12/24/2020 8:56 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 12/24/2020 11:47 AM
Paris Saint Germain announced on Thursday the dismissal of coach Thomas Tuchel, half a year after the end of his last season of contract with the capital club.
Former PSG player (between 2001 and 2003) and without training for a year, Argentine
Mauricio Pochettino already has everything arranged to become his replacement
.
Tuchel's dismissal comes after the team finished first in its group in the Champions League, where it will face Lionel Messi's Barcelona in the round of 16.
As it transpired, the DT had had several disagreements with the managers.
Argentine Mauricio Pochettino will be the new coach of Paris Saint Germain.
Photo: AFP.
This Wednesday the team had comfortably beat Strasbourg 4-0 for Ligue1 in which it is third.
The European media point out that the straw that seems to have filled the glass of the patience of the Qatari owners were statements made by the technician to the German television "Sport 1" in which he assured, among other things, that PSG did not behave like a great club.
Tuchel, 46, came to the PSG bench in 2018 as a replacement for Spaniard Unai Emery
and after having managed Borussia Dortmund for three years.
Despite the strong investments of the club, Thomas Tuchel did not achieve the main objective that was to conquer the Champions League.
Photo: Reuters.
In the local field, expectations were met, but
the requirement of the Qatari owners of PSG is in Europe
,
in the Champions League precisely
, where last year they managed to qualify the team for the first time for the final, where they lost to Bayern Munich.
Meanwhile, the relationship with the club deteriorated throughout the season, especially with the sports director, Brazilian Leonardo.
Tuchel's future could be at Manchester United.
Pochettino had a brief stint as a player for Paris Saint Germain between 2001 and 2003. Photo: AFP.
The 48-year-old Argentine Mauricio Pochettino is open to a dream opportunity: he
is the number 1 candidate of the Qatari owners to take over the team and, according to Clarín, he would be confirmed as the new coach in the next few hours
.
The Argentine was fired in November 2019 from Tottenham, his last experience on a bench so far.
If the news is confirmed, it would be the fourth team that Pochettino trains, after having made his debut at Espanyol, which he directed between 2009 and 2012, Southampton, between 2013 and 2014, and Tottenham, between 2014 and 2019, the club he led 2019 Champions League final, which they lost to Liverpool.
The last club that Pochettino managed was Tottenham, where he reached the 2018/19 Champions League final.
Photo: AFP.
Born in Murphy, the Argentine has never hidden his desire to one day coach PSG, one of the most prestigious clubs he has played for.
Trained at Newell's, Pochettino arrived as a player at Espanyol in 1994 and played seven seasons, before joining PSG under Luis Fernandez.
After a brief stint at Girondins de Bordeaux, he ended his playing career again at Espanyol in 2006.
Source: EFE