I like your posting in general, but on the subject of Spurs manager you have the most ridiculously polarised opinions. You go from making excuse after excuse for every little thing Poch did wrong, practically refusing to accept he had any faults to blaming every little thing on Mourinho since hes stepped through the doors. With Poch it was all on the players letting him down and Levy not backing, but Mourinho who hasn't even had a pre season yet (please dont tell me this Covid break counts as one) is to blame for not having transformed us yet into Champions elect. We were poor yesterday no doubt, yet it was nowhere near as bad as Pochs' final weeks in charge against the likes of Brighton which left us flirting with the bottom 3 and from memory you was putting that on the players refusing to blame Poch. So why on earth should we not give Jose at least a proper season to see what he can do considering he has won more trophies already than Poch ever will.....
You make this comment like it is a revelation. I believe this appointment was a giant, and I mean GIANT, mistake. I outlined why, I tried to give him the benefit but have found it increasingly hard.
He was hired -and is being paid- as a specialist in short term successes. He came in stating he was happy with things. There was obviously work to do, and I would always have expected a degree of spin at the start because that's how it works. All I hoped was that whatever was to be done could be done behind closed doors and with some class. Instead, he has reverted to type, consistently thrown Ndombele out in public under a bus and now done so with the entire team.
Let me spell this out; I don't like that approach at my football club.
I think Levy has found himself saddled with a manager he cannot fundamentally support.
In order for Mourinho to work, he likes to buy big when he needs to (this is an observation not a criticism - important difference). For every McTominay there was a Zlatan. That is his style so good for him; my point is how do you, or anyone, think he is going to tolerate a few years of that? Even pre-covid? My point about Bergwijn was NOT that the player isn't
decent, it is that Mourinho has already slipped out there that he was not his first choice in January. Again, NOT criticism of anyone, but don't ignore it because this guys says nothing without calculation.
If you don't like my opinion, either ignore it, debate it or simply disagree. But all this "ridiculously polarised opinions" stuff, seriously mate, spare me. I'm not apologising to you or anyone for not enjoying this phase of our club. Do I hope you and several others get the chance in 12 or even 24 months to say "I told you so" as we win the title? Absolutely! That is the BEST case scenario.
Forget the other guy in this discussion; the only people making comparisons between the two are people like you. I can absolutely assure you that had we an Ancelotti in this position, I would feel differently just by the mere nature and decorum of the man.
In closing, I think my biggest issue as a poster is that I don't write short, succinct posts. They are probably too long for social media, and as such it becomes easy for people to focus in on specific things which they get drawn to rather than take the conversation as a whole. I am probably also too honest with my opinions, but I doubt that will change any time soon.
Regardless, I appreciate the debates and discussion, and continue to be sorry that we cannot have them in person over beverages and without masks.
We all want the same thing!
COYS!
