How more likely is it that he'll win a trophy anyway? All the "Mourinho guarantees success" stuff we hear has based on him typically having the the strongest squad in the league and or spending more than anybody else. Give most managers that and they're likely to pick up a tropy or two too. Mourinho won't have that at Spurs though and I can't see him making making Spurs a better side than the best Spurs sides under Poch. Of course he might win something but the law of averages means that eventually Spurs would and that would have applied had Poch stayed too.
It's quite telling that we're now discussing him winning an FA or League Cup as opposed to winning a League or CL - that's what Mourinho used to 'guarantee' and Mourinho loved to **** on other managers, at clubs with far less resources, that didn't win these trophies. That said, Mourinho does have a history of targetting Cup's like the League Cup and although it won't be nearly as easy as it was with Chelsea or Utd, where he had huge, costly squads, I suppose he's more likely to win that than Poch, simply because he'll take it more seriously.
I raised a hypothetical question earlier as to whether Levy would take finishing 3rd in your CL group and ending up in the Europa League as it would probably be your best bet of qualifying for the CL next year and becomes a realistic chance of winning something.
I thought he had brought some through, but maybe not... He will have to at Spurs anyway, they ain't going to fund him like Roman did.
Honestly Mourinho should be a politician, he is the absolute master at presenting a narrative and people just fall for it.
