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Garth Crooks
Reading how Pochettino decided enough was enough, stepped into the Eriksen situation and, less than a week afterwards, said-player had happily signed an extension, was a defining marker for me.
Steadily, this man has embossed himself on the club, on it's identity, on the squad and by default, it's history. He has slowly but surely wrestled shared control to a place where he the final say and he is the final word, albeit he takes counsel from those fiercely trusted around him. Incredibly, he has tamed Daniel Levy, who went against all his instincts at the window to give the manager a player HE felt he needed and could be 'got'. For over the odds on paper. Yet, when Pochettino wants a player, only a fool would deny that player's worth to the manager, his philosophies and his plan.
His intervention with Eriksen was both extraordinary and definitive. He will not allow margins to distract, and he will now allow 'title' to dictate who deals with what. He left them to it, nothing was happening, so in he stepped. Shankley-like. Fergie-like...VERY Fergie-like. His expressed disgust at the end of the season, yet his refusal to throw those words around in public at that time because of the knowledge that nothing good would come of them? SAF territory, keep it in house and use it for maximum power when it was there to be used. Remember when Poch met with Fergie late last season? Note how there is word that they speak? Rumor that Fergie likes Poch a lot?
Paul Mitchell left and we all believe it is because of his frustration with how DL works, but in fairness, it has never said anything different on the tin, and the change has actually been that DL has relinquished some powers. Because he knows that Poch is (currently) irreplaceable. If he left, if he somehow got bombed out by interference from above, we would likely see a drift back to mediocrity. This squad, his loyal soldiers, would be off.
At this point, Mauricio Pochettino is one of the longest-serving managers in the Premiership I believe. Remarkable because it's only his third season, and also because we have had a taste for shifting managers. But I want him to be this club's manager for years to come. A decade. Two. Plus. Because I believe we have the 'next' Sir Alex Ferguson-type patriarch, a man who is his own and who takes sole charge of his affairs. A man who for me is Tottenham Hotspur...yeah...when I heard he had single-handedly made sure the Eriksen renewal went through, I knew once and for all he was not just a good man, a fine man, a top manager, but that he was destined to be a GREAT manager.
Steadily, this man has embossed himself on the club, on it's identity, on the squad and by default, it's history. He has slowly but surely wrestled shared control to a place where he the final say and he is the final word, albeit he takes counsel from those fiercely trusted around him. Incredibly, he has tamed Daniel Levy, who went against all his instincts at the window to give the manager a player HE felt he needed and could be 'got'. For over the odds on paper. Yet, when Pochettino wants a player, only a fool would deny that player's worth to the manager, his philosophies and his plan.
His intervention with Eriksen was both extraordinary and definitive. He will not allow margins to distract, and he will now allow 'title' to dictate who deals with what. He left them to it, nothing was happening, so in he stepped. Shankley-like. Fergie-like...VERY Fergie-like. His expressed disgust at the end of the season, yet his refusal to throw those words around in public at that time because of the knowledge that nothing good would come of them? SAF territory, keep it in house and use it for maximum power when it was there to be used. Remember when Poch met with Fergie late last season? Note how there is word that they speak? Rumor that Fergie likes Poch a lot?
Paul Mitchell left and we all believe it is because of his frustration with how DL works, but in fairness, it has never said anything different on the tin, and the change has actually been that DL has relinquished some powers. Because he knows that Poch is (currently) irreplaceable. If he left, if he somehow got bombed out by interference from above, we would likely see a drift back to mediocrity. This squad, his loyal soldiers, would be off.
At this point, Mauricio Pochettino is one of the longest-serving managers in the Premiership I believe. Remarkable because it's only his third season, and also because we have had a taste for shifting managers. But I want him to be this club's manager for years to come. A decade. Two. Plus. Because I believe we have the 'next' Sir Alex Ferguson-type patriarch, a man who is his own and who takes sole charge of his affairs. A man who for me is Tottenham Hotspur...yeah...when I heard he had single-handedly made sure the Eriksen renewal went through, I knew once and for all he was not just a good man, a fine man, a top manager, but that he was destined to be a GREAT manager.
