From castigating Levy to eulogising Pochettino
From castigating Levy to eulogising Pochettino
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| Both Levy and Pochettino are disappointed by the stadium delay. |
There is a love in going on at the moment with Spurs fans and Mauricio Pochettino.
For one set of fans, every little problem is the fault of Daniel Levy and not Mauricio Pochettino. Take the transfer window.
It was pretty obvious that we were only interested in our top targets during the window and not in 3rd/4th/5th choices, yet fans were screaming for a signing, any signing.
Who is blamed, Daniel Levy, not the man who has told Levy not to buy anyone other than his top targets, which clubs simply didn't want to release to us.
A little bit of understanding goes a long way.
The club are not stupid. They let Mauricio Pochettino tell the media club messages, like the latest one over the stadium delays.
The usual section blames Levy when the constructors we employed to manage the project, MACE, are the ones responsible for the delay.
"We all feel disappointed of course with the announcement from the club this week. I feel so sorry for myself first of all, for our fans, the players, everyone, and of course for our chairman.
"He tried with the board and everyone who is involved with building the new stadium to arrive on time. It’s been a massive effort.
"We feel it every day, that effort. That we cannot deliver for the Liverpool game is massively disappointing for everyone. I understand that. But the first to be disappointed is Daniel [Levy].
"Our job is to try to help, to be positive, to adapt ourselves in the moment that we are going to play in our stadium. But now we’re still going to play a few games more – Liverpool and Cardiff, that is sure.
"We hope we can finish all the work in that moment and start to play in our new home. If it’s not possible I think we’re going to try to give our best to try in the end to win games, to show good performance, being positive.
“We need to be all together. My message last week was that message. We need our fans to understand that it’s a massive, huge project that will be [there] forever for them and the club. If it’s not possible for different things that it not in our hands, the most important thing is to be positive.
"Of course I understand the problems about the tickets, the money and everything, and I feel sorry for them. I want to say thank you and apologise. We’re going to try to reward them by winning games. It’s the only way we can add and can pay all the effort they are doing and they are going to do for the club."
Some are eulogising him over these comments, but what did they expect him to say. He will have had a word with the Spurs PR team and the message to be put across in this weeks press conference.
He has said what I would have expected him to say, expected any manager to say in the same situation quite frankly.
Nice to hear it but let's not go overboard. It seems to be one extreme or the other at the moment with our fans.
We remain positive is his overriding message, my overriding stance and message this summer too.
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It sounds more likely (to me at least) that someone on the checking/testing side has failed to do their job properly and kept schtum to get away with it. MACE have dropped the ball essentially. Not employed the right people for the job. They are responsible for not keeping to their contract and should be bending over backwards to fix this issue with minimum (or no) extra charge to pass on to the customer (Spurs). They would have been aware before any of it began that there was potential that some may have a hidden agenda and thus they had to keep a managerial eye on things.
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