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Mauricio Pochettino - Sacked

As usual, Pochettino declined to discuss the players who have been linked with Spurs, including West Brom striker Saido Berahino and Fulham forward Moussa Dembele, while he gave short shrift to the suggestions that Chelsea are interested in making him their new permanent manager in the summer.

“It’s the same rumours as about the players,” he said. “There’s a lot of names now in the media – the facility to manage different clubs in the future. My focus is here, trying to achieve success with Tottenham and working hard. “I think I’ve explained in the last press conference, I always work for the present and for the future. I am very happy here.

“After 18 months we have created a very good group and we’ve set a very good basis to get success in the future. I am very happy. My job is to be focused on my job and not hear rumours, only to be focused on my job – this is the most important thing.”

Asked if the speculation bothers him, Pochettino said: “I don’t mind. We are exposed to receive the rumours and we are in a media where everything is about rumours sometimes. I don’t care about that.”

http://www.london24.com/sport/footb..._back_after_jan_vertonghen_s_injury_1_4399024
 
braineclipse said:
We can hope for a legacy from Pochettino. It's optimistic, but we can hope.

More realistically though the legacy being made at the club is from the academy/development part of the club combined with the top class training ground and a new stadium. I love Pochettino and really rate him, but with proper youth development and a bigger stadium we have a lot of ways to succeed long term even without Poch.
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That's definitely a key piece of the puzzle, but if you have a manager that doesn't give these academy products a chance, then it's all for naught.
 
Denmark Spur said:
As usual, Pochettino declined to discuss the players who have been linked with Spurs, including West Brom striker Saido Berahino and Fulham forward Moussa Dembele, while he gave short shrift to the suggestions that Chelsea are interested in making him their new permanent manager in the summer.

“It’s the same rumours as about the players,” he said. “There’s a lot of names now in the media – the facility to manage different clubs in the future. My focus is here, trying to achieve success with Tottenham and working hard. “I think I’ve explained in the last press conference, I always work for the present and for the future. I am very happy here.

“After 18 months we have created a very good group and we’ve set a very good basis to get success in the future. I am very happy. My job is to be focused on my job and not hear rumours, only to be focused on my job – this is the most important thing.”

Asked if the speculation bothers him, Pochettino said: “I don’t mind. We are exposed to receive the rumours and we are in a media where everything is about rumours sometimes. I don’t care about that.”

http://www.london24.com/sport/footb..._back_after_jan_vertonghen_s_injury_1_4399024
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The man says all the right things...
 
DublinSpur said:
I can't see Pochettino wanting to leave right now. What's happening at our club - as I've said before - makes it one of the best places to be in football at this point in history.

That said, in theory, Chelsea could make Pochettino a financial offer he couldn't refuse... I love the guy and I don't think that he is a mercenary by nature, but Abramovich has very very deep pockets and there's surely a point at which a person says "If I take this job I'll be rich for the rest of my life and my great grandchildren will be able to say the same"... at which point anyone's head can get turned I suspect.
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Levy can make sure Pochettino stays at Spurs long term if he really wants to. But just can't trust Levy on this. He is simply too money minded.
 
It's amazing how much criticism Levy gets. When I was a kid, and we're talking the 90s here as being my first years of supporting Spurs, we were absolute brick. There were seasons in which we barely survived, in which we shipped goals, made Manchester United's play, of this season, look exciting, and had our season end in March, if we were lucky. Every year dreaming that our club would return to the glory that it had enjoyed an increasingly long time ago. But, every season we would sign players who would be lucky to get in to the Villa team now, and we'd repeat the same season scenarios.

Now, we have a team that is really going places. A team with one of the best training facilities, an excellent young squad, a very good manager who seems a perfect fit for the role. We are moving to a new, very impressive, ground soon. Everything is seemingly as good as we've had it in years. Everything is as good as we dreamed that it could be in the 1990s, but that we dared not believe would truly happen.

And who has been the instigator of this rise? Well, Levy must have played a big part as he's been pulling the strings from above. Yes, mistakes might be made from time to time, but looking at the biggest picture, it's hard to remember a time when the future looker quite this bright. I think we are in a better place than with our previous qualification for the CL. We have a balanced squad, key players but no one key player without whom the game all falls apart. And so, for this, I think Levy deserves a boat load of praise, faith, and not criticism. I'm confident that as our key players are being rewarded, so Pochettino will soon also be rewarded with a new and very deserved contract.
 
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milo said:
Really? Can you give me an example of a time when he has put money over the interests of the club?
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He puts money at the forefront of everything he does and so he should as its his job. Poch job is to manage the football side with his team too. It's a partnership where there are compromises and a fine balance and it's working extremely well at the moment

We cannot under estimate how Levys business acumen and decisions have elevated us financially. We also have to recognise that Poch is doing the business on the footballing side. I'm pretty sure now that recognise what Poch brings to the table and how that impacts on his ability to mange the money so to speak... It's why he is a millionaire businessman
 
Bedfordspurs said:
He puts money at the forefront of everything he does and so he should as its his job. Poch job is to manage the football side with his team too. It's a partnership where there are compromises and a fine balance and it's working extremely well at the moment

We cannot under estimate how Levys business acumen and decisions have elevated us financially. We also have to recognise that Poch is doing the business on the footballing side. I'm pretty sure now that recognise what Poch brings to the table and how that impacts on his ability to mange the money so to speak... It's why he is a millionaire businessman
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Which is why I asked for examples of him putting money above the interests of the club.
 
