Mauricio Pochettino becomes the main candidate to occupy the chair left by Thomas Tuchel at PSG
Paris Saint-Germain announced the dismissal of the coach on Thursday Thomas Tuchel, half a year after the end of his last contract season with the capital’s club, according to the newspaper’s website The team.
the Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, Who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003 and has not coached for a year, is the favorite to take over the team, several local media have noted.
Tuchel’s dismissal came after the team finished first in their group in the Champions League, where they will face Barcelona in the round of 16, but after several clashes with the management.
The dismissal comes after last night’s comfortable 4-0 win over Strasbourg, which keeps the team third in the table, without the feeling of dominance of past seasons.
But the drop that seems to have spilled the glass of patience of the owners of Qatar has been a statement made by the coach on German television “Sport 1” in which he said, among other things, that PSG did not behave like a big club .
Tuchel, 46, came to the Paris bench in 2018 as a replacement for Spaniard Unai Emery and after leading for three years at Borussia Dortmund.
The coach has succeeded on the national field, but the demand of the Qatari owners of the PSG is in Europe, where last year he managed to qualify the team for the first time for the Champions League final, where he fell to Bayern Munich.
Despite this feat, the relationship with the club has been deteriorating throughout the season, especially with the sporting director, the Brazilian Leonardo.
Tuchel, who many media place next year at Manchester United, has multiplied critical statements with the club, which has ended the patience of the leaders.
Pochettino, 48, is the No. 1 candidate for Qatar’s owners to take over the entity, according to RMC Sports radio.
The Argentine was fired in November 2019 from Tottenham, so far his last experience on a bench.
If the news is confirmed, it would be the fourth team coached by Pochettino, having made his debut for Espanyol, which he led between 2009 and 2012, Sauthampton, between 2013 and 2014, and Tottenham, between 2014 and 2019, club he led to the 2019 Champions League final, which he lost to Liverpool.
Born in Murphy, the Argentine has never hidden his desire to one day coach at PSG, one of the most prestigious clubs in which he has played.
Trained at Newell ‘s, Pochettino arrived as a player at Espanyol in 1994 and played seven seasons, before landing at PSG under Luis Fernandez.
After a brief stint at Girondins de Bordeaux, he ended his playing career at Espanyol again in 2006.