Brilliant post.
I am a big fan of Mourinho and have wanted him at the club ever since his first press conference in West London back in 2004. There's no doubt that he isn't without his faults, both on and off the pitch, however, to blame him for this is nothing short of embarrassing. We didn't sign the right players in 2016, we then lost a key squad member (Kyle Walker) without seeing any improvement to the squad in 2017 and then didn't sign anyone whatsoever in 2018. Despite the difficulties in signing a prefered target in this day and age, it is evident that most of the blame lies at the top. And then to compound all of that we have the most ridiculous injury situation imaginable. After Villa away we'd picked up 26 points out of 42, not bad, since then we've been completely depleted. And then before all that, we'd won 6 games in 24, our worst run since in 10 years, with performances matching the awfulness which was witnessed in 2008, resulting in Poch getting the sack. So for players to be somewhat over looked is very surprising indeed.
When it comes to the Poch vs Mourinho argument, I say this to both sides, you're wrong. They're both the right managers, it's just that they have been stuck with the wrong players and insufficient squad capacity with a hierarchy that simply can't deliver the right players at the right time, due to a combination of frugality and insufficient attempts in recruitment with a near empty trophy cabinet.
There's no doubt that Levy is a good chairman and shouldn't be treated like the many con men who taken the healm at other clubs. But is he ,and ENIC for that matter, capable of taking Spurs to the final step?
