Pochettino will need 2 years to rebuild
Tottenham have hopefully now found a manager who is not going to shoot himself in the foot, the way Harry Redknapp, Andre Villas-Boas and Tim Sherwood have all done.
Bumping into a fellow Spurs fan in the street we discussed the rights and wrongs but were both of the opinion we think Mauricio Pochettino is here to stay for a while. As ever with Spurs fans there are even two sides to a manager, or head coach as we now should be calling him, staying at Tottenham for any period of time.
Were Redknapp, Villas-Boas and Sherwood sacked or did they effectively sack themselves, were they backed or weren't they backed, will Pochettino be backed and given time, will Pochettino prove he is worth giving the time to. The answer lies somewhere in the middle, a bit of both.
With a new manager the squad has to be overhauled, players he can work with stay, players who don't fit his system sold with others brought in. What constitutes backing a head coach though. Tottenham bought six players during the summer, how many were at Pochettino's behest. Certainly Benjamin Stambouli must have been, he was a bolt out of the blue and probably Federico Fazio given Pochettino was a former centre-back himself.
Michel Vorm possibly not, Ben Davies was on Spurs list prior to Pochettino arriving and was suggested to him, although he still had to agree any purchases of course.
DeAndre Yedlin may have been a bit of both after his emergence at the World Cup, he looks an identikit modern full-back but you just have to think there was a bit of marketing thought involved there as well. Eric Dier has been on our radar for more than 2 years so he would have been another club buy Pochettino would of had to agree to.
Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin were tried for and we may well go back for them while Hector Moreno from his former club Espanyol broke a leg at the World Cup. He also may well also still be on the radar.
Strikers can't be brought in until we offload what we have and central midfield still looks like a bunch of good individual players without a specialist position. Etienne Capoue for instance was a box-to-box midfielder but is now playing virtually as an out and out defensive midfielder.
For some fans backing a manager means going any buying a player with no regard as to cost or whether a player is worth what is being asked. They might like to know that Pochettino himself is a part of the team who determine the value of a player, both our own and these we intend to buy. It's not therefore simply a case of paying £27 million for Morgan Schneiderlin, it has been reported the club and Pochettino value him at a maximum of £19 million.
What constitutes backing, buying the players the manager wants or paying way over the odds and massive wages for names? Spurs fans never seem to be happy unless the club is buying household names window after window.
It will take several transfer windows to get the squad Pochettino wants, in the meantime he has to show progress with the players he has, show a developing system. If Daniel Levy sees that then he'll get more than the two years I'd expect he'd get as a minimum anyway.
Bumping into a fellow Spurs fan in the street we discussed the rights and wrongs but were both of the opinion we think Mauricio Pochettino is here to stay for a while. As ever with Spurs fans there are even two sides to a manager, or head coach as we now should be calling him, staying at Tottenham for any period of time.
Were Redknapp, Villas-Boas and Sherwood sacked or did they effectively sack themselves, were they backed or weren't they backed, will Pochettino be backed and given time, will Pochettino prove he is worth giving the time to. The answer lies somewhere in the middle, a bit of both.
With a new manager the squad has to be overhauled, players he can work with stay, players who don't fit his system sold with others brought in. What constitutes backing a head coach though. Tottenham bought six players during the summer, how many were at Pochettino's behest. Certainly Benjamin Stambouli must have been, he was a bolt out of the blue and probably Federico Fazio given Pochettino was a former centre-back himself.
Michel Vorm possibly not, Ben Davies was on Spurs list prior to Pochettino arriving and was suggested to him, although he still had to agree any purchases of course.
DeAndre Yedlin may have been a bit of both after his emergence at the World Cup, he looks an identikit modern full-back but you just have to think there was a bit of marketing thought involved there as well. Eric Dier has been on our radar for more than 2 years so he would have been another club buy Pochettino would of had to agree to.
Jay Rodriguez and Morgan Schneiderlin were tried for and we may well go back for them while Hector Moreno from his former club Espanyol broke a leg at the World Cup. He also may well also still be on the radar.
Strikers can't be brought in until we offload what we have and central midfield still looks like a bunch of good individual players without a specialist position. Etienne Capoue for instance was a box-to-box midfielder but is now playing virtually as an out and out defensive midfielder.
For some fans backing a manager means going any buying a player with no regard as to cost or whether a player is worth what is being asked. They might like to know that Pochettino himself is a part of the team who determine the value of a player, both our own and these we intend to buy. It's not therefore simply a case of paying £27 million for Morgan Schneiderlin, it has been reported the club and Pochettino value him at a maximum of £19 million.
What constitutes backing, buying the players the manager wants or paying way over the odds and massive wages for names? Spurs fans never seem to be happy unless the club is buying household names window after window.
It will take several transfer windows to get the squad Pochettino wants, in the meantime he has to show progress with the players he has, show a developing system. If Daniel Levy sees that then he'll get more than the two years I'd expect he'd get as a minimum anyway.
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