The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[Univarn]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...ants-150m-tottenham-squad-overhaul-including/

Exclusive: Mauricio Pochettino wants £150m Tottenham squad overhaul including several new signings and departures

Mauricio Pochettino will ask chairman Daniel Levy and owner Joe Lewis to sanction a £150million overhaul of his Tottenham Hotspur squad this summer.

Pochettino wants to know he will be given the funds to bring in the players he wants and the freedom to sell those he feels he can replace, as he tries to transform Spurs into winners.

He also wants to be confident his star men will be offered contracts, ideally ahead of the World Cup, before recommitting his own long-term future to Spurs.

Levy is keen for Pochettino to sign a new contract worth up to £8.5million-a-year, but the Argentine wants promises over the direction he can take the club before signing.

Up until now Pochettino has largely played by Levy’s rules and accepted the club cannot afford to compete with their top-four rivals.

But having clinched qualification to the Champions League, he wants to take the next step with Tottenham and try to turn his squad into one that can win silverware.

Key to that plan is keeping Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Jan Vertonghen, Eric Dier and Hugo Lloris, who are all expected to be offered new contracts this summer.

But Pochettino also wants bigger funds to invest in his squad and the go-ahead to sell anybody he believes he can replace. Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Mousa Dembele could all go, leaving Tottenham with big holes to fill, while there are question marks over the futures of Victor Wanyama, Fernando Llorente and Moussa Sissoko.

Pochettino is a big fan of Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, who he knows would cost upwards of £50m, while Tottenham are currently at the front of the queue of clubs chasing Ryan Sessegnon, who Fulham value at £50m.

Anthony Martial has been on Pochettino’s radar for some time and Spurs have been tracking midfielder Bryan Cristante, who has been on loan at Atlanta, and Real Madrid’s Mateo Kovacic.

With Alderweireld expected to depart, Pochettino wants a new central defender and would like Tottenham to rival the likes of Barcelona for Ajax’s 18-year-old Matthijs de Ligt. Newcastle United captain Jamaal Lascelles is seen as another option.

Landing Pochettino’s targets this summer would require Levy to break Tottenham’s transfer record, which stands at £42m for Davinson Sanchez, several times over.

Pochettino is due to meet Levy this week and Tottenham’s billionaire owner Lewis could also be part of the talks aimed at pushing the club into the next phase of his project ahead of the move into the new stadium.

Whether or not Lewis is willing to bankroll Pochettino’s plan in the same summer Tottenham move into a new £850m stadium remains to be seen.

But Pochettino wants decisive action and does not want to club to drag its heels into the final weeks and days of the transfer window, which has cost Spurs points in the past.

Levy waited until he had sold Kyle Walker for £50m to Manchester City before doing any business last summer, but Pochettino does not want to be forced to wait for sales to go through this time around.

He is also fearful that some of Europe’s biggest clubs will attempt to unsettle his stars if new contracts are not agreed before they jet off for the World Cup with their respective countries.

Pochettino is well aware that there are a host of clubs, at home and abroad, that would jump at the chance to offer him a job if he does not get what he wants at Tottenham.

Real Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus and Bayern Munich are all admirers of Pochettino’s work.

No chance of a live stream of this meeting I'm guessing?

 

[worcestersauce]

I'm sorry I don't understand how we can be better if we don't bring in any new players when we are losing Aldo, Rose and we have already lost Walker. That's probably the best 3 defenders in the league. The side needs to strengthen and not with second raters like Sissoko but there is the rub, Levy won't pay the wages or the fees. So tell me how we are going to improve if we don't buy.

This team includes those players, if we lose them we will still be without them in three years than we would be without them now, my point is that our players are still not at their peak individually or as a group. We are going to buy and Levy will spend the money and we will improve even more.

 

[tommyt]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...ants-150m-tottenham-squad-overhaul-including/

Exclusive: Mauricio Pochettino wants £150m Tottenham squad overhaul including several new signings and departures

Mauricio Pochettino will ask chairman Daniel Levy and owner Joe Lewis to sanction a £150million overhaul of his Tottenham Hotspur squad this summer.

Pochettino wants to know he will be given the funds to bring in the players he wants and the freedom to sell those he feels he can replace, as he tries to transform Spurs into winners.

He also wants to be confident his star men will be offered contracts, ideally ahead of the World Cup, before recommitting his own long-term future to Spurs.

