I've read tons of posts on different forums over the years blaming Poch for Spurs firing blanks in the 2018 transfer window. As you know, I'm a relatively newbie on here so perhaps you guys were kinder. I actually think that transfer window was years of Poch's frustration in the making. He saw his Spurs dream build out disintegrating, with transfer patterns that none of us really liked e.g the summer of 2017. I just think it came to a head and Poch made a stance on our recruitment after getting offered more duffers.
When you think back to Poch's time there were the superb players he inherited. There was Toby, Son, Dele and even Big Vic that came in as fantastic additions. With both types, Poch went to work and nurtured them. He optimised them as players. He was mostly making do with the rest of his squad though. He couldn't get them upgraded whilst his first team was on the decline.
In some ways he had the perfect response to his employers by getting one last big charge to the CL final out of that squad before it mostly collapsed. The club model we have now has the potential to be way better.