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I look at the squad of players at Southampton and then I look at where they finished in the league.............he hasn't done that great a job.......they finished where I would expect them to.
I think going for Pochettina is a mistake.
Absolutely agree. He inherited some outstanding home-grown players (I don't know what they do down there, but we could have done with some of it at Spurs over the years) and was given the thick end of £40m to spend last summer and didn't spend it too effectively—Osvaldo, anyone? That's a pretty decent squad he's had at his disposal, and to be fair he's had them playing some pretty football at times, but is a 38% win percentage that great? At best, he's achieved par.
If van Gaal had still been on the cards (and who knows, he and the media may have been counting unhatched chickens) it would have been a no-brainer. Now, none of the potential successors to Sherwood comes without a question mark.