Posted on November 28, 2021 at 4.30 p.m. by Hadrien Grenier
While PSG has been confronted with a new soap opera involving Mauricio Pochettino in recent days, the capital club has chosen to close the door to him for reasons very precise.
The soap opera Mauricio Pochettino started again this week! Already on the start last summer, a period during which he wanted to return to Tottenham while knowing that Real Madrid was also on his footsteps, the Argentinian coach would now have sights on the bench of Manchester United . The English club have effectively sacked Ole Gunnar Solskjaer last week and would make the former Spurs coach his number one target to take over as manager next summer. However, the Red Devils have nevertheless tried to secure the services of Mauricio Pochettino now if we are to believe the various reports in the press in recent days. At the same time, PSG were insisted on following in the footsteps of Zinedine Zidane , a coach who has long been the dream of the Parisian club's staff as revealed by le10sport.com. Only here, at the end of the week, Leonardo himself denied all the rumors about the Frenchman and Mauricio Pochettino by claiming to have made no contact with Zinedine Zidane and by confirming the current coach to his post.
PSG had set conditions, but these were not met
As a result, everything indicates that a departure of Mauricio Pochettino should not intervene immediately, even if his adventure on the Parisian bench should not go beyond the summer of 2022 as announced by Goal this Saturday, and this despite the fact that he is under contract until June 2023. And this would not be the result of chance if we are to believe the information unveiled by Téléfoot this Sunday. Indeed, the sports program of TF1 affirms that PSG was ready to open the door to Mauricio Pochettino , but on two very specific conditions. The first: Manchester United should have made an offer of between € 15m and € 20m to oust the Argentinian from the Paris club. But now, despite his interest in the former RCD Espanyol technician, the Red Devils have never acted in this direction. Second condition: it would have been necessary that his succession on the bench of PSG is already settled. With this in mind, Téléfoot affirms that exchanges have indeed taken place with Zinedine Zidane , but they would not have gone further than that. Therefore, Mauricio Pochettino remained at PSG since these two conditions could not be met and made every effort to deflate the rumors published in the press about his desires elsewhere, claiming in particular to be fulfilled and involved in his daily work at PSG . Enough to put a definitive end to the soap opera until the next summer transfer window? To be continued in the coming weeks…