Levy is keen for Pochettino to sign a new contract worth up to £8.5million-a-year, but the Argentine wants promises over the direction he can take the club before signing.

Up until now Pochettino has largely played by Levy’s rules and accepted the club cannot afford to compete with their top-four rivals.

But having clinched qualification to the Champions League, he wants to take the next step with Tottenham and try to turn his squad into one that can win silverware.

Key to that plan is keeping Harry Kane, Dele Alli, Christian Eriksen, Jan Vertonghen, Eric Dier and Hugo Lloris, who are all expected to be offered new contracts this summer.

But Pochettino also wants bigger funds to invest in his squad and the go-ahead to sell anybody he believes he can replace. Toby Alderweireld, Danny Rose and Mousa Dembele could all go, leaving Tottenham with big holes to fill, while there are question marks over the futures of Victor Wanyama, Fernando Llorente and Moussa Sissoko.

Pochettino is a big fan of Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha, who he knows would cost upwards of £50m, while Tottenham are currently at the front of the queue of clubs chasing Ryan Sessegnon, who Fulham value at £50m.

Anthony Martial has been on Pochettino’s radar for some time and Spurs have been tracking midfielder Bryan Cristante, who has been on loan at Atlanta, and Real Madrid’s Mateo Kovacic.

With Alderweireld expected to depart, Pochettino wants a new central defender and would like Tottenham to rival the likes of Barcelona for Ajax’s 18-year-old Matthijs de Ligt. Newcastle United captain Jamaal Lascelles is seen as another option.

Landing Pochettino’s targets this summer would require Levy to break Tottenham’s transfer record, which stands at £42m for Davinson Sanchez, several times over.

Pochettino is due to meet Levy this week and Tottenham’s billionaire owner Lewis could also be part of the talks aimed at pushing the club into the next phase of his project ahead of the move into the new stadium.

Whether or not Lewis is willing to bankroll Pochettino’s plan in the same summer Tottenham move into a new £850m stadium remains to be seen.

But Pochettino wants decisive action and does not want to club to drag its heels into the final weeks and days of the transfer window, which has cost Spurs points in the past.

Levy waited until he had sold Kyle Walker for £50m to Manchester City before doing any business last summer, but Pochettino does not want to be forced to wait for sales to go through this time around.

He is also fearful that some of Europe’s biggest clubs will attempt to unsettle his stars if new contracts are not agreed before they jet off for the World Cup with their respective countries.

Pochettino is well aware that there are a host of clubs, at home and abroad, that would jump at the chance to offer him a job if he does not get what he wants at Tottenham.

Real Madrid, Chelsea, Juventus and Bayern Munich are all admirers of Pochettino’s work.

£150 Million. I wonder where that figure came from?

 

[THFCSPURS19]

£150 Million. I wonder where that figure came from?

You do realise more than one person can have contacts?

 

[archiewasking]

You do realise more than one person can have contacts?

My son has them for work as he doesn't like wearing his glasses there.

 

[SpartanSpur]

Law has contacts. Even though this ties up with various ITK in here over recent weeks, he's pulled info in the past that ITKs like @Trix have corroborated. Most recently the Cristante link before it was revealed.

 

[spursfan77]

Just watched his post match press conference and he also says 2 things that haven’t been reported anywhere.

He says “ we aren’t the kind of club that will invest crazy money” and also “try and win in a different way to which the other clubs are winning” meaning those spending like Man City.

Pretty important quotes, no?

 

[tommyt]

You do realise more than one person can have contacts?

I do indeed.

 

[Gb160]

Just watched his post match press conference and he also says 2 things that haven’t been reported anywhere.

He says “ we aren’t the kind of club that will invest crazy money” and also “try and win in a different way to which the other clubs are winning” meaning those spending like Man City.

Pretty important quotes, no?

Which kind of makes me wonder what these 'crazy ideas' are.

 

[chinaman]

I honestly don't think Poch is the type to blackmail his boss. He's a very honourable man. Now that we've become almost a permanent top 4 side, even many of our fans are beginning to question his ability to win us trophies. What he is now saying is a very honest answer to that criticism. If we want trophies, we'll have to spend as the kids can only take us that far. If we look at our U-23's, we're nowhere near the top as the big spenders are now corralling the best youngsters as they pay much more than us.

What he is hinting at is that don't expect trophies and continuous top 4 status if we don't spend, and that is a reality the club owners and fans should be aware of.

