Tottenham Hotspur told to consider Mauricio Pochettino as Antonio Conte replacement
Tottenham Hotspur have been urged by Danny Rose to consider Mauricio Pochettino as a replacement if manager Antonio Conte decides to leave the club this summer.
There is a real chance that Spurs could be in the market for a new head coach come the end of the season. Conte is yet to renew his contract which expires this summer.
This is certainly strange and not something you would expect from a manager who has long-term plans in mind for the club he/she is currently at. Rose, who played at Spurs between 2007 and 2021, is a player who was here during Pochettino’s entire reign at N17.
According to him, the ideal situation would be for Spurs to renew Conte’s contract. If not that, he would want his former club to reinstate Pochettino as their manager. The former English left-back told JOE (h/t Football.London):
“For me as an outsider looking in Conte being a manager of your football club on paper that’s amazing. For me I would love him to stay but I’m not privy to what is going on with Spurs at the moment on the first-team side.
“But for me as an outsider looking in I’d be over the moon if Conte could stay as Tottenham manager. But if Mauricio Pochettino could be tempted to come back then I’d be saying do everything you can to get him back.
“You sort of see and hear things that Conte says about being able to compete with the bigger teams, which is right, you have to spend quite a bit of money and out of the bigger teams Tottenham might not do that as much as the others, so you have to understand his frustrations.”
If you ask Spurs fans about their feelings on the decision to sack Poch, some would say they perhaps regret it in hindsight. He guided us to the final of the 2019 UEFA Champions League and went on to win the Ligue 1 title with Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) last season.
Not many managers have done that, especially on a budget as tight as Pochettino had during his time at Spurs. He moulded his team into becoming a top, top squad capable of holding their own against the giants of Europe.
We have longed for the same level of consistency since his departure, especially in terms of stability on the pitch. A return for the former Espanyol boss would certainly be welcomed by fans if Conte doesn’t stay, considering the former is a man a lot of our current players know well.
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Let’s just hope that there are still cordial ties between him and Daniel Levy for such a reunion to take place.
