Pochettino and Levy and shaping club through 'crisis'

[daveduvet]

Last year's Champions League campaign hid a lot of cracks in Tottenham's season; this year's has only served to expose them.

Source: BBC

Good article

 

[Japhet]

Another re hash of what we already know.

Levy is good at business.
Poch is more interested in football.
We have players near the end of contracts.
The CL Final has left us depressed etc

blah blah blah.

 

[ginola007]

Hindsight is 20-20. At the beginning of the season, just about every pundit and newspapers predicted we'd be 3rd, behind City and Liverpool. No where were the words "crisis" or "decay" mentioned; not once. To come out with this article after we were trounced by Munich and Brighton is no great jounalistic endeavour; but a testimony to the lack of creativity and foresight on the part of so-called football writers.

 

[dontcallme]

Informative enough piece but only a rehash of everything we already know.

 

[daveduvet]

Informative enough piece but only a rehash of everything we already know.

Succinct, collating all the points SC - especially - is aware of. As it’s on bbc website it left me considering whether this was a form of Spurs PR dept at work...

 

[Timberwolf]

Hindsight is 20-20. At the beginning of the season, just about every pundit and newspapers predicted we'd be 3rd, behind City and Liverpool. No where were the words "crisis" or "decay" mentioned; not once. To come out with this article after we were trounced by Munich and Brighton is no great jounalistic endeavour; but a testimony to the lack of creativity and foresight on the part of so-called football writers.

Even now I'm not sure how much of the decay is down to Levy, as is suggested in the article. Sure, the team should've been refreshed more and some players should've been moved on, but we still have an excellent squad on paper and should be doing far better in the league than we have over the past 8/9 months.

The pundits have largely bought into this 'squad refesh' narrative when in reality I think the problems are more complicated and a lot of them come down to Poch's tactical intransigence and inability to get through to the players as he did at the start of his Spurs career.

 

[Sir Henry]

All good things come to an end.

 

[rupsmith]

Even now I'm not sure how much of the decay is down to Levy, as is suggested in the article. Sure, the team should've been refreshed more and some players should've been moved on, but we still have an excellent squad on paper and should be doing far better in the league than we have over the past 8/9 months.

The pundits have largely bought into this 'squad refesh' narrative when in reality I think the problems are more complicated and a lot of them come down to Poch's tactical intransigence and inability to get through to the players as he did at the start of his Spurs career.

Top post sir. I have to agree. Not in anyway saying “Poch out” but it would not be objective to say that he is not without blame.

 

[ginola007]

Top post sir. I have to agree. Not in anyway saying “Poch out” but it would not be objective to say that he is not without blame.

Absolutely, Poch is not without blame. But the biggest blame, in my humble opinion, was his statement about wanting to quit if we had won the CL. That could possibly have led players to think likewise, which might have contributed to the present state of unrest within some of our playing staff. This is of course, a conjecture.
But the above story, in itself, lacks originality, just jumping on the band wagon.

 

[Ben1]

'In his first years the system used most often was 3-4-3 or a 4-4-2 with offensive full-backs and mobile forwards, but it suddenly became clear to Pochettino and his team last season that their squad possessed an abundance of defensive players and so they began to play five at the back. That stops that pressure high up the pitch as the number of players up front is reduced.'


Honest question...wheres this 5 at the back we've been playing recently?? 45 minutes at brighton?

We've played 442 (diamond) more than ever during the recent times, not sure about the past.

He makes some decent points and clearly has insight, but I question this.

 

[spursbhoy67]

The author is close to the manager so some of the points being made have probably been filtered through him. I read it as Poch wants to stay for the long term and wants to oversee the rebuild. He has to know that the likes of United and Real are beyond him at the moment.

Having said that, lose to Watford and the pressure will be immense on Poch and Levy.