Chelsea Might Get Services of ex-PSG, Tottenham Manager Mauricio Pochettino

According to football (soccer) writer Fabrizio Romano, Mauricio Pochettino is back coaching in the English Premier League after being supposedly chosen as Chelsea’s next manager.

He will succeed Thomas Tuchel, who was fired by Chelsea on September 7 after just one month in charge, and will succeed interim manager Frank Lampard.

Soon after Tuchel left, Pochettino, 51, allegedly made the team’s short list.

According to Romano, he will take over as the team’s head coach to start the following season, with Lampard continuing in that role through the remainder of the current one.

After 18 months, Pochettino left his position as head coach of Ligue 1’s Paris Saint-Germain on July 5, 2022.

He has been the manager of Southampton for one season in 2013 after spending the previous five and a half years with Tottenham Hotspur. Pochettino amassed records of 159-62-72 with Spurs, 55-15-14 with PSG, and 23-18-19 with Southampton.

Additionally, he has a 31-15-21 record in foreign tournaments like the UEFA Champions League and the Europa League.

Pochettino is required by Chelsea to turn around a squad that has spent about $600 million since Todd Boehly, owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers, acquired the organization a year ago.

The Blues are now 11th in the standings and have dropped or drew 11 of their previous 12 games during the last two months.

Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero

Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero, an Argentine professional football manager and former player, was born on March 2, 1972.

Pochettino started his career in 1989 as a center defender for Primera División team Newell’s Old Boys, where he won the league championship and finished second in the 1992 Copa Libertadores. He joined Espanyol, a recently promoted La Liga team, in 1994. He helped the team achieve top-flight status and assist them win the 2000 Copa del Rey, their first title in 60 years.

He joined Ligue 1 team Paris Saint-Germain in 2001, played for Bordeaux for a while, then returned to Espanyol in 2004, where he won another Copa del Rey in 2006. Pochettino participated at the 1999 Copa América and 2002 FIFA World Cups and has 20 caps for the Argentina national team.

Pochettino started his management career with Espanyol in 2009 after ending his playing career.

He quit the team in 2012 as a result of subpar performances and legal issues. When he was taken by Premier League club Southampton in 2013, he helped them finish the season in eighth place, which was also their best-ever Premier League finish.

After joining Tottenham Hotspur in 2014, he helped the team reach its first Champions League final and finished second in the league in 2016–17. He was sent away following a succession of disappointing performances and joined Paris Saint-Germain in 2021, where he won the Ligue 1 championship and the Coupe de France. After a year, he left.

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