Pochettino approached by Man Utd

[Bensonrecon]

Sigh

“Always, my decisions are for the present but for the future too,” said Pochettino. “I work for if one day I am not here to give the legacy, it’s always my way to work not only for the present and for the quick results. It’s always to create the future.

“In football you can work only for results and don’t think about tomorrow. But for me it’s always to try to create good things for the present and for the future too.

“Sometimes, we watch the under-8, under-9, under-10s. Our passion is to watch football and when you have the possibility to watch, it’s a special moment to detect the talent – sometimes we spend a lot of time watching the training sessions of the under-8s and under-9s, 10, 11, 12s. We enjoy that a lot. More professionally, we look at the under-14s, 15s and 16s.”

“The good thing when we arrived here was a very great feeling with John McDermott and the academy,” said Pochettino. “We started an overview of all the young players to share the opinion with John and all the coaches, and we learned a lot about the academy. Today we can see the different players with the opportunity to arrive and to create the space too for the possibility for them to train with us.

“John is a really important person for me and I think after 10 years here you can see the evolution of the players. After 18 months working with John, I can say he is one of the best academy managers that I have met.”

Said that a matter of weeks ago when people were speculating over Chelsea and the first murmurs of Utd. Hardly the words of a man that is even vaguely considering leaving when he's talking about watching bloody under 8's sides and bigging up the same academy head that turned down Utd himself.

Don't get me wrong, I know it's in our nature as Spurs fans to doubt it when we finally get something good, but listen to and watch the man himself, look at what he said about us as fans yesterday or Sunday, whenever it was. There is absolutely no indication he's even remotely interested. These garbage reports hold no more water than the nonsense that gets printed about us selling Kane.

 

[Gassin's finest]

The Sun at Spurs fans...

 

[hodsgod]

Not saying he is going but I refuse to be smug about Poch's loyalty to us. I have seen money and "ambition" talk so many times.

Exactly, and if he had loyalty running through his veins, he wouldn't have left Southampton . I just hope Poch is enjoying his time atSpurs and prefers to carry on with the project.

 

[bubble07]

If this the man utd of old (i.e when they were dominating) he would probably go. I really can't see him going now. He could be with us for the next 10 years and then go to Madrid, Barca etc - Not man utd

 

[bubble07]

Exactly, and if he had loyalty running through his veins, he wouldn't have left Southampton . I just hope Poch is enjoying his time atSpurs and prefers to carry on with the project.

He was loyal to the owner and not the club at southampton so when owner left he left

 

[coopsy13]

An enormous amount of incredibly naive comments here, maintaining that the allure of the "project", the developing squad and being on our way up would counter any attraction to United. If he did decide to join United, it would be for exactly the same reasons as Berbatov did. Has anyone ever turned down the United job? How many players have ever turned down a transfer to them? If you want to win things, it's a lot easier to do it with United and they pay you an awful lot of money.

I doubt there is much substance to the story at this stage. Journos are always linking personnel at clubs having an outstanding season with the richest and most successful clubs, and with a host of very ripe fruit, Spurs are always going to be a much juicier prospect for such stories than the likes of Leicester. After the failures of Moyes and LVG, United are very unlikely to take a chance on a manager who has won nothing so far and never competed in the CL. As a manager with PL successes and a record of winning a lot of trophies, it's hard to see them looking beyond Mourinho.

McDermott turned down United

 

[Ribble]

He was loyal to the owner and not the club at southampton so when owner left he left

Actually it was the chairman (Cortese) who got sacked, something which Pochettino had stated would be a deal breaker for him at Saints but the new owner (the daughter of the owner who passed away) did it anyway and took over.

This is all bollocks from the Sun anyway. It's Murdoch's little tabloid mouthpiece acting to try and protect the biggest Premier League (and therefore Sky Sports) cash cow from losing yet another year on the big stage. It's simply dismissed by the mere fact that Pochettino has no agents, so if Man United have met anyone they're getting taken for a ride by shysters... again!

 

[PieNChips]

Man Utd sell papers. Journalists will always splash on them whenever they can- Sports Editors will put them under pressure to do so. It was only natural Poch would get linked at some stage. They need another angle on the LVG situation apart from Mourinho.

