Hes basically confirmed for us not to expect anything from the cups again this season. Guess thats another trophyless season cos we aren't winning PL or CL
http://www.football365.com/news/pochettino-tottenham-now-too-big-to-chase-cups
“The project here at Tottenham is to try to win the Premier League or the Champions League. For me, that is the two big trophies," said Pochettino.
“OK, I would love to win the Carabao Cup or the FA Cup for our fans, but Tottenham must build a project with the possibility to fight for Champions League or Premier League.
“Sorry, first of all the Premier League and then the Champions League. If we are going to try to win Carabao Cup or FA Cup, and forget the Premier League or Champions [League], it’s a big mistake.
“I think what it means for a big team to win trophies is to win the Premier League or Champions League. There are a lot of examples: in my second season at Southampton, Wigan won FA Cup. Where is Wigan today, with all my respect? League One. That is the most important example.
“Of course I would like to win trophies, but first of all we’ll fight for the Premier League or the Champions League."
Poch dismisses cups
posted on 19/9/17
Members of illuminati *
posted on 19/9/17
Maf
posted on 19/9/17
hmm comrade corbyn.
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making a point that suggests that there are only a few specs of dust where the brain should be? check
welcome back maffy
posted on 19/9/17
comment by Chronic (U3423)
posted 14 minutes ago
hmm comrade corbyn.
stupid screename? check
awful grammar? check
poor spelling? check
making a point that suggests that there are only a few specs of dust where the brain should be? check
welcome back maffy
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Going by that check list it also could've been weare
posted on 19/9/17
comment by Devonshirespur (U6316)
posted 2 hours, 49 minutes ago
Poch has made 1 League cup final in his first year and put out a full strength side.
He made the FA Cup SF in his third year and played a strong side, despite being in a title race (Note CFC rested Hazard & Costa). We were unlucky to lose.
Last season we lost away at LFC in a battle of the B Teams, season before it was Arsenal, also in a B team contest, and lost at home to Palace in the FA Cup in a game we rested Aldi & Eriksen.
IMO Poch has not disrespected any cup. He has put out teams that he expects are capable of winning . Some tough draws, some poor performances and the occasional poor selection.
We have a fecking squad. It has to be used otherwise we end up in the redknapp position of having to call on back up players who have spent most of the season sat on a bench.
His rotation has rarely been excessive or disrespecting the competition, but if the likes of Dembele can manage only 1 game a week, Nkoudou and others need a chance to develop and get game time then no better than in the competitions lower in our priority list.
How Poch would be torn to shred by some of you if he started Kane and Eriksen vs Barnsley and they got injured !
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completely agree
posted on 19/9/17
It is really horses for courses.
Ultimately, the priority for this club is the league. Winning it the main aim, with CL qualification the next. It builds the brand, brings in the sponsors, and allows us to invest in the players and stadium.
Unsecksy, but there it is.
I guess the domestic cups will be be a case of horses for courses.
Games such as tonight are exactly the type of fixtures we should always look to blood players, and give those on the fringes of the XI minutes.
The next round of 16 will also fall within a busy period of PL and CL fixtures. Unless we have tough opposition, it will be more of the same.
The quarters fall just after the CL group ends, and the semis and final are in the break too. That is when we will take it full pelt I guess.
For those that want full strength sides every games, it is a false econony.
If we did so, and progressed in all cup competitions through to Spring, we will end up with a fixture pile up. We will have battered the same 13 or 14 players, and will probably suffer from a spate of injuries and fatigue towards the end.
It has to be managed. That means giving players a rest and not battering them every available fixture.
posted on 19/9/17
I'll settle for PL or CL 👍
posted on 19/9/17
comment by HRH King Ledley (U20095)
posted 2 hours ago
It is really horses for courses.
Ultimately, the priority for this club is the league. Winning it the main aim, with CL qualification the next. It builds the brand, brings in the sponsors, and allows us to invest in the players and stadium.
Unsecksy, but there it is.
I guess the domestic cups will be be a case of horses for courses.
Games such as tonight are exactly the type of fixtures we should always look to blood players, and give those on the fringes of the XI minutes.
The next round of 16 will also fall within a busy period of PL and CL fixtures. Unless we have tough opposition, it will be more of the same.
The quarters fall just after the CL group ends, and the semis and final are in the break too. That is when we will take it full pelt I guess.
For those that want full strength sides every games, it is a false econony.
If we did so, and progressed in all cup competitions through to Spring, we will end up with a fixture pile up. We will have battered the same 13 or 14 players, and will probably suffer from a spate of injuries and fatigue towards the end.
It has to be managed. That means giving players a rest and not battering them every available fixture.
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Well said
The funny thing is that several of our fans spent all summer revelling in their moral high ground that we weren't spending £100m+ because we were...
'Developing youth'
'Growing organically'
'A long-term vision'
'Utilising the academy'
Yet I'd take a guess that a few of those same fans are now complaining that we don't field our strongest teams in all the cups. Well our strongest teams wouldn't consist of the youths coming through the academy that some were shouting from the rooftops about so you can't have it both ways.
posted on 19/9/17
People having a go at Poch for just being honest, and only doing exactly what most of the big club managers have been doing for years
posted on 19/9/17
Looks like it was actually Klopp that dismissed the Cups.