DL has severely gone down in my estimations. The last few managerial appointments and their subsequent exits are no fluke. He has consistently let down managers with false promises.
In Pochettino, we had a manager that raised the profile of our club whilst dealing with little to no budget and manoeuvring between stadiums. We went from 5th and 6th to regular Champions League and reaching the final no less. Still he wasn't backed in either delivering the players he wanted or getting rid of those he didn't. I hope Pochettino lands himself a great job and the ability to build a squad of his choosing.
Onto Mourinho. I really like him as a pundit and has very good insight and a much better demeanour. As a manager however, he turns into a toxic nutcase. He is like a human embodiment of a gremlin. I hope with some time out and his attitude on TV that he has somewhat changed.
Time will tell. In the event that Pochettino was sacked, although I've loathed him at times I was open to Mourinho. Mainly because I don't want to see a yes man in charge who will not push Daniel Levy and continue stagnating.
It might be harder this time but the stadium needs to give positive energy and back our manager whoever it may be. Needs to be given the benefit of doubt until he gives reason otherwise.
#COYS
Daniel Levy & Mourinho
posted on 20/11/19
i was finally enjoying listening to mourinho, now its back to his lying and excuses.
posted on 20/11/19
It will be interesting to see if he remains as toxic as he has done elsewhere. Those have been clubs which demanded league titles because they had spent hundreds of millions and he wanted even more. He won't get the same backing at Spurs and will have a lower expectation as well. Perhaps he will be a calmer manager - can only hope he will be.
posted on 20/11/19
Levy was very patient with Poch.
It was obvious from the players lack of effort in the Brighton game (that came hot on the heals of the Bayern thrashing) that the team had lost their respect for him and yet he still was given time to sort things.
From January onwards the Prem form has been awful with no signs of improvement and although I can't say Jose would of been my top choice I'm glad we've got rid of a manager who had clearly lost the dressing room.
posted on 20/11/19
comment by PawlBawron (U1055)
posted 2 minutes ago
Levy was very patient with Poch.
It was obvious from the players lack of effort in the Brighton game (that came hot on the heals of the Bayern thrashing) that the team had lost their respect for him and yet he still was given time to sort things.
From January onwards the Prem form has been awful with no signs of improvement and although I can't say Jose would of been my top choice I'm glad we've got rid of a manager who had clearly lost the dressing room.
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I’d argue poch was very patient with levy tbh
posted on 20/11/19
That is Levy's doing in part. Can you imagine someone during Sir Alex Ferguson's reign coming out and speaking against the chairman's approach or another player wanting to leave and being open about it. Three of the key players not signing new contracts and not being sold either.
SAF would not be the manager he became if he didn't have the power to refresh the team whenever he wanted. Obviously he was a brilliant manager nonetheless but you need a level of support from the board to change the team when it's stale.
I'm glad Pochettino is gone only to be out of his misery. Daniel Levy clearly isn't going to change and without the support neither was our form and Pochettino's interest.
posted on 20/11/19
The thing is everyone thinking I’m going over the top because I was a poch in man.
If people go back to beginning of the summer I went on record saying I would be okay with poch going. The space between losing the final and signing Ndombele.
Because then we could’ve got the RIGHT guy in and the let him spend the £150m on players he wanted but no levy gave poch the money to start the rebuild so I don’t see how sacking him 3 months later makes sense.
I’m in no doubt we will probably get a quick up turn in results but him and levy won’t work and in 2 years we will be back here and looking again at starting another project with another young manager.
I think levy’s ego got the better of him and wanted Mourinho at his club regardless if it’s the correct thing to do.
Obviously emotions got the better of me last night because obviously I cannot just walk away because I love the club but it’s certainly dampened my enthusiasm because I have a genuine dislike for the manager.
posted on 20/11/19
Pochettino was left going into the season with a half arssed rebuild. We never got rid of the players that we needed or wanted to and didn't bring in all the players he would have asked for as well.
That was after windows of absolute inactivity. I cannot imagine what Mourinho would have been like in that situation - absolutely unbearable and calling out Levy straight away.
In all honesty, Levy has proven he isn't as good a chairman as people make out to be. He took advantage of us being a selling club in London and preying on the lower teams when they didn't have the same revenue they do and negotiated well for our best players as anyone would do.
The stadium was severely overbudget and he has neglected the player investments over several cycles of rebuilds and managers. I'm not a fan of Daniel and he does not have my support.
posted on 20/11/19
I have no problem with any of the folk on here who think this is a mistake and I hope Levy is right and they are wrong.
At the very least with the strong opinions on both sides theres going to be some cracking debate on here over the coming months.
Unfortunately you can't divorce your team so we've all got to suck it up and approach any difficulties with the gallows humour that we specialise in on the Spurs board.
I think we have a better chance of a result on Saturday than we would have had with Poch in charge but I've been wrong before and I'm sure I will be again.
posted on 20/11/19
You CAN divorce the team it just needed to be done gradually and proper instead of not investing.
posted on 20/11/19
My bet is in 18 months time we are looking for another manager, after Jose realizes what he is working with and up against. Levy is not going to change and Jose won't get the budget he will want.
Levy just wants a manager to come in and over achieve on a shoestring budget, that isn't Jose.