I still back him if he wants it, and I think he does. Nothing much has changed for me.
The confidence is clearly on the floor and I’m not denying that maybe a new man gives us a short term boost, but I’m not sure that it means it is the right long term decision. The players really seem like they are always a yard off, their anticipation is poor, they never seem to react ahead of the game. It’s poor confidence.
But Poch is making decisions based on the idea that he is still going to be around to see them pay off. I’m pretty sure he would love personally to bomb certain players out, but he isn’t going to do it just yet. I’m pretty sure he would love GLC and Sess in the team, but he isn’t going to rush then either. Foyth ahead of Aurier if you’re asking his personal preference is another obvious one.
What I am saying is that he is making these decisions for the long term. It has been a painful month or so and it may be a painful season compared to what we have been used to. When a team loses like we did against Bayern the recovery isn’t always easy, and it does take time, steps to getting there.
And overall I still think what got us back on the right track as a club was getting everyone on the same page, which we don’t have right now. We need to get there when we can. But this is pretty much 2 years of chickens coming home to roost by not moving out the players that needed to move, and that isn’t all on Poch. A new man comes, different style, will make changes anyway. No guarantee of anything like the same level of success we’ve had.
I don’t think he wants to go at all. To me, the decisions he makes are the ones of a man that is keeping a clear head amid the chaos and crisis, and not reacting to the short term. I maintain that he doesn’t bomb certain players out because he needs then at least for the next month or so, before probably making more of the changes he wants to make. And I think a lot of the people that have said he ‘has no tactics’ or is a ‘one trick pony’ are frankly providing laughable analysis.
