The Poch has been confirmed as manager thread!

[longtimespur]

Great manager's comments.
Love his attitude and desire for THFC .
Really pleased he, like us, was hurting after Newcastle and that he also stated that "the team now know where their limit is", after Chelsea game.

 

[ghjk_91]

I bet he'll have the Newcastle game highlights playing when he gets all the players back for Pre-season, hit em with some tough love and then get them ready for the season.

 

[danielneeds]

Just in case it needs putting to bed - Argentina have a new manager....

www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/37001874

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Beautiful.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/aug/11/mauricio-pochettino-tottenham-players-rollicking

Mauricio Pochettino says he gave Tottenham players pre-season ‘rollicking’

• Spurs manager has finally gone over last season’s collapse with his team
• Argentinian’s players raring to go despite summ

Mauricio Pochettino says that he might have become the first manager to begin a pre-season by rollicking his players. “I just told them: ‘If I had the opportunity to kill you, then I kill everyone,’” he said.

The Argentinian had stewed all summer on his team’s 5-1 defeat at Newcastle United on the final day of last season, which set the seal on a desperately disappointing four-game sequence, when they went from potential Premier League champions to third-placed finishers.

Pochettino had to draw a line under the Newcastle performance, to achieve some sort of closure and, when he was reunited with the international players who had not travelled on the club’s mini-tour to Australia because of their involvement at Euro 2016, there was a full and frank exchange of views.

“Maybe, yes, I am the first manager to start pre-season with a rollicking,” Pochettino said. “But it’s important to take something from every experience. You always need to find the positives. When we came back from Australia, we talked a little bit [about Newcastle].

“Always, it is important to finish. They needed to hear from the manager about how I felt after the game, and after the season, because there was no time to share then, I explained my point of view and it was a very good meeting.”

Pochettino had 10 players at the European Championship, plus Érik Lamela at the Copa América and for all of them, even Ben Davies, who excelled for Wales, it ended in heartbreak. Davies was suspended for what would have been the biggest game of his career – the semi-final defeat against Portugal – and Hugo Lloris was on the losing France team in the final.

Jan Vertonghen, Toby Alderweireld and Mousa Dembélé were part of the Belgium squad that underachieved – Vertonghen sustained a serious ankle ligament injury – and then there was the England quintet of Kyle Walker, Danny Rose, Eric Dier, Dele Alli and Harry Kane, who were in the starting XI for the Iceland debacle. Lamela was in the Argentina squad that lost to Chile in the Copa América final.

Pochettino admitted that he worried about the impact of the international defeats but he now knows that he need not have done. “That was our worry as a coaching staff – how they would assimilate the situation,” Pochettino said. “But it is incredible how they behave. They have completely forgotten the Euros. It will have no impact for them. They are very happy to be back here training together, with unbelievable energy.

“Hugo, for example, was very close to winning a very important trophy and we need to use that [as motivation] – not to feel disappointed or angry. Hugo has come back in a very good way, like all of the international players. It is that that has surprised us, because we don’t need to work too much [on lifting them].”

Pochettino suggested that a slate had been wiped clean and the feeling at the club, before their season opener at Everton Saturday, is one of excitement. The manager said that Vertonghen, who did not feature in pre-season, was in contention.

What would be key, Pochettino continued, was that he and the players learned their lessons from last time out, particularly the run at the end, when thedamaging draws against West Bromwich Albion and Chelsea were followed – with the title beyond them – by the losses to Southampton and Newcastle. Tottenham had been in front against Albion, Chelsea and Southampton and, in total, they lost 20 points from winning positions. Only Chelsea, with 21, squandered more.

“We need to know how to improve our mental state,” Pochettino said. “This was key in the last few games of last season. It is not tactical, it is not philosophical because, after two years, we know very well how we need to play. It is in our heads that we need to improve.

“ Sometimes we were very focused and, at other times, it was like a war. We need to be focused on our game and not on other things. Football is about experience and learning to improve. Our team today is more mature than last season.”

 

[yankspurs]

"I just told them, that if I had had the opportunity to kill them, then I would have done. I wanted to kill all of them. And kill myself too."



Love this man

 

[tommyt]

I bet he'll have the Newcastle game highlights playing when he gets all the players back for Pre-season, hit em with some tough love and then get them ready for the season.

Looks like it!

 

[Nine while nine]

"I just told them, that if I had had the opportunity to kill them, then I would have done. I wanted to kill all of them. And kill myself too."



Love this man

Anyone else see this quote and immediately think of this?

 

[EQP]

I bet he'll have the Newcastle game highlights playing when he gets all the players back for Pre-season, hit em with some tough love and then get them ready for the season.

 

[Kiedis]

Can't read the Word "rollicking" without thinking about the "Bigus Dickus"-guy from Life of Brian.

 

[Shadydan]

It's good that he made sure he hasn't forgotten about it, I like the standards being set at this club.

 

[hughy]

Glad he didn't kill them. Would have been a thinner squad than when Blackpool had about 9 first-teamers.

 

[Darrkespur]

Glad he didn't kill them. Would have been a thinner squad than when Blackpool had about 9 first-teamers.

Hull are doing their best to copy that this year...

Pleasing to see so much fight from Poch, I hope he can instill that mentality in the team to last through until the final whistle on the final day.

 

[Pellshek]

I really notice that Poch's English has taken quite a leap forward this season. First time I've seen him really comfortable with the language, and actually being able to communicate what's on his mind, rather than just falling back into stock phrases from memory.

 

[THFCSPURS19]

Ben Pearce‏@BenPearceSpurs
@marcb3381 Same as last week. Pochettino wouldn't speak about N'Koudou and says there may be "one, two or three new players, or none".

 

[RichieS]

Ben Pearce‏@BenPearceSpurs
@marcb3381 Same as last week. Pochettino wouldn't speak about N'Koudou and says there may be "one, two or three new players, or none".

 

[spursfan77]

Ben Pearce‏@BenPearceSpurs
@marcb3381 Same as last week. Pochettino wouldn't speak about N'Koudou and says there may be "one, two or three new players, or none".

I know what my money is on and it isn't 3!

 

[Everlasting Seconds]

I know what my money is on and it isn't 3!

3 + 2 + 1 is 6 more signings.

 

[spursfan77]

Just found these paragraphs hidden within an article in the Mail about Townsend, which I thought were quite interesting and showed what Poch is looking for in our players and how he wants us to be. Fluid and relaxed in play, system and mind when with the ball (on top of the pressing without it obviously).

"'We use full-backs inside like midfielders, we use wingers like full-backs, we play with midfielders that can play like centre-backs, and centre-backs that can play like midfielders, or offensive midfielders that can play like strikers. Now we are a little bit mad, the managers, we like to invent a lot.

âEric Lamela is a good example [of a versatile player] because he can play in different positions. Eric is not a player that you need to put in a box and you play here and you do this and that. He needs to feel free in his mind and move freely."

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/fo...ger-s-flexibility-ahead-Tottenham-return.html

 

[Khilari]

Pochettino "always wanted to play with two strikers" it's claimed

http://www.standard.co.uk/sport/foo...hip-and-says-he-s-always-wanted-a3325831.html

 

[Drexl]

We can say goodbye to him soon, Levy has fucked him over and shat on us yet again, doubt he will take it much longer

Soon as an offer from an ambitious club comes up he will be gone, that is if he doesn't resign first, who would blame him if he did