Tottenham fans, it’s like a constant cycle, isn’t it? Appoint a new manager who brings initial success, which is then followed by embarrassing defeats to poor opposition and as a result the manager is wrongfully sacked. Failure to qualify for the Champions League results in the best player being sold for a hefty profit and the money recouped is blown away ‘like a kid in a sweet shop’ as Sir Alan Sugar put it.
It needs to change, doesn’t it?
I’ll kick this analysis off by discussing Tottenham’s ‘technical director’ Franco Baldini. And while I began putting my personal opinions on the Italian to paper, I also began collecting the opinions of other Spurs supporters.
Nozrul Ahmed, owner of @SpursInTheBlood, had this to say regarding Baldini:
“I’m sure many of us, including myself, were excited at the prospect of having Franco Baldini at our club. However, it’s gone all downhill since. The signings we made last summer, most of those players reportedly being Baldini signings, have not performed to the level we wish they would on a weekly basis. I can see him leaving now and I’m delighted at the possibility of appointing Paul Mitchell – someone who Mauricio Pochettino has worked with in the past.”
Furthermore, many of you may also agree with FBA finalist Nikhil Saglani’s opinion on Baldini:
‘The Director or Football role can work in English football but the way we approached it was flawed. The idea should be that the manager chooses the players he wants and the directory of football goes out and tries to get that player for the club. The players we signed with the ‘Bale money’ weren’t bad individually but weren’t the players the manager wanted. And once that happens, there is a lesser chance of success.”
And my personal opinion is very similar to that of the two interviewees. I’m absolutely ecstatic that Pochettino wants Southampton’s Paul Mitchell to take charge of recruitment at the club, and he wants assurances he won’t be working under the Italian technical director, who simply looks like he won’t be at the Lane for much longer. At this currently moment in time, there’s so much negativity involving the club. But I assure you, it could be a lot lot worse. As of today, we are only four points off fourth place and we also remain in all three possible cup competitions. Perhaps Adeybayor is right when he asks for Spurs fans to be more positive and get behind the team more.
We are a young, fresh group with a lot of talent and potential talent. We need to give them time to gel together and allow Pochettino to gradually enforce his philosophy and style of play on our club. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
“My challenge is to win the Premier League, eventually, this is our goal, to win the title one day”, spoke the Tottenham boss during his early days in charge. We all know Pochettino wants his teams to work hard and press high up the pitch, however we must take into consideration the fact the less upwardly mobile squad may take a little more convincing than the Saints group Pochettino has previously managed, and therefore it is vitally important Mauricio is given full responsibility to go out and buy his own players in the upcoming transfer windows.
Not only that, it is important us fans stick by the players as well as the staff and act as the twelfth man when our boys play at the Lane. Away from home, our support always has, is and will be supreme, that’s a given.
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