No.
Liking Poch and reporting the never critical pieces is merely a red flag. One that does violate the journalist integrity as she exclusively bigs him up and puts other candidates down.
Doesnt do you any good as a journalist and gives you a look of a propagandist. A simp.
Just need to take a quick look at the record.
Let's start from this.
Not really.
As long as one can make a clear distinction between opinion and fact, I don't see any red flag here.
She doesn't work for a supposedly neutral body where she needs to be impartial about Utd's next coach, she doesn't even work for Utd.
She is expressing her own individual opinion, and that's it.
Weird stuff to lean on.
If I say Earth is made of dirt I'm also not lying.
She SPECULATED it's his intention to leave PSG in winter. Basically meaningless and most likely false.
Like I said, seems far more a push of personal interest angle
You need to learn what a fact is dawg
The below 'insider scoop' from the November opinion piece:
"but The Independent [that is Melissa Reddy] understands that the 49-year-old does not want a third shot to be compromised by waiting until the summer."
is not a fact.
It would be a fact if we could verify this is what Pochettino's intention is.
OK.
That's where you are getting it wrong.
When a journalist writes "X medium UNDERSTANDS that", then what follows is info from a source.
There are many ways to say it, but the 'UNDERSTANDS' thing is a linguistic standard for reporting while keeping secret the source.
Then, IT'S A FACT that her source told her that. Who her source is, we don't know, but if it reports WHAT HE WANTS it can be Poch's entourage, his agent, a player that is close to him, his environment in general, or even himself
(And since you have a problem with Reddy:
Guillem Ballague who wrote his autobiography also reported
recently that Poch wants to go to Utd. That should be a Tier 1 source as he is closer to him than anyone.
The fact that he wanted to join in the past is well-documented.
Here is a piece from 2018, not written by Reddy, with the same line confirming his intentions)
Now, to verify that from Poch's own mouth, you have to wait until he becomes Utd's coach, or if he doesn't at all, for many more years of his coaching career to come out and say what his unfulfilled dream was.
So the way you demand verification ain't happening.
Same for revealing all the spicy details of the negotiations he had ever held (like meeting SAF and Utd behind Spurs' back)
It's actually quite ridiculous to claim that in the world of football everything is only a rumor, until the person directly referred to himself verifies it.
People don't speak openly when they are employed or when there is something at stake. We simply go by reliable/unreliable journos, and when many reliable confirm the same info, well...
I didn't say she's a Tier 4 source.
I said the specific story on Poch is a tier 4 reddit level rumor and contains nothing of substance that has been corroborated by further statements from any significant party.
Basically operating at the level of "Ole's been sacked" -> United is vacant, who might they want? -> been interested in Poch in the past -> Poch is ready to leave before summer as not going amazing for him in Paris
Marca does same shit all the time.
Then, since you get the previous point wrong, you conflate the factual with the non-factual parts of the article, making it sound as everything is opinion in there.
Here's the difference:
Examples of Fact reporting:
"He was initially prepared to succeed Jose Mourinho at the club before Ole Gunnar Solskjaer?s caretaker spell was made permanent and had talks with the hierarchy last October over replacing the underperforming Norwegian."
"The Independent understands that the 49-year-old does not want a third shot to be compromised by waiting until the summer"
Examples of Journo's opinion:
"The recruitment at PSG has been more about flexing muscles for the brand rather than what makes football sense"
(or from recent article "Diminishing Pochettino?s work at all three on account of a measurement stick that shouldn?t be applied is silly.")
There is a clear indication when there is an info reported or an opinion submitted.
Most articles combine and blend the two like Reddy does in her article.
Then the line the article operates is not what you write.
More like: "Poch wants to coach Utd" (reporting), "Utd wanted to appoint him in the past" (reporting), " Utd coach position is vacant" (fact), "Poch is the perfect fit for Utd" (Opinion) -> Conclusion: it should happen
An article that contains opinion is not Tier 4
What I am disputing is the line of argument you've taken - that Pochettino would preferably pick United when give a choice between RM and United because as you claimed it's his dream job - because there is no evidence to this effect that I know of.
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The point is the outcome of several different pieces of evidence combed together.
1) that Poch wants to return to EPL for footballing reasons
2) that Poch wants to return to England because his family still lives there
3) that Poch always coveted Utd's coach position the many years he was coaching in England, and he came close to joining them 2ice.
The contrary evidence you claim is basically this:
4) Poch would have liked to coach RM
which I never denied,
which THOUGH is more a part of:
5) Poch wanted to coach a top club after Spurs/
He even came close to joining Barca (despite his Espanyol past
), he met with Barto and Planes who wanted him to succeed Setien, but the board blocked it.
3>>5 and 4 when he has the option of both.
If you also take into account 2...
