{"id":32061,"date":"2023-04-25T07:14:35","date_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=32061"},"modified":"2023-04-25T07:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-04-25T07:14:37","slug":"chelsea-pochettino-will-be-announced-next-manager-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/04\/25\/chelsea-pochettino-will-be-announced-next-manager-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea: Pochettino will be announced Next manager soon?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

So, Chelsea need a big-name manager, an ultra\u2011charismatic type who can look after the egos of superstar players and also develop the younger ones, offering encouragement to them. They need somebody with an inside-out knowledge of the Premier League, who knows London, too. And they need someone to reshape the squad, to trim the fat, who actively prefers to work with a streamlined first-team group.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is really not difficult to see the attraction of Mauricio Pochettino, who is not the club\u2019s new manager yet but is getting so close to the job that it feels appropriate to wonder what the future at Stamford Bridge would look like with him at its centre. Even to overlook the disclaimer that relates to how quickly things can change in football, how anything can happen \u2013 particularly at Chelsea under the charge of Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chelsea owners have applied the charm in recent days, seeking to reassure Pochettino and presumably make it clear that they are not the kind of guys whose idea it is to burn through two permanent managers and two caretakers in one season, to fling around eye watering sums in the transfer market without a guiding principle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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But for all of the chaos of their tenure so far, with the team languishing 11th in the table \u2013 out of the cups, as well \u2013 it is easy to see why Pochettino has been charmed, why his positive energy is surging at what is expected to come.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every manager knows that clubs almost always turn to them because it has not worked out for the previous person; they arrive in times of crisis. And Pochettino has to see a parallel with his appointment by Tottenham in May 2014 after his 18 months at Southampton.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back then, Spurs looked broken, scorched by Tim Sherwood\u2019s tenure, the confidence on the floor. The squad needed a rebuild \u2013 and on a budget, too. What they needed, as Chelsea do now, was somebody to be ruthless, to move on the underachieving regulars, creating pathways from within, and to convince the mainstays. Hugo Lloris, for example, had thought that he might have to leave to push his career. Pochettino turned him into one of his key lieutenants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Pochettino would relish working with senior players Thiago Silva and N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9. Photograph: Dylan Martinez\/Reuters<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochettino\u2019s success at Spurs came from a low base \u2013 he would work remorselessly to build the players\u2019 fitness and belief \u2013 and the thing to say about Chelsea\u2019s squad is that the starting levels are rather higher, despite the embarrassment of the league position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Pochettino analyses it, he probably sees two areas to upgrade \u2013 goalkeeper and centre\u2011forward. Kepa Arrizabalaga has not always convinced and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been shifted to one side, no explanations forthcoming, which has him considering his future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in all other areas there are the type of players that Pochettino would relish working with, including senior figures such as Thiago Silva and N\u2019Golo Kant\u00e9. Then there are the younger ones: Reece James, Wesley Fofana, Enzo Fern\u00e1ndez and Kai Havertz plus those fighting for a breakthrough, including Noni Madueke and Carney Chukwuemeka. Conor Gallagher feels like a prototype Pochettino player.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is so much talent in midfield, even if Mason Mount were to leave, and Pochettino would back himself to bring it all together, relying on the human touch that has been a motif of his career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everybody can tell or has told stories of Pochettino\u2019s inclusivity, how he strives to make every member of staff \u2013 and not just the players \u2013 feel a part of the wider community at a club. Here is another. Bonfire Night 2017 at Spurs, and Pochettino gets everyone together for a barbecue; players and their families, staff and their families, too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The person flipping the burgers on the grill wears a cap and regular clothes, head down as he concentrates, and nobody really notices him until they go for their food. When he looks up, they see it is Pochettino. He loves to put himself at the heart of things, to be hands-on, together with his assistants Jes\u00fas P\u00e9rez, Miguel D\u2019Agostino, Toni Jim\u00e9nez and Pochettino\u2019s son Sebastiano; to watch academy games, to connect his club from the bottom up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mauricio Pochettino did as well as most in his 18 months at Paris Saint-Germain and he remains on good terms with Kylian Mbapp\u00e9. Photograph: Mehdi Taamallah\/NurPhoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Pochettino has always been a development coach; there was a time when it felt as though every England debutant had been one of his at Southampton or Spurs. He makes players better. But he knows what it means to compete at the highest level, having managed for six consecutive seasons in the Champions League (one final, one semi-final, two last-16 finishes), to take charge of one of the continent\u2019s elite clubs in Paris Saint-Germain and some of the very top players.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At the past two World Cups, the winning captains and top scorers played their club football under Pochettino \u2013 Lloris and Harry Kane (2018); Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 (2022). PSG have the reputation for being impossible to manage and Pochettino did as well as most over his 18 months there. It is significant that he has retained good relationships with a lot of the players, including Mbapp\u00e9, Neymar and Marco Verratti.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is expected to be a summer of change at Chelsea in terms of outs on the playing side but that would be fine by Pochettino, who also sees no issue in pitching up at one of Spurs\u2019 rivals. The thing for him is that they are not their most hated rivals \u2013 in other words, Arsenal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Pochettino joined Spurs, he was told all about Arsenal, how that derby was the one to circle in his diary, how it was so important to finish above them. Just as he would never manage Barcelona due to his Espanyol links, he would never work for Arsenal. Shortly after his departure from Spurs in November 2019, Arsenal tried to get him to replace Unai Emery. For Pochettino, it was a nonstarter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chelsea is a different story. It is unlikely that the Spurs support will give him their blessing, that they will have the rose petals at the ready for their next meeting. The romance would probably be over. Pochettino is determined to look ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, Chelsea need a big-name manager, an ultra\u2011charismatic type who can look after the egos of superstar players and also develop the younger ones, offering encouragement to them. They need somebody with an inside-out knowledge of the Premier League, who knows London, too. And they need someone to reshape the squad, to trim the fat, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":22962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11746,285,1736,641,8173,5249,13263,1911,6369,169,1279,8908,8440,5494,1258,6952,8123,6738,746,7319,6496,5247,3577,7090,803,69,1259,9366,7263,9676,1113,3684,12791,10742,4358,9833,1273,10481,12187,161,11973,1253,1721,5072,13256,499,267,642,10599,7385,7963,266,1935,9030,7333,7982,9929,5516,723,495,4705,11487,10943,3954,10415,36,594],"class_list":["post-32061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-appointment","tag-arsenal","tag-aubameyang","tag-barcelona","tag-bridge","tag-budget","tag-cap","tag-champions-league","tag-chaos","tag-chelsea","tag-circle","tag-coach","tag-crisis","tag-energy","tag-england","tag-espanyol","tag-eye","tag-families","tag-feel","tag-fern","tag-food","tag-football","tag-future","tag-games","tag-goalkeeper","tag-harry","tag-harry-kane","tag-hugo-lloris","tag-kai","tag-kai-havertz","tag-lionel-messi","tag-london","tag-manager","tag-market","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-meeting","tag-messi","tag-midfield","tag-n","tag-neymar","tag-one","tag-paris","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-pierre-emerick-aubameyang","tag-players","tag-pochettino","tag-premier-league","tag-psg","tag-rebuild","tag-romance","tag-saint","tag-southampton","tag-spurs","tag-success","tag-summer","tag-todd-boehly","tag-todd-boehly-and-behdad-eghbali","tag-toni","tag-tottenham","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-unai-emery","tag-upgrade","tag-watch","tag-will","tag-work","tag-world","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}