Ever get the feeling some people have you on ignore...it's as if they exist in a separate dimension and sometimes we catch a glimpse of it by some weird bending of the space time continuum...
Did anybody hear something?
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Ever get the feeling some people have you on ignore...it's as if they exist in a separate dimension and sometimes we catch a glimpse of it by some weird bending of the space time continuum...
Very passionate response from Poch about press twisting his words. LOVE IT!
100%.
Pochettino sanctioned or agreed the sale of Dembele and openly wanted Janssen off the books and moved on N'Koudou. There is no logic in that unless he genuinely expected players were coming in. Nada.
It cannot continue.
Ever heard of confirmation bias?
There's quite a few here with it...
I honestly believe that if Pochettino did an interview discussing his favourite fruit people would find a way of making it about Levy, if he liked Kiwi fruit they would say" See, he likes stuff that's hairy...he's actually saying he hates Levy"...
Incredible isn't it, Poch actually says he's happy with the squad, actually says the players he wanted we couldn't get, actually says he can't believe the false rumours, actually says he's a person who is so happy and confident that his ideas are the same as his chairmen's, actually says in reality if you see the table then of course we are there, there's much more he says but you get the point ....
and yet the same half dozen posters (we all know who they are) somehow make this into a complaint against Levy and a hidden threat to explode ... you couldn't make it up, except of course some people do
Well, I have always been postiive about the way Poch speaks so it can’t be a case of confirmation bias because if anything I am looking for the positives in what he is saying but that presser yesterday didn’t give me a good feeling.
He is happy with the squad and the team and with the club that much is evident but I don’t believe he is happy with our transfer policy and he said that much in the presser.
I don’t think he hates Levy, I feel like he is telling Levy in order to move on to being real contenders we need new signings.
He said that yesterday, he also said that teams must improve every transfer window, those exact words left his mouth.
So yes, he might be happy with the team and want to be postiive about us because there is no point on dwelling on a lack of signings but if he really feels like teams must improve every transfer window then he clearly isn’t going to be happy with the way our business has gone is he?
I don’t think that’s confirmation bias I think that’s listening to him speak.
100%.
No fcuking spin needed by anyone.
He wanted players and said as much. Not one but maybe 2 or 3. Not a fcuking bean. Not even a loan signing.
What has probably kept Pochettino in the hot seat is that City, United and Liverpool did nothing, Chelsea and Woolwich not much either, so maybe the line from Levy is that targets were inordinately priced.
Now I don't know the real truth. No one does but if we get top 4 again that will be incredible but surely we want glory? That has to mean investment.
Pochettino sanctioned or agreed the sale of Dembele and openly wanted Janssen off the books and moved on N'Koudou. There is no logic in that unless he genuinely expected players were coming in. Nada.
So here we are. 14 games to go. A good position but one with additions that could have surely been even better. No signings for a whole year and counting. 10th biggest income in world football, and all the other atrractions and still fcuk all.
Pochettino has every right to walk if he feels this non-signing is the new norm. If he gets no reassurances that a sizeable transfer budget will be given to him in summer. If a new contract is not signed by Eriksen.
There is no doubt now. We have heard him say he wants glory, wanted new players, that he and the club don't always agree and that he is not always as happy as the media paint out.
So those of us who saw it like that were right. The only real doubt is the extent to which Pochettino recognises the difficulties of signing the quality of player he wants.
But as I have said, we are a top club operating on a mid-table budget.
First Pochettino will question the ambition, then the players and then they will want out.
It cannot continue.
I 100% know for sure he wants players in.
Plus he said himself in that press conference he wants to win and got angry with suggestions otherwise.
But does anyone think he really wants Vinny in the squad?
However he’s also realistic enough to know he wanted Morata who didn’t want to be a back up to Kane, and who then flopped at Chelsea.
So poch uses what he has. What else can he do??
And as he’s always keen to point out. In football you never really know what might happen tomorrow.
Just believe in yourself and your own footballing beliefs.
Love that man.
The summer is the tell all window.
Assuming no stadium disasters, correct. It all comes to a head this summer.
Personally I think Pochettino needs to be a little ruthless with a few that have helped us get to this stage
I was thinking along the same lines this morning. i.e. is he TOO loyal to the players that have got us this far.
Aurier, Lamela, Bic Vic, Vorm all take up important and limited nonHG spaces. The whole Dier situ not beinclassed as HG really does us no favours at all
Vorm: he’s probably off at the end of the season
Big Vic: yeh looks like something is wrong, love to see him back to his best but if not he might be off
Aurier: not taken his chance, if we sell then KWP can step in and he is home grown
Lamela: why Lamela, he is very much part of the squad and if Eriksen goes our only natural passing AM type player. Surely we can afford him a non HG space.