- Oct 19, 2005
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Poch wasn't sacked because he wanted a total rebuild, he was sacked because the players were bored of him, his training methods and lack of game changing tactics.If it’s true that Poch wanted a total rebuild and was sacked for that reason then it’s not looking so great now. The spin from the club, which Jose naturally followed, was that we have a fantastic squad of players that were performing well below what they should be. We saw a mini manager bounce but that looks well and truly over now and has done for at least a few weeks really.
It goes without saying that Mourinho needs time, of course he does, but if we’re all saying that Poch was right all along and we do need to overhaul this squad then maybe we should’ve written off this season and given Poch him a few more windows.
It’ll be interesting to see how this month and the summer pan out. I’m not expecting any incomings this month but if we see 3-4 out the door and the same in the summer you’ve got to feel for Poch as this is what he was saying needed to happen. Having said that Tobi has signed a new deal so maybe he is, for the most part, looking to work with this group (with a few tweaks) and in the next 18 months he’ll win us a FA, League or Europa Cup (when we finish outside top 4 this year) and we’ll look back and think it was definitely the right call to sack Poch for Mourinho. I’m not optimistic at that moment. I think it’s more than evident now, after well over a year of watching absolute shit, that we have a lot of players who, for whatever reason, are simply are not good enough. If that is true then we need to do a lot of business in the next 2-3 years really and 1, I’m not even convinced Mourinho will be around that long and 2, I don’t have enough faith in the club (board, scouting network) to recruit well enough to put us back in a place where we’re competing for top honours.
Obviously I’m fully behind Mourinho, in fact I want Mourinho to go full **** mode and shit house everything (as long as we win) so I’m still holding out hope that we get past Leipzig and play the winner of Atalanta v Valencia in the QTRs and then go onto win the Champions League after Jose eye gouges his opposite number in the final. Stranger things have happened.
I pretty much agree with the rest of your post though.