The Roflham Lolspurs Thread

[Skeletor]

Roflham Lolspurs again

[LRD]

Baffling. He's no established name while they could have a few choice selections after the WC.

 

Should be fun if he keeps up with that kind of lineup at Southampton.

[Skirge]

10 Games and gets sacked PLEASE

[Guest Haris Vuckic]

Tim Sherwood  ;D

[The College Dropout]

Honestly, Sherwood comes across as a despicable cunt. Hope he fails.

[Parky]

There will be a 2/3 game bounce and then the flirt with relegation. This is Armageddon for Spois.

[madras]

There will be a 2/3 game bounce and then the flirt with relegation. This is Armageddon for Spois.

gonna do a froggy over that claim ?

[Sima]

Why the fuck have they appointed Tim Sherwood full time?

 

Daniel Levy, football hipster.

[Guest BenArfa10]

No I like Sherwood from his interviews, simply because he seems very nervous and completely out of his depth and very much like if a fan in the stands was given the job. Well done Spurs replace 21 goal Bale with Lamela (who doesn't play), Eriksen, Chadli, Capoue, Soldado (who can't hit a barn door), Chicires and Paulinho and return back to the previously outcasted Adebayor, then appoint Tim Sherwood as manager for two seasons. Don't play Defoe who is one of the most lethal English finishers of the last ten or so years. Tout Andros Townsend as the next big thing (when he has no end product, he's just Lennon MKII) before promptly dropping him Tell all and sundry that you are title contenders whilst sitting below Newcastle and Everton. Don't worry though I'm sure Tim will 'av you playin' 'the Spurs way'. Or who knows maybe the famous wheeler I'm not a facking wheeler dealer I'm a football manager 'Arry will return.

[Belfast Mags]

Roflham Lolspurs again

 

Was just about to post that 

 

Admin pls

[Deuce]

There is a game of musical chairs taking place on Christmas Day. Tim Sherwood maybe just a short term solution for Tottenham. The London based club is in fact interested in hiring current Italy coach Cesare Prandelli for next season. Prandelli has received a few offers in recent days, and is pondering what to do after the World Cup in Brazil. The Azzurri’s playmaker Andrea Pirlo could also join Prandelli at Tottenham. Pirlo’s contract with Juve is set to expire at the end of the season.

 

Prandelli will likely be replaced on Italy’s bench by current Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri, with Clarence Seedorf taking over the rossoneri. Milan’s executive director Adriano Galliani is currently in Brazil where he will meet with Seedorf to start planning the Milan of the future. The game of musical chairs has just begun, the coaching jobs for Italy, Tottenham and Milan are at stake.

 

(Information for this article taken from Di Marzio’s editorial for TuttoMercatoWeb for 12/25/2013)

 

http://www.gianlucadimarzio.com/calciomercato/tottenham-interested-in-hiring-prandelli-while-pirlo/

[Tiresias]

Allegri to manage Italy? Is that failing upwards or something?

 

Pirlo imo isn't suited to the premier league, will get bullied out of the game mostly.

[Flip]

Loving that XI for Spurs. Sherwood for President. Bound to be a goalfeast there.

[womblemaster]

just seen who hes got on his coaching team.....Sir Les seems to be his second in command?

[Dave]

@BBCSport

@BBCSport understand @SpursOfficial in advanced talks with #saintsfc boss Mauricio Pochettino over manager vacancy

 

How depressing.

[Wullie]

Mustn't have been able to attract any recently sacked League One managers.

[Collage]

@BBCSport

@BBCSport understand @SpursOfficial in advanced talks with #saintsfc boss Mauricio Pochettino over manager vacancy

 

How depressing.

 

Expected but aye.

[Ketsbaia]

Is Pochettino even that good? I know Pardew thinks the mighty Southampton are out of reach but, if I was Spurs, I'd rather get de Boer.

[triggs]

Is Pochettino even that good? I know Pardew thinks the mighty Southampton are out of reach but, if I was Spurs, I'd rather get de Boer.

Its debatable like, if we hadn't collapsed we would have finished ahead of them

[Mike]

Is Pochettino even that good? I know Pardew thinks the mighty Southampton are out of reach but, if I was Spurs, I'd rather get de Boer.

Its debatable like, if we hadn't collapsed we would have finished ahead of them

 

We didn't collapse, really. We just took the tents down and killed all the animals after Christmas.

[Collage]

Is Pochettino even that good? I know Pardew thinks the mighty Southampton are out of reach but, if I was Spurs, I'd rather get de Boer.

Its debatable like, if we hadn't collapsed we would have finished ahead of them

 

They play brilliant football though. Impressive amount of young local players coming through. Mainly down to their academy obviously but Pochettino is clearly giving the young players the opportunity to prosper.

[leffe186]

It's looked like being a toss-up between Poch & De Boer for a while. I'd be happy with either. Someone found an ace article on why Poch would be a good choice somewhere...but of course, I'm buggered if I can find it right now.

 

It seems Liverpool will be happy if it's not De Boer:

 

Liverpool Union ‏@LiverpoolUnion 31s

Spuds are finished, can see us Re-uniting Vertonghen and Eriksen with Suarez at Liverpool within the next 2 years. #LFC #Transfers

 

Liverpool Union ‏@LiverpoolUnion 20s

Spuds just signed Pochettino, I know that they are a tiny club, but wow he's won absolutely nothing. #LFC #Spuds

 

Unlike Brendan Rodgers, of course. Hang on...

