If pochettino comes back it can only be a win ... levy would 400% have to put the furniture in the house before pochettino even entertains the idea of sitting down.
This is why i don't understand people dismissing it - for it to happen assurances need to be made and the hunger needs to have returned. If Poch wants it to happen and the club does to, what sort of Spurs fan wouldn't want it as well?
He should beg him to come back - offer him a seat on the Board and shares in the club - then back him to the hilt. Poch could be - and should have been - our Wenger (although I thoroughly disliked Arsene!)
BUT, BUT, BUT - there is no point in bringing Poch back unless he is going to change his daft transfer negotiating policy - you know the one - £Million wise, many £Millions foolish! I suggest below how he might find the money to rebuild the team - but he would never let the out players go at those knockdown prices - which means they just hang around, knowing that we want them out, but not going - kills their motivation, of course...
OUTS - Sissoko - £20M,
Lamela £20M
Winks £22M
Dier £28M
Sanchez £25M
Foyth £13M
Docherty £10M
Bergwijn £20M
That's £158M - then add around £60M and buy
INS - two CBs - £90M, RB £20M, CM Defence £30M, CM Attack £50M, CFwd (Back up to Harry who stays because of Poch and this spending commitment) £25M
Total Ins = £215M
Simples!
I’d only want him back if we sold like 60% of the squad including some big names. Not gonna happen.
He should beg him to come back - offer him a seat on the Board and shares in the club - then back him to the hilt. Poch could be - and should have been - our Wenger (although I thoroughly disliked Arsene!)
BUT, BUT, BUT - there is no point in bringing Poch back unless he is going to change his daft transfer negotiating policy - you know the one - £Million wise, many £Millions foolish! I suggest below how he might find the money to rebuild the team - but he would never let the out players go at those knockdown prices - which means they just hang around, knowing that we want them out, but not going - kills their motivation, of course...
OUTS - Sissoko - £2.0M,
Lamela £2.0M
Winks £2.2M
Dier £2.8M
Sanchez £2.5M
Foyth £13M
Docherty £1.0M
Bergwijn £20M
That's £158M - then add around £60M and buy
INS - two CBs - £90M, RB £20M, CM Defence £30M, CM Attack £50M, CFwd (Back up to Harry who stays because of Poch and this spending commitment) £25M
Total Ins = £215M
Simples!
I don't think Tanganga should be in the first team picture now. I know he's homegrown and all that but I just don't see the quality there. Skipp was still too young to have played a part while Poch was here really. I think if we'd been in the Europa League instead of the Champions League then we would've likely seen more young players but there are no gimme's in CL football. We did see quite a few of the young players under Poch in the League Cup and they went out and got beat by Colchester United....
Wow - I know they are ordinary but I didn't think they were that ordinary!You've probably added 100m of value to that group of players we're trying to sell
Wow - I know they are ordinary but I didn't think they were that ordinary!
I'd love to know where you're finding clubs to pay those sorts of fees for that level of deadwood..... The first 5 would fetch nowhere near those fees.... Not even half of them in most instances.He should beg him to come back - offer him a seat on the Board and shares in the club - then back him to the hilt. Poch could be - and should have been - our Wenger (although I thoroughly disliked Arsene!)
BUT, BUT, BUT - there is no point in bringing Poch back unless he is going to change his daft transfer negotiating policy - you know the one - £Million wise, many £Millions foolish! I suggest below how he might find the money to rebuild the team - but he would never let the out players go at those knockdown prices - which means they just hang around, knowing that we want them out, but not going - kills their motivation, of course...
OUTS - Sissoko - £20M,
Lamela £20M
Winks £22M
Dier £28M
Sanchez £25M
Foyth £13M
Docherty £10M
Bergwijn £20M
That's £158M - then add around £60M and buy
INS - two CBs - £90M, RB £20M, CM Defence £30M, CM Attack £50M, CFwd (Back up to Harry who stays because of Poch and this spending commitment) £25M
Total Ins = £215M
Simples!
I agree that it's easier to play youngsters in EL vs CL. You can also try to add a few here and there in PL games when we are clearly going to win or in games where we expect to win with our big guns. Poch started integrating in such a way and then seemed to do less and less as time went on. Ok, perhaps when you're constantly at the sharp end of things you have less chance to, but again you don't have to do it wholesale, just a bit here and there.
And i'm not sure i agree with your last point re Colchester: most of that team that started the game were internationals; only Tanganga, Skipp and Parrot (and if you really want to stretch it KWP) were youngsters in the starting line-up.
The rest were: Gazzaniga, Dier, Sanchez, Wanyama, Davies, Moura, Alli. That's more than enough to win that game and i don't think losing that game can be blamed on Poch playing the youngsters any more than losing the West Ham LC game two years prior was because we got a bit "Rabbit in the headlights" during a woeful second half.
We have to be clear as to why we want Poch back and the club have to make sure it's based on hard reality and not myths.
Ten Hag back in the running this hour. Wonder who'll be favourite in the 18:30-19:30 slot.
I see what you’re saying. My comment on ‘ideal profile’ stems from the idea that, if we are to be a club that doesn’t spend the absolute most money, we need a guy that builds a system, a culture and a spirit which allows us to compete. Poch is that. To an extent ETH or Potter would be too, but they don’t have the romance. Poch has the combination of being the right profile, plus being unjustly screwed and deserving of being able to right the wrongs. And because he was the right profile (IMO) there was always this idea that he didn’t need to be sacked, that it was a mistake, and even if we got someone like him, it probably would just be a lower tier version.
So for me it really isn’t just ‘I love Poch, get him back’. It’s more ‘he is the right kind of profile, and the problems we had when he left weren’t really down to him, given he was calling for changes 2 years prior to it’. He earned the right to be trusted to do it his way IMO, and I’d love to see if that can work out.
I suspect it won’t, but if Levy had some realisation that our best chance of competing was with him, and there wasn’t likely to be some other miracle worker out there, then I’d be over the moon.