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Mauricio Pochettino

Raziel said:
They won't pick Conte, they don't want a fight with anyone (hence the front runner has been Howe as a yes man)

Poch would likely take the job, but he'd be an idiot if he didn't do to them what RDZ did to us, demand power, know the budget, have say over transfers (not sure it will help as was never sold on Poch as a talent judge, but without it, he's dead in a year).
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I’ve heard there is a belief in football that Poch has lost the hunger and is behind the times tactically.
 
robp135 said:
I’ve heard there is a belief in football that Poch has lost the hunger and is behind the times tactically.
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With the caveat of I appreciate Poch but never thought he was the messiah (absolutely the right man at right place/time for us).

- He will be not the meta of the PL (neither is RDZ), current PL tactics is upscale Pulis ball, heavy reliance on physicality, set pieces, defensive structure. Can he adapt? I'd argue his time at Chelsea showed he isn't dead yet.
- Poch is very emotional, it's why I think he burned out with us, I don't think he would love international football as much, reality is Spurs is still that ex for him (you see it in every interview), could the change to United re-ignite him? no one knows.

The problem with United is it's a worse version of the worst parts of Spurs

- It's a fudging circus, the media scrutiny and coverage of anything is way above any other club
- Glazers and Ineos are worse owners, less football people than the worse of Levy/ENIC
- The club is financially handicapped by debt, dividends and (I don't believe it) plans to build a new stadium
- The squad has something like 5 or 6 players (Shaw, Maguire, Dallot, Fernandes, etc.) that have seen off 6 managers.

But the piece that will kill anyone at United remains expectations, the idea that United is competing for anything, that they are the United of SAF era is an anchor that will kill every manager that comes in (2028 was Ineos target for the PL?), and the ex manchester united idiots in the media will never frame it any other way.
 
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