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Mauricio Pochettino
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ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Even odder he might need PR or an agent to let the world know.
Pretty sure he's not short of incoming phone calls.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
I’m sure he wouldn’t be but for all the press and media to come out on the same day... that’s a PR piece
nayenezgani
Jimmy Neighbour
When he refers to Tottenham as 'we' it makes me sad.
awesome dawson
Mitchell Thomas
Anyone reckon he'll take a couple of our first team when he gets the Barcodes job?
Son, Alli and Foyth I can see him going for with deep pockets.
Son, Alli and Foyth I can see him going for with deep pockets.
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
He might keep Danny Rose!
I’d be more concerned about Kane and Alli wanting to join him at a club that has deep pockets and a recent history of winning trophies.
Could see him coming in for Lloris, which would prove to me he still loves the club and wants the best for us...
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
Can't see him going for Foyth. After all he barely played him when at Spurs and when he did Foyth was generally pretty terrible.
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
DubaiSpur
Ian Walker
https://theathletic.com/1890318/?source=twitteruk
'Pochettino and Klopp Both Built Good Sides, But Only One Got Crucial Backing'
Worth a read, if you have a subscription. Aptly summarized the differences. Not between Poch and Klopp - as far as I'm concerned, Poch is already as good as and may end up better than Klopp.
But the differences between FSG, who now have CL and PL titles in their cabinet...and our skinflints.
Maybe it will contribute to lessening some of the undeserved criticism Poch has received recently.
Sigh. As always, it could have been us.
'Pochettino and Klopp Both Built Good Sides, But Only One Got Crucial Backing'
Worth a read, if you have a subscription. Aptly summarized the differences. Not between Poch and Klopp - as far as I'm concerned, Poch is already as good as and may end up better than Klopp.
But the differences between FSG, who now have CL and PL titles in their cabinet...and our skinflints.
Maybe it will contribute to lessening some of the undeserved criticism Poch has received recently.
Sigh. As always, it could have been us.
thfcsteff
George Hunt
Indeed.
I am tired of saying it personally (ironically I did just say exactly this to a Scouse mate of mine). Probably as tired as people are of me saying it TBF. Of all the ones, it was Grealish that tinkled me off the most. So utterly, and I mean utterly, gettable.
We could just buy covers to keep our benches warm - it would be a lot cheaper and far less clamy
Legohamster
Ian Walker
8 of our 10 record signings were under mopo, I agree ENIC are an issue - but he spent a lot on bang average players when they decided to spend money.
Is it ENICs fault that when they finally spend the recruitment team get it so wrong?
This doesnt even include the likes of Serge/Janssen.
Can't blame the board for that.
Danishfurniturelover
the prettiest spice girl
You have to adjust for inflation with some of those.
Soldaldo was a big money signing at the time where as Moura was about what you would expect to pay for his age Brazil international with champs league experience. Not a flop but not a success.
I agree it would be nice for more investment but we are a self sustaining club and frankly i like that about us.
The have been some blogs and videos about the sensible transfer options and those videos really appeal to me.
Posted it a few pages earlier but McGinn at villa would be a better signing for us then Grealish.
Money might be a factor but i also think what has hampered us is a lack of a clear plan for the club. Or possibly Poch and Levy working from different plans.
Was Lo Celso really 28.8m? Amazing value if so.
Looking at that list I would say we’ve bought fairly well. Son is the outstanding buy from that lot so far, but Lo Celso for me could exceed him and Bergwijn is looking great value and still young. Sanchez was always a future buy and has shown what he could become, as is Sess who I think give a couple of seasons will begin to flourish. Moura has been decent enough to justify the money paid (the night in Ajax alone). Sissoko for me has been decent value all in all, almost always been available covering various positions during injury crisis and has been consistently last season or two a 7/10 in the process. Lamela probably expected more of, but wouldn’t say it was a bad buy. Soldado was obviously the stand out flop, but NDombele could rival that if he doesn’t show what he’s all about. Considering the difficulties and amount of risks involved with transfers I’d say we’ve done well, part of the reason we’ve performed above expectations.....
Baleforce
Arthur Rowe
I can’t behind this at all, bankrolling transfers with money not generated by the club is cheating.
I know a lot of clubs do it, but it’s wrong, and shouldn’t be used as a measure of success.
ricky2tricky4city
Steffen Freund
Have they got a story on Pep?.... along the lines of getting 'crucial backing' but still not winning the CL or the league this year.
Finney Is Back
Andy Thompson
Add £15m to Lo Celso’s fee for the initial loan deal.
MKSpur
Christian Ziege
I love Poch but it’s a bit of a stretch to see him being currently rated as highly as Klopp, when Klopp has won 3 league titles and made 3 CL finals.
I agree on the backing point though, I’ve said before that I feel like the more a manager achieves it seems Levy thinks there’s less need to spend. Almost like keeping more profit and waiting for the factory machine to break before being forced to spend, rather than invest in better technology to keep up or even pull ahead of the competition.
I think Poch massively over achieved with us, CL was an anomaly before he came and became the expectation, I never remember the level of neutral, media and rival respect his era gave us, while we were at WHL we expected to win and that last season unbeaten at home was the most played unspursy thing I’ve experienced and when it comes to beating him up for not winning a trophy I prefer to think about a managers performance regarding the expectation of the team in the eyes of a neutral. I’d imagine Pep has rarely gone into many matches where his team would but be the favourite to win, so his par should be set at a much higher level.
Where Poch goes next may influence our retrospective view of him, was he fortunate to stumble across a team of good players that he ran into the ground or was he hamstrung the constraints of our purchasing power and transfer strategy during his tenure? There is no question that his coaching has improved many players both at Southampton and here, but I think the notable ones will have been either academy products or possibly purchased under Mitchell’s watch?
Bedfordspurs
Mark Falco
The key with pick was how he dealt with players he brought and then didn’t want... he just froze them out but it made it harder to sell them
Players like rose who he wanted gone but was pally with he just didn’t know how to deal with either