saint_ed Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 (edited) http://www.london24.com/sport/football/clubs/tottenham/southampton_ace_reveals_what_it_s_like_to_work_with_pochettino_1_3723230 Was he sucking all his favourites off or something? Edited 12 August, 2014 by saint_ed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sour Mash Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 I think someone at Saints could do with going round and giving the players a re-brief on use of Social Media and media liaison as a whole, been all over the place of late. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chalkboy Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Dunno what he was doing to them, but it seems he convinced his little group of admirers that they were far too good for us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corky morris Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 When you compare RK's record to MP's there is only one winner...........................and it aint Mopo!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 In which case it will be interesting to see Spuds win everything this year and Poch goes on to maange Argentina and win the world cup. We finished mid table and got dumped out of the cups yet the man is a footballing genious? Remind me again JRod about how much Poch has won in the game please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olallana Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Dont think that´s a new interview, very much the same quotes that JRod said in the summer when MP left so looks like a rehash article to me... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Man Do Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Echo the above comments really, should JRod really be answering questions about how much he likes working with the manager of another team that want to transfer him. Have a word media department. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_ed Posted 12 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 12 August, 2014 He's clearly poisoned the mind of his favourites once he knew he was off. Afterall, why would he want to see the club improve even further after his departure, particularly when his new club would have effectively been our rivals from a league position sense. You have to give it to him, he's pretty calculated and conniving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 In which case it will be interesting to see Spuds win everything this year and Poch goes on to maange Argentina and win the world cup. We finished mid table and got dumped out of the cups yet the man is a footballing genious? Remind me again JRod about how much Poch has won in the game please. I was listening to one of the better programmes on Talk****e, and one of the pundits mused how well MP will do at Spuds saying that the success that he had at Saints was largely down to the set up already in place. While there might be some truth to that, I do think it a little disingenuous as he is widely reported to be quite the tactician. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewYorkSaint Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 As Olallana points out... these quotes are months old. If he'd said this after having the move turned down, it would be troubling. But he didn't. Move on! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 They are old quotes. The Daily Mail used them in an article again this week so thats where they have come from. Pretty obvious JR would like to play for MP again, and who can blame him? Pochettino raised his game to a high level, so its understandable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waggy Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 These comments are a rehash from the end of last season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 I was listening to one of the better programmes on Talk****e, and one of the pundits mused how well MP will do at Spuds saying that the success that he had at Saints was largely down to the set up already in place. While there might be some truth to that, I do think it a little disingenuous as he is widely reported to be quite the tactician. Is he though? He did seem to be a bit of a one trick pony and I did wonder how he would deal with more and more teams working out how to counter the high pressing game. His tactics worked well away from home but all too often we came unstuck at home against weaker opposition. Perhaps with better players in depth he will show us what he is made of. He did luck out when he came to us as the basis was already there. He without doubt built on that. Different situation at Spuds so will be very interested to see how he gets on there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Is he though? He did seem to be a bit of a one trick pony and I did wonder how he would deal with more and more teams working out how to counter the high pressing game. His tactics worked well away from home but all too often we came unstuck at home against weaker opposition. Perhaps with better players in depth he will show us what he is made of. He did luck out when he came to us as the basis was already there. He without doubt built on that. Different situation at Spuds so will be very interested to see how he gets on there! We were on of few teams to actually have a clear playing style, which is certainly a decent achievement. Plus, he improved some players immeasurably, or at least put them in a system they could shine in. Little doubt that he is a very good coach. Time will tell, but he could be superb. Or he could be found out a bit. But he certainly got us playing the best football Ive seen Saints play in the top flight in 20 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Sometimes you end up at the right place at the right time. Lawrie Mac did very well here but tried the same at Sunderland and came unstuck. Perhaps if they had given him more time it would have worked, we shall never know. We shall aso never know if he (Poch) could have taken us further but we will find out what he can do with Spuds. There is no doubt that he managed to get the best of of a number of players (not all though) and he did well in his one full season here. The fact remains though that he has yet to win anything. Talk to Fergie about potential and realising potential - Pochettino now has to deliver and he wont do that by playing weakened teams in FA cup matches Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Should add that having lots of possession makes people feel good because their team sees a lot more of the ball. If you dont put it in the net though it all counts for nothing - and that is something that Pochettino needs to sort out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
