Rammy Blue
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How funny that even in the SSN appoints Mourinho article they even state that negotiations intensified over the last few days, lol.
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Pochettino sacked by Spurs
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He’s lost 24 league games in his last 2¼ seasons.Despite some nonsense in this thread, I would 100% take him when Pep decides to move on. He's an extremely good manager, regardless of what's happened this year.
sir baconface
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This post wore well...Eddie Howe to spurs 16/1 thank me later
GaudinoMotors
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So "if" Pep is off at the end of the season, as so many think, should we be talking to Pochettino?
So "if" Pep is off at the end of the season, as so many think, should we be talking to Pochettino?
Not for me.
Give Arteta the gig
6 years. Got them to a CL final (something we've not managed yet). Turned perennial 5th & 6th placed team into a guaranteed top 4 side.
Dismissed the cups because he didn't have the squad for it. Pep makes a just as many changes, but we have the benefit of a bench stacked with world class players, and Poch didn't
Leicester by the way are not a team with no money and lesser players. Kante & Mahrez were genuinely world class and the team cost more than Spurs', and Leicester have spent 8x more than Spurs since Pochettino took over.
Take a look at this table and tell us again how much Pochettino underperformed.
You also never replied to the fact that everyone we might get post-pep is going to have none or very few trophies.
I think Pochettino gets fawned over too much in the media, but you've gone way too far the other way into childish levels of denying him credit.
Far too reasonable a post to read on here.
decmancity
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No. Not good enough.So "if" Pep is off at the end of the season, as so many think, should we be talking to Pochettino?
Pretty sure Pep will stay until 2021, but if he was to leave we should certainly be talking to Pochettino imo. Not sure if he plays the quite the same style of football that the board want though.So "if" Pep is off at the end of the season, as so many think, should we be talking to Pochettino?
Mancity1980
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The board wants pep style football, I think it would be pretty difficult to get that without Pep.Pretty sure Pep will stay until 2021, but if he was to leave we should certainly be talking to Pochettino imo. Not sure if he plays the quite the same style of football that the board want though.
There’s been a sense for quite some time that something wasn’t quite right between the players and Poch. This article in The Athletic seems to confirm it:
Tottenham appoint Mourinho after Pochettino ‘sulked his way to the sack’
https://theathletic.com/1388073/201...ed-his-way-to-the-sack/?source=shared-article
“Don’t look at the boss.”
Tottenham players had become used to saying those words to each other in recent weeks. Don’t catch his eye, don’t give him an excuse to get you in to trouble, just get on with training and surely this will all be over soon.
Mauricio Pochettino had never been overly friendly around the training ground, that just wasn’t his style. He was the boss after all, not the players’ friend. And after becoming Tottenham’s most successful manager in 50 years, who cared how chatty he was anyway? The team had become regulars in the Champions League, they were beating the biggest teams in Europe and had challenged for the Premier League title at their peak. They were scintillating at their best, hunting down the opposition in packs and entertaining their fans with a team full of improving young players.
But then they weren’t. Then the victories dried up, the tough training sessions caught up with the players’ minds and legs and the manager became surly and distant.
As one dressing room source told The Athletic: “It was the only decision that made sense.” With the team currently 14th in the Premier League, without a win in five, and with no away victory in the league since January, the players really had lost faith. From their last 24 league games, a run dating back to late February, they have taken just 25 points.
On Tuesday evening the club sacked Pochettino and 12 hours later replaced him with Jose Mourinho. This is why.
After a week of talks over Pochettino’s future, in which he had resolutely refused to resign, Levy was eventually left with no choice on Tuesday but to dismiss the 47-year-old and his backroom staff, triggering what is understood to be a £12 million pay-out to the Argentine coach. Pochettino’s assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d’Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club.
Talks started last Wednesday as Levy hoped to use the international break to find a solution to Spurs’ bad start.
There was a growing sense of unease throughout the week as speculation about Pochettino’s future grew. Some first-team players — but by no means all — got wind on Monday night that their manager was on his way out. But with some players still on international duty, and no public statement until Tuesday evening, there was still a sense of confusion throughout the club.
What eventually did for Pochettino was losing the support of the dressing room over the course of this season. The players sensed that he did not have the same relish for the job as in his early years at Spurs. They had once been willing participants in his demanding hard-running style, but their physical and mental energy did not last forever. The players have got older, and recently they have found themselves with less to give. The Pochettino regime of double sessions, very few days off and hard running started to drag. “The old effect of the double sessions had gone, and it was mentally important to regenerate,” said one dressing-room source. “So the moment of the sacking is a bit surprising, but the fuel tank got empty much earlier. At a certain moment, it is just over.”
Tottenham appoint Mourinho after Pochettino ‘sulked his way to the sack’
https://theathletic.com/1388073/201...ed-his-way-to-the-sack/?source=shared-article
“Don’t look at the boss.”
Tottenham players had become used to saying those words to each other in recent weeks. Don’t catch his eye, don’t give him an excuse to get you in to trouble, just get on with training and surely this will all be over soon.
Mauricio Pochettino had never been overly friendly around the training ground, that just wasn’t his style. He was the boss after all, not the players’ friend. And after becoming Tottenham’s most successful manager in 50 years, who cared how chatty he was anyway? The team had become regulars in the Champions League, they were beating the biggest teams in Europe and had challenged for the Premier League title at their peak. They were scintillating at their best, hunting down the opposition in packs and entertaining their fans with a team full of improving young players.
But then they weren’t. Then the victories dried up, the tough training sessions caught up with the players’ minds and legs and the manager became surly and distant.
As one dressing room source told The Athletic: “It was the only decision that made sense.” With the team currently 14th in the Premier League, without a win in five, and with no away victory in the league since January, the players really had lost faith. From their last 24 league games, a run dating back to late February, they have taken just 25 points.
On Tuesday evening the club sacked Pochettino and 12 hours later replaced him with Jose Mourinho. This is why.
After a week of talks over Pochettino’s future, in which he had resolutely refused to resign, Levy was eventually left with no choice on Tuesday but to dismiss the 47-year-old and his backroom staff, triggering what is understood to be a £12 million pay-out to the Argentine coach. Pochettino’s assistant Jesus Perez, and coaches Miguel d’Agostino and Antoni Jimenez have also left the club.
Talks started last Wednesday as Levy hoped to use the international break to find a solution to Spurs’ bad start.
There was a growing sense of unease throughout the week as speculation about Pochettino’s future grew. Some first-team players — but by no means all — got wind on Monday night that their manager was on his way out. But with some players still on international duty, and no public statement until Tuesday evening, there was still a sense of confusion throughout the club.
What eventually did for Pochettino was losing the support of the dressing room over the course of this season. The players sensed that he did not have the same relish for the job as in his early years at Spurs. They had once been willing participants in his demanding hard-running style, but their physical and mental energy did not last forever. The players have got older, and recently they have found themselves with less to give. The Pochettino regime of double sessions, very few days off and hard running started to drag. “The old effect of the double sessions had gone, and it was mentally important to regenerate,” said one dressing-room source. “So the moment of the sacking is a bit surprising, but the fuel tank got empty much earlier. At a certain moment, it is just over.”