Football, Pochettino said yes: agreement reached with Chelsea

Chelsea and Maurizio Pochettino said yes. The Argentine born in 1972 – ex Paris Saint-Germain (experience ended in June 2022) and Tottenham, with Spurs he had reached the Champions League final in 2019 – will be the new coach who will sit on the Blues bench. A bench that during the current disastrous season has seen Thomas Tuchel (who won the Champions League with Chelsea in June 2021 and who was sacked on the sixth matchday), Graham Potter (expelled from the twenty-eighth of the Premier League) and then Frank Lampard, the latter basically on an interim basis.

The former Chelsea captain failed to overturn the fortunes of a year that started very badly and continued even worse: the championship will end, with the team sailing in eleventh position at 43 points with no more European ambitions, and then he will leave the place to Pochettino called to rebuild from the rubble. And why not, to try to restore order to a “greedy” club that with the advent of the American Todd Boehly has spared no expense: spending sprees both in the last summer transfer market and in the winter one (even 560 million euros), a waste of money without a logical thread in the choices and with rather clouded ideas.

And so, Pochettino’s work will have to be profound, both in the choice of players and in addressing a future that will have to be very different from the gloomy present. To do this, Pochettino will enlist the help of Jesus Perez, Miguel D’Agostino, Toni Jimenez and Sebastiano Pochettino, son of Mauricio himself.