It's difficult for Pochettino
Former England international Gerry Francis managed Tottenham for three years between 1994 and 1997 so is no just some outsider wanting to have a pop at Tottenham.
He feels that the club has lost it's way, that it has no identity on the pitch, no idea of how it wants to play, or at least a set of players and a playing style that don't match. Quite frankly any player should be able to adapt to any system not have to have a system adapted to them. Flying wingers you can make a case for but midfielders for instance should be able to play any system.
So Southampton had a young vibrant side, well the Tottenham side is a young side so why isn't it vibrant? Why are we only picking players who lack pace or vibrancy, why are we buying players without that pace or vibrancy? Aaron Lennon is probably the most vibrant player in the squad along with Nabil Bentaleb yet Lennon doesn't even get a look-in.
It's a problem that it's difficult to see any change to before the January transfer window and then there has to be a big change next summer.
Next season has to be a good one because Tottenham are now one of seven instead of one of five. The danger is we lose our place as one of the seven and attract a lesser quality of player, a slippery slope.
He feels that the club has lost it's way, that it has no identity on the pitch, no idea of how it wants to play, or at least a set of players and a playing style that don't match. Quite frankly any player should be able to adapt to any system not have to have a system adapted to them. Flying wingers you can make a case for but midfielders for instance should be able to play any system.
"They have always been a team for me, and I managed there, they are a big club in many ways.
"They have probably under achieved for many years in terms of winning the championship. They have been a good cup team over many, many years, been in Europe quite a bit, including the Champions League.
"They have always been a team that supporters wanted to see play attractive football, score goals and that has always been their identity going back to Bill Nicholson.
"I think they have lost their way more than their identity, I watched them against Stoke and it's a difficult one for Poch.
“At Southampton he had a young, vibrant side who pressed very high with a good work rate, and that is how he seems to like to play.
“With the Tottenham players he has got that is very hard to do, and they don't seem to have an identity of how they are going to play."
So Southampton had a young vibrant side, well the Tottenham side is a young side so why isn't it vibrant? Why are we only picking players who lack pace or vibrancy, why are we buying players without that pace or vibrancy? Aaron Lennon is probably the most vibrant player in the squad along with Nabil Bentaleb yet Lennon doesn't even get a look-in.
It's a problem that it's difficult to see any change to before the January transfer window and then there has to be a big change next summer.
Next season has to be a good one because Tottenham are now one of seven instead of one of five. The danger is we lose our place as one of the seven and attract a lesser quality of player, a slippery slope.
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