Back in January we discussed Mauricio Pochettino, who yesterday left Southampton to become manager of Tottenham Hotspur. He is without question the hottest management property in the most bloated league in football.
He was also an unemployed flop a little over a year ago.
In reality, Pochettino is a good manager but he is also the latest in a long line of faux guru-managers, the aura of divinity around him is illusionary. He was sacked by Espanyol in December 2012 with the club bottom of La Liga after 13 games, after propelling them up the league from a similar position two years earlier. Espanyol’s problems were not Pochettino’s problems. The club strategy had been failing for years, Pochettino was not the first manager to suffer as a consequence, in fact, he was the club’s third manager in a season when he took over.
He joined Southampton, who were on a different trajectory. Southampton have been producing some of the best youth talent in the UK for a decade but a series of self-harming boardroom battles saw the club competing in the third tier of English football. In Nigel Adkins the found a man who won two consecutive promotions and had them comfortable in the Premier League.
Then, in January last year, Southampton made one of the ballsy-est decisions in football history. They sacked the successful Adkins and replaced him with the aforementioned unemployed flop.
Chairman Nicola Cortese, who was an outsider to the football industry, figured that Adkins could only take the club so far and that, with the appointment of a man in-tune with the new strategy, Southampton could make a real breakthrough at the top of the Premiership.
Pochettino did what Cortese wanted, not through obligation, but through instinct. Unfortunately for Southampton, Markus Liebharr, who appointed Cortese, died, and his daughter-and-heir, Katharine, figured the family had spent enough of their fortune on an English football club. With strategy tending towards a breakeven point, Cortese resigned. It was inevitable that Pochettino would follow.
What are the lessons for us?
Forget looking for a guru, it’s all about the strategy. Get the strategy right, only employ people who are instinctively aligned to it, and employ an intelligent, tactical student, even if he can’t speak the language.
CQN Event in London
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bournesouprecipe
22:29 on 28 May, 2014
Apparently some Sevconians are ragin that Michael Laudrup ‘a Rangers nine in a row
legend’ is being linked with the Celtic job.
SadButTrue CSC
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Saw it on twitter! Written by one of the more erudite Sevconians, apparently!
Ha ha ha ha!
HH
PF Ayr…a sore one.
Justafan, credit where its due, K.Boyd seems to have matured in
many ways.
Whoever gets the gig as our new boss can depend on Mulgrew
& Broonie in front of the back 4 if he wishes in the champions league
qualifiers.
Delaneys Dunky
22:19 on
28 May, 2014
MacJay
Amazing how certain things are imprinted on the memory.
Teetotaler,eh?
Maybe that`s where I`ve gone wrong.
Gordon Street
Weird seeing a ghuy in green scoring, crossing himself and:
a) me not being happy
b) him not bring booked
Happy to support Scotland. I am Scottish after all. But really not looking fed to us playing Ireland.
That could leave me looking at some strange-looking bedfellows.
Confused.comCSC
HH jamesgang
Aye, Keano!
JtT
Couldn’t believe my own eyes.
Bring = being
Apols
The Rangers fan Boyd is fine as a pundit. So is Hibee Craig Paterson.
Keane now favourite with PaddyPower but not red hot only 5/4.
While Coyle taken a big fall from 4/9
Anyways did think Roy’s three month stint at Celtic was with an eye on the main job.
Would be DD’s man and he might even get backed from the Irish owners.
Dallas
I was brought up in Garnethill and attended St Aloysious, Fr Montgomery used to fund me for away games when I was a wean, a great man, can remember coming back from a defeat at ibrox greetin and him telling me not to worry that the ‘devil was good to his own’ He was a Jesuit and a very learned man, but he was also Celtic through and through. The Jesuits up there now are mostly English and wouldnt even know we exist.
ahh for the good old days
Delaney’s, thank you for the message to Macjay.
My teetotalness is now involuntary, the medication I am on for my Psoriatic Arthritis has two lots which can affect my liver function so it was not out of choice.
However, I was teetotal voluntarily until I was 23. We played Shamrock Rovers in the European Cup in Dublin. The Guinness looked so good I had to have some and the wheels came off my wagon. It may be a coincidence but since then my memory hasn’t been as good.
Does anyone think Kris Commons will be asked to do Scotland games for tv since he anounced his international retirement? Boyd let his national team down with his petulance when George Burley was in charge but alls forgotten now.
Roy Keane just for the interviews Scottish media – imagine Hugh Keevins, David Tanner and that nervous bloke from Scotland today
Dallas Dallas where the heck is Dallas
22:28 on
28 May, 2014
Have been thoroughly enjoying your reminiscences with Del.D.about the Aquinas and the surrounding areas,although I`m of the generation before.
Mid`70s ,I was a member of Celtic Films which gave us marvellous access to most areas of the stadium.Used to share the gantry with Archie Mc Pherson around the era you were speaking of,`76. Sad season right enough.
Aff tae work.Great chatting.
Jonny the Tim
Leave them to it. Just chuckle!!!
SCOTLAND INDEPENDENCE.
Great to see the latest news that I will either get £1000 or £1400 a year from the government depending on whether I vote, respectively, yes or no in the referendum.
I’m not sure if this is a scam acgr has come up with or someone from another continent.
So far I haven’t been asked for my bank details, though that might yet come.
Should I be voting on the cash I’ve been promised or on something of a higher order?
Twenty first, I was a Hill Street green also.
My parents thought it would be ideal for me but it was ideal for my social life only.
