The Mauricio Pochettino thread

[SugarRay]

I mean no disrespect but if you don’t buy a season ticket there will probably be some other fan who will and while the club can still keep selling the tickets there won’t be a price reduce, no matter how bad we get

Oh for sure. I’m never expecting the club to turn round and say ‘actually, we’ve sold you a dud mate, this team is fucking shit, the manager is taking the piss and we don’t think you should pay such large amounts to watch half the side wander around the pitch without a care in the world’. It’ll be yet more a case of ‘ha, we’re fucking fleecing you divs for being loyal to your club, mwah hahahahahahaha ( evil laugh )’

 

[O'Brien]

"I think we need to be careful in how we assess..."

I've come to aggressively dislike him.

 

[wadewill]

Jokes thinking Madrid will want him if this carries on

Utter shit show at the moment

That team selection today was a bloody disrace

 

[sidford]

Madrid won't appoint poch, he's not the new shiny toy anymore and they will be well aware of our results in 2019.
Our main hope is I think either Bayern / Dortmund or PSG. Would hate for him to go to man Utd because I do think he would turn them into 3rd best team in the league.
If we've to put up with this for rest of season I hope Levy puts a call in to hammers and snal to see how they fudge their attendance figures cos we won't have full houses

 

[Rout-Ledge]

Jokes thinking Madrid will want him if this carries on

Utter shit show at the moment

That team selection today was a bloody disrace

Sure they won’t like what they’ve seen this season but he has a very impressive history of nearly winning trophies...

 

[SugarRay]

"I think we need to be careful in how we assess..."

I've come to aggressively dislike him.

I don’t dislike him. I never can. I realise he’s basically fucked and doesn’t know how to fix it.
I’m not sure he loves us as much as many of wanted to believe he did, which is fine, and that he’s got another side to him, again, which is fine.

I just don’t want to listen to him anymore, which probably means I don’t want him to be our manager anymore unfortunately. I don’t enjoy feeling like this but it’s a feeling I’ve had many times in the past. It’s done. That’s how it feels.

 

[nasescoba1985]

Just want the guy out the club now and ASAP. Hate that’s it’s come to this, but i just get annoyed every time I hear the same old post match bolloks from him. His time has well and truly run out now. Pleas Spurs for the love of god get rid of him and get in a serial winner in charge.

 

[sausage]

Jokes thinking Madrid will want him if this carries on

Utter shit show at the moment

That team selection today was a bloody disrace

They hired Ramos after we sacked him, so never say never...

 

[spurs mental]

They hired Ramos after we sacked him, so never say never...

The difference being Ramos had actually won the UEFA Cup a couple of times with Sevilla.

 

[ajspurs]

For me, that Ndombele response actually sounded worse than it read.

Definitely did. Rather than use it as a chance to praise Ndombele he chose to be defensive straight off the bat and not only try to justify not starting Ndombele, but to almost belittle Ndombele's performance also. It's like he somehow doesn't recognise the attributes that Ndombele brings that are severely lacking from our team.

 

[Shadydan]

I don’t dislike him. I never can. I realise he’s basically fucked and doesn’t know how to fix it.
I’m not sure he loves us as much as many of wanted to believe he did, which is fine, and that he’s got another side to him, again, which is fine.

I just don’t want to listen to him anymore, which probably means I don’t want him to be our manager anymore unfortunately. I don’t enjoy feeling like this but it’s a feeling I’ve had many times in the past. It’s done. That’s how it feels.

He does he's just stubborn and can't be arsed anymore

 

[dagraham]

Yep. Thing is, if it happens, it happens. I won’t be impressed but if it does take place or if Poch stays etc, reduce my season ticket considerably. I think I have a good argument too. Paying the highest ticket prices in football to watch the 8th/9th best team in English football doesn’t really seem that fair to me

Yeah as I’ve said numerous times over the last few years, the stadium is fantastic/impressive/*insert any other superlative here, but the most important thing is what happens on the pitch. On pitch performance is and always has been the main driver of success of a football club, both from a sporting and commercial perspective.

