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It's not as easy as that, Wigs. You must have worked somewhere where morale is low? You get small ups and downs on a day-to-day basis but there's always a cynicism, a lethargy about the place. No-one ever gets really fired up or enthused about the work they do. Even if you bring in new people, the attitude spreads. I've seen this most clearly in my career as a civil servant - no matter who the manager of a team is, if they've been beaten down, if they've had the stuffing knocked out of them, you can chop and change managers till you're blue in the face - you could get the strictest disciplinarian in or the easiest-going arm-around-the-shoulder, 'just call me Steve' type but the attitude remains. It takes ages to turn it around.No I agree it’s not all his fault but he has a degree of responsibility in that no doubt hence why I’ve turned on Jose tonight. I don’t think there is a way back for him now, we might as well give another coach a chance to do the impossible and bury the classic Spurs mentality once and for all.
We can say that Mourinho hasn't turned this attitude around, in the same way Poch feel victim to it. The point of the matter is that it's simply not going to be done in a short space of time and expecting it to happen under another manager's aegis is unrealistic. So what do we do? Sack the manager who, for whatever faults he may have, has already started the job of moulding his squad, or throw the whole thing out the window, get another person in who will then want time for his remoulding, while that attitude remains within the now-partially altered squad? It's catch 22.