After having the evening and over night to reflect, it’s time to pen my reactions to last night’s massive news that came in.
It certainly didn’t come from nowhere, I was sensing it was going to happen all day after whispers over night and then again throughout yesterday.
I knew how annoyed Pochettino had been all season. If anyone claims different then I am afraid it’s just inaccurate. Of course Pochettino wanted more of a say in recruitment, he literally even said so much publicly!! How anyone can try and hide that fact is beyond belief to me. He didn’t/doesn’t want Conor Gallagher and Trevoh Chalobah sold, he wanted a replacement for Armando Broja in January and naturally didn’t want to play the rest of the season with ONE striker! And he consistently asked for more Premier League proven players and experience. SO many reliable outlets have also reported this FACT.
Whether he is right to do that or not I know will bring more debates. But for me, if you are a head coach of a club and said club is trying to sell two of your players who you rely on, one of which you have picked every game bar one all season, then I think you have every right to question that. Nobody wanted to see another Thomas Tuchel situation where he had full control of new arrivals and mistakes were made. But if a head coach cannot have a real say on who he keeps in his squad and who he can add to it, then what on earth are we doing here?
The Daily Mail’s Kieran Gill, who is reliable, says that sources told him that Chelsea want a ‘puppet’ as a manager, and that says a lot.
Pochettino has clearly decided that he is not a puppet, and can anyone blame him?
And that right there, is one of the reasons I am pleased to see him go. If it was like this at that stage, if he was annoyed at this point, which he was, then it was only going to get worse wasn’t it? We had seen that all before with the likes of Antonio Conte, it would only get more toxic. So it was right for him to…
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Author : Simon Phillips
Publish date : 2024-05-22 11:30:25
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