Next Manager Thread (2026 Edition)

[Bullet]

Correct @demotw
If anyone wants to look back at Poch's 2-1 trouncing of the mighty AEL Limassol, here is a full list of his matches.
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Mauricio Pochettino - Detailed Stats (Detailed view)

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[Junior19]

His methods and philosophy is very similar to Pochettino. They use a lot of the same methods. They focus only on enhancing performance, not results, to get the results. Shut out all external noise, and build togetherness.
Knutsen and Pochettino are cut from the same cloth.

I would love to see Knutsen get a chance at a bigger european club, just not sure I want him to come straight to Spurs. I fear we could destroy him, run him to the ground. He should go to the continent first, then we can pick him up!

 

[Muttley]

Sorry Dubai but this is rose tinted mate.

Dembele was bossing it in midfield for Fulham, the reason we signed him was that game vs United when he dominated their midfield. Kane was brought through by Sherwood and was already showing his potential replacing Soldaldo. Alli performed from day 1 so that’s on MK not Poch. Eriksen was smashing it for Ajax etc…

The only one I can genuinely say he improved was Sonny, but even that is caveated as his performance in Germany suggested it was always there and just needed to adapt to the PL .

Now it’s not Pochs fault we pretty much had a pre-built core prior to his arrival, he still had to recognise their potential and play them but to think of “Poch” players we have to think more Foyth/Ndombele/Lo Celso etc from a purchase perspective. Part of me want to bring Poch back with this team which is the complete opposite of the position last time just to see if he is really magic or not, but I don’t like it when the narrative of that 2016 team is changed to Poch brought/improved all these players and without him our squad was mid table only

I agree, but it's the wrong conversation for me. The key conversation with Poch are the things that were happening at the end of his tenure. Why was he losing to teams that had worse elevens on paper? Why had he compromised his formulas to accommodate certain players when it clearly wasn't working? Why wasn't he getting 100% out of his players?

I think it's easy to remember the 2014-2017 ride. It's a lot harder to to remove the variables in plug into the 2017-19 decline period and really judge whether the guy was doing a good job. For me, he wasn't unfortunately. It wasn't just about the well discussed other variables like transfer windows, players ages and injuries.

That's why I don't have as much sympathy with Frank as some. Before last night's game, I wrote down the team sheet and the likely subs and "on paper" it was a team that should have performed way, way better than it did. It wasn't even about winning or losing. It was seeing the eleven players on the pitch playing to the potential even if that meant being on the wrong side of the result. We were anything but that.

When you think back to the end of Poch's reign, it wasn't that dissimilar unfortunately. Poch was under deep scrutiny about why he couldn't prevail in an 11 vs 11 situation when you've got the better hand.

By the way, I still think it's unfair to compare that version of Poch with the one we have 7 years later. That one should be a way better manager than the one that left us.

 

[ricky2tricky4city]

His first league game was vs West Ham and the lineup was: Lloris/Naughton/Kaboul/Dier/Rose/Capoue/Bentaleb/lamela/Eriksen/lennon/Adebayor with Kane on as sub.

Verts was suspended or would have started, similar Dembele had a hamstring injury, Walker from Hernia Op and Sandro knee injury.

Not sure where you got the above from unless your counting pre-season friendly when our internationals are away

Exhibit 1 @Bullet

 

[Welshspur60]

I really think that whoever we appoint now is going to struggle to improve our form and turn the ship away from the rocks.
We have a horrendous injury list, with a lot of them out for the season or at least till April. Lets be fair, the squad is poor and we ve only got hslf the squad available now. All the teams around us are picking up points and fighting hard.
It really eas negligent from the owners/board to not go much harder in January and bring more players in, even if just loans.
Its going to be tough ask to turn it around.

 

[metalgear]

poch is trying to hard to get the Spurs job

We need a coach who is comfortable with competing on multiple fronts and a good leader to galvanize the team.

I think a new manager is incoming otherwise a they would have announced heitinga as caretaker already?