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Good managers can't rely on one or two players to make a team work, they need to get shit done with the players they have at the time.
Not playing Lucas and Son in the same line-up against bus-parkers would have helped.
You'd hope he'd learn.
Morphing into AVB
Yeah, we are hoping for years now.
what has Poch & his coaches done all week
we knew they would park the bus, even if 1-0 down with 10 mins to go they would stay compact and hope to get 1 break
we should have been working on breaking teams down that park the bus, that means playing about in the middle 1/3 of the pitch, thus drawing them up the pitch creating space between & behind the lines
Its not rocket science its called coaching
we knew they would park the bus, even if 1-0 down with 10 mins to go they would stay compact and hope to get 1 break
we should have been working on breaking teams down that park the bus, that means playing about in the middle 1/3 of the pitch, thus drawing them up the pitch creating space between & behind the lines
Its not rocket science its called coaching
Perhaps Dembele is to Poch as Bale was to AVB.
Our ability to get results has clearly nosedived since his departure, barring a few late miracles in the CL we had very little to get excited about last season in terms of actual football. We battered Chelsea, Everton and Bournemouth last winter and that was the last time we had a genuinely good 90 minutes.
Poch has all the tools he could possibly want in his squad, there are no excuses for him. Of course he needs time for the new players to settle but he should be able to build a team that can play football of a quality to match our stadium. If he can’t then what are we doing?
100% agree - Nowhere to hide this season
We've made a few signings and broke our transfer record.
Not playing in Wembley anymore.
Things have to improve
Congratulations you are officially a wet blanket
No excuses for him today. Much about that result and inept performance rests with him. Why he can't instruct these cunts to start these games fast, with intensity, is beyond me. Time and time again we have these turgid first halves, and hope to salvage it at HT. Well, not this time.
It all hasn’t seem right with him since Jan. Think we would have bid farewell to him had we won the CL. Tbh, I lost slight faith with Poch ever since we lost that FA cup semi to Utd after spending a good amount of time bringing down the FA cup that season. He won’t be getting us over the line and think we’ve gone as far as we can under him.
Mourinho was in the stands today. Good chance we’ve already started looking for alternatives.
Mourinho was in the stands today. Good chance we’ve already started looking for alternatives.
Mauricio Pochettino, speaking to BBC Sport: "I am very disappointed with the result and the performance. We conceded a cheap goal and it is not easy to come back after that.
Errmm excuse me, we managed to do that our last two matches and when we were 2-0 down away from home to Ajax....this was 1-0 down at home to the bottom of the league. Please don't give me that crap
Errmm excuse me, we managed to do that our last two matches and when we were 2-0 down away from home to Ajax....this was 1-0 down at home to the bottom of the league. Please don't give me that crap
Yeah I'm getting a bit tired of some of his excuses crap. Sod the nonsense about going a goal down - how about starting with some fucking urgency and scoring the first goal. And it's not like we laid seige to their goal and the keepers hands were stinging with blisters. This result and display, the more I think on it, enrages me.
Was a big fan but never thought he was beyond criticism, no manager is, but always felt the positives outweighed the negatives.
I'm at the stage that i'm not so sure now, getting fed up with the constant whinging to the press, the double entendres that get the fanbase turning on each other and when the likes of Steve fucking Bruce can mug you off, then questions need to be asked.
I'm not for sacking him or forcing him out but if he decided that he'd had enough and walked, well i wouldn't be that bothered to be honest and i wouldn't have said that a year ago.
This isn't a kneejerk reaction to the shit show that was today, but a gradual build up of muddled team selections and tactics and the fact that he hasn't seemed to be able to get a decent tune out of these players for quite some time.
I'm at the stage that i'm not so sure now, getting fed up with the constant whinging to the press, the double entendres that get the fanbase turning on each other and when the likes of Steve fucking Bruce can mug you off, then questions need to be asked.
I'm not for sacking him or forcing him out but if he decided that he'd had enough and walked, well i wouldn't be that bothered to be honest and i wouldn't have said that a year ago.
This isn't a kneejerk reaction to the shit show that was today, but a gradual build up of muddled team selections and tactics and the fact that he hasn't seemed to be able to get a decent tune out of these players for quite some time.