 

[mike_l]

Madrid won't appoint poch, he's not the new shiny toy anymore and they will be well aware of our results in 2019.
Our main hope is I think either Bayern / Dortmund or PSG. Would hate for him to go to man Utd because I do think he would turn them into 3rd best team in the league.
If we've to put up with this for rest of season I hope Levy puts a call in to hammers and snal to see how they fudge their attendance figures cos we won't have full houses

HA, he can't turn the 3rd best team in the league into the third best team in the league!

 

[Primativ]

You all know my stance. He’s got to go. Been saying it for ages.

how on earth he picks Eriksen again who is absolute dog shit and has been for ages. He’s been terrible for so long and in the first 10minutes today he gave the ball away half a dozen times. The bloke is a disgrace. He shouldn’t be anywhere near the side.

he drops our best CM for fucking winks.

Poch is actually doing more harm than good with his selections and tactics. he can’t even recognise the problems that all the fans can see. I’ve no energy left. Keep repeating myself whilst he repeats the same mistakes.

I’m so pissed off. Poch please fuck

 

[scat1620]

They hired Ramos after we sacked him, so never say never...

That - along with Paulinho to Barcelona and Kevin Prince-Boateng to Barcelona - gave me genuine pause for thought as to whether I understood the first thing about football. I don't think I do.

 

[Spunkmonkey]

Poch of 2015-2018 would have been berating the side after 10 minutes of today's game from the touchline. He wasn't interested today. Like the team today, he was passive. I've had enough of it travelling away from home, watching us just sit back against "the better" sides in the league. The one's we should be challenging. We're going backwards fast under a Poch that doesn't want to be here anymore. A motivated and committed Poch is a completely different animal, but we have one that isn't interested. He has to go soon, or this rot will really set in.

 

[DFF]

Jokes thinking Madrid will want him if this carries on

Utter shit show at the moment

That team selection today was a bloody disrace

I wanna see if he has the cojones to tell Perez that their new galactico signing needs to sit out 6 months until they get “Poch fit”. He’ll be laughed into orbit.

 

[SpursSince1980]

I almost feel that we might’ve been better off taking a thorough hammering today, so as to speed up what seems to be inevitable. No matter where u stand on the Poch in/out debate, I think we will all agree that since February of this calendar year, the team has been awful, with the occasional false-positive performance that papers over the festering cracks. To believe at this point that we will somehow get this turned around soon under the current set up, just doesn’t seem plausible. Of course, I’d find myself in favor of Poch staying if he demonstrated an ability to evolve his coaching methods, tactics, strategy, player management and player recruitment philosophy. But he has simply become too obdurate to consider such a change is possible now or in the future. He is what he is, and will never alter his approach and beliefs.
This is painfully plain to see. And now it feels like we are watching a dead man walking. A voyeuristic front row seat to a train wreck... witnessing in abject horror as he leads the team into a joyless pit of failure and mediocrity. There is no point in elongating what we all know is coming soon. Let’s just put him out of his misery before it’s too late to salvage anything from what is starting to look like one of our worst PL campaigns over the last ten years.

 

[IamSpurtacus]

I love Poch, but like all good things, it must come to end at some point.

Fergie is one of the few managers i can think of who chose when to leave, and did so at the top on his own terms

This has the feel of Juande Ramos' first season - underlying player manager relationship issues papered over by a good cup run (in his case the League Cup)

Despite finishing mid-table, we improved after he left and again after finishing 8th in Harry's first season in charge

We grew and improved despite that blip a decade a go - we can survive and grow after this one, but something has to give, and I feel it has to be Poch...

 

[Klinsmannesque]

It’s only October, why can’t the same team play twice in a week?! Liverpool play the same team game after game...!

I’d have gone N’Dombele and Sissoko in the middle for energy and Moura and Son either side of Kane to occupy their full backs and tell them to make runs in behind them and drag the centre backs out wide.

Exactly. If a guy on a forum can see it why can’t one of the highest paid managers in world football