Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino claims his Southampton successor, Ronald Koeman, had it easy compared to what confronted him at St Mary's - and Spurs. Pochettino quit Saints in the summer for Spurs.
The Argentine coach told RAC-1: "You have to say that they invested close to 80m euros in the summer and it was already a winning team on the up. When we arrived at Southampton in January of 2013 they had the team that had conceded the most goals in the league.
"It was a team with a lot of problems, with players like Adam Lallana who wasn't playing and Luke Shaw who wasn't playing but in one and a half years we turned it round.
"We brought a lot of young players through and finished eighth. It is always easier taking over a winning team which is the case this time with Ronald [Koeman]. We came here and had to reinvent things. We always laugh about it because we left a team at Southampton that practically trained itself after a year and a half to come here where we had to recreate everything that we had done at Southampton, pretty much from zero, but it's a great challenge."
