Poch claiming our players were tired against Sheffield Utd on Sunday after a home game against Utd on the Thursday. Imagine if they had to play in Europe very week!!
I want the conference league. No point us being in the champions league as we will be cannon fodder. Thought Europa League was achievable given other teams around us from, but the Burnley and Sheffield United results rendered that unlikely. Conference League is unfortunately our level at the moment, if that. I'd expect to win it if we were in it mind.
We haven't had a fit squad all season & a manager petrified to play the academy players!! If we didn't have an injury crisis & a manager willing to play the likes of Castledine, George etc then 100% we should play in it. Could argue that's how Saka was discovered/introduced to the first team at Arsenal under Emery but unfortunately I don't see Poch doing that. He preferred to play a CB at LB as opposed to Maatsen at the beginning of the season!!
Do you honestly see poch being in charge next season? I don’t which is why I mention whoever is in charge next season I.e. whichever manager takes over.
IF Poch has a 2nd season (I hope he doesn’t) I do believe his youth integration and use of the squad would improve, he was the same at Spurs with his first year and then in the 2nd year he started to use more youth players in cups and rotate the squad better. When he left he was reknowned for his use of academy players
Worryingly if we get any form of Europe I see them sticking with Pochettino hence the negativity from myself. If we get a new manager (& I really really hope we do) you could argue a week between games & time on the training pitch would be more beneficial for the players as opposed to playing Thursday Sunday. For what it's worth, I do think we'll be playing in Europe next season, we should be at least let's just hope we have a top manager & a competent medical department to navigate us through it!
We can't even cope with 1 game a week, let alone 2!!
In what context Billy?
Poch claiming our players were tired against Sheffield Utd on Sunday after a home game against Utd on the Thursday. Imagine if they had to play in Europe very week!!
I want the conference league. No point us being in the champions league as we will be cannon fodder. Thought Europa League was achievable given other teams around us from, but the Burnley and Sheffield United results rendered that unlikely. Conference League is unfortunately our level at the moment, if that. I'd expect to win it if we were in it mind.
You wouldn’t play the same XI in every game, twice a week, rotation is key which I mention in the article
We haven't had a fit squad all season & a manager petrified to play the academy players!! If we didn't have an injury crisis & a manager willing to play the likes of Castledine, George etc then 100% we should play in it. Could argue that's how Saka was discovered/introduced to the first team at Arsenal under Emery but unfortunately I don't see Poch doing that. He preferred to play a CB at LB as opposed to Maatsen at the beginning of the season!!
Do you honestly see poch being in charge next season? I don’t which is why I mention whoever is in charge next season I.e. whichever manager takes over.
IF Poch has a 2nd season (I hope he doesn’t) I do believe his youth integration and use of the squad would improve, he was the same at Spurs with his first year and then in the 2nd year he started to use more youth players in cups and rotate the squad better. When he left he was reknowned for his use of academy players
Worryingly if we get any form of Europe I see them sticking with Pochettino hence the negativity from myself. If we get a new manager (& I really really hope we do) you could argue a week between games & time on the training pitch would be more beneficial for the players as opposed to playing Thursday Sunday. For what it's worth, I do think we'll be playing in Europe next season, we should be at least let's just hope we have a top manager & a competent medical department to navigate us through it!
Totally agree. It’s the type of experience our players will need if we are to get back to the top.
If we can play European football we should target it indeed, Luke. Though I doubt it we'll play European football next season.
It can be top 8 this season even with the iffy results/performance of late we can achieve top 8
Let's hope we'll get some good results to play in Europe again!!