Posted on November 9, 2021 at 6.30 p.m. by Hadrien Grenier
While he made his return to PSG last January, Mauricio Pochettino is still just as happy to return to the French capital eleven months later.
In the hard during the first part of the 2020/2021 season , Paris Saint-Germain chose to dismiss Thomas Tuchel six months from the end of his contract despite his excellent Final 8 achieved the previous summer. And while the German joined Chelsea a few weeks later, the PSG management chose to bet on Mauricio Pochettino to succeed him. Player of the Parisian club in the early 2000s, the Argentinian technician who passed through the bench of Tottenham thus made his return to the residents of the Parc des Princes . However, the honeymoon was short for him as his PSG was unable to prevent LOSC from being crowned LOSC champion. strong> Ligue 1 and that the Parisian team was eliminated at the gates of the final of the Champions League by Manchester City . In addition, at the start of the season, Mauricio Pochettino suffers the wrath of many observers insofar as his team is not necessarily spectacular to watch play and it tends to rely too much on its individualities. Only here, despite all these criticisms, the Argentine does not sulk his pleasure at the fact of having made his return to PSG eleven months ago now.
“A incredible return ”
“I think it was great, it was an incredible comeback. Twenty years ago, when I was a player, I experienced one of the best periods of my career. I discovered how extraordinary it was to live in Paris, to live in this football club. It was great. Then having the opportunity to share this experience with my coaching team is amazing because when you were a player you were alone with your family. We are a great collective – the coaching team is there and we are not just colleagues, we are friends, and having this experience is amazing. If I think it's an advantage to come back to a club that I already knew? We never know. You never know, because when I was a coach at Espanyol I was also a player, and then we went to Southampton, then to Tottenham, and now to Paris Saint-Germain. It's always different. I think you kept the idea of a club in your mind when you were a player, but evolution is changing that. In many ways it was fine, but in many ways it was strange. When you discover new clubs like Southampton and Tottenham, and feel like you're having a long time there, that's good too. But of course I think it's always different because your position is different. It’s not the same to be a player and a coach, ” Mauricio Pochettino said in an interview with MyLigue1.