Kandi1977
Garth Crooks
Spot on. We were actually the better side throughout the game. Just couldn't find that final move. Liverpool got handed the game, and did next to nothing.
-
Dear Guest, Please note that adult content is not permitted on this forum. We have had our Google ads disabled at times due to some posts that were found from some time ago. Please do not post adult content and if you see any already on the forum, please report the post so that we can deal with it. Adult content is allowed in the glory hole - you will have to request permission to access it. Thanks, scara
Mauricio Pochettino
- Thread starter Dorothy
- Start date
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Liverpool don’t have depth but when your winning players stay fit...
When we finished 2nd to Chelsea we won 12 of our last 13 games.
We were the best team collectively over the 2 seasons that Leicester won it and Chelsea won it. Unfortunately we ran into 2 teams that had no European football and both got their heads in front and kept pulling. The Chelsea one is particularly frustrating as most other years they would have had European football and it would have been very unlikely that they would have performed so well in the league.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
Agreed.
The Chelsea one hurt more. The Leicester one was a fluke, plus everyone wanted them, including other teams.
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
This sums up the Poch era, those two years in particular. The best team in the country over an extended period of time despite not having the best players or the most money (the points are proof of that) but couldn’t win the crunch games when they really mattered, when we had the chance to go top for example. And yet we played some of the highest quality swashbuckling football and put teams to the sword at our best; the 2-0 wins against Emirates Marketing Project and Chelsea were the best we played under Poch for me but got stage fright when it came to the winner take all or games or ‘win and go top’ games.
If we had won the CL final Poch would have an excellent case for being the best coach in the world. It’s about achievements and it would have been a stunning one.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Exactly right
We were that good but it didn’t work out at the right points and it’s sooooo frustrating
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I think at the start of last season he already was, nobody else was achieving at the level he was relative to resource.
Had we won the game however it would masked 5 months of poor performances in the league. Maybe it would have given him the impetus to get back on top of things or at least given him a bit longer to turn it around.
Depending on how things work out over the next ten years maybe it’s better that we lost that game?
Jurgen the German
Erik Thorstvedt
I don’t think you can say he was the best coach in the world with no trophies on his resume. That’s just my opinion. People are only saying that Klopp is the best in the game today because of his trophy haul and of course the fact that Liverpool are running away with the title from City with inferior resources.
Rorschach
Sonny Walters
I don't think I'll ever feel that. It still stings every time I think about it.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
same here, but if Jose elevates us and a decade from now we've won 5 of them, thats better than Poch sticking around Wenger style and keeping us no more than top 4 because he's unsackable due to winning one of them
parklane1
Tony Galvin
My thoughts as well, when it came to the crunch we fell down.
90291Spur
Paul Walsh
And also seemingly the folk that had us play on something like 6 mondays (don't know the exact number) after Leicester played on the weekend before.
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
I kinda get your point BUT on the basis that it took us 138 years to get to play in that game...let alone win it, I think I'd of taken victory if things were a bit brick for a while after.
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
fair point, but of that 138 years, it's only been a thing for 75 years, and we've only spent about 30 years actually trying to win it
Finney Is Back
Luka Modric
If we had won that game then I think Poch would've left. There was nothing for him to gain by sticking around and everything to lose. He would've massively defied the odds in winning that competition when the expectation for our resources was not even to qualify for that competition. Miracles rarely ever happen, and they certainly don't happen twice. It would've been a fitting finale for him to have won that competition, said. "Spurs I love you. Thank you and see you again maybe in years to come" then rode off into the sunset to go and manage a club like PSG then come back in several years if and when the club are spending the money on wages and transfers that gives the manager a proper fighting chance to compete properly for all the top prizes.
glasgowspur
Luka Modric
I don't think winning it would have made much difference tbh.
That team are done, poch was drained, Levy has a budget and will stick to it.
The glow of winning would have delayed it, but I think it would still have happened.
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...ttino-jose-mourinho-tottenham-spurs-interview
Couldn’t post all text as more than 10k words...
The former Spurs manager formally severed ties with the club this week and dreams of ‘the perfect club, the perfect project’
Mauricio Pochettino finesses a full lockdown beard as he Zooms in from his north London home, whites and greys vying for prominence, but everything else is reassuringly familiar, as though he were still sitting behind that long desk at Tottenham’s training base, elevated on stage, answering questions at his weekly press briefing.
There is the warmth and big-heartedness, the mischief, the machismo, the patented ability to blow his own trumpet in a matter-of-fact kind of way. There is the emotion, the extravagant rambling, the flirting with potential suitors. And, of course, there are the anecdotes, the ones that hook and enthral.
Couldn’t post all text as more than 10k words...
The former Spurs manager formally severed ties with the club this week and dreams of ‘the perfect club, the perfect project’
Mauricio Pochettino finesses a full lockdown beard as he Zooms in from his north London home, whites and greys vying for prominence, but everything else is reassuringly familiar, as though he were still sitting behind that long desk at Tottenham’s training base, elevated on stage, answering questions at his weekly press briefing.
There is the warmth and big-heartedness, the mischief, the machismo, the patented ability to blow his own trumpet in a matter-of-fact kind of way. There is the emotion, the extravagant rambling, the flirting with potential suitors. And, of course, there are the anecdotes, the ones that hook and enthral.
Interesting to see him basically confirm what a few people had gleaned - that Poch couldn’t re-energise himself post CL final, and that he thought it was the right time to leave too. (I think the media always using the word ‘sack’ often gives these kinds of decisions a different feel to what actually happened in reality).
Also a bit gutted that he’s said he wants his next club to be in the PL - will be hard seeing that, especially if it’s one of the other big 6.
Also a bit gutted that he’s said he wants his next club to be in the PL - will be hard seeing that, especially if it’s one of the other big 6.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
Have to say it’s odd that every paper seem to have an article and most are claiming their exclusive
It’s as if he has an agent or PR getting him out there again now he is out of his golden handcuffs with us
It’s as if he has an agent or PR getting him out there again now he is out of his golden handcuffs with us