[Disco]

Think he'll do well, could actually be a chance to get something of Lamela n all.

 

Pretty sure he has a release fee (Pocchetino).

[Tooj]

http://www.espnfc.com/blog/_/name/espnfcunited/id/14917?cc=5739

 

Mauricio Pochettino: A Martinez or a Moyes?

 

So now we know. Mauricio Pochettino can’t be cloned. Or, to be more exact, his impact is not automatically replicated with a similar scenario.

 

Pepe Mel’s brief and undistinguished West Bromwich Albion career can be interpreted as a failed attempt to produce a Pochettino of the midlands, a Spanish-speaking evangelist for the pressing game who could revolutionise a mid-table team's style of play. Instead, Albion got three wins from 17 games, an extended flirtation with relegation and the impression that Mel’s brand of football would require a radical revamp of the playing staff. It was easier to axe the head coach. Albion duly did.

 

All of which serves to make the original Pochettino more attractive to suitors. And Southampton’s stylish and swift progress to eighth place threatens to backfire. Their premier talents, led by Luke Shaw and Adam Lallana, are likely to be lured to bigger clubs. Pochettino appears Tottenham’s preferred target to replace the sacked Tim Sherwood.

 

His appeal is obvious. It dates back to the weeks following his surprise appointment, to a two-month period in the spring of 2013 when first Manchester City, then Liverpool and finally Chelsea were not just overcome but overwhelmed at St Mary’s. The results themselves were significant -- especially as, in contrast, Tottenham took one point from a possible 24 against the top four this season -- but so, too, was the manner of them.

 

While Brendan Rodgers was still talking of inflicting “death by football,” Pochettino and his players’ preferred style of execution involved incessant running. Favourites were unsettled by the high-tempo pressing. Gareth Barry’s bizarre, needless own goal showed how flustered City were. It is little wonder clubs with no pervading ethos admire Pochettino’s philosophy.

 

The exponential improvement most of his squad have produced during his 16-month reign helps, too. Shaw, Lallana, Morgan Schneiderlin, Dejan Lovren and Jay Rodriguez have reached new heights. So, without attracting such attention, have lower-profile players such as Steven Davis, Jack Cork and Jose Fonte.

 

Apart from Lovren, the Argentine inherited all from Nigel Adkins and, whereas many a manager would want an expensive overhaul at any club, Pochettino may arrive with the promise that he could work with the players in situ. Cash-conscious chairmen and chief executives, especially those such as Tottenham’s Daniel Levy, can’t help but be tempted. Pochettino appeals to those who feel they have unfulfilled potential in their squad and those who believe previous managers have squandered money alike.

 

Other figures give an added allure: the statistics showing Southampton had more possession, made more passes, scored more goals and conceded fewer than under Adkins. Yet while Pochettino’s methods have proved transferable from Spain to England, there is a cruel, succinct retort to suggestions an overachiever will automatically prosper at a higher level: David Moyes.

 

Admittedly there is no glass ceiling for sides with his style of play. Juergen Klopp won two Bundesliga titles and reached the Champions League final with a similar focus on pressing. Yet Pochettino’s time at Southampton leaves questions unanswered; in some cases because the issues have never arisen.

 

He has operated with a small squad at St Mary’s. It has made it easier for them to have an understanding, to practise and then press as one. It is far harder when squad rotation is required, both because of a bigger pool of players and a more crowded fixture list. Tottenham’s perennially lengthy and ultimately ever futile Europa League campaigns make the same sort of continuity difficult to implement. It is true, too, that Saints could not sustain their excellence for 90 minutes per game over a 38-game campaign. They lost a league-high 20 points from winning positions this season, six of them against Tottenham alone. Opponents became accustomed to weathering the storm and responding.

 

Besides the physical element, there are temperamental factors. Bigger clubs tend to involve bigger egos. Southampton have a youthful group who are easier for a manager to mould and an abnormally high contingent of low-maintenance likely lads, many of them grounded by their years in the lower leagues.

 

The exception was the club-record signing of Dani Osvaldo, who was suspended for a training-ground clash with Fonte before being exiled on loan to Juventus. The damning part is that 15 million pound striker was Pochettino’s recruit, a player he knew from Espanyol. His transfer-market record is mixed, too, with Lovren the sole success, even if that may give another club grounds to employ a director of football, but that has scarcely mattered at Southampton.

 

However, not every manager is fortunate enough to benefit from such a youth system so buying and integrating additions has a greater significance; should they be of the calibre a top-six club pursues, they tend to come with commensurate cost and complications.

 

There is a further factor at elite level. It is harder to slink away from the spotlight. Pochettino has maintained the pretence he doesn’t speak English during his reign at Southampton. Spurs’ previous experience with a manager who preferred to communicate in Spanish, Juande Ramos, did not end well.

 

That is the problem with big clubs: everything is highlighted, a manager’s strengths and shortcomings, his ability and approach, his persona, results and record. Pochettino has many of the qualities to prosper. But as with Moyes, Rodgers and Roberto Martinez before him, until he takes a step up, it is impossible to be quite sure if he will.

[Ronaldo]

A Moyes or a Martinez? Moyes succeeded at the same club where Martinez appears to be doing so. Honestly, such a load of bullshit.