I didn't buy the hype last season, I dont buy the 'they're all championship players' this season. I've thought their attitude and professionalism has never been good though. I wouldn't want the most ambitious, hardworking, professional group of players having a say in who their next manager was and this group of players is none of the above. I'd be wary of anyone they were keen on.
Mauricio Amadaeus Pochettino | Chelsea sack watch
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I think this is a very fair sentiment.
A lot of posters throw hyperbole at Poch calling him a fraud, writing him off completely in his young career as manager, refusing to accept growth and loving the "what can be" factor of ETH.
I think that's only natural, and even I am falling into this logic and favour ETH for the exact reason, but Poch isn't a bad manager. In many ways he can be a safe pair of hands for us.
£100m+ for a guy who will be 29 just after joining, has had some debilitating injures and who is coming off a poor season. Not worth the risk.
It's not confirmed he is going to be manager, but they already know he is going to "urge" the club to buy Kane for 100 mil?
I know it's a nothing story but even the thought of spending big money on Kane made me wince.
Imagine dealing with that shit if he becomes our manager.
Weve decided hes going to be 100m+ again in the summer?
Yep. Fully agree with this. He’s a good manager and definitely an upgrade on our last few managers. So we will do much better with him.
will he possibly elevate us to Fergie levels. Doubt it. Whatever we do, hope we keep a structure around player acquisition this time. Hope Ragnick can help with that.
I’m just tired of us pissing away millions because we think every new manager needs to be “backed”.
Sign Mbappe
Only checked the scoreline and generic stats, and it's another late goal victory and one shot on target (the goal)!
He should be nowhere near the job.
First shot on target at the 93’d minute from a counterattack with Icardi, Messi, Mbappé and Di Maria leading the break.
They are completely unimpressive, was watching it. And it is really just the Mbappe and Veratti show.
In defence of Poch, PSG were playing the team in 5th place who have won 2 out of their last four games.
So credit where credit is due. Messi is only there because of Poch after all...
So credit where credit is due. Messi is only there because of Poch after all...
Psg had superior possession and expected goals. Being dugg out by Mbappe is like saying liverpool is being dug out by Salah. Mbappe isn’t even the top scorer in ligue one, so psg haven’t been relying on him as much. It is crazy what people post on here just because they dislike Pochettino so much. Conte recently got 40% possession at home to Southampton. You will probably not find to much hate for him as you do with Pochettino on this forum.
Regardless, another good win by Pochettino side. That takes their unbeaten run even longer. Up next is their biggest game of the season. I noticed poch rested a few of their starters in order to keep them fresh for that game. Messi will be a weaklink with his off ball movement, so seeing how Pochettino continues to adapt with him in his team will be interesting.
Conte is not being touted as the next Manchester United manager so why should we care about him and how he does. I am concerned that instead of looking to the future we are once again besotted with yesterday's man whose peak wasn't that high. He is a good manager but United need someone with potential to challenge the best.
Where I agree with you is that his stint at PSG doesn't provide a fair basis for judgment. When you have three undroppable superstars it's really hard to see a manager's vision in its purity because his hands are tied by politics beyond his control.
It says on FBREF that PSG had an xG of 1.0 and Rennes had an xG of 0.7. Understat has it as 0.80 and 0.59. Pretty small differences.
If you plug the numbers for the individual shots onto a simulator, you get that a win was 38.85% likely, a draw was also 38.58% likely, and a defeat was 22% likely.
Nothing to brag about.
Pochettino is clearly losing a lot of admirers by his time at psg. When he was at spurs everyone was raving about him and wanted him to be our manager… that was probably more because of who we had and how bad we were doing. There’s a lot more managers available this time around and we have to make sure we get it right! Ten Haag and Enrique should be above pochettino… id even keep rangnick over pochettino for another year and then go all out for Enrique who I think is the only manager that will transform us and have us competing with guardiola.
He did a good job at spurs apart from his last season. That's why he's rated at all.
