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Lamela needs time, says Pochettino

mawspurs

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Tottenham head coach Mauricio Pochettino has called for Erik Lamela to be given time to return to his best form.

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thinktank

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"I think the challenge for all managers is to win trophies, but I'm focused on developing our style at Tottenham - that's the most important at the moment," he added.

"It's important to work hard, to believe, to be realistic. We are ambitious but it's impossible to promise (trophies). We need to show our ambition in every game."

And there you have it. That's what this season is about. Sit back, watch, enjoy and wave goodbye to lack of desire, ropey tactics and zero drive.

This season will see our whole club elevated to a tactical level we quite possibly haven't seen here before.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Pochettino does seem to have an unusual ability to make balanced statements, lacking the blarney and bullshit of Redknapp or the jargon and pretension of AVB. It's very difficult to comment on expectations in a way that doesn't provoke journalists either to negative-spin it ('Spurs will never win the league') or positive-spin it ('Spurs' ambition is to win the title this season'). Despite English being a second language, he seems to be able to do this. It's very promising. It's an absence of bullshit.
 

Jody

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Pochettino does seem to have an unusual ability to make balanced statements, lacking the blarney and bullshit of Redknapp or the jargon and pretension of AVB. It's very difficult to comment on expectations in a way that doesn't provoke journalists either to negative-spin it ('Spurs will never win the league') or positive-spin it ('Spurs' ambition is to win the title this season'). Despite English being a second language, he seems to be able to do this. It's very promising. It's an absence of bullshit.

Abshit?
 

ralvy

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And there you have it. That's what this season is about. Sit back, watch, enjoy and wave goodbye to lack of desire, ropey tactics and zero drive.

This season will see our whole club elevated to a tactical level we quite possibly haven't seen here before.

Okay, try now saying that without making it sound like Poch's dick is stabbing the back of your throat
 
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Gaz_Gammon

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And there you have it. That's what this season is about. Sit back, watch, enjoy and wave goodbye to lack of desire, ropey tactics and zero drive.

This season will see our whole club elevated to a tactical level we quite possibly haven't seen here before.



Bollocks.

Your'e already drunk on expectation. I'd be a little more realistic in my expectations after all the AVB hype of being the Messiah.

To suggest that we will witness football like never before seen at WHL is just setting yourself up for one rather large fall. I don's doubt Poch's ability but i don't think we will realistically finish any higher than where we did last season and the football will definitely have been seen before.

But i do admire your'e enthusiasm............................:wacky:
 

UbeAstard

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Lamela absolutely needs time. Ive seen too many comments insisting he has to play and why, because he is a big money signing with reputation? He has failed miserably when up against premier league opposition and no Spurs manager can afford to keep playing non performers on the basis of transfer fee, wages or reputation.
 

Col_M

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I agree. He's had a whole season to bed in and integrate. I am expecting a hattrick versus West Ham and a well deserved substitution after 85minutes
 

jezz

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Lamela absolutely needs time. Ive seen too many comments insisting he has to play and why, because he is a big money signing with reputation? He has failed miserably when up against premier league opposition and no Spurs manager can afford to keep playing non performers on the basis of transfer fee, wages or reputation.
Failed miserablly against who?
Cardiff disagree mate.
Remember he was injured aswell.
Smashing 15 goals at 20 yrs in a top league says your wrong
 

balalasaurus

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Lamela absolutely needs time. Ive seen too many comments insisting he has to play and why, because he is a big money signing with reputation? He has failed miserably when up against premier league opposition and no Spurs manager can afford to keep playing non performers on the basis of transfer fee, wages or reputation.
Agree with your sentiment. Disagree with your assessment. There's undoubtedly a world beater in there. I dont magically expect him to redefine football as we know it. But i do expect him to set a few tongues wagging. Undoubtedly has the talent to do so.

Last season he barely got a game in. This season he has a coach who not only understands him and the players around him, but is flexible enough to let him play a more expressive game while simultaneously acclimatizing to one of the most challenging leagues in the world. I think a bit of cautious optimism is warranted.
 

yusrisafri

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I agree with poch. You cant expect lamela to produce the 15-goal scoring form he had at Roma. He needs time to adjust.

.......14 goals is good enough for me.
 

UbeAstard

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What about the rest of your opinion?
Failed miserably?

