Tottenham’s Mauricio Pochettino’s New Job Title is Manager
After signing a long-term deal to remain with Tottenham Hotspur, Mauricio Pochettino’s job title has changed ever so slightly. Instead of being Spurs’ head coach, he is now the manager for Tottenham.
Apparently there is a difference between being a head coach of a football club and becoming a manager. For Mauricio Pochettino, he saw himself as Tottenham’s manager since day one and not as a head coach. It just never said that in his job title. Well, that has since changed.
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According to ESPN FC’s Dan Kilpatrick, Mauricio Pochettino wasn’t Tottenham’s “manager” after he first signed with the club two summers ago. But after filling in the role as one, and not a head coach, his contract extension officially changed his title to better fit his job description.
The work that he’s done so far though, will still be the same regardless.
There shouldn’t necessarily be a difference in the two names, a head coach and a manager, seeing as how they are typically interchangeable. But to Pochettino, it’s very different.
“Last season I was head coach, now I’m manager,” Mauricio Pochettino said.
“The title, the club nominates but in the end it’s the same job. When I was head coach I was involved in all aspects of the club, and now it’s still the same, only that they want to nominate me manager. I’m happy but it doesn’t change my positions in the club.”
“I think we are agreed that it would be good, for myself, for the club, for all. It’s true that ‘manager’ is a word that means different things than head coach. Maybe I was always manager, from the first day I arrived here, and maybe it describes my job better.”
“I think you know the head coach only manages the team, and only you are the coach. But when you are the head coach to care for different things, not only the team. I think from the first day my feeling was always, I always felt I was manager. Now we’ve changed the word but my work continues to be the same.”
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Because Mauricio Pochettino has a new job title, it doesn’t have any bearing on transfers.
As it stands, Tottenham’s transfer committee consists of five men: Pochettino, head of recruitment, Paul Mitchell, chairman, Daniel Levy, former manager, David Pleat, and chief scout, Ian Broomfield.
Together, these five men will share the decision making process of who to bring into the club and who won’t be signed. Just because the Argentinian is now a manager changes nothing.
“No, we continue the same. We share the decisions, that’s why we have different departments and always at the end we have Daniel Levy to decide the things that will happen here. I feel and I think the club feel that I was manager from the first day, not only the head coach.”
The only thing that will get in the way of Spurs’ transfer plans is their £400 million stadium. Despite securing Champions League football and having a brand new TV deal that is set to kick in starting next season, it wouldn’t be surprising if a majority of that money went to the construction of Tottenham’s new home.
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Because how Mauricio Pochettino put it, it isn’t about the money that makes a football club successful. And who better to ask than both Spurs and Leicester City after what achieved this season with minimal spending.
“We’ve shown that we’re ambitious. It’s a different way that you can show ambition and then it’s a different way you can take to get success. I think in the last two seasons we show our ambition and it’s not only about money. It’s true that to build a new stadium you need money but to create a good team and fight for titles and trophies, it’s not only about money.”