Remember Levy is a Spurs fan. To keep that in check and remain cold and calculated in all your decision making (big and small) is commendable.

He always wants the best for us and will not let anyone take the tinkle or step on us.

Of course it is success he wants, on and off the field. From our position, when Levy took over, things were going to take time and Levy has already shown he is in it for the long term and our upward curve has been consistent. If he delivers the stadium and ends up swinging the premier league trophy off the 'sky bridge' it will be up there with the achievement of the double winning team.

I couldn't care if he makes his fortune from us, he f*cking deserves it.

There are so many great clubs that have fallen, and so many f*ckwit chairmen that can take you there. We're not them.
 
Spurs7891 said:
Levy can make sure Pochettino stays at Spurs long term if he really wants to. But just can't trust Levy on this. He is simply too money minded.
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Yeah. I mean his long term financial responsibility has only brought us a world class training facility, top class academy and brilliant new stadium project all whilst outperforming our financial expectations on a fairly consistent basis. Despite two clubs surpassing us during his stay here almost exclusively because of financial doping. Levy is pretty much the only chairman who could say goodbye to Harry Redknapp as a manager without being in a financial disaster as a club. Every couple of years we see clubs that wish they could compete with us and manage to do so for a season or two only to fall away back to earth like a stone in water. Yet because we're not beating teams with financial resources about twice our own consistently enough for you you conclude Levy is too money minded?

We would have been so fudging fudged as a club so many times if not for Levy's money mindedness. I don't understand what planet you have to live on at this stage to imagine that you're in a better position than Levy to judge how money minded is too money minded for the best long term interests of the club.
 
braineclipse said:
Yeah. I mean his long term financial responsibility has only brought us a world class training facility, top class academy and brilliant new stadium project all whilst outperforming our financial expectations on a fairly consistent basis. Despite two clubs surpassing us during his stay here almost exclusively because of financial doping. Levy is pretty much the only chairman who could say goodbye to Harry Redknapp as a manager without being in a financial disaster as a club. Every couple of years we see clubs that wish they could compete with us and manage to do so for a season or two only to fall away back to earth like a stone in water. Yet because we're not beating teams with financial resources about twice our own consistently enough for you you conclude Levy is too money minded?

We would have been so fudgeing fudgeed as a club so many times if not for Levy's money mindedness. I don't understand what planet you have to live on at this stage to imagine that you're in a better position than Levy to judge how money minded is too money minded for the best long term interests of the club.
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People just have some real hang-ups about Levy.......i just don't get it.

As you're saying @braineclipse.......what do they effing expect. Jeez.
 
In fairness to Spurs 7891 I think he is thinking purely as a fan with no consideration of all the other aspects of running the club which Levy has to consider. If you are making a decision that is purely about football then you would throw an obscene amount of money at Poch to stay. But with all the other considerations like developing the stadium, that is not possible. But many fans are like this, it's similar to when fans criticize Poch when he rotates during a cup game for "not taking cups seriously". or still other fans who are critical of Levy getting rid of a manager. For the record I trust Levy to make the best decision for the club here and while I don't always agree with his decisions I don't question that he always does what he feels is the best for the club. I hope Poch stays btw.
 
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milo said:
I agree that Ferguson did a great job of building new teams whilst in the job, he is probably the best of all time at that but he didn't leave the team in great shape when he left though. He had been making short term signings for a while and I think, focused on his legacy rather than what he left his successor.

Which other managers do you think have created a dynasty?
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It's a very interesting question and I think in truth there are very few. But apart from Shankly I would say:

1. Arrigo Sacchi started the AC Milan dominance in the 80s through to the 90s;
2. Pep Guardiola for reinvigorating the Barcelona team and creating that particular dynasty;
3. Vicente Feola for starting the Brazilian dominance in the 60s; and
4. Trapattoni for Juventus.

Whilst I would say that Sir Alex's last team was not as strong as some others, it did not warrant finishing so low as it did under Moyes. That "dynasty" was ruined by Moyes not keeping the coaching core that Shankly did with the boot room, and Pep's successors did with the tiki-taka style that is the ethos of the Barcelona system.

But that's probably it. It's a limited crowd and subject to interpretation. Some would argue that it is just the quality of player, but I would say that it's the combination of spotting a player, developing a style of play and tactical nous that creates a dynasty.

What Poch is doing is far more than making a group of players play better. He's changing the ethos of the club, making us dare to believe. Managers like Mourinho are purely transient. Their achievements would stand tow to tow with any of the aforementioned but I would rather succcess last longer than the period a manager is with us. I want our club to have an identity. I want it to have a style of play that is almost agnostic to particular players or manager. It's way too early to see if Poch will achieve it, but he is establishing a style. Doesn't matter if Chadli, Eriksen, Lamela, Son, N'Jie, Carroll etc... is playing, we play the same way with a relative consistency of results. Players know their role, and are talking about understanding Poch's philosophy. That's why I think he has the potential to be building a dynasty.
 
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