The rest of the sentence read ''..against premier league opposition'' which is his brief history here, how does 15 goal at 20 years somewhere else say I'm wrong?
We had a manager called Ramos who proved himself in Spain, didn't prove right here. Would you like a list of players who have succeeded somewhere else that couldnt do it in the prem?
 

diamondlight

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Pochettino does seem to have an unusual ability to make balanced statements, lacking the blarney and bullshit of Redknapp or the jargon and pretension of AVB.

I'll nail my colours to the mast here: I loved Redknapp.

Can you name examples of the 'blarney and bullshit' he talked?

I would say that, on the contrary, Redknapp's only 'problem' was that he was too honest.

(Although I don't even see that as a problem: if only more public figures had Redknapp's wonderful knack of telling the truth in a good-natured and witty way!)
 

diamondlight

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Bollocks.

Your'e already drunk on expectation. I'd be a little more realistic in my expectations after all the AVB hype of being the Messiah.

I agree with your realism - but don't forget AVB came with a reputation of underachieving and playing turgid football at a top four side, whereas Poch comes with a reputation of playing wonderful, top-half level football at a side recently promoted from the championship.

There are some grounds for optimism.
 
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davidmatzdorf

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I'll nail my colours to the mast here: I loved Redknapp.

Can you name examples of the 'blarney and bullshit' he talked?

I would say that, on the contrary, Redknapp's only 'problem' was that he was too honest.

(Although I don't even see that as a problem: if only more public figures had Redknapp's wonderful knack of telling the truth in a good-natured and witty way!)

Oh come on. I'm on record here writing that Levy was 'insane' to sack Redknapp and I think he's the best manager we've had in at least 20 years, but his version of 'the truth' reliably coincided with any of a number of these sometimes-contradictory characteristics: (a) whatever made Harry Redknapp look good, (b) whatever came into his head when he spied a microphone, (c) whatever was necessary for Harry Redknapp to evade blame after something went wrong, (d) the opposite of what he had said a few weeks previously, (e) whatever made the funniest soundbite and (f) whatever would produce a good headline.

He could manage to combine bullshit-off-the-top-of-his head and canny-carefully-concocted-spin-bullshit in the same interview. He fooled everyone into thinking he was this fun dodgy-geezer caricature with no interest in tactics who just treated football like a simple game, when in reality he had a highly-developed understanding of what it takes to form a team and how to get the individuals in that team working at their best together.

Virtually every utterance he ever made in public contained at least one bit of misdirection or sleight of mouth, masquerading as good-ol'-Harry.

Youy want an example? You don't seriously think he actually told Pavlyuchenko to 'fucking run about a bit', do you? It was a Harry-joke about the language barrier and was one of his few bits of bullshit that backfired badly on him.
 

diamondlight

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Oh come on. I'm on record here writing that Levy was 'insane' to sack Redknapp and I think he's the best manager we've had in at least 20 years, but his version of 'the truth' reliably coincided with any of a number of these sometimes-contradictory characteristics: (a) whatever made Harry Redknapp look good, (b) whatever came into his head when he spied a microphone, (c) whatever was necessary for Harry Redknapp to evade blame after something went wrong, (d) the opposite of what he had said a few weeks previously, (e) whatever made the funniest soundbite and (f) whatever would produce a good headline.

He could manage to combine bullshit-off-the-top-of-his head and canny-carefully-concocted-spin-bullshit in the same interview. He fooled everyone into thinking he was this fun dodgy-geezer caricature with no interest in tactics who just treated football like a simple game, when in reality he had a highly-developed understanding of what it takes to form a team and how to get the individuals in that team working at their best together.

Virtually every utterance he ever made in public contained at least one bit of misdirection or sleight of mouth, masquerading as good-ol'-Harry.

Youy want an example? You don't seriously think he actually told Pavlyuchenko to 'fucking run about a bit', do you? It was a Harry-joke about the language barrier and was one of his few bits of bullshit that backfired badly on him.

I agree absolutely about the positives about Harry. And, yeah, Harry had what you might call the 'gift of the gab' - including the negative connotations of that phrase which you pointed out.

And yet somehow I feel we knew - no, we didn't just feel we really knew - where we were with Harry, underneath it all, and I miss that.

E.g. making a joke about Pavlyuchenko. At the end of the day, as you say, the truth - that there was a language barrier - was discernible underneath the misdirection, and savvy people would get Harry's drift.
 
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