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Mauricio Pochettino - The Lowdown


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I'm sure this fella will be a success. Everything that's happened is not his fault. Thing is he could go to Chelsea win everything and be the next Jose. Then it would only be a dream to have someone like this.

 

However you are only as good as your players. So lets hope he's ****ing good.

 

Either way its only going to be a short appointment. If he fails he'll be sacked and if he is a genius he will leave to a bigger club.

 

I think people are more ****ed with the way Nigel has been treated rather than who the new guy is.

 

My only criticism is that he can't speak English.

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Guilleme Balague said he recently turned down Valencia and Sampdoria .

 

1) Sampdoria was in the first two years of his four year reign aka the good 2 years.

 

2) Valencia have never offered him a job

 

3) If i had an agent and he/she links me to the Barcelona job, does that make me a top "forward thinking" manager?

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this guy is so highly regarded in spain. I wonder why no clubs in Spain offered him a job?

 

Probably because he only left Espanyol in November, just 2 months ago, there are no clubs in Spain with a managerial vacancy, he isn't Spanish and has said he wants to work in the Premier League because it is currently seen as the top League in Europe. Trying to undermine him with comments like that made by G_S is not in the interests of SFC, so lets get behind MP and wish him well.

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Probably because he only left Espanyol in November, just 2 months ago, there are no clubs in Spain with a managerial vacancy, he isn't Spanish and has said he wants to work in the Premier League because it is currently seen as the top League in Europe. Trying to undermine him with comments like that made by G_S is not in the interests of SFC, so lets get behind MP and wish him well.

We didn't have a managerial vacancy either.

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I note that this article mentions our latest managers policy of promoting youth team players into the first team - it may well be significant that this aspect of the game was specifically mentioned on the OS too yesterday. So perhaps the underlying cause for NA's dismissal was that Chairman and Manager were in fundamental disagreement re how fast our youngsters should be brought through?

 

If that is the heart of the matter - and I must point out that I don't know for sure that it is - then I for one would trust a football mans opinion on that matter, over that of some Banker, seven days a week and twice on Sundays.

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I note that this article mentions our latest managers policy of promoting youth team players into the first team - it may well be significant that this aspect of the game was specifically mentioned on the OS too yesterday. So perhaps the underlying cause for NA's dismissal was that Chairman and Manager were in fundamental disagreement re how fast our youngsters should be brought through?

 

If that is the heart of the matter - and I must point out that I don't know for sure that it is - then I for one would trust a football mans opinion on that matter, over that of some Banker, seven days a week and twice on Sundays.

 

 

I noticed that as well, I've said a few times that there seems to be an awful lot of wastage from our academy and that there are certain positions that we don't seem to develop at all well. Left back...tops, CB ..inexistant.

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His record suggests that after a decent start at Espanyol the team steadily declined resulting in a parting of the ways in November. Espanyol have improved considerably under their new manager which would suggest that he was part of the problem. Adkins achieved 17 points from our last 12 matches, an excellent progression after a difficult start..But not good enough for Cortese. It would be useful if Cortese could let us all know what his expectations are for the remainder of the season so that we can reasonably judge MP's performance. What is the "next level"?

Good luck to MP, he is going to need it working for Cortese & Reed.

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I noticed that as well, I've said a few times that there seems to be an awful lot of wastage from our academy and that there are certain positions that we don't seem to develop at all well. Left back...tops, CB ..inexistant.

 

So the positions developed at academy level is the issue of the first team manager now?

 

Adkins had integrated Shaw brilliantly and was also a big advocate of JWP and Ben Reeves.

 

If the plan is to swamp our first team with academy players then we are in trouble. Giving debuts to 23 academy players sounds sounds desperate

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His record suggests that after a decent start at Espanyol the team steadily declined resulting in a parting of the ways in November. Espanyol have improved considerably under their new manager which would suggest that he was part of the problem.

 

My understanding of the Espanyol situation is that the club's increasingly bad financial position meant that Pochittino was less and less able to put his strategy and methods into practice, and thus you had a vicious circle of decline.

 

I don't know what type of football Espanyol are playing under the new manager but I would imagine it's a type of football that fits better to a system that is much more sustainable under a declining financial model.

 

Don't forget Adkins got relegated with S****horpe when, as I understand it, they hit the financial buffers.

 

So, I don't personally read too much into how Espanyol are playing now vs how they were playing in the latter days of Pochittino's tenure. These situations are rarely that black and white.

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I note that this article mentions our latest managers policy of promoting youth team players into the first team - it may well be significant that this aspect of the game was specifically mentioned on the OS too yesterday. So perhaps the underlying cause for NA's dismissal was that Chairman and Manager were in fundamental disagreement re how fast our youngsters should be brought through?

 

If that is the heart of the matter - and I must point out that I don't know for sure that it is - then I for one would trust a football mans opinion on that matter, over that of some Banker, seven days a week and twice on Sundays.

 

It was a similar situation with Lowe and Rednapp. It's not that easy to have a competitive team full of academy youngsters. If it were, they'd all be doing it.

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I'm prepared to back him all the way, but I don't accept that the downturn was simply due to losing players.

 

This season Espanyol got 9 points from 13 games under him. After he left they picked up 10 from the next 6.

 

In stark contrast to NA, also sounds as if he doesn't cope well or bounce back when things aren't going do well.

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I'm prepared to back him all the way, but I don't accept that the downturn was simply due to losing players.

 

This season Espanyol got 9 points from 13 games under him. After he left they picked up 10 from the next 6.

 

In stark contrast to NA, also sounds as if he doesn't cope well or bounce back when things aren't going do well.

 

Yes, that is a worry.

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Perhaps we had to step in quickly before someone else signed him up then.

 

Genuinely think it's a step up. Don't really understand the double standard in footy, tbh. Ok to replace players on a whim but not managers?

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I'm sure this fella will be a success. Everything that's happened is not his fault. Thing is he could go to Chelsea win everything and be the next Jose. Then it would only be a dream to have someone like this.

 

However you are only as good as your players. So lets hope he's ****ing good.

 

Either way its only going to be a short appointment. If he fails he'll be sacked and if he is a genius he will leave to a bigger club.

 

I think people are more ****ed with the way Nigel has been treated rather than who the new guy is.

 

My only criticism is that he can't speak English.

 

Why do you think that? The guy has only ever managed one team?

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Genuinely think it's a step up. Don't really understand the double standard in footy, tbh. Ok to replace players on a whim but not managers?

 

God not this again. You can replace 1/11th of the team with someone of similar ability with minimal impact.

 

You cannot replace 100% of the management staff without long term effects (though you can get away with it for a little while, as Adkins' team proved yesterday).

 

If you were to replace 100% of the match day team, you would see a significant difference. Therefore it is perfectly reasonably to replace a player on a whim but not to do so with a manager (or an entire team).

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