Whether we like it or not Kane, Alli and Poch will be linked constantly leading into the summer.

Until something with more substance and reputable comes along treat The Sun as a comic – and just laugh at them.

 

[seanwhite1961]

He was loyal to the owner and not the club at southampton so when owner left he left

I think you mean Cortese, the chief exec who brought him in, and who left after he had a disagreement with the owner.

With half the team then subject to offers from Pool, Utd and Arse, the prospect of having to start again after 18 months probably wasn't very enticing.

 

[Flashspur]

This.
I'm amazed the papers haven't been touting all Leicesters players and manager at everybody like they do with us.

we are a sexy club, always have been....we sell papers....they dont

 

[Ironskullll]

I expect his ambition is to manage in Spain, ie one of the big two . Trying to get there via Manure in their present state would be risky, almost stupidly so. I'd say that he would be more likely to win trophies here over the next couple of years than at OT. So, all other thimgs being equal, I think he'd turn down any approaches.

 

[crokey]

Wow I honestly can't think of a post this week bar zoneD or whatever that I disagree with more
By that logic harry deli are gone too and any other bugger they want from us ?

They are garbage at the moment and being patient isn't really their strong point either.
Poch would be mental to go there at present long career ahead of him I doubt he is in a hurry.

What are you on about? I just said they won't go for him. If they did, he would be gone. Any differing opinion is delusional. Human beings don't turn down 300% wage rises, get over it.

 

[fletch82]

What are you on about? I just said they won't go for him. If they did, he would be gone. Any differing opinion is delusional. Human beings don't turn down 300% wage rises, get over it.

No you implied if they did go for him he is gone but I'll back down and agree with you as your keyboard warrior warriorness has frightened me a bit

Also he is probably on an average spurs manager of today's wage so around 5 mill a year so utd are seriously going to offer around 15 million a year to him at a rate of about 290 thousand a week ? Really ?

 

[EastLondonYid]

Unless your a Real or Barca..... when your manager is doing the biz they are going to be linked with big jobs...

I would be more worried if no one wanted our boss.

If Levy looks after him, and Poch genuinely sees a vision of what he wants to happen here on and off the pitch, then i can't see him jumping ship for Utd.....

Start worrying when Real or Barca come calling and really want him......thats life.

What might help us is if Poch looks at the alarming way managers get sacked so quickly, that may put him off.

 

[Tucker]

If anyone's stupid enough to believe what they read in the Sun, they deserve nothing but contempt. I hate the way, this thread title makes out that it's something that's actually happened. For fucks sake.

 

[Flashspur]

I'd worry more about Madrid, Atletico & even Barca before I worry about Utd. Zidane will be given more time than usual but still not guaranteed beyond next season, & Simeone could end up leaving for Chelsea etc. Enrique much less likely to leave but still... Spanish speaking manager who has experience in La Liga, has been successful in the premiership (in terms of how we play, current league position and media friendly) and is one of the most young, ambitious managers around. He probably wouldn't last a minute at Madrid with their horrid impatient fans and Marca but, if offered, he just might say to himself how can he turn the Madrid job down.

If Utd did make a genuine offer, of course it would be hard for him to turn down. Yes we're on the up and they're not, yes he's put something together that he should see through and yes he would have less patience from everyone at Utd as the world's eyes are always on them... but, unfortunately, they're one of the two biggest clubs in the world and I can't imagine any manager turning them down. All common sense could easily fly out the window and he could take it. My personal opinion is that he wouldn't, but I would never bet on it.

We've seen it before, even when you think the most loyal manager or player will stay, he'll go if he wants to. Keegan 'those who know me know I would never leave Fulham for the England job full time' - next minute he's there. No matter how emotionally attached you are to a job, and no matter how much you mean well, if you're offered one of the biggest jobs in football you'll more than likely go. I hope he stays but we're gonna get poached left right and centre over the summer. He's built an amazing team and we will have the biggest stadium in London soon, hopefully he'll want to see it all through with us.

