MAURICIO POCHETTINO HAS been officially named as the new Tottenham Hotspur manager on a five-year contract.
The appointment was confirmed by the official club website as the Argentinian takes over from Tim Sherwood, whose reign spanned from last December to a fortnight ago.
The decision had been widely-anticipated and sees Pochettino make the move from Southampton.
Pochettino guided Southampton to their highest-ever Premier League finish of eighth place last season. He was credited during his 18-month term at St Mary’s with the development of home-grown players like Luke Shaw, Adam Lallana, Jay Rodriguez and James Ward-Prowse.
Previously Pochettino had been at the helm in La Liga of RCD Espanyol before making the move, after a spell in charge of nearly four years, to the Premier League in November 2012.
“In Mauricio I believe we have a head coach who, with his high energy, attacking football, will embrace the style of play we associate with our club,” remarked club chairman Daniel Levy.
“He has a proven ability to develop each player as an individual, whilst building great team spirit and a winning mentality. We have a talented squad that Mauricio is excited to be coaching next season.”
“This is a club with tremendous history and prestige and I am honoured to have been given this opportunity to be its head coach,” stated Pochettino.
“There is an abundance of top-class talent at the club and I am looking forward to starting work with the squad.
“Tottenham Hotspur has a huge following across the world and I have great admiration for the passion the fans show for this team. We are determined to give the supporters the kind of attacking football and success that we are all looking to achieve.”
Pochettino is joined by Jesús Pérez (Assistant Head Coach), Miguel D’Agostino (First Team Coach) and Toni Jiménez (Goalkeeper Coach) with whom he previously worked at both Southampton and Espanyol.
In his playing career Pochettino made his debut with Argentinian side Newell’s Old Boys at the age of 16 and won the Argentine Primera División with them in 1991.
Two spells at Espanyol followed from 1994, sandwiched between time with Paris Saint-Germain and Bordeaux. He won two Copa del Rey titles with Espanyol and also earned 20 international caps with Argentina.
They’re already looking for his successor
Levy has to learn that his job is to sign the chequebook, that’s his job. Wish him well, he did ok in So’ton but I really hope we don’t have another Moyes on our hands…
Why is it every time a new manager is appointed or a manager is sacked or leaves people automatically have to mention Moyes?. It’s getting old..
Moyes
Thanks for making by head explode Willie
Get back to the kitchen Ann :-)
Oh get back to the kitchen jokes, they just never grow old!
Are ya goin the bingo
Nah mate, bingo is worse than being stuck in the kitchen. Well at least I’ve been to an actual Spurs game unlike (I presume) the majority commenting on this thread. ;)
The majority of people on this thread probably don’t support spurs
Pat yourself on the back there Ann
Lol, sexism is always hilarious, I dont care what anyone says, its funny
Have you no ironing to do?
Actually pochettino looks like he’s doing the dunphy pout in that photo
COYS – let’s hope he can persuade Shaw to come as well
I have never been to an ‘actual’ spurs game either…. Been to Anfield though…. Whats an ‘actual’ game too?
Unlikely unless he somehow gets a say in their transfers, unlike any of his recent predecessors…..besides Shaw’s preferred destination is Chowski whom just released ‘not so worth it anymore’ Cole for whom he would be an ideal replacement!
Another good manager on the road to ruin.
Five year contract can’t see him lasting that long
Not a chance.Seems Levy learned nothing from the Moyes fiasco.5/6 year contracts are too long.
Arsenal
I bet his translator will last longer.
He’ll get two seasons at most and spurs will be back to been a wanna-be club.
80% of the people commenting here havent any real clue what they are on about
Is he going to learn to speak English ?.
He speaks english on the training ground but chooses to use a translater for games.
Really fear for Southampton now after such a great season for them. They will lose 3 or 4 big players and have lost a good manager…
They will be one of the richest clubs in the league after selling said players for 60 million
Possibly yeah. But then they have to attract those type of players again. And that won’t be easy, regardless of who the new manager is!
And could possibly be relegated. Hope they don’t but I could see it happening
Could have another Leeds on our hands!!!
As a Leeds fan Im offended!!
Seriously though Southampton are fine financially. There’s no way they’ll collapse like we did
No offence meant Donal :) if they cannot get the right man in charge and get some decent signings in to replace the imminent departures they will be in big trouble I reckon.
Agree with you.
Its a shame really. They dont deserve to be treated like this but i guess thats modern football for you
They owe 25 mil in transfer fees and 40 mil (I think) on a training ground
Before today they were 17/1 to go down…. worth a punt
Gman
Good manager but levy will fk it up as usual
How long will he get under “Deadly” Daniel ? Doubt he’ll last the 5years
Thing about this guy ‘s that he won’t even speak to the daily mail in English
respect him more for that
Agreed.
We all know what happened to the last manager who was given a 5 year contract, enough said !
