In his exclusive column for CaughtOffside, former Aston Villa and Liverpool striker Stan Collymore discusses some of football’s biggest talking points, including Antonio Conte and Harry Kane’s futures at Spurs, Chelsea’s poor start under Graham Potter, Aston Villa’s potential European charge, and much more…
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Mauricio Pochettino destined for Spurs return…
I think if the fans are allowed their say, then Mauricio Pochettino going back to Spurs could materialise.
The worst thing that happens to a football club is when the owners get dugout and we’re seeing that happen with Spurs now. The owners have so far been very clever, they’ve thrown a new manager in every couple of seasons.
I put a poll up on Twitter on Sunday and about 10,000 fans voted on it. I asked what they’d prefer – Pochettino back, Antonio Conte to stay or if they’re undecided, and the results were overwhelmingly in favour of bringing Pochettino back, but it was the comments that the poll received that were really revelatory. Most Spurs fans were saying it doesn’t really matter who the club has as their manager, the problems are with the owners. They’ve got some of the lowest net spend in the division and what happens when the pressure starts to mount on the owners is that they throw another bone out.
I think a lot of Spurs fans feel Pochettino played the game the right way, he promoted youth etc. so I think the easiest option for Daniel Levy will be to bring Pochettino and his backroom staff back.
Conte and Jose Mourinho are huge names but whether they like it or not, Spurs fans believe they should be playing football a certain way and they haven’t done that under either of them.
Having said that, I don’t think Spurs will get rid of Conte this season, I think they’ll wait to see if they do make the top four first, but if they do miss out on the Champions League, I think it’d be too easy for the owners to try and give the fans Pochettino back.
Newcastle United could ruin Spurs’ Champions League hopes…
This is the fascinating thing about Newcastle because we’re not just talking about Arsenal upsetting the usual top four suspects, obviously, it’d be a catastrophe if they didn’t finish inside the top four now, but there could be two or three other teams that should and don’t qualify for the Champions League.
If Man United don’t make it, I think…
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