Brilliant! What Poch has done for this club is amazing. I wish there was a word for it. Maybe magic? Thoughts???
Brilliant! What Poch has done for this club is amazing. I wish there was a word for it. Maybe magic? Thoughts???
I agree, but the plural of bollox is not "bunch". It is scrotum.Well, hopefully the Leicester game put to bed a bunch of bollox
- Poch's teams always run out of steam at end of season
- We can't keep playing when it's a dead rubber
- We struggle away from home
That was a fudging statement win, blew away last season's champions when there was nothing to play for.
We will be back next season motherfudgers!!!
Shame his dad didn't turn up for one his trademark arm around the shoulder photos
Is he a player for us? I thought Poch's lad worked as one of our analysts?
He's with the U16's IIRC
Well, that's news to me. Here's hoping he has the same success his dad did.
Poch Jr is a winger if I remember correctly
Alex Ferguson on Poch:
"The value is two-fold. One, they'll always remember the person who gave them their start in life, and secondly, they create a loyalty base that is there for life. The young players we had coming through still keep in touch with me, and that is an indication of how well it works.
My favorite new word - long-termism.
That's not entirely reassuring, because, as he points out, it's loyalty to *him* - not necessarily to Manchester United, although that normally comes with the territory. The same thing is undoubtedly now the case at our club - a lot of our boys owe their burgeoning careers to Poch. We have two options to keep that loyalty healthy and productive for the club as a whole - keep Poch here for as long as it takes to make him identify with the club to the extent that SAF is identified with United, or try to emphasize to the players that their loyalty should be to the club, not the coach (a losing proposition, probably).
The problem with an inspiring coach building a loyal cadre is that they tend to want to leave when the coach leaves - *especially* when he moves upward, as is extremely likely to be the case with Poch when the time comes. We really need to delay that into the 2020's if we want to keep this bunch together.
I imagine if can keep Poch until we start seeing some serious money come in from the stadium, give him some more cash, give the players some more cash, then ... what reason would there be to leave if everything is going well? He's basically ruled himself out of ever managing Barcelona. No one in their right mind, at least not with Poch's philosophy, would want to coach Real Madrid. Germany, nah, two/three team league. Italy, surely not. That leaves the other English clubs. Could he ditch us for City or United down the line? Maybe. Hopefully we'll be able to build a loyalty bond with him over the next few years, make it clear to him where he belongs. Then he can retire to coach his beloved Newell's Old Boys in 2045 or something.
You might well be right - it's just that Poch staying, winning things and building a legacy is something so incredibly optimistic that I feel instinctively scared of it. It shouldn't happen to us - we're not a club that has things like that happen to us. Surely not. It can't be. It'll all come crashing down any day now. Surely. Etcetera, etcetera.