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Paris Saint Germain star Kylian Mbappé thanked former coach Thomas Tuchel after media reported that the German coach had been fired by the French Ligue 1 club.
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“It is sadly the law of football. No one will forget your time here. You wrote a wonderful part of the club’s history and I tell you: ‘thank you coach,'” Mbappé said in an Instagram post on Thursday that accompanied him. for a photo of him with Tuchel.
French giants Paris Saint-Germain fired coach Thomas Tuchel on Thursday. The former Borussia Dortmund boss was under immense pressure with PSG in third place on the Ligue 1 points table, behind Lyon and Lille, after a rocky start to the 2020-21 season.
Tuchel was named PSG’s head coach in 2018 with the priority of lifting the club’s inaugural UEFA Champions League trophy. The 47-year-old was backed by the PSG hierarchy and Tuchel even came close to handing over the UCL trophy in 2019, but lost in the final, to Bayern Munich 1-0.
Pochettino, who played for PSG as a defender in the early 2000s, has been out of work since being fired by Spurs in November 2019. He guided the London team to the Champions League final in the 2018 season. -19.
“Pochettino is being lined up by @PSG_English. An excellent coach whose only downside is the lack of winning trophies … Well that’s about to change,” former England and Spurs forward Gary Lineker tweeted.
Former Argentine international Juan Pablo Sorin said: “Pochettino to @PSG_inside? Hopefully.”
