Di Marzio on Ten Hag

Regarding McKenna - it makes no sense for him to leave Ipswich now as he’s pretty much a legend there atm and should just give it a season as if he can keep them up and get a couple of good results against the bigger sides his stock will rise exponentially. Jose really did know what he was doing when he hired him. Poch too.

Poch?

comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 4 minutes ago
Poch?
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I could be wrong but I think Poch hired him at Spurs

comment by Robbb Pochettino (U22716)
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comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 4 minutes ago
Poch?
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I could be wrong but I think Poch hired him at Spurs
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He was working with the academy before Poch even went there. He wouldn’t have had anything to do with his roles at Spurs.

Lucifer does deserve credit for promoting him to his coaching staff, though. And Ole for keeping him on as well.

comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Robbb Pochettino (U22716)
posted 1 minute ago
comment by Darren The String Fletcher (U10026)
posted 4 minutes ago
Poch?
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I could be wrong but I think Poch hired him at Spurs
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He was working with the academy before Poch even went there. He wouldn’t have had anything to do with his roles at Spurs.

Lucifer does deserve credit for promoting him to his coaching staff, though. And Ole for keeping him on as well.
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A cursory check on google says that he went to Spurs in 2015 but Poch joined in 2014 so perhaps Levy was the one that hired him. Not sure how much influence Poch would have had a year into the job in bringing in a guy to coach the under 18s.

He wouldn’t have had any. He started coaching the 18s in 2015, but he was with Spurs as a coach and performance analyst for a little while before that, can’t remember exactly what year he joined.

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Di Marco knows nowt.
He might be right of course because it's 50 _ 50.

comment by Robbb Pochettino (U22716)
posted 12 hours, 31 minutes ago
Regarding McKenna - it makes no sense for him to leave Ipswich now as he’s pretty much a legend there atm and should just give it a season as if he can keep them up and get a couple of good results against the bigger sides his stock will rise exponentially. Jose really did know what he was doing when he hired him. Poch too.
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Actually from a career perspective it’s a great move. Leave before he’s ruthlessly exposed to hammerings next season, join a team like Brighton where he’s far more likely to be safe. Ipswich will be annihilated next season

Kompany has scored the Bayern job despite getting pummelled in the PL: I suppose people looked at his generic qualities as a coach (and the Guardiola apprenticeship) and they understood that relegation is a reflection of the ceiling of his Burnley squad, not his abilities. I suppose McKenna's calculation is going to be less about whether getting relegated with Ipswich hurts his career, and more about whether it really provides an opportunity to further it. He could play nice football but go down because he has an average Championship squad, and no one would blame him - but it doesn't prove anything about him that we don't already know. He could try to adapt to a more pragmatic approach, and perhaps scrape his way to avoiding relegation, and demonstrate that he can defend as well as attack - but that's a risk. If he leaves, I think he should be very careful about the opportunity he picks. We've seen plenty of good coaches move to a big club too soon and harm their reputations. McKenna would be wise to pick a club that has less pressure for instant success, doesn't need Europe, isn't likely to be trigger happy. Brighton looks a much smarter career move than Chelsea.