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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Keane before Coyle CSC
Hun skelper
Aye I wonder mate.
Twenty First May Nineteen Seventy Nine.. ( Phew!..if Ah wur You.. a wid Chinge that..tae.
21/5/1979!)
at 16.09
Hiya,Pally… Please tae greet ye fur the very Foist time!
Well.. Ah am Gled tae know that Ye , least read Ma Stuff…
Whether ye Like it or no..wull be oor Little Secret.!
Ah appreciate it . anyway..
But, thanks fur the Reply.
nice Chatting Pal…
Kojo
Still, Laughin’
No want Coyle either.
You fancy Roy Keane then Philbhoy ………. or not ? ffs , its not happening mate
HH
Kojo
16:21 on
28 May, 2014
Where did YOU get YOUR Info, oan Mr. Keane?
If not ..from the Media?
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Speak to any of the young players in and around the club when Keane was there as a player.
I’d take their word any day over the tabloid image you subscribe to.
Ironically they did the same thing with our previous boss – use the snarling image to fill the back page.
And yet you still don’t learn.
Muppet.
Philbhoy, is that a yes from you then?
Am knackered typing awe they posts!
Away hame.
Surely we should be after the current moty -mcinnes anyone?
Are the National Crime Agency under the illusion that Ian black is gaining a cap tonight ?
ACGR
It’s no!!
I opened a bottle of Glennfiddich Oak Finish, 40%, aged 14 years, the other night.
Very nice!
What do you think?
!!Bada Bing!!
16:25 on
28 May, 2014
NatKnow-Rowley Birkin QC, assisted by Colin Hunt ,the self styled “Office Comedian” ?,might do better than some quoted……
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Colin would be excellent in the pressers in times of panic – “Batten down the hatches and hatton down the batches!”
Really got to go now!
Acgr
Love the fact that your Nigerian son from Carnoustie stung you a fiver!
Loved it while it lasted.
Mibbees the bold boy has had to log off. Away to talk to big DD over a round of golf ref some new opportunity in the east end of Glasgow?!?!
HH jamesgang
Don’t go Philbhoy.
Clear up where exactly you stand on Keane as manager?!?! ;-)
HH jamesgang
I would prefer us not to appoint any of the top half dozen in the betting at the moment (Keane, Coyle, Mackay, Moyes, McNamara & Larsson) but if the manager is to come from that group then I’d take Keane before any of the others apart from maybe Mackay.
The likes of Garcia, Clarke or the Laudrup/Wieghorst combo are far more appealing options
I’d place Roy Keane somewhere above David Brent in my list of top candidates for the job.
I hope DD asks RK “why did you mess up at sunderland and ipswich?” – just as he is about to putt.
Somewhere above David Brent, and a very, very, very long way below ole Dick Byrne.
At least if ole Dick got the job we’d know our hard earned season book money is not goin’ to be frittered away on fripperies.
Philbhoy, that’s a yes from me.
On the Fiddich oak finish, not the Roy Keane thing.
I don’t know if you saw my post re the dram from Lidl or was it Aldi, Anyway I bought them both. Both very good session drams. Both gone now unfortunately. I’ll be buying more.
Please god, sort us out with a manager, this is getting too hard to handle:_(
Ole Dick Byrne certainly knows where and when to apply The Embrocation to obtain optimal response.
Roy Keane
Lee Dixon
hail hail
Acgr
Assumed you’d be leading on the negotiations for replacing NFL after excelling yourself in recent transnational affairs!?
HH jamesgang
Gene’s a Bhoy’s name
16:47 on 28 May, 2014
Did he mess up at Sunderland? Took over with them in relegation zone and got promoted. Kept them in the EPL first season and was doing ok in second.
Wouldn’t be my choice as manager but think a lot are a bit harsh on his managerial record at Sunderland.
jamesgang, how very cruel of you to write me off so quickly. It may simply be that Pat is up the hospital visiting his sister………..or is it his cousin. I fully expect him to send me the 45 euros and I can claim my fiver from the young feller.
Off oot in the huff
P.S. I’ve got a couple of joiners working in my house just now and one of them told me that Gary Kenneth is now playing for Broughty Ferry for £200 a week. FFS, doesn’t he realise he could get 50 times that doing a turn for sevco.
gary67
fair point on sunderland but ipswich is a different story
The betting market is bein’ manipulated brilliantly by a ruthless, cold-blooded calculatin’ inside trader masqueradin’ as a humble wee white haired grandmother from Donegal
kitalba
10:48 on
28 May, 2014
Auldheid:
Would you like to rephrase your last post in language I might understand?
