Mauricio Pochettino is a great manager but nobody cares if he loses, says Jose Mourinho, ahead of London derby.
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Tottenham job is much easier than mine, claims Mourinho
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RickyVilla
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He is a card. I hope we spank the ****s
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So Ambrovich is more patient than Levy is what you're saying?
Lilbaz
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I'm saying that mourinho is living off past accomplishments at the moment.
brakefluid
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Think the title is a bit of a click bait set up. Reading the article though and also between the lines Maureen does speak about Poch in terms that can almost be regarded as a little respect and not a little envy. He doesn't outright say that people don't care, rather that risks are more tolerated in an environment where growth and success are the prizes that the club is striving for and not what we are expected to have from the get go. So we are allowed to miss a little lower as we are always aiming high. If you catch my drift. So yes in a way life is a little easier when you are looking up rather than over the shoulder.
guiltyparty
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Blimey, where do you start?
So we're being compared to a club who only needs to not get relegated? I love how Neville reckons we sack managers every six months but Mourinho reckons it's easy and there's no pressure. Two wildly different spins on reality, which as ever is somewhere in between
Everyone seemed to lap up Neville's article, and it was very nice to read, but it's similarly blinkered and overlooks that Spurs have consistently over performed for years, and that Levy's managerial changes have been largely necessary.
Of course it's great to be where we are now, but I hate this suggestion that Poch has somehow saves us from mediocrity or such bullshit. It makes it about the man, rather than the club, and it's classic media - they did it with Redknapp, Bale, Kane, now Poch. When the campaign to get Poch to a more deserving club or national position is finished, they'll move on to Alli.
"So if that wasn't a problem for Chelsea, why is it a problem now for Tottenham?"
Because you had more rest and, as a team with more expectations by your own admission, have a bigger, more expensively established and maintained squad. You can't have it both ways. You say you want same rules for everyone, well expand that theory to all facets of football and you lose your footing very quickly
So we're being compared to a club who only needs to not get relegated? I love how Neville reckons we sack managers every six months but Mourinho reckons it's easy and there's no pressure. Two wildly different spins on reality, which as ever is somewhere in between
Everyone seemed to lap up Neville's article, and it was very nice to read, but it's similarly blinkered and overlooks that Spurs have consistently over performed for years, and that Levy's managerial changes have been largely necessary.
Of course it's great to be where we are now, but I hate this suggestion that Poch has somehow saves us from mediocrity or such bullshit. It makes it about the man, rather than the club, and it's classic media - they did it with Redknapp, Bale, Kane, now Poch. When the campaign to get Poch to a more deserving club or national position is finished, they'll move on to Alli.
"So if that wasn't a problem for Chelsea, why is it a problem now for Tottenham?"
Because you had more rest and, as a team with more expectations by your own admission, have a bigger, more expensively established and maintained squad. You can't have it both ways. You say you want same rules for everyone, well expand that theory to all facets of football and you lose your footing very quickly
Dennism
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Must be so hard with all that money to spend and players keen to live in London with massive wages. He has made the choice to work for a person like Abramovic and should not complain that Abramovic acts like the person he is. As per usual Mourinho is looking for excuses and blaming everybody but himself.
davidmatzdorf
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The article doesn't say what the headline says, as usual. And the quotes don't say what the article says, either.
And the majority of the posts above have accepted the spin.
Try reading it again, but only read the actual quotes and forget the headline. He's scarcely talking about how "the job is easier". It's largely a collection of compliments to the work that has been done since Pochettino arrived, but it's been selectively edited, as well as probably having been padded by supplementary questions from the journalist, designed to provoke more comments on how "easy" the job is, so the pre-decided spin could be generated.
And at no point did he "compare us to a club who only needs not to be relegated". He was talking about his own earlier experience and differing degrees of pressure, not about Tottenham.
And the majority of the posts above have accepted the spin.
Try reading it again, but only read the actual quotes and forget the headline. He's scarcely talking about how "the job is easier". It's largely a collection of compliments to the work that has been done since Pochettino arrived, but it's been selectively edited, as well as probably having been padded by supplementary questions from the journalist, designed to provoke more comments on how "easy" the job is, so the pre-decided spin could be generated.
And at no point did he "compare us to a club who only needs not to be relegated". He was talking about his own earlier experience and differing degrees of pressure, not about Tottenham.
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slartibartfast
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Lose???
Sorry you've lost me
Hope I don't regret that comment tomorrow
Sorry you've lost me
Hope I don't regret that comment tomorrow
TottenhamMattSpur
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Has he ever had this much to say about tottenham in the run up to a game?
I'm pretty sure George Graham, Glen Hoddle, Martin Jol, Juande Ramos, Harry Redknap, Andre Villas Boas and Tim Sherwood would all disagree that no one cares about Spurs losing.
I'm pretty sure George Graham, Glen Hoddle, Martin Jol, Juande Ramos, Harry Redknap, Andre Villas Boas and Tim Sherwood would all disagree that no one cares about Spurs losing.
Clearly what Mourinho is saying that unlike the "top teams" the journos don't bat an eyelid if Spurs lose a match, not that nobody in the club cares about it. We're in a different position as we're a bit under the radar and just doing our own things 'unnoticed'. He's talking about media pressure, not club affairs. Click-bait article, ignore, move on.