That was 6 but hey don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant
No loyalty in football anymore. Southamptons reward for a fine season? Being cherry picked for their best players and manager. Dont know why Pochettino is going to Spurs anyway. He could easily end up out of a job by this time next year
If Southampton dont get good replacements they could struggle next season since its looking likely they will lose Lallana and Shaw and maybe even Lambert…
Should be interesting to see if he can get the best out of Lamela, his fellow Argentinian. Could be a good indicator of how successful he will be…There will be a few cut from the squad this summer..Naughton, Townsend to start..
I doubt he’ll be getting rid of Townsend. Young pacy player. He’ll play a high pressing game to win the ball high up the pitch like Southampton did this year. If employs the same tactics he did this year with Southampton and gets spurs defence sorted then I can see them making a solid challenge for 4th place with the squad they have.
That has been Spurs’ problem for a while now. Too many English players in the squad, and piss poor ones at that.
Good appointment happy with that .Its Daniel levy who is the real problem at Spurs.Never gives his managers sufficient time with line 10 managers in13 years.Any potential suitor would consider this job to be a poisoned chalice and could actually damage his reputation by goin there .Nevertheless COME ON YE SPUZZZZZZZ
A 5 year contract with a guaranteed 18 months! Congratulations Mauriccio!
Best fit for the job
I’d love to know what the expectations are from levy for next season,can’t see them breaking into the top four,Chelsea are likely going to spend big,city have £50 million to spend,can’t see Manchester United being as poor as the season gone,liverpool are likely to strengthen,and for once I see arsenal buying a good few players,it’s only everton they can overtake in my opinion..I think pochettino should of turned it down.
Chelsea & City are the only shoe-ins for the top 4, the other 2 spaces are up for grabs for anyone
Arsenal buy a good few players or a few good players?? Big difference….. Go wan you gooners!!
Chelsea have been shoe in’s for every season for the past decade but they still finished 5th the year they won the CL. United were shoe in’s up until last season.
The only guaranteed top four finisher is city.
Spurs are a joke mainly due to bad management….bad move for him
Christmas
Hanukka!
Lennon for Southampton?
Aaron?
No John!
Yes..defo Aaron…adios…no end product
There are too many prima Donnas at Spurs so I will give him less than a year
COYS….. and Justice for Ann!
Either he’s stupid, or his interpreter just played the best prank in history.
Spuds have to be the most over rated team in the Premier league, qualifying only once in Premier league history for the Champions league is piss poor for a club of its size.
Pochittino is a good manager but he’ll be wasted at Spuds who consistently kak themselves every season cause they have no back bone and aren’t up for fight
Nah, Newcastle are.
Who’s ur messiah now? Actually Thats aimed at Newcastle and spurs fans
And most overrated vegetable.
For of a club of spurs size ! spurs are a small club with a stadium capacity of 40,000 no where near as bigs as some clubs in the premier league. Until their new stadium is built they will remain a small club who can’t afford to match the wages of the big players that’s why they can not hold onto to them.
This song is getting old……and I support Spurs. Time for Levy to go.
Ah well…another good manager about to be levy’ed
The chairman is the problem not the managers. Hope this lad is given a chance.
Stacked in the morning
On a shelf, on shelf, on a sheeeelf..He’ll be stacked in the morning
He’s stacked on shelf, he’s stacked on a shelf, pochettino he’s stacked on a shelf.
Woah was not expecting that
Bore
Ahh the next ex manager
G’luck with that one Poch ya had a nice run!
Shame, I used to like him.
Typical spurs appointment, chap has done reasonably well if slightly above mid table is the criteria. He will be there 12-18 months before being sacked, then compensation payouts for him and the back room staff. Getting sacked by spurs doesn’t a manager any harm these days, it’s taken as a given! Sell their best players, replace with inadequate squad players.. Then sack the manager…. Then Repeat every 18 months
Just waitin for spurs to hijack Liverpools move for lalana now.Be such a typical spurs thing to do.Really starting to dislike that bunch.
Bit of a nothing signing really. An average manager who guided a team of average players to 8th place. Spurs are a better team but still full of over paid average joes. Somebody like Van Gal would have been ideal to bring some much needed transfer mussel to the club. Yes Pochettino plays a good attractive style of football similar to Rodgers but what did that get him. Spurs will still finish behind City, Chelsea and arsenal
So 4th? i wouldn’t call him average. he seemed to be doing a good job. Southampton wouldn’t back him with money.
And Liverpool so prob 5th. So he signed feck all at Southampton so why will it be any different at spurs particularly with Levy who call the shots with transfers. He has no experience in Europe so no top class players will want to sign for him
Not until new stadium is built can we compete for top 4 season in season out , get us back competing entertaining make WHL fun to visit again and maybe just maybe win a cup Spurs fans get behind the Guy
If he brings them close he will be seen as a success. Spurs should really Go for the Europa league this season because it is another was OF getting into the CL next season. They are capable of winning it and other English teams seem to not live realised the prize for winning it(United)
Just waitin for spurs to hijack Liverpools move for lalana now.Be such a typical spurs thing to do.Really starting to dislike that bunch