By Tom Gott
Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino did not hide his frustration after his side's 2-0 win over Tottenham Hotspur, insisting the victory proved what he can do when given a fair amount of time to get his ideas across.
Pochettino has been under mounting pressure all season after failing to inspire immediate change at Chelsea, but the impressive response to last month's drubbing at the hands of Arsenal continued with a comfortable victory over his former employers on Thursday evening.
After the game, Pochettino admitted it is "difficult" to constantly face so much scrutiny and admitted he does not know whether he will get the time needed to continue his work.
"I think enough is enough," he told Sky Sports when asked about the speculation. "All the managers need time to translate their ideas and their philosophy. More when the team is like this squad is. We need to have time. It's not my decision.
"It's difficult to see every single week that I'm under scrutiny and I'm under judgement. But it's not my decision to be here or not to be here. If we want the history of Chelsea, I think it's a lot of work to do. We will see if we have time to be in this way.
"My feeling is that I'm so, so proud that all these guys, all the squad we have, 25-27 players. We want the best for them and until the last day we're going to try to help them."
Continuing his spiky responses, Pochettino went on to insist Chelsea's performance was evidence that relying on "big names" is not the way forwards.
"People believe that because a player is a name, he should play, even if he is not in form or at his best," Pochettino said. "I think the team, from the beginning of the season, suffered too many problems, that sometimes the names were there, but not in our best form.
"We never really got the belief that we needed to play in this way. There were too many individual targets or objectives before the team.
"Today was an easy team selection for us, but at the same time, we showed to everyone that football is not about names. It's about being competitive, about behaving like a team.
"Even if you have big players, big names, if they don't play like today, trying to help the team in a defensive situation or when we have the ball to believe in every single offensive action we can score, then it's impossible because the Premier League is so competitive."
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This article was originally published on 90min.com as Mauricio Pochettino unimpressed by constant scrutiny and says 'enough is enough'.
