It’s all relative really isn’t it. Plenty of Spurs managers would have still found a way to fuck things up even with that squad….he probably got the best out of them. Does it make him a top coach? No but it does merit saying that he did a good job there.Originally Posted by Mac76
@hcz His job at Spuds is overrated, he got lucky with a youngish squad which gelled and maybe he helped it along here and there but if he was that good why sack him after just a few seasons?
He reminds me of Mourinho, gets a decent season or two out of a team before it all goes sour and he starts moaning there isn't enough money
The interesting thing about Mourinho is as much as what you’ve said is true, the irony is that he won the top prizes in football at two clubs where he had (and again I use this word) relatively far less money to spend than elsewhere. Porto was an immense achievement to win the champions league…yeah he got lucky that teams like Real Madrid and AC Milan choked, but there’s always an element of fortune with these things. Leicester got lucky that City, Chelsea etc had poor seasons and that as it turned out their two main title rivals were us and spurs.
Saying someone did a decent job at a club is not to say they are a top coach.
Plus things go sour at clubs. It’s very rare for most clubs that a coach chooses the time and manner of their departure like Klopp is.
Pochetinno is definitely more an Emery than a Pep. And I say that as someone who thinks that Guardiola is a bit overrated…I do think someone like Klopp would have achieved more than him over the same time with the same finances he had at Barca, Bayern and City.
That’s not the same as to say he’s underperformed (although arguably in terms of European success, he did at Bayern and it took him six years to make City European champions)
But my opinion is biased by the fact that I don’t like him. He comes across like a condescending prick when he talks about Arsenal.
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