Manager Wish-List Thread

[Riou]

Feel Potch is an overrated coach too, tbh...feel he struggles with egos and people shouldn't forget how terrible Sp**s' league form was in the last year or so before he was sacked.

Wouldn't mind him taking over here, to send the Lilywhites into meltdown though.

 

[Barry]

Potch did a great job for a few years with Sp**s, good enough that I'd be very happy with him here, even though his trophy cabinet is lacking. Feel he'd work particularly well with our young team.

 

[Makingtrax]

The sacking of Poch at Sp**s was similar to the sacking of Wenger at Arsenal.Two over performing managers that will take a long time to replace.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Poch failed at Sp**s? What am I reading here....

Of course the piece of filth liked your post.

Poch failed. Nothing complicated about it. Won zero trophies with best Sp**s team in their history. Wenger won 4 FA Cups in same time with worse squad.

 

[hydrofluoric acid]

Feel Potch is an overrated coach too, tbh...feel he struggles with egos and people shouldn't forget how terrible Sp**s' league form was in the last year or so before he was sacked.

Wouldn't mind him taking over here, to send the Lilywhites into meltdown though.

Think only AM rates Pochettino. Absolutely failure of coach.

 

[Barry]

Of course the piece of filth liked your post.

Poch failed. Nothing complicated about it. Won zero trophies with best Sp**s team in their history. Wenger won 4 FA Cups in same time with worse squad.

Gotta say that you make good case here. I still rate him but he did have a very talented team

 

[Tir Na Nog]

He's a bit on the fat side too, if there's one thing I don't want as a manager of my football club is a fat ****er with no self-discipline.

 

[Sapient Hawk]

I'm honestly shocked at all the fawning over Pochettino.

Lest we forget, this is a man who said trophies only serve to build egos.

What the hell is he doing plying his trade at the pinnacle of football for then?

But he is a man of principle, after all. He saw that they had a prime chance of winning Ligue 1 & in a haste to avoid the building of nefarious egos, he allowed Lille to pip them to the title.

Now look at PSG, a group of humble grounded players with not an iota of ego among them

 

[2Smokeyy]

PSG isn’t really a good measure to judge a manager. Tuchel, Emery, Ancelotti and Pochettino have all failed there.

Any of the above would be a massive upgrade on our rookie.

 

[Toby]

PSG isn’t really a good measure to judge a manager. Tuchel, Emery, Ancelotti and Pochettino have all failed there.

Any of the above would be a massive upgrade on our rookie.

There's the EL serial winner plus two CL winners among those 4. PSG is a ****show.

 

[AbouCuéllar]

Oh c'mon, what am I reading.

Yeah, he was competing at times when the league is not as strong as it is now, but:

First season: 70 pts, 3rd place. Highest league finish since 1990.

Second season: 86 pts, 2nd place. Highest ever Sp**s point tally, first time finished ahead of Arsenal in 22 years.

Third season: 71 pts, 4th place. CL final. Finished above Arsenal for second season straight, after not doing so for 22 years.

Please. Pochettino oversaw the best period in Sp**s recent history, oversaw unprecedented success and respectable performances from them in European football which had not been seen in the modern era ever, and spent two seasons ahead of Arsenal and one season one point behind us after 22 years of finishing behind us.

Calling him a failure at Tottenham is just delusional. He's by a distance their best modern manager. He's the best Tottenham manager I have seen since I started following the Premier League in 1996. That's a low bar but still, calling him a failure is really just nonsense, I'm sorry.

 

[Barry]

Yeah, it feels a bit dirty to be lusting after Poch but he did do really well with Sp**s and Southampton. I had a look and in 15/16 they finished 3rd, in 16/17 they had a second placed finish. The team and squad wasn't on paper much better than they have now - better defence I'd say but not much in the rest of the team. He had them punching above their weight. Also at Southampton. 8th with Southampton is a big achievement really. The highest that Potter has managed with Brighton to date is 15th

Edit - just seen that @AbouCuéllar has just covered this all already!

 

[Makingtrax]

Oh c'mon, what am I reading.

Yeah, he was competing at times when the league is not as strong as it is now, but:

First season: 70 pts, 3rd place. Highest league finish since 1990.

Second season: 86 pts, 2nd place. Highest ever Sp**s point tally, first time finished ahead of Arsenal in 22 years.

Third season: 71 pts, 4th place. CL final. Finished above Arsenal for second season straight, after not doing so for 22 years.

Please. Pochettino oversaw the best period in Sp**s recent history, oversaw unprecedented success and respectable performances from them in European football which had not been seen in the modern era ever, and spent two seasons ahead of Arsenal and one season one point behind us after 22 years of finishing behind us.