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I thought you would understand me using the same metaphor your original point was made in .
In simple terms Celtic have asked the SFA to answer questions agreed with the Res12 shareholders reps. The SFA will have to answer.
So that’s…
David Moyes
Malky MacKay
Steve Clarke
…
..
Michael Laudrup
Oscar Garcia
…
..
Henrik Larsson
any former player with a coaching licence
…
..
Pope Francis
Dick Byrne
…
..
Tommy Coyne
Any former player without a coaching licence
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Alex McLeish
Artur Jorge
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Roy Keane
Stuart Baxter
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David Brent
Paolo di Canio
Big question about Keane, would he relocate to take the managers job? I don’t think so.
I also agree with Kojo, I think Keane would be a bad move.
If it is no Henke, Roy will do for me. Infact whoever gets the job will get my backing and support. I wish to feck they would hurry up, thats nearly a week.
Ah hiv bin thinkin…
In Ma Opinion..efter Much Ponderous… Pondering.. Ah hiv reached this Conclusion..
if it is the Right Wan or Otherwise.. Ah leave that decision… tae Ma Reader.
The Reason why Neil.. Sae.. Abruptly..n.. Mysteriously….at Least, in the Eyes o’ The General Public.. Folded his Tent..Locked his Office..
N took with him.. his revered Autographed Foto..o.. Martin O’Neil…n…his copy o
Kojo’s…”Ah never Played the Game”..one day,last week.
n then… Handed in HIz Resignatiion..
woz
or
Wiz
Because.. He didnae get that Elusive.. Raise.. that He Felt that he wiz.. well.. well Over-Due!
Fur he didnae get it.. Efter his First Year..or. His Second .. Nor HIs Third , at the Helm of a Club .. tae which he had Brought.. Beaucoup Success… Fame n .. er..Bounteous Fortune.
Noo.. He wiz deid Sure that He wid , surely get . that Big Raise in his Salary..
At the End of this Fourth Year…
But,,
Alas n Alack!..
Awe he goat wiz the Usual .. Pat of the Heid..n.. The Re assurance that the Board Wiz Pleased with his Performance.. n a Big Thank You Very Much.. Kid.
So..Neil.. Quite Rightly,in Ma Opinion.. took the Spur..
So..
He Decided tae go where He wid be mair Appreciated..in a Mair Substantial way..
Fur..
When Awe is Said n Awe is ..NO SAID…
It is Alwiz..
“Aboot,the Money, Honey!”
Sure,Neil,also wiz Harboring a Loata Ither Conceptions of How Much this Celtic Joab wiz Coastin him..Mentallly…n.. Publically,tae so..
Eventually, He Decided that the Whole Kit n Caboodle, that went , Airm n Airm along whith this Celtic Joab.. wiz no worth
the Monetary Pittance which his wiz Receiving.
Yep..
It Always comes tae How Much The Laborer Conceives that His Labour..is Worth tae His Master..
n..
Neil, felt that the Answer tae that..in the Case of HIs Master..
Wiz..
“Nae Much!”
That is Ma Opinion..
Kojo
Still,Laughin’
Neglected to include…
Jackie McNamara
Paul Hartley
In the category of…
Any former player currently in a job with a smaller team
TBB
You forgot Tony Adams and Glenn Hoddle ;-)
HH
Roy Keane is now slight odds on because someone must have had about £50 on him to be the next manager.
The bookmakers wouldn’t lay you two trout to a trout on those particular betting markets because they are susceptible to being exploited by people with inside information.
Neil Lennon was odds on for the Norwich City gig even before he had resigned from Celtic. Now that tells you that someone was privy to information that Neil was leaving Celtic, and so they decided to speculate a couple of bob on that particular outcome, which proved to be wrong.
It’s merely a case of bookmakers covering their liabilities, regardless of how small those liabilities may be.
If or when a potential candidate’s price shortens to around 7 or 10/1 on,then you can be almost certain that person will be our next new manager. Up until that point, it remains speculation and guesswork.
HH.
According to some of the comments posted , it’s Roy Cropper who is odds on por cierto
Kojo
Dont always agree with you
But always enjoy reading yer posts
HH
Just got my 4th free sample of sushi in Merchant City, but I’m running out of disguises