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Danny Thomas.
Poch would have made him the best right back in Europe.
Poch would have made him the best right back in Europe.
Which player from the past would you have liked to see under Poch?
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kaz Hirai
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Bollocks
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Zokora and Jenas. I think Poch could have worked wonders with midfielders with their pace and energy.
Would have loved to see Bale develop under Poch too.
Would have loved to see Bale develop under Poch too.
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Now this is an interesting one. People saying the likes of Dos Santos or Taraabt are crazy - Poch will make young players great by making them work their bollocks off, and anyone who steps out of line gets iced immediately. These guys wouldn't have made it past his first transfer window.
Gascoigne on the other hand is a harder one to call...he was clearly a wild child, the prankster of the group and hardly the model pro. Even putting aside the alcoholism if you believe that Poch could have got that out of him under a stricter diet and training regime, this was a guy who got up in the middle of the night and went for a game of tennis with a bunch of drunk Americans at his hotel the night before he was due to play in the World Cup semi-final. I can't really see how Poch the authoritarian would have stood for something like that.
But then again, unlike Townsend, Bentaleb, Capoue or any of those others that crossed Poch, Gazza was the best midfielder in the country by a mile at the time, if not the best in the world. Maybe he'd have given him a special treatment?
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What could you possibly mean by prankster ??
This is one of my favourite stories about him...The reason I picked Gazza is because I think under Poch he might have stayed at Spurs and that perhaps the wild tackle which resulted in his major injury would have been avoided under his guidance. Although Poch is a strict disciplinarian he has also stated his desire not to take that "rebel" side out of Dele Alli's character and he would have been just the same with Gazza. He'd have kept that wild side but perhaps tempered and controlled it more to the benefit of both the player and the team. Alas, we will never know.
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Gazza definitely, but also from that era, Paul Stewart. He was a monster - but never realised his full potential IMO.
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Malbranque would have been an interesting one, he certainly had the work rate that Poch requires of all his players and he was definitely talented. I think Poch could have got him playing at a higher level, similar to how Mourinho made the best of Damien Duff in his first spell at Chelsea.
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I've kind of restricted my list to players who (first!) joined Spurs at a young enough age to benefit from Poch's style/influence and maybe didn't make the most of their potential or could have improved their games/developed into better players.
Not many strikers etc. as I'm unsure exactly how much Poch has improved strikers during his tenure, Aaron Lennon was a funny call...I always thought he was a one-trick pony and had that many different managers and never adapted his game/seemed to improve.
David Howells
Andy Turner
Darren Anderton
Stephen Carr
Jonathan Blondel
Reto Ziegler
Phil Ifil
Jamie O'Hara
Kieran McKenna
Luke Young
Michael Dawson
Calum Davenport
Simon Davies
Matty Etherington
Michael Carrick
Tom Huddlestone
Jermaine Jenas
Younis Kaboul
'Disco Benny' Assou-Ekotto
Dorian Dervitte
Vedran Ćorluka
I left Gazza out because as talented a genius as he was with a ball, I'm not sure if Poch could manage his personality (being polite) or for that matter improve him.
Not many strikers etc. as I'm unsure exactly how much Poch has improved strikers during his tenure, Aaron Lennon was a funny call...I always thought he was a one-trick pony and had that many different managers and never adapted his game/seemed to improve.
David Howells
Andy Turner
Darren Anderton
Stephen Carr
Jonathan Blondel
Reto Ziegler
Phil Ifil
Jamie O'Hara
Kieran McKenna
Luke Young
Michael Dawson
Calum Davenport
Simon Davies
Matty Etherington
Michael Carrick
Tom Huddlestone
Jermaine Jenas
Younis Kaboul
'Disco Benny' Assou-Ekotto
Dorian Dervitte
Vedran Ćorluka
I left Gazza out because as talented a genius as he was with a ball, I'm not sure if Poch could manage his personality (being polite) or for that matter improve him.
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He may be the best coach in the world, but he may not have been up to replacing Anderton's joints, ligaments and cartilage for him to last a Poch double training session. IMO.
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Lewis Holtby, would be have been great as he always tried to press.
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Jermaine Defoe, had a great finish, good shift of pace and great technique for an English striker. If Poch had taught him to play with his head up he'd be a hell of a player.
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I think his methods may have prevented a young Anderton develop those particular problems. If Poch and his team had got Anderton about 18.
