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.
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blooter it!
13:49 on 28 May, 2014
TinyTim – 12:24
“Too much emphasis is given to tactics.
If i am bigger ,stronger ,faster ,more skilful and more intelligent ,then you can ram your tactics.
If I have another 10 just like me ,and another 15 in reserve ,then all the tactics in the world won’t stop me.
The Barca team of recent vintage beat plenty who were bigger, stronger and faster…
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…..and did brilliantly for a number of years till they met the 2013 Bayern model who were bigger, stronger, faster and more dynamic…..at that point they got pumped!
HH jamesgang
If there is nothing to hide, then why all the flapping? Why not a seamless transition? It’s not exactly becoming of a global branded PLC with a long term strategy who reacts to foreknowledge of a pivotal employee handing in his notice and with big meaningful European meetings fast approaching not having a walk in replacement in place.
If the girl behind the counter in my local newsagents handed in her notice, come the following Saturday and match day, they’d have a trained replacement in place.
Awe Naw
Barring Owen Coyle, I agree with you.
I’m away for a lie down now… :¬)
Not read blog since the weekend so apologies if someone else has beat me to it. But someone who lnows the strategy, someone who is already in the system, someone who is where Lenny was before he got the job. An intelligent guy who has performed his role within the club so far very admirably. Big step up but what odds John Kennedy?
Craven Cottage is the new home of international football.
Now that’s Bad…
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/apr/01/fulham-michael-jackson-statue-fans
Hoop hoop Hooray:
Does not John Kennedy speak Glasgow?
But Paul hints that the new replacement does not.
Has Paul been tipped a nod?
If he hasn’t, why would he suggest such?
Not to say the new manager is not from Slough.
Really looking forward to tonight’s 0-0 draw……
!!Bada Bing!!
14:54 on
28 May, 2014
Really looking forward to tonight’s 0-0 draw……
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9 corners will be a great spectacle but who’s counting;)
HH
Paul, why don’t you tell Peter and the hierarchy to address the support?
They jump on the bandwagon each time we do good things. About time he acknowledged the shareholders and paying public.
You can post pro board but the lack of acknowledgement is not only rude but frankly disgusting.
We don’t need a name let me make that clear but the utter disregard is not only detrimental, its disgusting…….
SPC
Paul,
You can play some folk like a fiddle.
Its called acknowledge the guys who need to spend their based earned cash… For the record, I’ve got my season book but not renewed YET. ADDRESS THE PUNTERS
Based of course meant to be ‘hard’
My money”s on Gordon Durie.
What strategy?
CelticQuickNews:
Just the truth, no agendas’, no spin, no innuendo, no pulling your leg, left or right, no havin’ a laff, no takin’ ra pash, no bull, no claiming a throne your arse is too big for, no claiming a crown your arse is too big for, no suppression, no alignment, no cliquesm no cliques, no politics, no favours from fear, no multiple named posters who talk to each other and slant the poll, no favours from sycophancy, no trumpet blowing, no bowing to the audience, just the truth, nothing but the truth, as it happens with regards Celtic FC.
No lazy journalism from the poxy msm nor the coveted posters.
I dream a dream CSC.
jude2005 is Neil Lennon \o/
I wouldn’t be wanting Lubo at Celtic park even as a coach.
He hasn’t done that for a while and his only forays into coaching and management have not ended well for the clubs he worked for.
Another case of great player, not so great manager/coach.
He now appears on TV here as a pundit on Slovak TV or Czech TV. I reckon he is happy with that now.
Kitalba
You luvs it.
Margaret McGill:
That invisible strategy, can’t you see it?
Margeret McGill
With dj as assistant manager ?
Pete Lawell’s on holiday.
He’s got a time share at Albufeira- a bit of golf, the new John Grisham, a nice cold Superbock.
He’s chillaxin’.
-good advice.
Sorry Margaret, unforgivable mistake with the spelling, my daughters called Margaret
ddoooh
HH
Does the coefficient count in the Europa League and does anyone think, if it does, that Europa League is probably best suited for us to get our coefficient up and progress in europe beyond christmas? por cierto
DBBIA
Big breaking news. There’s a new Grisham? Really?
Por cierto,
It certainly does count.
It looks like it’s worked for benfica.
Snake-Lubo ,like Keane,and a few more were great players,but can’t come down the levels to coach players ,who were far inferior of them IMO.
I dreamt a dream but I woke up an’ alas ’twas just a dream.
I can’t remember the last time I met and honest man, to be honest it is that long since I met an honest man, who speaks from his heart and not his ego nor his stomach, I forget what an honest man sounds like.
Thank God their are no soup kitchens in Glasgow today CSC
Seriously?
por cierto- i think you get the same co efficient points for a EL win as a CL win,pretty sure commentator on EL Final said that.
Disclaimercsc
kitalba
think theres still a soup kitchen or two out there, but you at least sound like an honest man
HH
bankiebhoy1
Can you send me another email and I’ll sort?
david@cqnmagazine.com
Bada Bing / Jamesgang, I think I my have been rumbled. No response to the last mail I sent the scammer at half one.
Ach well it was fun while it lasted. I guess I lose my bet with young acgr and will need to stump up the fiver. Wait a minute, I think I’ve just been scammed by my son. Ha ha.
Roy Keane’s price cut all across the board,in last 15 minutes………..worryingly :{
Steinreignedsupreme
14:46 on
28 May, 2014
Craven Cottage is the new home of international football.
Now that’s Bad…
http://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/apr/01/fulham-michael-jackson-statue-fans
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I’d ignore – Craven Cottage is a wee place that’s full of cowards
ACGR
What about I send you the £45, and we split the fiver?
Oh no, wait…
TBB- yes, it’s called The Strategist.
Pete’s got it on his Kindle.
It’s about a lawyer in rural Mississippi who is asked to defend the star quarterback who has been accused of raping a cheerleader.
The quarterback is black and the cheerleader is white.
The quarterback is going to take Old Miss to the championship for the first time in years; he’s on the short list for the Heisman Trophy and will go in the first round of the draft, if he’s acquitted.
The girl comes from a poor white family, basically trailer trash, but her grandfather is in the Klan.
Pete’s findin’ it a real ole page turner, and a great escape from the pressures of his working life.
twentyfirstofmaynineteenseventynine :
Don’t be stupid mate there aren’t any soup kitchens or food banks in Glasgow, if there were, do you honestly believe Celtic FC and all that it stands for would be paying six digit salaries and six digit bonuses to some of their non playing employees when people are starving in Glasgow.
Margaret McGill
15:06 on
28 May, 2014
My money”s on Gordon Durie.
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National Hunt?
Georgie n Bada Thanks.
Therefore, it was Benfica that I thought about, surely our aim has to be getting into CL but at all costs 3rd place to fall into EL and more coefficient points. I know last 16 is fantatstic but unless they start to make that a reward for auto qualification the following year, then the only reason for the last 16 is monetary, and that only suits the PLC not the fans por cierto.