Article is nonsense … opening statement
Effectively what we are seeing is the irrefutable decay of a squad that should have been recycled, reinvigorated, revitalised, a squad that has been allowed to drift into the footballing crisis it now finds itself in.
This is where I'm not understanding the kind of broad statement that players cannot play at a club for more than a certain length of time (statistical evidence actually suggest it's managers not player that have single club longevity issues)
- Hugo, Kane, Son, Lamela, Eriksen, Rose, Lucas, Davies, Dele, Dier, Aurier (11 first team players) are in or around the prime age for their careers
- Toby & Jan are the senior experienced players that for many years we begged to have in the team
- Winks, Sanchez, Foyth, Tangaga, N'Dombele, Lo Celso are all young, exciting potential, all already with international and PL experience and with exception of Tanganga & Lo Celso (PL)
- Sanchez, Aurier, Lucas, Foyth, N'dombele, Lo Celso, Sessegnon are all players added more than half way into Poch's tenure, even if they haven't gotten as much playtime as expected, they are in and around squad.
I ask this again, does anyone believe that the above squad should lose
19 out of the last 41 games? would our fudging B team lose 19 out of 41?
And if Pochettino does go, which big name, knowing what they know, is going to be prepared to grasp this particular nettle?
Again, more flimflam ..
- Spurs has always paid managers well
- You think Jose has been sitting in our games because he likes the new stadium? or the press murmurs are without merit?
- Spurs is a great option, top 4, in CL, great facilities, a very good base team to work with and the knowledge that our ability to spend will go up
- Jose and Allegri are available, any upcoming manager will jump at the chance and we could probably tempt a few established ones from their current clubs.
This again is another one of those myths that ANY club allows a manager complete and free reign on who they want to buy at whatever price/wages (Pep and Zidane have both been told no on occasion by their clubs, Jose was told no at United)
In truth, everyone and every level at the club must take some share of the responsibility.
The one truth in the article, but here's the thing with responsibility, it's starts with the leader
- Levy has come out and said, we didn't get rid of all the players we wanted, we didn't get in all the player we wanted (he owns that)
What I'm missing is Poch saying "we have been on a brick run", "the players lack the right level of motivation/commitment", "we have been fudged over tactically repeatedly" and "
it's my fudging job to change that right now" not in January, not when the magic fairy arrives, not when we recover our emotional wellbeing ...
Again, dog chasing it's tail arguement
- Either you believe that Poch has been wronged, unlucky, whatever and that squad listed above is so fudging bad (worse than Harry's team. etc) that losing close to 50% of our games is on par. In which case the crazy solution seems to be ok, the club is going to spend another 200M on players because the lot above are brick.
- Or you accept this team is horrendously underperforming for 10 months, and Poch needs to own that, try something fudging new (not a fudging diamond with overlapping FB's with the same fudging players that haven't been able to make it work for 10+ months) or move on ..