"This Is Good As It Can Get"....

[Trix]

If no-one hated him why do these threads pop up every few months?

I don't hate him, but I certainly don't like him.

 

[scat1620]

As I have said my biggest issues with him are off the field ones, but it just amazes me why he gets so much credit for how the team played. It wasn't great tactical nous, or a superb training regime that was producing the great football. It was purely the fact we had some very talented individuals that weren't restricted in an attacking sense, because they had little to no tactical instruction or defensive duties.

For me, he gets credit because - on the whole - watching his Spurs side was the most fun I've ever had watching Spurs until 15/16 and 16/17 under Pochettino. And I think there's some merit in his input into making those players play like they did as well: the likes of Modric and Bale didn't explode into form for Juande Ramos like they did for Redknapp, so even if his method was to 'do nothing' and just let them play, then that was still a pretty good idea because the players were happy doing it and it brought out some excellent football from them as a result. If you think someone else could have done better with the same group, you might well be right... but equally, I think plenty of managers wouldn't have got as much from those players as Redknapp did so it's swings and roundabouts.

Anyway, in the interests of not dragging this out when we clearly just don't see this the same way, thanks for an honest response and I'm happy to agree to disagree on this. What I definitely do agree on is that even better times are here with Pochettino, and a-fucking-men to that!

 

[Singayid]

I enjoyed watching those Redknapp teams as much as anyone, but the "good as it can get" quote annoyed me for the same reason him getting his head turned by the England job annoyed me. I get that as fans, we shouldn't expect him to revere the club the same way we do, but at what point do we get to say that a manager who didn't believe we could ever make it to the top simply isn't good enough for a club that defines itself by its ambition?

"It is better to fail aiming high than to succeed aiming low. And we of Spurs have set our sights very high, so high in fact that even failure will have in it an echo of glory." This is our defining ethos. Not, "Fuck it, fifth is good enough if the fixture list is congested."

thank you MP, eloquently put & better than I could say

 

[Singayid]

Has Poch beaten his win % yet?

actually, yes he has

Overall 65% for Poch and 57% for Timmie but then you'll tell us you meant PL only (P54% TS59%)