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Manager Mauricio Pochettino
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I find it interesting that they go for the 'Daniel Levy will have to fend them off' angle... in reality, surely it's more down to what Poch wants to do?The Independent are really pounding the 'Pochettino to real Madrid' angle (notice the previously-reported 'release clause' has been softened to an 'informal agreement').Even if (as I sincerely hope) there's no truth to it, you can imagine all this speculation will create doubt in the minds of the players we're trying to tie down as well as those we're looking to bring in.
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Tottenham Hotspur are braced for Real Madrid to push for Mauricio Pochettino as their new manager, just seven days after Pochettino signed a new five-year deal at Spurs.
Zinedine Zidane announced his surprise resignation on Thursday afternoon, after winning his third consecutive Champions League trophy, and Real Madrid president Florentino Perez has made Pochettino his number one choice for the job.
Perez has admired Pochettino for some time but this summer is readying a serious push to bring him to the Santiago Bernabeu, and is not thought to be considering any other choices for the role.
Any advance from Real Madrid would be firmly rejected by Tottenham. Just last week Pochettino, Jesus Perez and the rest of the coaching team signed new five-year deals at Spurs, taking them up to the end of the 2022-23 season. Signing those deals appeared to end any questions about Pochettino’s immediate future at the club, and Tottenham pointed on Thursday afternoon to the fact that Pochettino had signed a new deal just one week ago.
That contract is thought to not include a release clause, strengthening Spurs’ ability to say no to Real Madrid, but those close to the Argentinean believe he would be allowed to leave for Madrid owing to an informal agreement struck between coach and club. The Bernabeu club look set to test that theory.
Before the signing of the contract last week, Pochettino’s future had been one of the long-running stories of Tottenham’s season. He achieved notable success against Real Madrid in the Champions League group stage, earning a 1-1 draw at the Bernabeu before Spurs famously beat Real 3-0 at Wembley. He has been showered with attention by the Spanish media and when asked about the possibility of him replacing Zidane, has said that “you never know what is going to happen in football”. Only that he would never manage Barcelona or Woolwich.
At the end of the season Pochettino had left his future up in the air, speculating on the club’s future with another manager, and calling on the club to “be brave and take risks”. But after positive talks with the club hierarchy Pochettino did sign a new contract, promising the start of a positive summer transfer window with Spurs keen to invest in improving the squad. Even with Toby Alderweireld, Mousa Dembele and Danny Rose up for sale.
But Tottenham’s summer is now likely to be dominated by the biggest club in the world pursuing their manager like never before, meaning it will take all of Daniel Levy’s resolve to say no to them.
Managers are an awful lot harder to keep than players if they want to go elsewhere.
Currently on Betfair exchange you can "lay" money at odds of 4.3 or 33/10 for him not to be the next Real Madrid manager. That's equivalent to putting money on Poch staying at odds of 1.3 or 3/10.
The "back" odds on Poch going to Madrid are 3.2, or 22/10.
You'd have to say that right now the journalist who is closest to Poch is Balague, and he's now pouring cold water over Poch leaving.
"The interest in Pochettino from Real Madrid is obvious for all to see. He is the type of manager they would like to have at Real Madrid at some point.
He has a new contract at Spurs, he is linked to everything that is happening for Spurs around the decisions of the players, it does not seem obvious for him to leave right now."
"The interest in Pochettino from Real Madrid is obvious for all to see. He is the type of manager they would like to have at Real Madrid at some point.
He has a new contract at Spurs, he is linked to everything that is happening for Spurs around the decisions of the players, it does not seem obvious for him to leave right now."
It doesn’t work like that....
Anyway, I can see it happening; reality is he’d get sacked at any club that’s expected to win anything, while it’d open the door for this club and group of players to get a manager who can turn them into the winners they deserve to be.
Most decent managers would win multiple honours with this squad - look at the state of the two teams that won the ‘16 and ‘17 titles compared to the one Pochettino had at his disposal.
It’s the perfect time to begin the next chapter under somebody who can facilitate success.
You are absolutely right of course but you are having to contend with an outstanding level of cognitive dissonance at play.
We are supposedly a club that can fend off the advances of the the biggest club in the world for our manager but would be unable to attract the same manager from Southampton unless a set of circumstances of occurred. Laughable.
The notion we cannot attract the manager from a club of Southampton’s standing is utterly absurd. Pochettinho left join us because we are bigger club - the suggestion that this was driven by Cortesse is laughable and had already been debunked.
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Poch is smart enough to know now is not the time for him to be Real manager. One day, but not now. They are going into transition. Their post-Ronaldo era. We're going to see the classic manager a year Real Madrid for the next 2-3 years.
SSN right now.. “should spurs fans be concerned?” Fuck off
And you’re absolutely wrong - as usual.
Honestly it’s so boring.
I can't believe Ben is still running that account. Serious stamina.
SSN right now.. “should spurs fans be concerned?” Fuck off
If it aint the stadium, its lack of trophy, the manager leaving, the players being sold. Too much time and column inches to fill.
By signing a contract with us that he did not need to necessarily sign.
Right. The three time defending European Cup winner just quit because he felt he couldn't possibly sustain that level and wanted to eject before the train crashed.
If being in that sort of fishbowl is what Poch in fact wants (dubious), he only gets one chance. This would be a very stupid situation to wager that chance on. His Spurs tenure plus a high-profile failure at Real before he can even implement his ideas would lock him out of the Argentina job, the PSG job, all these positions he might want. If he's going to get stuck at the Valencia's and Newcastle's of the world the rest of his career, why not stick it out at Spurs?
Meh. It does not seem like Real had a hand in this. I think Zidane truly quit.
Why would Real want to replace a telegenic global celebrity club icon who has completed a historic European Cup treble? They're insane but they're not that insane.
