Good post, just out of interest if Pochettino became available to us, would you not want us approach him ?
If we had the Pochettino who was the vibrant coach as at Southampton then yes. Perfect.
Development of academy players and good attacking competitive football.
Bu I think this way of him has gone and spurs job changed him.
He was a coach who could get unexpected results with Southampton.
Then he just became a coach who got expected results for a consistent period with spurs and never had the edge to go to next level.
I don't have much impression he would be any measure significantly better than Deano or some other coaches who could win a match more than villa expect too.
With Spurs they hardly showed up away from home against the big clubs - he's a coach who lost the ability he had in the premier league to win unexpectedly.
The away record in his time at spurs against big 6 was shocking for a competing club.
What he did go because of both the squad of players and his tactical set up was get the players to win games.
Spurs reached their peak though with him as a manager . Poch ran out if ideas and then went spectacularly stale.
They displayed that shocking form and performances in many away matches after a while and not just in the big six fixtures..
Pochettino coaching actually went from being the best performing Premier League away team to the worst and was a major reason and indication to Poch being sacked.
I think that gave an indication of Pochettino.
Maybe circumstances of having his head turned by PSG , Real Madrid , Man Utd was distracting.
But to be a really good and skilled coach in his position with his resources at Spurs he would have won a trophy.
He be a manager outside of cup competition and one off cup matches to win when not expected .
Heck that performance by Spurs in the European champions League final was embrassing. For all the good they did to get there.
In our circumstances he could bring something of course. But has he got some ambitious nature above his station ?
Like he thinks now he should be somewhere or wants to be some where with a very decent chance of a trophy. Or is he holding out for the financial aspect like Newcastle for a job security and big resources?
Is he really good enough for Real Madrid . PSG -probably where he's best suited ,and having played for them too is a fit. A position where he has great resources would allow him to give him reputation of being a success in at least winning domestic titles. However I don't know if they totally trust he could deliver the European trophy.
I'm not any more confident of that man in charge of villa than with Deano in charge during this time.
I just think Pochettino experience is actually a hindrances to how he now coaches. And that he doesn't have the loyalty that Dean Smith undoubtedly does