The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[Mr Pink]

I very much doubt that Rodgers would join this season. I doubt he'd tarnish his reputation by leaving so soon after joining Leicester.
We all know what Levys like, he wont pay compo to get a tol manager in, therefore we'd end up with another coach with potential.

Probably, but it's be the right move if Poch goes.

 

[mike_l]

Could prove costly to keep changing managers though. Alan Sugar did that and we never achieved stability.

How long do we have to suffer this shit with Poch before we receive the Stability Trophy?

 

[hero]

We all know chelsea arse United are equally bad so he will fancy his chances

I watched their matches. They are not so bad as we are. Especially Chelsea. I suppose that transfer ban is the best thing that could happen to them. Recently we had 5 our players as the starters for England, it seems soon there will be only Kane if he does not leave.

 

[Real_madyidd]

Levy is loyal to Lewis. He wont spend big Joe's money unnecessarily. Sacking Poch and appointing new manager will cost 60m plus

There are options. "mutual consent" would bring teh cost down.

Also, he may be convinced to keep him, on the premise that Foyth and Sessignon are about to join the squad. They should give us more width and energy than some of the older players. Personally I woul dbe thinking of shit canning him, but what if that costs us teh players that are loyal to him/still believe? If we give him the chop then it has to be for a huge manager that demands respect and can win things, there is only one man that springs to mind, and that is Jose Mourinho. Can we watch Jose's brand of football at the lane? - I could cope for a couple of years.

 

[bubble07]

Eriksen
Alderweireld
Aurier
Rose
Vertonghen if he doesnt get new contract
Plus the club want to sell Wanyama but he doesnt want to go

 

[Haddock]

I very much doubt that Rodgers would join this season. I doubt he'd tarnish his reputation by leaving so soon after joining Leicester.
We all know what Levys like, he wont pay compo to get a tol manager in, therefore we'd end up with another coach with potential.

No top coach will come in mid season without some serious guarantees of investment / clear out anyway. An interrim manager of some sort (...Ole to United for example), sure. But as many as already pointed out before sacking Pochettino + his assistants and staff, as well as the outgoing contracts of Eriksen, Adlerweireld, Jan and we're looking at a massive outlay in cash even before the new fiscal year has barely started.

That will be a tough pill for Levy to swallow.

 

[hero]

Chelsea don’t look that bad

As well as Leicester do...

 

[ValenciaYid]

I still havent got over Levy dropping Lucas in the CL final....

 

[mike_l]

So do we think that Zidane and Poch are doing a "who can get sacked first" competition.

Can't think of any other club that would stand by their manager with the 2019 record that we have had.

Real are top of their league

 

[dondo]

Has JJ tweeted anything recently?

 

[Johnny J]

The stubbornness of Poch and this awful diamond he keeps playing, almost makes me think he wants to get sacked. Why else would he keep playing it?

I think he doesn't know what to do. He's always been a motivator, not a tactician.

 

[Gassin's finest]

Levy is loyal to Lewis. He wont spend big Joe's money unnecessarily. Sacking Poch and appointing new manager will cost 60m plus

More like, Lewis has Levy's balls in his drawer.

Lewis doesn't provide the funds. The deal is that Levy can go and ask for a billion pound cash injection whenever he wants, but he would have to sacrifice his majority share hold. Then Lewis really would own the club.

 

[lami]

You can criticise him tonight, this season and the whole 2019 but to say he’s never been tactically good is just bs. Do you think he made us a consistent top 4 team with the squads he’s had only because he’s a motivator? Please think about what you’re saying before writing stupid stuff like this

He deserved/deserves to only approve the signings he wants and it’s the clubs fault we’re in this position. If they just backed him fully from day one we wouldn’t be in this position. Even this summer wasn’t good enough despite what people say

In January we need to buy a DM and a RB no matter the price, it’s time to stop being cheap fuckers

It's not like he's just walked into the club and inherited someone else's mess. He has been at the club for 5 years now and this mess is his own doing.
Hes playing the diamond formation with players that dont fit that formation, if he wanted to play that formation he should have brought in players to suit it. The fact is that he is now playing players because of their names and not because they deserve to play.
He is tactically inept, every man and his dog could see the issues last night, instead of plugging the gaps he goes toe to toe with a team that was already battering us.
I love Poch, but his short comings are now there to be seen by everyone. In the past he's got lucky with poor substitutions/tactics but that luck has ran out on afraid.
I'm afraid a change is needed and that change is the position of the manager.
He hasnt won a game away from home in the premier league since February. He has now suffered one of the highest defeats in the clubs history, not to mention being knocked out by a league two team in the league cup.
He's lost the dressing room and doesn't have it in him to turn this around ?

 

[bubble07]

The club should only look to sack poch if either alegri or Mourinho agree to joining

Both are out of work so will at the very least minimise the cost

 

[rossdapep]

Ok so Poch goes, do the want away players suddenly want to remain? My feeling is this is far more than Poch. The poor activity over the last 2-3 seasons in the market including a whole season getting nobody, 3 summer signings (two injured) aside the squad feels stale and troubled.

A new manager may come but it feels like the squad itself needs a full reboot.

Depends who it is but if they get a whiff that they may win stuff under him they won't be too difficult to get back on side. I think the likes of Toby, Jan, Dele, etc can see we are on a hiding to nothing and are having motivation problems. It's easy to see why if you're Jan or Toby nd are exposed week in week out due to the managers stubbornness.

Eriksen is certainly gone but you could easily say that if the club were fighting with City and Pool and doing well in the CL - things that we 1000% should be doing, then the majority of the players would want to stay. That's a far easier resolution than writing off 5-6 players and spending a further 200m.

Whose to say Poch is allowed to rebuild the team but actually makes it worse?

What we are likely to lose;

Jan
Toby
Rose
Eriksen
Aurier
Lucas (think Poch doesn't want him)
Dele?
Dier (if he doesn't start playing he'll be wanting out)
Kane (once a big club becomes interested he'll start to think about it)

 

[Romulus]

This downturn all started in February after the early kickoff at Burnley. Kane is back from injury and if we win that game we are 2 points within the leaders before they play their games. we lost and haven't looked the same since.

fuck knows whats going on

 

[dondo]

This is very concerning. Especially as I try and work out who they might be apart from the obvious 3 or 4.

Toby
Jan
Eriksen
Rose
Aurier
Dier
Lucas
Is my guess

 

[Jimmypearce7]

I very much doubt that Rodgers would join this season. I doubt he'd tarnish his reputation by leaving so soon after joining Leicester.
We all know what Levys like, he wont pay compo to get a tol manager in, therefore we'd end up with another coach with potential.

Poch is one hundred times the manager Rogers is. He has done well at Leicester but he is vain and self absorbed. Do you think Harry Kane, Deli, Toby, Danny etc would have the same level of respect for him as they do for Poch and would buy into his objectives and methods?

 

[bubble07]

England NT shouldnt be the benchmark though

Always nice to see our players play for England but that's no barometer

 

[rossdapep]

The club should only look to sack poch if either alegri or Mourinho agree to joining

Both are out of work so will at the very least minimise the cost

When asked which clubs will battle for the title. Mourinho said "Man City, Tottenham, Liverpool and Man City B"

He knows how good our squad is, he'd jump at the opportunity and he'd get the belief back into the squad.

He's still a world class winning coach in the right circumstances.