I'll take Mourinho's C.V. against Poch's any day of the week. You really think that Mauricio will win 20 trophies and Jose will lose his golden touch ??
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Isn't that the same with any manager you hire or any player you sign? You buy them or hire based on past achievements and potential what hasn't happened yet. Every hire, fire and purchase is a risk.
It's a smart play by the Board. Risk is we don't win anything and we are the same as we find ourselves 6 years into the Poch era, the reward is if he is anywhere near what he used to be he will have enough to add more than what Poch did.
For me it's a huge appointment, he's got to be in the top 3-5 most decorated and still active football men out there and hes still only 56. He's got a lot to offer the game still and we may just be the ones who reap the rewards if all goes well and good. A no brainer for me, the guy has won more trophies than we have in our entire history
Surely the event you reported was a pretext. Pochettino with the CL final has "consumed" all his energy. He evidently arrived at the end of his project. Guys: you took Mourinho! You get angry as if Ventura (the worst coach in the history of Italy) had arrived
Surely the event you reported was a pretext. Pochettino with the CL final has "consumed" all his energy. He evidently arrived at the end of his project. Guys: you took Mourinho! You get angry as if Ventura (the worst coach in the history of Italy) had arrived
From a neutral view in Italy, how is Mourinho to Tottenham being received? Are people surprised Jose took the Spurs job?
Apparently the atmosphere at the training ground had been toxic recently and it may be that Levy was aware of this and didn’t want the players to get too emotional about Pochettino’s departure before Saturday’s important game v Spam- only guessing but Levy very rarely seems to do something without calculating ahead (not that he necessarily always gets things right though)
The Italian press welcomed the news positively: taking Mourinho means and in the elite of world football. He wouldn't have gone to a small club even if he was super paid.
Should have gone after Bayern. The players weren't with him anymore, he'd lost their respect. Believed too much of his own hype and became a sulking, malignant presence at the club. He'd run out of ideas. Excellent manager, probably not top tier though, fell a bit short too many times and often got out thought.
I suspect we'll see a few players rejuvenated, like Eriksen perhaps.
I suspect we'll see a few players rejuvenated, like Eriksen perhaps.
If it's all transient and distant and cold, then what is the point of getting attached at all, to any of it, at any point? What is the point of supporting any football club if you can so easily see through the facade of the whole thing; the fact there is no difference between the clubs except for how much money they have and it's just random chance that you support the one you do. Does it all just come back to people projecting a sense of community, a warmth and soul to something that is actually an uncaring machine, merely so they can pretend to belong to something bigger, something worthwhile? With the bonus of having an excuse to go drinking and shouting with your mates!
I've always known the truth of it of course, but in times like this it is laid bare in all its ugly uncomfortable mess. Football is no different than organised religion really, it's a lie we tell ourselves and perpetuate in order to find a reason to gather together and feel some connection and safety in an otherwise chaotic brutal existence. All while a few men at the top get rich and richer from the charade.
As I said before, I wasn't indoctrinated from birth, I chose to take part in this. And now I don't know why I should keep going with it. Sunk cost fallacy maybe, or perhaps the pull of wanting to belong, regardless of how false the basis for it, is difficult for me to resist. I don't know really. Maybe if we smash West Ham on Saturday, I'll forget all about any existential crisis and carry on like a good proper fan, supporting our manager and our players, all of whom I love....for as long as they are under contract and producing the adequate results.
Ah. A Romany Gypsy.
According to reliable news sources, BBC, etc he's being paid 8 mil a year.We are paying him £15m a year. I'd call that change,MVP .
Tell me you weren't one of those people who said Levy is so fucking mean that he would only hire the likes of Eddie Howe?
The bigger picture as I see it is that he's very good but too stubborn and will never get a team over the line.
It's more fun?
So do we now get to find out what happened in the Mike Dean incident? 
ochlol:
ochlol:From what I heard, it was something along the lines of.....
"Take your head out of your arse. You weren't good enough and you lost; stop trying to blame people"
Mike Dean was right, even though it wasnt his place to say it
You dull cunt.
Spend half your time claiming enic are only interested in money, not football and winning. They then spend a lot of money replacing the manager with a serial winner(who I detest, btw, cos he has no class), and you whine about the cost involved. Fucking idiot.
Poch seems to go out of his way to avoid the possibility of winning trophies, so I doubt that possibility considerably.
You dragged yourself into it.
