Pochettino takes an indirect dig at Tottenham

Tottenham Hotspur enjoyed one of their most enjoyable periods in the mid to late 2010s under Mauricio Pochettino. Though the Argentine coach was unable to break their barren run without a piece of silverware, the Lilywhites played some exciting football under him and beat all odds to reach the UEFA Champions League final in 2019.

Liverpool won 2-0 in the showpiece event in Madrid and thereafter, an uncharacteristically bad run followed for Spurs which culminated with Pochettino’s sacking in October 2019. The supporters have not exactly been happy since with the club making a lot of controversial decisions. Pochettino enjoyed a spell at Paris Saint-Germain after his days at Tottenham, where he won the Ligue 1.

In a recent interview on La Nacional (via Sport Witness), the current USMNT head coach appeared to take a dig at Tottenham whilst comparing them to PSG. Pochettino said the following words.

“Well… I don’t know, human beings always long for what they don’t have or what they don’t know, and we always think that the other is better. You have to try it, that’s why you have to get out of your comfort zone. I believe that we must analyse the moments of the players, not their names, but their circumstances and contexts. PSG was an incredible experience… difficult, hard, where you really discover who you are, you really temper your sporting character. Behind an experience like this everything becomes a little more relative, you start to understand things that, perhaps, you didn’t understand before when you were at Southampton, at Espanyol or at Tottenham.”

Indeed, the way Tottenham have been managed does not exactly align with how a big club is run and Daniel Levy is the first and probably only person at whom fingers must be pointed. Tottenham have done barely any good stuff since Pochettino was fired and in fairness, they have been run just as well as Southampton and Espanyol, a couple of their former manager’s other sides.

Besides fulfilling financial objectives, Tottenham have remained an incredibly mediocre club on the pitch with Levy not seeming to have a sporting knowledge of the process a team is meant to follow if success were to be earned. On the contrary, PSG backed Pochettino as well as they possibly could have and he won two trophies in France in his only season.

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The lack of Champions League success was the reason behind his firing from PSG but there’s little a man can do when he has been blown away by a Real Madrid comeback in spite of having a two-goal lead in a knockout tie.

Meanwhile, as far as Tottenham are concerned, it remains to be seen if Ange Postecoglou can do any good or is another victim of Daniel Levy’s poor management of the club.