Calling him a failure at Tottenham is just delusional. He's by a distance their best modern manager. He's the best Tottenham manager I have seen since I started following the Premier League in 1996. That's a low bar but still, calling him a failure is really just nonsense, I'm sorry.

This. A team spending 6th gets 3rd, 2nd, 4th. Best three year league finish since 1962. You'd have to be mental to say that's a failure.

 

[AbouCuéllar]

I'm honestly shocked at all the fawning over Pochettino.

Lest we forget, this is a man who said trophies only serve to build egos.

What the hell is he doing plying his trade at the pinnacle of football for then?

But he is a man of principle, after all. He saw that they had a prime chance of winning Ligue 1 & in a haste to avoid the building of nefarious egos, he allowed Lille to pip them to the title.

Now look at PSG, a group of humble grounded players with not an iota of ego among them

17 games under Tuchel 35 pts 34.89 xPTS. 2.058 pts and 2.052 xPTS/g.

21 games under Poch 47 pts 43.38 xPTS. 2.238 pts 2.065 xPTS/g

Do you rate Thomas Tuchel? Because Poch outperformed him last season with the same team. Making this seem a bit of a ridiculous take (that he 'allowed' Lille to pip them to the title...).

Anyways, there are some things about Poch I don't like, I wouldn't even put him at the top of my list of managers I'd like to see take over Arsenal (I'd take Potter and Gallardo over him, and Rose, ten Hag, and Frank I'd all have to study more to know but quite possibly as well), but to say he failed at Tottenham or that he is ****...c'mon, we are just re-writing history. And contradicting ourselves greatly, especially if you rate Wenger, because he oversaw a period in which Tottenham outperformed us in the league and overtook us for CL spots (and was relevant in CL when we were not).

 

[Sapient Hawk]

17 games under Tuchel 35 pts 34.89 xPTS. 2.058 pts and 2.052 xPTS/g.

21 games under Poch 47 pts 43.38 xPTS. 2.238 pts 2.065 xPTS/g

Do you rate Thomas Tuchel? Because Poch outperformed him last season with the same team. Making this seem a bit of a ridiculous take (that he 'allowed' Lille to pip them to the title...).

Anyways, there are some things about Poch I don't like, I wouldn't even put him at the top of my list of managers I'd like to see take over Arsenal (I'd take Potter and Gallardo over him, and Rose, ten Hag, and Frank I'd all have to study more to know but quite possibly as well), but to say he failed at Tottenham or that he is ****...c'mon, we are just re-writing history. And contradicting ourselves greatly, especially if you rate Wenger, because he oversaw a period in which Tottenham outperformed us in the league and overtook us for CL spots (and was relevant in CL when we were not).

I do rate Tuchel & believe he should've been hured when Arteta was circling the drain last December.

Also, the jibe concerning Lille was tongue in cheek. You would've noticed it had you clearly read my post.

You'd enjoy AM if you didn't take things seriously

 

[GLITCH]

Poch already said he won't come here. Would prefer Potter who gives me Wenger vibes.

 

[TornadoTed]

I keep reading that Poch has failed at PSG, I'm interested to why people have this view as I haven't seen them enough under him to form an opinion.

I know they got thumped in the semis of the Champions League by City and lost the Ligue 1 title but he only took over in January. This season they are 6 points clear at the top of Ligue 1 already and top of their group in the Champions League.

Are they playing poorly and getting bailed out by individual quality or something?

 

[UpTheGunnerz]

Unai Emery

 

[Barry]

Poch already said he won't come here. Would prefer Potter who gives me Wenger vibes.

This is the thing with Poch - highly unlikely he comes to Arsenal next

 

[El Duderino]

Yeah, it feels a bit dirty to be lusting after Poch but he did do really well with Sp**s and Southampton. I had a look and in 15/16 they finished 3rd, in 16/17 they had a second placed finish. The team and squad wasn't on paper much better than they have now - better defence I'd say but not much in the rest of the team. He had them punching above their weight. Also at Southampton. 8th with Southampton is a big achievement really. The highest that Potter has managed with Brighton to date is 15th

Edit - just seen that @AbouCuéllar has just covered this all already!

It's more the manner on which he did it. He was in an upward trajectory, from Espanyol, to Soton and finally Sp**s, he made every club better with very little money to his disposal.

Thank God Levy is Levy and decided to keep control to himself. The man can sell a player, sure, but he is a horrible squad builder and was lucky Kane, Son - and to some extent, Ali - panned out.

Just look at what he did with the Modric and Bale money.

You add Kane always wanting to make it about him and you get their mini downfall.

You can point at no trophies, but he took them to a CL final and made them a bit less of a joke. Thats honestly monumental when it comes to Sp**s.