Pochettino has Levy backing
Having read a post from the Tottenham Way talking about a Daily Telegraph article it seems to me that the article source is a piece of ITK in a Tottenham Hotspur forum that has journalistic interpretation, rather than inside knowledge.
Those of us who write these blogs know the press read them and can often spot an article that has spawned out of something we have written, my Steve Archibald post after the Nottingham Forest game was once such piece.
The ITK basically said that Mauricio Pochettino has been told he will be backed 100% and if a player doesn't buy into what he is doing they will be sold, whoever they are. It points out that Pochettino went ballistic at them after the WBA disaster and that they are adopting his tactics on the training field and then doing their own thing on a match day.
Naturally Pochettino is not happy. The issue with Jan Vertonghen being angry after he was left out against WBA was explained as Pochettino not wanting to put Fazio with an inexperienced centre-back, which presumably means inexperienced at Tottenham. Vertonghen is said to have accepted that and is happy at Spurs.
Andros Townsend is one who was named and quite frankly always is named as someone who does what he is supposed to on the training field but plays a totally different game in a match. The ability is there, the mentality isn't which just confirms what I have been saying for a while about him.
Tim Sherwood said much the same thing when explaining why Aaron Lennon was always picked, because he is better defensively and does as he is asked to do. If you look at the way Pochettino is using him he seems to be a defensive option now to try and hold onto something. He is more in the mould of James Milner now who England bring on as an extra defender basically to help a full-back.
Someone like Paulinho looks a certainty for the door and must be a million miles away from a Premier League appearance at the moment.
I see with similar tactics Marseilles are romping away with the French League at the moment, winning again yesterday. Pochettino needs the right players to implement them and from the start it has been clear that Levy has settled on the Argentinian as the man to take Spurs forward.
You don't put in the level of background checks Tottenham put in if you are not going to then back your decision and back your man. Who wants to stay and who wants to leave, performances will tell us.
Those of us who write these blogs know the press read them and can often spot an article that has spawned out of something we have written, my Steve Archibald post after the Nottingham Forest game was once such piece.
The ITK basically said that Mauricio Pochettino has been told he will be backed 100% and if a player doesn't buy into what he is doing they will be sold, whoever they are. It points out that Pochettino went ballistic at them after the WBA disaster and that they are adopting his tactics on the training field and then doing their own thing on a match day.
Naturally Pochettino is not happy. The issue with Jan Vertonghen being angry after he was left out against WBA was explained as Pochettino not wanting to put Fazio with an inexperienced centre-back, which presumably means inexperienced at Tottenham. Vertonghen is said to have accepted that and is happy at Spurs.
Andros Townsend is one who was named and quite frankly always is named as someone who does what he is supposed to on the training field but plays a totally different game in a match. The ability is there, the mentality isn't which just confirms what I have been saying for a while about him.
Tim Sherwood said much the same thing when explaining why Aaron Lennon was always picked, because he is better defensively and does as he is asked to do. If you look at the way Pochettino is using him he seems to be a defensive option now to try and hold onto something. He is more in the mould of James Milner now who England bring on as an extra defender basically to help a full-back.
Someone like Paulinho looks a certainty for the door and must be a million miles away from a Premier League appearance at the moment.
I see with similar tactics Marseilles are romping away with the French League at the moment, winning again yesterday. Pochettino needs the right players to implement them and from the start it has been clear that Levy has settled on the Argentinian as the man to take Spurs forward.
You don't put in the level of background checks Tottenham put in if you are not going to then back your decision and back your man. Who wants to stay and who wants to leave, performances will tell us.
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