Poch’s cycle had ended with Spurs and that’s after getting them to a CL final, Poch is a far, far superior coach and also can bring through and nurture young players whilst balancing a project.
Lets not forget Poch did all that on a shoe string budget under constraints, what’s OGS’s excuse?
When somebody points out some special coaching abilities he has shown I’ll get on board. Has a very limited game plan and his in game ability too change things are negligible.
You can rightly point out getting too the CL final where they didn’t turn up by the way all you like. Lyon got close last season.
The same season he made the final the undercurrent was the team was fracturing all over the place.
He lost a dressing room with very little in the way of big star personality. He wont fit the profile as the solution at a club like United.
So how did he get them playing so far above their level then?
Wouldn’t call his game plan limited either, he showed a balance and approach that had his team playing some very good football year on year.
The cycle had ended which is because he got so much out of them and without getting new blood in like most top clubs do, can’t blame him for that. How do you know he can’t manage big personalities? Not sure how you come to that conclusion at all.
You day the team was fracturing and in the same sentence how he got them to a CL final, how is that a negative?
Well imo he lost a small time squad in the dressing room. That’s a very unusual occurrence if a team believes in you.
He’s organised with structure. That’s David Moyes at Everton without a top class striker. Mirror image managers .Same arguments were given on Moyes Everton. Poch had a better side than he ever had.Top class striker takes you a long way.
Both managers fail when expectation comes knocking. Same will happen with Poch he hasn’t got the tactics in him.
Who says be lost the dressing room? The results soured yean after he’d worked them to the bone as managers in his vein do. He’s nothing like Moyes which is obvious.
He has plenty of tactics in him actually which was demonstrated with the football his team played, he took a Spurs that finished six to finishing consistently in the top four. Spurs being in a position to get a new stadium etc has a lot to do with Poch.