Lawrenson questions Tottenham’s Pochettino appointment

[mawspurs]

Mark Lawrenson questions whether Mauricio Pochettino will be given time to implement his ideas at Tottenham Hotspur

Read the full article at The Sports Review

 

[Danners9]

'They go through manager after manager at White Hart Lane and I really can’t work out what they are looking for from the man in the dugout.'

Well, no.. not really. Don't buy into the media bullshit, Lawro. 3rd in a season, or 8th in 13yrs. Whichever way you want to spin it. With caretakers or without. Marcotti said it's like Levy has become Jesus Gil from Atletico when there has been a reason why each manager has gone.

But yes, a lot of fans also wonder what the club are looking for in a manager.

 

[TottenhamMattSpur]

Levy rightly expects more the next manager from the last.

If they're not delivering then they go. That's what managers do, in every job they're brought in to maintain smooth successful running of their employees. In most cases, to grow a business and make it more successful.
If we just let them get on with it, we'd probably still bee knocking around 10th - 15th under Glen Hoddle.
We'd not have been in Europe almost every single season since Jol, we'd definitely have never tasted champions league football and we'd never have signed players like:
Berbatov
Modric
VDV
Bale
Davids
Lloris
Vertonghen
Eriksen
Lemela

We'd still have the likes of Chris Perry.

I'm fed up to the back teeth of this bullshit cliche that you need to give someone time to do a job.
If someone takes over an already good team they have to hit the ground running or they're falling at their job.

 

[GlennHoddle]

"Us" fans have alot to answer to also.
And it is now noticeable to outsiders, if we "are not one up after 30 mins", we turn on de team and manager.
Therein lies de game plan for de so called lesser teams when they come to de lane.
It is time we got behind de team and mgr from de off and stop acting like spoilt brats expecting to win every game at a canter and not giving de team our support when things are not working

 

[neogenisis]

Well he knows doesn't he, i mean just look at the big clubs he has managed, all the trophies he has won.

 

[CosmicHotspur]

 

[wakefieldyid]

'They go through manager after manager at White Hart Lane and I really can’t work out what they are looking for from the man in the dugout.'

The ground rules have certainly changed over the years that ENIC have owned the club, and made it virtually impossible for us to develop a consistent strategy.
Initially, the "big idea" was developing young talent, and financing this by selling-on key players. Having worked to bring Arsenen and Commoli's youngsters up to PL standard, Jol's era ended because the board perceived that a more "sophisticated" coaching style could turn the same players into CL qualifiers.
Ramos seems to have had the coaching skills but lost the confidence of the squad, so Redknap was recruited to save us from relegation, and subsequently achieved CL qualification.
It's very hard to escape the conclusion that we make it up as we go along!

 

[Gassin's finest]

I'm constantly questioning Lawrenson's continued appointment as an 'expert' at the BBC...

 

[guiltyparty]

Jesus, one good season and they're the big I am. Has he forgotten they got rid of both Hodgson and Dalglish after a season pre-Rodgers?

They've had 4 managers in the last 4 years, same as us

Douche

 

[Bennys LOL]

Lawrenson son son; talks a load of doggy doo

Lawrenson son son; thinks he has a job to do

To the left to the right; he's a pundit for the night

When he moans bout the Lilywhites; we all make him look like shite!

 

[TorontoYid]

Levy rightly expects more the next manager from the last.

If we just let them get on with it, we'd probably still bee knocking around 10th - 15th under Glen Hoddle.

But under Hoddle we would have had Eileen Drewery to read the teams tea leaves

 

[pundits folly]

It's very hard to escape the conclusion that we make it up as we go along!

I don't agree.

We were buying players at the back end of their best (Les Ferdinand seems the best example of that) and foreign players who were too lightweight for the PL (Rebrov, Postiga and ironically possibly Soldado and Lamela). DL changed that policy to one of hoovering up young english players who would (and have) brought money into the club.

He also appointed management who would get top half finishes and regular european football and has consistently done that too.

He clearly wants a Director of Football and has figured out that the leader he appoints must be a coach rather than manager.

There's a clear policy in place. We might not like it but it's there. They're not making stuff up as they go along.

