- Feb 2, 2009
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Pep Guardiola makes a pop by saying his achievement this is greater than winning the Champions League. If and it is a big if Pochettino wins the Champions League with us can that really be said to be true ? I’m not so sure. Let’s put it another way. With the excellent training facilities and unlimited resources at their disposal, if they’d swapped roles, could Pochettino have bagged this domestic treble this season with all these resources and facilities had he been managing Man City instead? I would say it’s more probable he could have done than Guardiola could have done in getting Spurs to the Champions League final, getting to the League Cup Semi Final and only losing out on pens against a team with bags of money and Champions League qualification with zero transfer funds, a shed load of injuries, a threadbare bench on many match days in comparison to Man City’s not to mention having delay after delay with moving grounds, and having to put up with endless speculation in the media about key players leaving and not renewing contracts. Guardiola would have moaned to Levy that he didn’t have gilt edged privileged gold plated tools to do the job and he would have walked, I’m sure of it, because he’s never proven he can do it the hard way. The only doubt in my mind about whether Pochettino achieving what Guardiola did, was whether he could have held off the relentless pressure Liverpool heaped on every week by pushing them to the last game to win the PL. I say doubt but I’m not saying Pochettino couldn’t have done, in my opinion it is more likely to have done than Guardiola would have done in getting us what we have this season. So in my opinion his achievements are not yet greater than ours if you take all factors into consideration.