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Mauricio Pochettino - Sacked

galeforce said:
a lot of things changed that summer, Gough and Ossie left too
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The thing i liked about Gough ( apart from being a great player) was he enabled Mabbut to have ( imo) his best season. It was never going to last though he badly wanted a move to Rangers and used us as a way to do it. Dundee would not sell him to Rangers so he came here first knowing that was the only way it would happen.
 
It has been brilliant watching Pochettino grow and develop. I too have been picking tips from his style of man management wrt my team at work as I also am a fairly young leader.
 
Gazza said:
Let's face it we all want to be Poch
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He brings a quiet gravitas which commands respect from all, as opposed to the gurning touchline antics of the hair transplanted ones or the blame shifting egotistical spoilt child antics of Mourinho and Wenger when they lose.

I'm much prouder with him at the helm than any of the headline grabbing managers, punching above our weight with style yet staying humble and as true to the original ethos of the sport as you can in the modern game. I hope he stays for a long long time and only leaves if his own accord to manage in Argentina, maybe handing over the reigns to a 40
Year old one club man in Kane after winning our 5th CL!
 
I love Poch, you can't take away from what he has done at Spurs, what I really like is the machine like quality he has put into us in terms of performances and picking up points. We almost have this teams are beaten before they play us situation now which comes with what he has given us.
 
Grays_1890 said:
I love Poch, you can't take away from what he has done at Spurs, what I really like is the machine like quality he has put into us in terms of performances and picking up points. We almost have this teams are beaten before they play us situation now which comes with what he has given us.
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Steady on, dont think we're there yet....
 
Grays_1890 said:
I said almost, there is a fear factor playing Spurs there is no doubt about that, we rolled over a host of teams first half last year.
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It is one of the most underestimated things in sport, if you can make your opponent believe they have no chance, it increases your chances immensely (SAF's united, Mike Tyson, etc.). Add to that, I've seen us go 2 or 3 up in a game and the opposition just accepts it, lets us play out game (obviously not this week-end), that allows us to conserve a lot of energy over season.

We are not completely there, but I would say today, no team wants to play us, we are organized, we make it hard for the opposition, we can be physically imposing and can hurt you with multiple players (Kane, Son, Eriksen, Dele).

I look at Klopp and while Pool can almost score for fun, every side that plays them believes they have a chance, all the way through the game, that will hurt them over long run.
 
Raziel said:
It is one of the most underestimated things in sport, if you can make your opponent believe they have no chance, it increases your chances immensely (SAF's united, Mike Tyson, etc.). Add to that, I've seen us go 2 or 3 up in a game and the opposition just accepts it, lets us play out game (obviously not this week-end), that allows us to conserve a lot of energy over season.

We are not completely there, but I would say today, no team wants to play us, we are organized, we make it hard for the opposition, we can be physically imposing and can hurt you with multiple players (Kane, Son, Eriksen, Dele).

I look at Klopp and while Pool can almost score for fun, every side that plays them believes they have a chance, all the way through the game, that will hurt them over long run.
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Thats what I mean, there is in a few top teams that chink in their Armour, Arsenal and Liverpool can be got at where I think we are in the City, United and Chelsea area of teams thinking "crap, we have Spurs next"
 
Raziel said:
It is one of the most underestimated things in sport, if you can make your opponent believe they have no chance, it increases your chances immensely (SAF's united, Mike Tyson, etc.). Add to that, I've seen us go 2 or 3 up in a game and the opposition just accepts it, lets us play out game (obviously not this week-end), that allows us to conserve a lot of energy over season.

We are not completely there, but I would say today, no team wants to play us, we are organized, we make it hard for the opposition, we can be physically imposing and can hurt you with multiple players (Kane, Son, Eriksen, Dele).

I look at Klopp and while Pool can almost score for fun, every side that plays them believes they have a chance, all the way through the game, that will hurt them over long run.
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This.
 
Raziel said:
It is one of the most underestimated things in sport, if you can make your opponent believe they have no chance, it increases your chances immensely (SAF's united, Mike Tyson, etc.). Add to that, I've seen us go 2 or 3 up in a game and the opposition just accepts it, lets us play out game (obviously not this week-end), that allows us to conserve a lot of energy over season.
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I actually don't agree that we get opponents rolling over for us - we *would* if we actually took our chances, but generally we go one up, then two up, and then miss quite a lot of chances before either going three up and finishing the game off, or withdrawing to conserve our energy at 2-0. That sort of rolling over requires that we go 3-0 up in businesslike fashion and then strangle the rest of the game - do it enough and the opponent will give up even at 2-0 because they know the third is coming. As it is, every miss we suffer at 1-0 or 2-0 up spurs our opposition back into the game - 'we've been let off here, let's take advantage of it', etcetera. And sometimes it does hurt us, as it nearly did against Spam.

We are not quite there yet, I think. I agree with you in that respect.
 
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