Any journey contains ups and downs
Pochettino understands there are good and bad times when you start a new project at a new club and have to slowly build and change things, unfortunately not all Spurs fans do with many calling for his head after just 5 games.
So if a new guy was bought in, say Jose Mourinho and he didn't get the results in 5 games should he be sacked too? These are the same people who whinge about a lack of stability, about a manager, more importantly their favourite manager, not being given a chance or moan because a player who runs around with no end product looks as if he is doing something when actually he isn't.
Yes many of us would put new purchases straight into the team, I would, we did with Dier, so why not Fazio and if he has been bought as a first choice then Stambouli as well. Dier has become the right-back by default, Rose has improved and shown himself at the moment to be better than Davies, Fazio and Vertonghen I can't explain but Pochettino is the one making the choices.
Players under pressure revert to their comfort zone, what they know best, so you have to instill the way you want things done, the movement you require until it becomes familiar and is then the comfort zone for players. You then play at optimum level and if you are under pressure and things are not going well you are still playing the right way to change them but to revert to the not passing wide, pass through the middle tactics just shows the new system isn't ingrained yet.
Naturally you get cries of nothing has changed, well of course it hasn't greatly changed, it's only been 5 games. What are these people expecting, miracles, a magic wand. No they are expecting a mystery benefactor to break FFP rules and go out buying players fr double their worth and pay double the wages we currently pay, all out of their own pocket and the goodness of their hearts.
Back here in the real world it's not like that, FFP has kicked in, now the only money can be spent on infrastructure, player purchases will have to come out f building up a club debt, which of course will take us to the point where we can't afford any more debt, then what do we do. I guarantee you it will be the same people moaning again. For them the grass is always greener but of course it isn't.
What if a new owner is more interested in taking money out the club than putting it in? What if we get a Randy Lerner or a Ken Bates or a Vincent Tan? There are no guarantees a new owner will spend, no guarantees at all and you can't vote for change if a new owner is going to invest because you have no idea whether they will or not. A new owner could be great, it could also be a disaster.
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Anyway back to Pochettino and what he has had to say after the game.
He highlighted the slowness in getting the ball from back to front as a problem before a ball was kicked and the players haven't improved that as yet, it has no doubt been worked on in training but as yet the two central defensive players who control the tempo haven't improved that aspect yet.
Certainly we need to be more aggressive around the box, far to many, let's stand and wait for an opening to appear, rather than a quick ball to an overlapping full-back to play the ball into dangerous areas.
At the moment Pochettino says we are at the stage of putting across how he wants us to play, in that respect we are not the finished article some re expecting us to be. He is now looking for the team to take on board improvements but there will be further games where some players will revert to default mode and results will not go our way.
Nothing is a bed of roses in life, certainly not being a Spurs fan.
So if a new guy was bought in, say Jose Mourinho and he didn't get the results in 5 games should he be sacked too? These are the same people who whinge about a lack of stability, about a manager, more importantly their favourite manager, not being given a chance or moan because a player who runs around with no end product looks as if he is doing something when actually he isn't.
Yes many of us would put new purchases straight into the team, I would, we did with Dier, so why not Fazio and if he has been bought as a first choice then Stambouli as well. Dier has become the right-back by default, Rose has improved and shown himself at the moment to be better than Davies, Fazio and Vertonghen I can't explain but Pochettino is the one making the choices.
Players under pressure revert to their comfort zone, what they know best, so you have to instill the way you want things done, the movement you require until it becomes familiar and is then the comfort zone for players. You then play at optimum level and if you are under pressure and things are not going well you are still playing the right way to change them but to revert to the not passing wide, pass through the middle tactics just shows the new system isn't ingrained yet.
Naturally you get cries of nothing has changed, well of course it hasn't greatly changed, it's only been 5 games. What are these people expecting, miracles, a magic wand. No they are expecting a mystery benefactor to break FFP rules and go out buying players fr double their worth and pay double the wages we currently pay, all out of their own pocket and the goodness of their hearts.
Back here in the real world it's not like that, FFP has kicked in, now the only money can be spent on infrastructure, player purchases will have to come out f building up a club debt, which of course will take us to the point where we can't afford any more debt, then what do we do. I guarantee you it will be the same people moaning again. For them the grass is always greener but of course it isn't.
What if a new owner is more interested in taking money out the club than putting it in? What if we get a Randy Lerner or a Ken Bates or a Vincent Tan? There are no guarantees a new owner will spend, no guarantees at all and you can't vote for change if a new owner is going to invest because you have no idea whether they will or not. A new owner could be great, it could also be a disaster.
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Will we try and tie up Schar on a free transfer?
Chadli takes responsibility for WBA defeat
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Dembele's words tell a worrying story
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Pochettino has a lot of work to do
Anyway back to Pochettino and what he has had to say after the game.
"When we arrive here we know the situation. We know that maybe happen up and down in different period.
"It is always different when you arrive at a new club with different players you need time to get to know each other. I'm not worrying about the situation.
"I believe at the moment to we need to have more points to reflect the table, it's the beginning of the season, it's not how we start it's how we finish.
"We are sure our team will improve not only in how we play but in the results in the next few weeks.
"We had more than 60 per cent possession, but we need to be more aggressive.
"We are in the moment we need to set our style and philosophy. This is a normal process, maybe up and down in the beginning, but we need to be strong and to carry on and to work hard and believe in our way.
"I am unhappy after the performance against WBA, we analyse why it happened, we need to fix something, we need to improve and look forward.
"It's true that we play very slow, we need to move the ball quicker, faster. We need to be more aggressive in the last third of the pitch.
"You need to recognise your mistakes and learn how to fix them and to be clever. We try in the next game not to repeat the mistake."
He highlighted the slowness in getting the ball from back to front as a problem before a ball was kicked and the players haven't improved that as yet, it has no doubt been worked on in training but as yet the two central defensive players who control the tempo haven't improved that aspect yet.
Certainly we need to be more aggressive around the box, far to many, let's stand and wait for an opening to appear, rather than a quick ball to an overlapping full-back to play the ball into dangerous areas.
At the moment Pochettino says we are at the stage of putting across how he wants us to play, in that respect we are not the finished article some re expecting us to be. He is now looking for the team to take on board improvements but there will be further games where some players will revert to default mode and results will not go our way.
Nothing is a bed of roses in life, certainly not being a Spurs fan.
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