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Former Tottenham manager Mauricio Pochettino is a guest on Sky Sports’ popular Monday Night Football program for a very special evening.
The Argentine coach was a distinguished guest of the program after the Leicester City and Leeds United game, after analyzing the game, and then there was a distinguished dialogue between Pochettino, Jimmy Carragher, host of the program and former Liverpool star, and David Jones, the British interlocutor.
FilGoal.com transmits to you everything that the Argentine coach said in the dialogue, on several points, among which his future and his relationship with José Mourinho and the current situation in football stand out before the outbreak of the new Corona virus “Covid 19” .
Where will Pochettino train after Tottenham?
“I don’t know if my next job is in the Premier League or not. I won’t close any doors. I learned that when I was very young.”
“Jorge Griva, my former coach, used to tell me, ‘Mauricio is going to dictate football to you in your career and I am waiting for the project that I will feel is the best for me and the right path that I will take”.
“Of course we live in a very crazy situation, crazy moments in our lives that we never expected, and of course the situation is completely different, not just in football.”
“My energy is full, I would love to get back into the game, but at the same time I need to understand, so now it is better to wait, we must wait for the right project, of course, football will bring what it wants, and we must be open to accept it or no”.
“Now it’s the same game but soccer is different, without the fans having fun? Yes, because we love soccer, we try to enjoy it, we try to lie to ourselves.”
“For the players the situation is very difficult, for the coaching staff the situation is complicated. I think that for the owners, presidents and CEOs the situation is very difficult. Try to continue and protect all your employees and maintain the continuity of the industry because there are many people who need football to live. “
“It is a very difficult moment. I do not feel that I am a year away from work, perhaps because of the absence of the fans for a period of 7-8 months, it does not look like football. We see similar matches in the past but there is no passion in it. field, there are no emotions, and this is in Sometimes the absence comforts me “.
“If you feel the voices and feelings of the fans and you go to watch the games in the stadium, you can say that I want to fight with your team because it is a strong rival, but at this moment you watch the games on television at home, the situation it’s strange and it’s a difficult time for everyone. “
Leave Tottenham and his feelings
“After a year, I can say that I was frustrated, a little angry and unhappy. I had a wonderful relationship with the staff, the players and the fans for five and a half years and I will not lie about it.”
“But at some point I understand very well that this is football. The club needed to change, but I will not complain about my decision to leave. The only thing I can do is support because our relationship continues to be very good.”
“The manager who replaced me is a good friend of mine, the manager who treated me very well when I was at Real Madrid. I remember José Mourinho invited me to watch a Champions League game against Ajax. We were chatting in the dressing room at the Santiago Bernabéu, until the commissioner arrived and said, José. The game will start. We must go. “
“I feel that I can only wish, because I love Tottenham and I know José Mourinho, and I want the best for him, to try to win, but on my way he missed winning a title. That is what we lacked, putting a cherry on the top of the cake. “
Are you surprised to leave?
“It was not a big surprise, as a player I always wanted to win. That is our mentality. We wanted to win every game. When I was at Espanyol and in Southampton, you use the tools available to do your best. You respect the traditions and principles, you provide the means that help players develop every day. ” “.
“I was proud from the beginning of my time with Tottenham, I had a good relationship with Daniel and good relations with the management. Look how we wanted to build the team. There was always that voice in my head that told me that Tottenham was about to achieve glory and in a great way, I respected him and knew he would have to work. ” Big, to compete with the big clubs “.
How did Tottenham change?
“When we arrived in 2014, the big clubs were spending money to develop their team. The situation was a bit difficult. Our goal was always to win because as a coach if you didn’t win it would be difficult to stay in your position, but also the development was to play in the Champions League, trying to be competitors like before. ” In the same way, you try to create an identity and a philosophy that makes the masses proud, that’s why I feel proud.
“We had the potential to build something special but in the end the expectations are very high so you need to win, you need something coherent and important to win the title, we were very close to the Premier League and the Champions League, but we didn’t, everyone knows what what happened in the end but I think so “. It was a great trip and we really enjoyed it. “
“We are saddened not to have been able to give a tournament to the fans and the club, because the group of players deserves a championship. I hope that in the future the team can do that with Mourinho, because it will be a great thing for the fans and this group. of players because most of them were with us in our project. “
“Criticism of the Tottenham mentality? Bad, every time we heard that it bothered us.”
“In the end we understood what it meant for Tottenham, it was always behind Arsenal when we arrived. It was like that for 20-22 years. It was painful for our fans and for the club.”
“People in the street said:” Please, we cannot finish the season behind Arsenal. It was like winning the Champions League for the fans when I arrived. “
“For us, Tottenham was a great journey, more than 5 years ago. We enjoyed it from day one. The management helped us from day one, to be successful and then the players were wonderful.”
Changing habits in Tottenham
“We had a group with different qualities and habits. The players were not responsible for the habits they had. Habits are always what drives the team. Today football clubs are like companies. You have to be strong to create habits and translate them into principles in your team. “
“The players are an important element, because the principles are translated on the field, so you need to create a line from above to be strong in applying those principles, the way you develop and the way things happen on the field. way you want “.
“It was great to have that possibility. Feeling free to create something special in Tottenham, change is always very painful, but when you come to a new club you need to create some changes, you start building. That is why it is important to create a great platform, the coaching staff creates that platform. Where the players feel comfortable and can develop. “
Pochettino was removed from his post in November 2019 after Tottenham ranked 14th due to poor results, so the club president, Daniel Levy, decided to remove him and appoint José Mourinho, and since then he has not coached any team .
