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Mauricio Pochettino 'must be given time to build a team at Tottenham'

mawspurs

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New Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino must be given time to build a side capable of sustaining a top-four challenge, says Jamie Redknapp.

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Yid

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JR is a bit of a douche, but in this particular instance he is spot on, tbf. We simply must give Poch sufficient time to develop a proper squad, etc.

COYS!
 

Chris_D

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All managers need time. Levy tends not to give them much. Let's give the new guy a full season before we get on his back.
 

goughie1966

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I hope he gets plenty of time but experience has shown that it's unlikely. How many of us will support him if there's a mid season slump and we're 10 in the table?

Too many of us have too high expectations. I think top 4 is out of reach for the foreseeable future. I'd be happy with good football and some cup runs. We can't compete with City or Chelsea and it's going to be tough to get ahead of Arsenal, Utd and Liverpool. And Everton will run us all the way too.

Unfortunately Levy and many of our fans lose patience if we're not getting top 4 by Christmas. I'm happy with 5th/6th and a cup run. A trophy would be nice!

I wanted FDB but I'm going to back him and support him 100%. None of this Poch out crap because we haven't got top 4.
 

CrazyHeart

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Levy also needs to do everything possible to ensure that Poch is not undermined or f***ed with and left alone to run things his way, with the players that he wants. Bringing in Poch's own staff is one great step towards this. Levy looks like he realised the catastrophic mistake in losing AVB after not affording him the same latitude or professional courtesy. This is why I for one, am optimistic about our club again.
 

TottenhamMattSpur

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Managers have to EARN time. Not be GIVEN time.
If we finish 17th need season, do we keep him on and give him more time??

Glen Roeder was given time at west ham. Look what happened to them.
David O,Really was given time at Leeds.
Paul Lampbert has been given time and taken villa from consisted top 6 to relegation fodder.

There's no evidence at all giving managers time will give them success. It's the worst cliche in football. It's worse than all the other cliche's combined.
 

buckley

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if you dont fuck up you will be given time
if you are not up to it you will get the tin tack
this is a fact we all face in the real world
managers seem to think they can take a club on a downward spiral and then bleat all i need is time
wrong ;all you need is ability to succeed if you have real ability the improvement will be evident after a short space of time
as for redknapp he is the most agenda driven media man there is
first he's got the raging hump because of daddy getting the tin tack
second he is so in love with liverpool that he proberbly goes to bed in a liverpool shirt ;in one hand a picture of rodgers in the other a pictureof suarez
if you want to take this man seriously so be it
i take him as a bitter man who will do everything in his power to have a dig at our club without making it too obvious
sly snakey sneakey twat
 

striebs

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Poch is a good choice but on past experience Levy will find some way to $uck it up .

Would be nice to have a manager outlast the chairman for once .
 

Ledley's Right Foot

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All of our managers were given the perfect amount of time to prove they weren't up to the job.

Tough job managing spurs, let's hope pochettino is the one to prove he is up to it. I believe in him :)

Edit: with the possible exception of Harry but that England job thing didn't work out too well for him.
 
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slartibartfast

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All of our managers were given the perfect amount of time to prove they weren't up to the job.

Tough job managing spurs, let's hope pochettino is the one to prove he is up to it. I believe in him :)

Edit: with the possible exception of Harry but that England job thing didn't work out too well for him.
Can I add Jol to your Harry list? He was doing well and then we brought in a f in D of F, undermined him and it all went tits up. He could have taken us places if left alone and backed properly imo.
Earlier post said about hoping Poch is left to get on with his job. That aint gonna happen while we have a DOF (doofus lol) imo.
I think the Doofus should be under the coach for it to work. I'll tell you the type pf players I want, you go find some, bring list to me and I'll pick which ones I want.
Not, can I have a Lb please? Heres 6 def Cm now get on with it....
Our team just doesnt look balanced...
This coach is shit...
Sack him and get another one.

Apologies, went on one then lol.
 