I didn't rate him at Spurs either, not by the end anyway. (I dont think he's terrible, just not good enough).
Can't see how he's the saviour
Weird thing to say after the performance we saw today. On one side, we saw the intensity and passion from Ralph Southampton team. On the other side, we saw a team that lack enough hunger and passion, which could be down to the players not buying into what Ralf is selling. We need a manager that the players will be willing to run through walls for like we see with teams that play at high intensity e.g., city, Liverpool, etc. The player has stated they want Pochettino and if that is what they want, then it is easy to assume they will play with the much needed passion and intensity. Pochettino revoluzation spurs and is completely adapting his game to fit the big ego of neymar, mbappe and Messi who don't contribute to a pressing game. If people can't see that he is what we need, then they have a much different, unusual understanding of what makes a successful team. Because if the players aren't buying into the manager philosophy, there is no way the manager will be successful.
The players don't buy into Ralf's pressing philosophy, but will for Poch who's preaching the same thing? Righto.
Good point and maybe that's something to consider. If the players aren't receptive to that type of game plan, or if they're incapable of pressing effectively, then going for a manager whose coaching is predicated on that might not be the sensible thing to do.
Yeah totally singing from the same hymn sheet
To be fair, whoever comes in needs a bit of a clean slate with the squad and they'll get it with all the departures scheduled for the summer.
If Poch is to be the manager and the report about wanting Kane is true, I fear he'll fail quickly.
Yeah, right, because obviously it's works wonders at PSG with players like Paredes, Draxler or Icardi
How naive it is for you to think that players will just turn on when he shows up at United just because there's rumors the players want Pochettino. It doesn't make any sense, that is just not how any of this works. If you think the problem is only Mbappé, Messi and Neymar not defending, just open your eyes, take off your Pochettino fanboyism tainted glassed and watch the game properly. There's nothing that works in our midfield for months now, Verratti is doing a 3 men job alone.
I genuinely don't even think he watches any of the PSG games or the league in general, he just says anything to paint Poch as a misunderstood genius.Yeah, right, because obviously it's works wonders at PSG with players like Paredes, Draxler or Icardi
How naive it is for you to think that players will just turn on when he shows up at United just because there's rumors the players want Pochettino. It doesn't make any sense, that is just not how any of this works. If you think the problem is only Mbappé, Messi and Neymar not defending, just open your eyes, take off your Pochettino fanboyism tainted glassed and watch the game properly. There's nothing that works in our midfield for months now, Verratti is doing a 3 men job alone.
It will be the sensible thing to do in the long run. Our style of play needs modernising, and has done since 2009, and the players who aren't receptive to this much-needed change can, quite frankly, do one.
Imagine watching PSG this season, with the players they have available, and suggesting Poch is the answer for us. He would be an absolute disaster and gone in a season. fecking laughable how average he is.
Those who follow, why are there banners asking for Leonardo’s resignation?
They don't think Leonardo is doing a good job. There is regrettable feeling among the fanbase how Leonardo handled Tuchel situation and now they're here with the team that over a year and still play very underwhelmingly. The team is stagnating and Mbappe, the bright spot of the team running down his contract and likely to leave doesn't help the mood. That's what I get from my friends who support PSG.
I assume that it's because he sanctioned the hiring of Pochettino and also didn't fix the problems he inherited well enough. Also lots of fans liked Tuchel and his relationship with Leonardo is a big reason behind his departure.
Because :
- we recruited Messi and Ramos when we needed good midfielders
- the team has no balance,
- we're piling up average players and have no use for them in our starting XI
- he fired Tuchel since he didn't like him,
- he extended Draxler and Kurzawa and nobody knows why
- he didn't manage to sell/loan our unwanted players
- he hired Pochettino and he sucks
- he didn't manage to extend Mbappé.
I think that sums it up.
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Given our match isnt on tv, i will watch the Madrid tie.
Exactly why I want us to look elsewhere for a new manager this summer
But Messi is only there because of Poch?? Or so I'm told?
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