben in it, but i think that was less counter attacking and more coming from a very solid midfield base, it was nearly impossible to penetrate. Very lucky to have Lampard too, in my opinion. That blend of Lampard, Essien and Makele was excellent and really hard to play against.

Essien was amazing.

 

[Deleted member 38674]

City are much better than United as well as just being rivals, they are not replacing the best manager in the world with a guy who their inferior rivals sacked for being crap.

But it happens. Many many times before. That was my point. It wouldn’t be surprising.

 

[Walken]

Pochettino did a good job, as he has wherever he has been, but bottling the champs league final (that they shouldn't have really made) was probably the tipping point in his era at spurs. Win that and they are a different club, lose it as passively as they did and they are same old spurs, very pretty but can't get over the line. Like us without the pretty bit.

Will be interesting to see how Jose does as weird as it is for one of the greats, it might be last chance saloon for him at the top table, got a feeling he will do well personally

 

[liamefc91]

Poch isnt so inoccent in all this.. it will come out soon enough id imagine

 

[Toast]

Poch isnt so inoccent in all this.. it will come out soon enough id imagine

Levy "Will you resign Poch ?"
Poch "what if I say no Daniel ?"
Levy "I will sack you and give you £12m"

Footy is bonkers.

 

[Yid4life]

Poch isnt so inoccent in all this.. it will come out soon enough id imagine

I think Poch threw in the towell as well. Our record since Jan has been shocking and our football has been woeful.

Levy is of course going to be painted as the villian of the piece but i think there is more to it than meets the eye.

 

[Yarrgh]

Yup

He wouldn't come here though, so the point is moo

Don't have a cow man.

Been waiting since series 1 of the Simpsons to say that.

 

[Yarrgh]

Essien was amazing.

He really was. I'd totally forgotten about him. Talk about an oversight on my behalf.

 

[Khalekan]

It's all done and dusted mate. Announced tomorrow afternoon 4pm.

oops.....

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

Pochettino did a good job, as he has wherever he has been, but bottling the champs league final (that they shouldn't have really made) was probably the tipping point in his era at spurs. Win that and they are a different club, lose it as passively as they did and they are same old spurs, very pretty but can't get over the line. Like us without the pretty bit.

Will be interesting to see how Jose does as weird as it is for one of the greats, it might be last chance saloon for him at the top table, got a feeling he will do well personally

Did he bottle it or did Sissoko's what-was-he-thinking handball really put them on the back foot from the beginning.

Also, neither of those teams had played for 3 weeks before that game. Was never going to be well played at that point.

I don't subscribe to the if ya ain't first yer last mentality.

Long live Poch. I'd take him here in a heartbeat, regardless of how many "trophies" he hasn't won

 

[Walken]

Did he bottle it or did Sissoko's what-was-he-thinking handball really put them on the back foot from the beginning.

Also, neither of those teams had played for 3 weeks before that game. Was never going to be well played at that point.

I don't subscribe to the if ya ain't first yer last mentality.

Long live Poch. I'd take him here in a heartbeat, regardless of how many "trophies" he hasn't won

They played passively and without under conviction under very little pressure for the next 60 mins

so what

I haven't reduced his tenure to a binary assessment, he did a good job

We are not the measuring stick for Pochettino, I'm also not sure if you think trophies are imaginary or a result of creative license, strange use of quotation marks

 

[Pittsburgh Footy]

They played passively and without under conviction under very little pressure for the next 60 mins

so what

I haven't reduced his tenure to a binary assessment, he did a good job

We are not the measuring stick for Pochettino, I'm also not sure if you think trophies are imaginary or a result of creative license, strange use of quotation marks

My only point is that people use how many trophies someone won as some sort of measuring stick. By that logic, Roberto Martinez is a better manager than Poch. Or the RS and Everton were equal over the past 5 years until the CL final last year, when the eye test would tell us something altogether different. It's delusional to go by the trophy or lack of trophy count as the only measuring stick.

 

[gonetomorrow]

My Spurs chum says the general feeling is that Levy didn't pay the top players enough and that's why some of them are running down their contracts.

 

[JobForTheMoyes]

My only point is that people use how many trophies someone won as some sort of measuring stick. By that logic, Roberto Martinez is a better manager than Poch. Or the RS and Everton were equal over the past 5 years until the CL final last year, when the eye test would tell us something altogether different. It's delusional to go by the trophy or lack of trophy count as the only measuring stick.

I agree - 99% of clubs don’t win trophies so there are more important metrics, such as how well a club does in respect to it’s resources

 

[ClausThomsen]

Daniel Levy and Jose Mourinho don't strike me as having a similar vision regarding purchasing or developing players.

I'm not great at this prediction lark.