Poch is gone and rightly so. Time to look forward not back.
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The denial is still strong.
What people are really saying is that they want the 2016 team back. A team which he wasted which absolutely no one complained about.
14th in the league, smashed by Brighton, defeat by Newcastle at home, defeat on penalties to Colchester, crushed by Bayern. All with Kane and Son available.
There was a reason why he got sacked.
What people are really saying is that they want the 2016 team back. A team which he wasted which absolutely no one complained about.
14th in the league, smashed by Brighton, defeat by Newcastle at home, defeat on penalties to Colchester, crushed by Bayern. All with Kane and Son available.
There was a reason why he got sacked.
Get rid of Jose.........because Poch deserves more time
Why are some trying to turn this into a Poch vs Mourinho argument?
The decision to sack Poch was the correct one - 25 points from 24 league games tells you that.
The decision to appoint Jose remains to be seen if it was a good one.
Two completely separate things
The decision to sack Poch was the correct one - 25 points from 24 league games tells you that.
The decision to appoint Jose remains to be seen if it was a good one.
Two completely separate things
I understand how painful this rebuild is at the moment. Id just be happier with Poch still at the wheel. I belive he gets us more as a fan base and in the longer run we'd be a more successful club. So if the rest of season seriously nose dive and levy has to reevaluate his decision in the summer would you take Poch back? Or has the ship sailed?
they way he speaks about the club and fans being special is lovely. he sounds like one of us a fan.
it's something that Liverpool fans think only their club can evoke, that's why they're so hated.
What's 'success' - is getting to a CL final not successful enough for you? We lost the final because after 30 secs some clown stuck his hand up in the pen box and the opposite cheated by kicking the ball at his hand to take advantage of a ludicrous law. There are a million and one things that could have happened but did or didn't - thats life, you win some and lose some. It's not failure.
What follows then is half of season of understandable anti-climax from players who had given their all and a bunch of self-righteous fans who 'demand' silverware because somehow they need it to feel good about their lives and so we sack our best manager since Bill Nick - someone who should (and would) have built a dynasty like Wenger or Ferguson.
The day we sacked him this club lost a small part of its identity as it drifts towards becoming just another corporate money-sucking machine - 50 years a fan and Ive never been more ashamed of the club. And half the fans cheered his sacking.
He had us playing the best football I’ve ever seen us play. He’s a legend and I’ll always love him, but there was no way he could have carried on. The players weren’t playing for him, we were in awful form for a year, it wasn’t just a patch
Deep down Poch will know that the parting of ways was right. The CL final broke the magic spell he cast on the team, they all lost their belief in each other and became a team that could concede 7 goals at home.
But I'd be very happy for him to manage us again in the future, I just believe that it's impossible for any manager to stay at a top club for 5+ years without winning anything. Our players worked very hard for 5 years and ran through brick walls for him, yet they had nothing to show for it despite coming close. The only fix was to change the playing staff or change the coaching staff, because they weren't responding to each other anymore.
If in 10 years time there is an opportunity for Poch to return and work with a totally new squad, I hope it happens. I also hope he wins something in the next 10 years so he gets that monkey off his back. He's too good a manager to have a career without any silverware.
But I'd be very happy for him to manage us again in the future, I just believe that it's impossible for any manager to stay at a top club for 5+ years without winning anything. Our players worked very hard for 5 years and ran through brick walls for him, yet they had nothing to show for it despite coming close. The only fix was to change the playing staff or change the coaching staff, because they weren't responding to each other anymore.
If in 10 years time there is an opportunity for Poch to return and work with a totally new squad, I hope it happens. I also hope he wins something in the next 10 years so he gets that monkey off his back. He's too good a manager to have a career without any silverware.
that last bit is so fucking stupid it defies logic.
Best manager since Nicholson? Nope. I think you'll find Burkinshaw holds that 'title'.
Nope, second is a lot different to nothing. All those memories of the run into the final, the Ajax and Man City games - I was there, those memories are not nothing. Not to me anyway. Just the same as my memories of Hoddle, Ardiles & Gascoigne - they didn't win the league or the European cup either. That doesn't make me 'a loser' my friend.
I agree, of course I do, that winning a star would have been sweet, much sweeter than second but life is defined by how you act, not how rich you are. Football is defined by how you play, not how much you win.
This is me 100% conflicted. Want to support Mourhino but i loved Poch and I thought he earnt more time. God its a mess
The answer should be neither, Poch had run out of enthusiasm but Mourinho is the wrong man for the job - deep down everyone knows this. He and Spurs just don't fit.
Some decent trolling bypaddy spur here to be fair.