Ledley's Right Foot

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Can I add Jol to your Harry list? He was doing well and then we brought in a f in D of F, undermined him and it all went tits up. He could have taken us places if left alone and backed properly imo.
Earlier post said about hoping Poch is left to get on with his job. That aint gonna happen while we have a DOF (doofus lol) imo.
I think the Doofus should be under the coach for it to work. I'll tell you the type pf players I want, you go find some, bring list to me and I'll pick which ones I want.
Not, can I have a Lb please? Heres 6 def Cm now get on with it....
Our team just doesnt look balanced...
This coach is shit...
Sack him and get another one.

Apologies, went on one then lol.

I hear what you're saying the dof system only works well when the coach/dof/chairman can all work together. We had that for a short time with arnesen and jol but when commoli came in there were reports jol and he didn't agree.

Regardless, I actually think jol took us as far as he could. He certainly hasn't been pulling up trees since and it's telling that spurs is still the biggest club he has managed.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Can I add Jol to your Harry list? He was doing well and then we brought in a f in D of F, undermined him and it all went tits up. He could have taken us places if left alone and backed properly imo.

I have to correct your history, because that isn't what happened. We had a Director of Football before Martin Jol got anywhere near the place: Frank Arnesen, who wanted to appoint Jol as manager immediately, but was overruled by Levy, who (probably correctly) reckoned that the fans would revolt unless he appointed a 'big name' manager. So Levy persuaded Arnesen to head-hunt Jacques Santini, but Arnesen dug his heels in and obtained Jol as an assistant coach.

Santini never settled into the job and Arnesen soon got his way, promoting Jol to the job he always intended Jol to have: Head Coach.

Martin Jol was never a sole manager and had never worked that way - he always stuck to coaching and had a Director doing the deals and signing the players. Coach Jol and Director of Football Arnesen worked beautifully together, but then Chelsea poached Arnesen to run their international youth setup and Levy unwillingly replaced Arnesen with Damien Comolli, whose relationship with Jol was less cordial and less effective.

The first point is that having a Director of Football was not what caused problems - it was having a Director of Football and a coach who did not work well together. The second point is that Martin Jol would never have been 'left alone', because he was strictly a coach.
 

davidmatzdorf

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Regardless, I actually think jol took us as far as he could. He certainly hasn't been pulling up trees since and it's telling that spurs is still the biggest club he has managed.

Let's not get into an argument over whether Ajax is a 'bigger' club than Tottenham, but they've certainly been more successful over the past few decades.
 

slartibartfast

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I have to correct your history, because that isn't what happened. We had a Director of Football before Martin Jol got anywhere near the place: Frank Arnesen, who wanted to appoint Jol as manager immediately, but was overruled by Levy, who (probably correctly) reckoned that the fans would revolt unless he appointed a 'big name' manager. So Levy persuaded Arnesen to head-hunt Jacques Santini, but Arnesen dug his heels in and obtained Jol as an assistant coach.

Santini never settled into the job and Arnesen soon got his way, promoting Jol to the job he always intended Jol to have: Head Coach.

Martin Jol was never a sole manager and had never worked that way - he always stuck to coaching and had a Director doing the deals and signing the players. Coach Jol and Director of Football Arnesen worked beautifully together, but then Chelsea poached Arnesen to run their international youth setup and Levy unwillingly replaced Arnesen with Damien Comolli, whose relationship with Jol was less cordial and less effective.

The first point is that having a Director of Football was not what caused problems - it was having a Director of Football and a coach who did not work well together. The second point is that Martin Jol would never have been 'left alone', because he was strictly a coach.
Oops lol. Christ I completely forgot about Arnesen. Or maybe blacked him out after going to Chelski.
My bad.
 

Ledley's Right Foot

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Let's not get into an argument over whether Ajax is a 'bigger' club than Tottenham, but they've certainly been more successful over the past few decades.

with the money in the premier league today a manager would come to spurs over Ajax (fdb's interest a case in point). It's a bigger job: bigger transfer budget, higher wage budget, bigger manager salary, better competition.

I agree Ajax has a history in its league we don't have but spurs is the more attractive job for a manager. Jol won't get another job in the top six of the epl.
 
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