Henry Winter has admitted that Mauricio Pochettino is Tottenham’s “Plan A” to be their new permanent manager in the summer.
Pochettino would be a popular choice to return to north London and there have been plenty of column inches and website stories circulating around him since Thomas Frank’s sacking in N17 earlier this month.
The Argentinian was in charge at Spurs from 2014 to 2019 leading them on two very close Premier League title challenges in 2016 and 2017 and guiding them to the Champions League final in 2019. He has spoken openly about wanting to return to the club one day and this summer could be the perfect time.
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Tottenham’s owners, the Lewis family, made the decision to appoint an interim head coach in Igor Tudor for the rest of the season, before making a permanent appointment in the summer, when the likes of Pochettino, Oliver Glasner and Andoni Iraola will be out of contract.
Pochettino has a contract with the US men’s national team for their home World Cup also being played in Canada and Mexico this summer, having signed a deal with the USA in 2024 after US Soccer Federation sporting director Matt Crocker was tasked with bringing in a world-class coach.
And highly regarded football journalist Winter expects Pochettino to be Spurs’ number one choice, but only once the tournament is over.
Speaking on GIVEMESPORT’s Market Madness podcast, Winter said: “I’m sure it is their Plan A, but it’s also Plan USA and any hint of interest in Mauricio Pochettino, even if it’s just a puff of smoke from Tottenham High Road and a letter on a postcard to California, I think that would just cause chaos in America as we’ve seen with coaches who are approached by clubs before.”
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“Bobby Robson going into 1990 knowing he was at a club at the end of it was called a traitor. He (Pochettino) would definitely get that in America, you would have [president Donald] Trump talking about it!”
Winter went on to suggest there are bigger problems to rectify at Tottenham before the head coach position is filled, however – something the supporters have been saying for years.
“The fans would love Pochettino,” he said. “But I think they’ve got to sort out a lot of other things first. Recruitment, whether it be paying more in wages and maybe they’re going to loosen the purse strings, the Lewis family in the summer as we’re expecting, but it it’s about characters, it’s about leaders.”
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