La Liga is a tin pot league dude. Great players yes, but the competition itself is crap. You have two clubs that dominate year in and year out and the rest who struggle manfully. Atletico have been punching above their weight but only because they have a brilliant manager. Any other year its fucking Barca or Real, Real or Barca, Barca or fucking Real. Two big c***ed clubs who buy everything in sight. Even Barca who had a decent junior system are now producing shite. They are a couple of Pac Man clubs feeding off an unequal TV rights arrangement which screws everyone else along with government and local councils that ream their asses constantly. They are balls deep into illegal activity with dodgy transfers, tax evasion or more.

The PL is roaring along. At this rate with the game going more global its only going to attract more money. So where would you rather be? Right smack dab in the center of the fucking football universe or in some distant fricken' solar system that has two big stars in and not much else? So what is the fucking attraction. The lingo, the paella, a nice siesta or maybe a jug of fucking sangria with its cheap red wine and over ripe fruit? I think Poch is smarter and more ambitious than that but he wants to do it his way. Not with eleven galacticos with big egos and small cocks that he has to suck off twice a day to keep happy. Let Zidane do that. That fucker has already sold his soul to the devil. No, he wants to do it with a team of true believers that he can mould in his own style that play with freedom and desire. Well at least I am hoping its the case. Maybe he is different to the others! Wenger has stayed with the Arse and Fergie with Manure. Why not Poch with us??

Anyway if he jumps ship there are always others. We are not a small club by any means and about to get a lot bigger. I am sure Poch knows that too.

 

[whitesocks]

If MP doesn't have an agent, they'll all be ringing him now.
In fact they'd be ringing him even if he had an agent.

 

[CJMurray]

An enormous amount of incredibly naive comments here, maintaining that the allure of the "project", the developing squad and being on our way up would counter any attraction to United. If he did decide to join United, it would be for exactly the same reasons as Berbatov did. Has anyone ever turned down the United job? How many players have ever turned down a transfer to them? If you want to win things, it's a lot easier to do it with United and they pay you an awful lot of money.

Berbatov joined United to win titles under the greatest manager of all time in a dominant team with Rooney, Tevez and Ronaldo. Obviously he couldn't have done that here. The difference now is that Pochettino can challenge for titles with us with the new stadium, training ground, tv deal etc.

The United jobs only been offered to two people in the last 25 years or so, Moyes and Van Gaal who had no reason to turn it down. Poch does. IF we do finish above United (as it looks we will) then why would Poch leave? He's got the perfect young squad for him here and he's got a great relationship with Levy.

If he goes to United then he's got incredible pressure on him to turn it around with a pretty rubbish squad full of overpaid and nearly finished footballers. Sure, he would get paid a bit more, but that's clearly not what Poch is about.

 

[Gassin's finest]

From today's F365 Mediawatch: http://www.football365.com/news/mediawatch-giggs-is-uniteds-pep-guardiola

Stand by your man
Mediawatch suspects that Neil Custis and The Sun enjoyed Diego Costa’s late equaliser on Sunday.

After lying lower than normal over the past fortnight, Custis is back with another ‘Man United exclusive’. Is it Van Gaal offering to quit? Or United about to appoint Jose Mourinho? Or have they both been forgotten?

‘Mauricio Pochettino could wreck Jose Mourinho’s dream of becoming Manchester United’s next manager,’ Custis writes. ‘SunSport understands United chiefs have spoken to representatives of the Tottenham boss about succeeding Louis van Gaal.’

Mediawatch wonders which of Pochettino’s representatives United are speaking to, given that Pochettino said this to the Guardian in December:

“It was very tough, and he won. I negotiated with him and now I am very strong. I don’t have an agent. He offered the contract and I say yes or no or I want more. He has a reputation as a very hard businessman? It’s true. I can feel that.”

We do at least look forward to seeing Louis van Gaal’s face when he reads this latest ‘exclusive’. WARNING: There will be weight jibes.​

 

[CowInAComa]

I wouldnt be remotely surprised should Utd or Chelsea approach Poch. If they arent considering him they are mental.

But, and I might just be being wishfully sentimental, I really dont think he will go. He has only ever talked about the long term, the project the development of the club and where it could be. I think he knows he has the opportunity for something pretty spectacular at Spurs that is quite unique.