derry Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 He's clearly poisoned the mind of his favourites once he knew he was off. Afterall, why would he want to see the club improve even further after his departure, particularly when his new club would have effectively been our rivals from a league position sense. You have to give it to him, he's pretty calculated and conniving. This has been confirmed. It happened in January. He was never going to stay once Cortese left. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 As I said in another piece, Pochettino should arguably have done much better with the group of players he had, if he was that good and they were that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Is he though? He did seem to be a bit of a one trick pony and I did wonder how he would deal with more and more teams working out how to counter the high pressing game. His tactics worked well away from home but all too often we came unstuck at home against weaker opposition. Perhaps with better players in depth he will show us what he is made of. He did luck out when he came to us as the basis was already there. He without doubt built on that. Different situation at Spuds so will be very interested to see how he gets on there! I agree that the "weaker" sides were quite happy having a very very deep back 5, 6 or more sitting on the 18 yard box, and we did seem to have a lot of difficulty sometimes breaking that down. And yes, Spuds a different situation, and as Talk****e very patronisingly said, that the big clubs experience different pressures and expectations unlike at Saints, so who knows what might happen. I read in one of these ****e articles, that the clique he had Saints probably only worked because of our small stature and the small stature of our players and this wouldn't be so easy at a big club with big players. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Window Cleaner Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 As I said in another piece, Pochettino should arguably have done much better with the group of players he had, if he was that good and they were that good. But at the end of the day you're only as good as your weakest link, make up your own mind whether that's KD,Gazzaniga,Jos or even Gallagher or Guly. That's why 7 teams finished above us, they didn't have weak players of that level or at least have to use them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Bateman Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 But at the end of the day you're only as good as your weakest link, make up your own mind whether that's KD,Gazzaniga,Jos or even Gallagher or Guly. That's why 7 teams finished above us, they didn't have weak players of that level or at least have to use them. Shush, don't pee on my anti-Pochettino bonfire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 But at the end of the day you're only as good as your weakest link, make up your own mind whether that's KD,Gazzaniga,Jos or even Gallagher or Guly. That's why 7 teams finished above us, they didn't have weak players of that level or at least have to use them. Exactly right. When you take that into account, we basically won the league that we were really able to with the players we had. I still maintain that our first XI last season was at least on par with Everton. The difference was that they had Stones as their fourth CB and we had Hooiveld and whilst they could bring players like McGeady and Mirrallas off the bench, we had Guly or JWP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angelman Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 As I said in another piece, Pochettino should arguably have done much better with the group of players he had, if he was that good and they were that good. In all honesty I was a little disappointed with last season in that we didn't get more points and finish higher. I see no reason why we shouldn't have got 10 or even 15 more points. For example - 2 dropped away at Sunderland and 3 dropped away at Spurs. But my real disappointment was reserved for Osvaldo. OK, he scored the best goal of last season, but if he had played properly and knocked in the goals as he was brought in to do, then who knows how many more points we would have got. Looking at ManC and Liverpool, they both scored nearly twice as many goals as us. And who brought him in? Cortese or Pochettino or both? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingdomCome Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Jay Rodriguez: "[southampton] is a great club who are where they belong...It's a squad I want to be a part of" ...forgive me for not being overly bothered by a non sourced, out of context reference to a quote that JR has said at some point in the past. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sadoldgit Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 In all honesty I was a little disappointed with last season in that we didn't get more points and finish higher. I see no reason why we shouldn't have got 10 or even 15 more points. For example - 2 dropped away at Sunderland and 3 dropped away at Spurs. But my real disappointment was reserved for Osvaldo. OK, he scored the best goal of last season, but if he had played properly and knocked in the goals as he was brought in to do, then who knows how many more points we would have got. Looking at ManC and Liverpool, they both scored nearly twice as many goals as us. And who brought him in? Cortese or Pochettino or both? I think every team can look at games where they could have done better but also there could be games where we should have lost but nicked it. I am sure Spuds are kicking themselves over not getting 4th spot. If we had bought another striker instead of Osvaldo who knows. If Boruc hadnt got injured. If Puncheon had stayed. Ifs and buts and all down to hindsight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Block34 Posted 12 August, 2014 Share Posted 12 August, 2014 Looking good for J-Rod https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Arjg-NjAPcA&feature=youtu.be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saint Charlie Posted 13 August, 2014 Share Posted 13 August, 2014 Jay's Dad retweeting an article 'Will Liverpool come in for Jay Rodriguez before the window shuts". Will be utterly amazed if he is here beyond the end of this season unfortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saint_ed Posted 13 August, 2014 Author Share Posted 13 August, 2014 Jay's Dad retweeting an article 'Will Liverpool come in for Jay Rodriguez before the window shuts". Will be utterly amazed if he is here beyond the end of this season unfortunately. Link? Is it a genuine account? I find it bizarre the actions of Corks dad and seemingly Jayrods, so unprofessional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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