 

[SPURSLIFE]

This team includes those players, if we lose them we will still be without them in three years than we would be without them now, my point is that our players are still not at their peak individually or as a group. We are going to buy and Levy will spend the money and we will improve even more.

Are you sure about Levy spending the money? As for not at their peak yet, I think most of our top players are at their peak. Eriksen, Kane Ali, Dembele, Son, Trippier, Lloris, Davies, Dier, Wanyama. I really don't see them getting any better than they are now. In most cases that's good.

 

[spursfan77]

Which kind of makes me wonder what these 'crazy ideas' are.

Early signings is my major guess.

Secondly, it would be selling a surprise name.

 

[kaz Hirai]

Which kind of makes me wonder what these 'crazy ideas' are.

Experimental Performance enhancing drugs formally used by the tinker man

 

[rossdapep]

My concern for Poch is that we get most things right but it's that final piece that will keep evading us. We've never really had a transfer window under Levy in which we reflected and thought that we got everything we needed (not wanted may I add).

Last summer many of us felt we needed another attacking option or CM and once again we fell short of that. So, I don't think Poch is just seeking assurances of spending and get the players he wants, I think he's seeking assurances he gets ALL the players he needs. Knowing that he has got every resource he asked for will allow him to focus on the job at hand and really give us that big push next season and in many ways the early closing of the transfer window has really helped his cause and put the onus back on Levy.

However, if the window closes new season eve and we are, say, a CM short of what Poch requested, where does that leave him? Unfulfilled and with a sense that his assurances were not met? Doubts that he has the tools to go all out and win something? And what repercussions will that have.

Making these big signings early is so incredibly important as it will take some of the concerns away, it will leave us with less work to do and it will also give Poch the confidence that things are moving the way he desires.

 

[chinaman]

I think that comment of "crazy ideas" is put there to safeguard Baldy's backside. If fans are dissatisfied with the signings and blame him for not supporting Poch, he can save baldy's blushes by claiming that he himself had presented some "crazy ideas" which an astute businessman can see no sense in.

 

[SPURSLIFE]

It's not the same at all, we have spent very little transfer wise ( NET spend ) for 9 years now, and have more income coming in via TV rights now than Arsenal ever did then.

Sure we have more money coming in than they did then but our stadium has cost more than double what theirs did and we are going to find it hard to payback what's been borrowed for sometime.

 

[thelak]

It's largely been a forgettable season. A few great results and two-three outstanding matches, but loads of mundane footie week in week out.

You sure you weren’t watching Watford by mistake this season?

 

[Gassin's finest]

http://www.football365.com/news/premier-league-2017-18-the-winners

Mauricio Pochettino and Tottenham
It is a tenet of social media that you cannot say anything complimentary about Tottenham without someone replying ‘when’s the open-top bus parade for that lol’, like an accelerated version of Godwin’s law. The trophy debate will roll on, and Pochettino is not blameless on that count, but anybody reasonable can admire his progress.

Pochettino has become the first Tottenham manager for 55 years to finish in the top three for three seasons in a row, while Tottenham are the only club to finish in the Premier League’s top three over the last three seasons. To achieve that in 2017/18, when Spurs were playing their games in a temporary home and with people constantly discussing the possible exit of star players, is a superb achievement.

Pochettino has made Champions League football the norm when it had never been before. Pochettino has made defensive resilience the norm when it had never been before. Pochettino has made beating sides like Real Madrid or Manchester United an annual occurrence when it had never been before. Pochettino has nurtured and refined Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Christian Eriksen, amongst others. Now Daniel Levy must match his ambition and his excellence.

 

[Donki]

Are you sure about Levy spending the money? As for not at their peak yet, I think most of our top players are at their peak. Eriksen, Kane Ali, Dembele, Son, Trippier, Lloris, Davies, Dier, Wanyama. I really don't see them getting any better than they are now. In most cases that's good.

Strange comment, peak is usually 27-28-29 obviously it's different for every player but Kane, Dier and Davies are only 25 next season, Son and Eriksen 26 while Dele is only 22.

 

[SPURSLIFE]

Strange comment, peak is usually 27-28-29 obviously it's different for every player but Kane, Dier and Davies are only 25 next season, Son and Eriksen 26 while Dele is only 22.

It's not about their age it's where they are now and I personally don't see them any better individually than they are now.