 

[pundits folly]

Interesting is that Lawrenson (a serial title winner) has known for years that at Spurs the crowd turns easily. If he knows it, other teams do to. Instead of knee jerk insults it might be worth considering that.

 

[guiltyparty]

Interesting is that Lawrenson (a serial title winner) has known for years that at Spurs the crowd turns easily. If he knows it, other teams do to. Instead of knee jerk insults it might be worth considering that.

But when a decent point is surrounded by utter horseshit, it's hard to not discount it. The rest is utter jabber, so why would you believe that bit? He honestly sounds like a bloke in a pub spouting what he's just been told to think on Talksport

 

[pundits folly]

But when a decent point is surrounded by utter horseshit, it's hard to not discount it. The rest is utter jabber, so why would you believe that bit? He honestly sounds like a bloke in a pub spouting what he's just been told to think on Talksport

Isn't the trick to judge him by what he says about other teams? He's a terrible comedian but his analysis is generally pretty good on MotD2.

I remember when Harry joined us he said we had a soft underside and that's what he always told his sides when they played us after UEFA cup games. Lawrenson says we're not a very supportive crowd. Why not figure out what other people see as our weaknesses and respond to that?

 

[guiltyparty]

Isn't the trick to judge him by what he says about other teams? He's a terrible comedian but his analysis is generally pretty good on MotD2.

I remember when Harry joined us he said we had a soft underside and that's what he always told his sides when they played us after UEFA cup games. Lawrenson says we're not a very supportive crowd. Why not figure out what other people see as our weaknesses and respond to that?

I've just answered that.

And I disagree, his analysis is threadbare. He's a terrible pundit, there's never any real analysis, it's based on commonly held views, he never says anything remotely incisive or surprising

And I know our crowd's unsupportive without him saying it. It's obvious. Which again reinforces my point: he just repeats things that other people have said, whether right or wrong

 

[18Klinsmann]

Well, old Lawro loves having a dig at Spurs and rarely misses the chance. As sick as I am of watching him and his Scouse mates smirking at their return to the CL and sniping at Spurs I suppose he does have a point. It's true that MP will need time and that it will be interesting to see if he can deliver well enough to escape Danny's axe.
However, I don't believe we have let anyone go that deserved to stay on lately - nor have Lawro's lot. When Rodgers "finished 7th" in his first season his team looked a much improved and freescoring one than when they started the season. So, giving him time was pretty much a nobrainer.

 

[pundits folly]

I've just answered that.

And I disagree, his analysis is threadbare. He's a terrible pundit, there's never any real analysis, it's based on commonly held views, he never says anything remotely incisive or surprising

And I know our crowd's unsupportive without him saying it. It's obvious. Which again reinforces my point: he just repeats things that other people have said, whether right or wrong

Fair enough.

 

[jolsnogross]

He clearly wants a Director of Football and has figured out that the leader he appoints must be a coach rather than manager.

There's a clear policy in place. We might not like it but it's there. They're not making stuff up as they go along.

That's an incredibly generous interpretation of Levy's managerial strategy. And you undermine your own case by saying he "has figured out" that he wants a coach.

It's not a clear policy when you have a DoF structure and then abandon it. It's even less clear when abandoning that structure worked! We had our most successful period when we didn't have a DoF.

He appointed Santini and had to have Jol clean up that mess. He appointed Ramos and had to have Harry clean up that mess. That's called making it up as you go along, not a clear strategy.

A clear strategy may emerge. And certainly there appear to be criteria - CL placing and exciting footy. But the strategy would be how to implement that, not just constantly appointing people and then deciding they're not up to it.

 

[Gaz_Gammon]

Well he knows doesn't he, i mean just look at the big clubs he has managed, all the trophies he has won.

Very good player, winning most of what you'd want to as a player:

In Lawrenson's first season, Liverpool won the League championship and the League Cup before retaining both for another two seasons, becoming only the third club in history to win three titles in a row. They also added the club's fourth European Cup in 1984, the last time Liverpool would win this honour until 2005, sealing a treble of trophies that season.

He makes complete sense in the article. Levy hires and fires. Simple and undeniably a fact.