Mauricio Pochettino

[edna krabappel]

Back to the original post, why would anybody be concerned about what Oscar's two sidekicks are doing? What's the problem?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

My lad has refereed matches at the Saints academy. MP's son plays for the u-14s. My lad mentioned months ago, that MP was very nice to everyone, and speaks perfectly reasonable English.

 

[Diego Napier]

Back to the original post, why would anybody be concerned about what Oscar's two sidekicks are doing? What's the problem?

Exactly. As TRHK said, it comes across as having a sly dig at the club.

They're paid to get the best out of the team, not to be media darlings.

 

[Soulman]

My lad has refereed matches at the Saints academy. MP's son plays for the u-14s. My lad mentioned months ago, that MP was very nice to everyone, and speaks perfectly reasonable English.

Correct. My sons mate is Harrison Reed who was on the bench on Saturday, and has featured in a couple of games. MP speaks very good English.

 

[KZNSeagull]

Back to the original post, why would anybody be concerned about what Oscar's two sidekicks are doing? What's the problem?

Not sure really - the implication is that as we have a manager and an assistant that talk in cliches and don't say an awful lot and two others that never speak to the press, they must be up to no good and the club are hiding something (other than the 83 cup final money, of course).

 

[Diego Napier]

Yep some fair points there. However, that's your job, in which you are getting paid shit loads to do.

If I was offered a Job in Japan and had to speak to the media in Japanese my first consideration would surely be........ ?

Motivating the team, getting them to play the right way and acheiving results are the key assets for the job. Communicating with the press is way down the scale.

I'm not sure which television channel you watch but c'mon, get real! The key characteristic of most interviews I see from most professional football managers is that they talk a load of old b#ll#cks. The majority of comments even from the most successful Premier League managers are one-eyed and inane.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Back to the original post, why would anybody be concerned about what Oscar's two sidekicks are doing? What's the problem?

I'm not aware that the backroom staff are very vocal or visible at many clubs. Had anyone ever heard Rene Meulensteen say anything before he got the Fulham job? Ruben Martinez went with Oscar and the players to the Royal Alexandra before Christmas. And I have it on good authority that at the Christmas party at Donatello, one of the sidekicks (I forget which) got up and made a very good speech in English thanking everyone for making them so welcome.

 

[Joe Pineapples]

He can do whatever he wants, to be frank. No one is going to give a shit if Saints are doing well (and even they aren't - really, who cares? Post match interviews are bilge no matter who the manager is).

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

He can do whatever he wants, to be frank. No one is going to give a shit if Saints are doing well (and even they aren't - really, who cares? Post match interviews are bilge no matter who the manager is).

Paolo Di Canio was a notable exception.

 

[Joe Pineapples]

Paolo Di Canio was a notable exception.

I sort of agree with you. People tend to like "novelty" managers like Di Canio or Holloway because they provoke a chuckle. Or terror in Di Canio's case. But that's short lived. I think what people really want is a manager who speaks frankly and openly about football and their team, dispensing with preconceived notions of what the media/institution wants or expects. But that's probably about as likely to happen as a politician doing the same.

 

[Not Andy Naylor]

Di Canio was nuts most of the time, but his dissection of his players' lack of professionalism after the last game of last season was a calculated attempt to shame them into the real world after David Bardsley had been photographed comatose on the floor of a casino with a load of £50 notes all around him - in one of the poorest parts of the country. He should have got the support of the owner - instead he had a load more players not of his own choosing foisted on him by the director of football. But the players decided they didn't like him so he went and they stayed, on ridiculous wages. If Gus keeps that shower up he's an even better manager than I think he is.