I have gotten to know a lot of people through it. I have become friends of friends of mine who I was at school with. Through them I got to know their friends and my wife is scunnered with the amount of times I stop to talk to someone I know, admittedly the majority support our team.
Did you know Paul Coyle from Garnethill, he was in the year below me?
Macjay, lol.
Macjay, My mum and dad got a house in Knightswood as long service reward for 22 years in Drumchapel.
One of my favourite sights of living way out west was the sign above the barber in Whiteinch. Dick’s
Gents
Barbers
It still makes me chuckle, very immature I know.
Tom Molach
I was thinking if asking for my wedge up front and then putting on with Paddy Power to bet on the next CFC manager
Free money after all …isn’t it ??
Macjay, that must have been a great gig doing the Cine club stuff.
I only managed to get to a few showings as hardly any were local to me showing how popular the Celtic Cine Club shows were , getting shown all over Scotland & Ireland.
What are the lessons for us?
Forget looking for a guru, it’s all about the strategy. Get the strategy right, only employ people who are instinctively aligned to it, and employ an intelligent, tactical student, even if he can’t speak the language.
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Paul…..
We have a strategy………buy low…develop…sell high…..bank any CL money….pay fat bonuses to directors.
We are on a downward spiral to mediocrity and 10K attendances……doing just enough to beat the domestic opposition.
While Batman and robin are running the gotham City PLC…its going to stay that way too.
I would love to be proved wrong but i don’t think so…not any time soon.
Supermarkets get in trouble too….just ask Safeway and TESCO
Stairheedrammy
21:57 on
28 May, 2014
Good news for the boy.
I see the Scotsman rag running a 7 Green Brigade members on ra song charges, trial in November.
BRTH
Be proud sir
Aberdeen are way ahead in preparation for next season:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27425205
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27586096
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/27609855
We need to get ready for Europe and the Premiership. Hurry up. Get a manager who gets rid of players we don’t need and buys Robertson from Dundee Utd and Anya from
Watford.
Go do it Keano.
What’s keeping you?
Dallas,
I know the Coyles well, I didnt go to Aloysius though I went to St Columba, I was brought up in Hill Street, its a small world.
HH
Good night all
Jude, Wullie Fernie is one of the payers I would have loved to have seen as well as my dad’s all time favourite, Malcolm MacDonald.
Wullie was responsible as well as the great Sean Fallon , I believe, for bringing though most of Lions as well as helping develope the Quality Street Gang.
His Kilmarnock team were one of the most attack minded I have ever seen. Their midfield player, Iain McCulloch was a teriffic player who could have made it if he had better attitude and fitness. Steve Clarke’s big brother, Paul, played at Rugby Park then.
I won’t sully my post by saying who played on the left wing for that Kilmarnock team
Dallas
Paul Coyle rings a bell with me but I am struggling to put a face to the name.
Twentyfirstofmay
That is a good story about Fr Montgomery — I never knew he was a Celtic man — wish I had known that at the time.
Night Tim land. Night wee Oscar my hero. God bless x x
….pfayr supports weeoscar
22:55 on 28 May, 2014
You should be able to do a deal. Factoring! Offer your £1000 or £1400 to Alex Salmond or Danny Alexander for £500 or £700 respectively.
Put the proceeds on Keano.
Let us know whether it was Alex or Danny who took up your offer.
The rest of us can then cash in on YES or NO.
You win (if keano) and we win.
Tom Molach
I must say I’d love to see that wee Anya running at Scottish defences, but imagine the kickings he would take! In Europe his pace could only be an advantage. Robertson is a no brainer.
Twenty first, sorry I misread your post. Your blog name is a cracker.
I wasn’t allowed to go to games against the now rotting corpse. When I found out my parents were flying out on holiday on 21/5/79, great I can go to the game. I didn’t go as their flight was at 9pm and they didn’t leave the house to 7:30. I had to settle for the highlights later on then was gutted as were all Celtic fans, the game wasn’t filmed due to a technicians strike.
Paul would get a slagging as he was a Jags fan. He’s a good guy despite that.
Brogan, congratulations to your daughter. Will she be getting a pair of your favourite style of boot as a rewardt?
Recently attended a reunion of O.A.s in Sydney attended by the current heidie and his wife.
The P.M. of Oz,his treasurer and the leader of the oppo. were all educated by the J`s.
Frightening.:-)
Brogan, Their was a Paul Coyle from Bearsden who might be a similar age to you.
One of the curates at my childhood parish was Fr John McGinley from Clydebank. Was he related to you?
Keane 11/10 currently. Not quoted at all in any of the other markets being quoted, mainly because you couldn’t imagine West Brom, Southampton, Brighton giving him the job – should that worry us? I don’t know, but I am sure that were he not Irish and had a couple of months with us his management record would not allow him anywhere near the job. Does that mean he wouldn’t be successful – who knows?
I love him as a pundit, and as a player he was a boss, if he gets the job I would support him and will look forward to the press conferences.
TM
Thought Robertson and Enya ;) were immense together on the Scottish left side. Would like them both in green and white hoops with Strachan and McGhee managing them at Paradise.
Would like to see Anya linking up on the left with Izzy. The way it was meant to be with Derk before they discovered he had no heart.
Anya could also play left back when Izzy not fit.
Delaney’s, I would agree with those two adorning our hoops.
Sky sevco news say ex-sticky bun scout, Ewan Chester, is leaving Norwich. He was head of recruitment there. That’s why they probably signed the useless kid on hardman, Whittaker.
Thought Efe coming on had an impact on the game. The threat down the left diminished, and he pushed forward causing problems…that and Robertson going off.