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Paris Saint-Germain announced on Thursday the dismissal of coach Thomas Tuchel, half a year after the end of his last season of contract with the capital club, according to the advance of the newspaper ‘L’Équipe’ website.
Argentine Mauricio Pochettino, who played for PSG between 2001 and 2003 and has not trained for a year, is the favorite to take over the team, several local media noted.
The dismissal of Tuchel has been taken 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 disagreements with the board.
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The dismissal comes after the comfortable victory won last night against Strasbourg, 4-0, which keeps the team third in the table, without the feeling of domination of past seasons.
But the straw that seems to have filled the glass of the patience of the Qatari owners has been a statement made by the coach to German television ‘Sport 1’ in which he assured, among other things, that PSG did not behave like a great club.
Tuchel, 46, came to the Paris bench in 2018 as a replacement for Spaniard Unai Emery and after having managed Borussia Dortmund for three years.
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The coach has triumphed in the national field, but the requirement of the Qatari owners of PSG is in Europe, where last year he managed to qualify the team for the first time for the final of the Champions League, where they lost to Bayern Munich.
Despite this feat, the relationship with the club has deteriorated throughout the season, especially with the sports director, the Brazilian Leonardo.
Tuchel, who many media places next year at Manchester United, has multiplied critical statements with the club, which has ended the patience of the leaders.
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Pochettino, 48, is the number 1 candidate of the Qatari 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 that Pochettino coaches, after having made his debut at Espanyol, which he led between 2009 and 2012, Sauthampton, between 2013 and 2014, and Tottenham, between 2014 and 2019, the club he led to the 2019 Champions League final, which they lost to Liverpool.
Born in Murphy, the Argentine has never hidden his desire to one day coach PSG, one of the most prestigious clubs he has played for.
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Trained at Newell’s, Pochettino arrived as a player at Espanyol in 1994 and played seven seasons, before joining PSG under Luis Fernandez. After a brief stint at Girondins de Bordeaux, he ended his playing career again at Espanyol. in 2006.
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