Reports that PSG can steal Pochettino from Tottenham are laughable
By Gary Pearson
Rumours that PSG have the influence to coax Mauricio Pochettino away from Tottenham need to be quashed before the incessant hyperbole gets out of hand.
The claims that Daniel Levy would be amenable to such a PSG offer are almost as absurd as believing Pochettino would be interested in joining the French giants. If Pochettino ever departs Tottenham, it certainly won’t be for Paris, where the level of competition is laughably inferior to the Premier League.
Qatar Sports Investments, PSG’s ownership group, admittedly have the financial clout to make an outlandish offer for one of the world’s best managers, making it slightly more challenging for Levy to turn a blind eye.
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Israeli super agent Pinhas “Pini” Zahavi is up to his old tricks again, stirring the proverbial pot. Some think Zahavi – the man responsible for the Neymar mega deal – has Levy’s ear.
They obviously don’t know Levy intimately enough to make those assertions. Sure, Levy will listen to what Zahavi has to say on the topic before promptly admonishing the Israeli for wasting his precious time.
Pochettino is not interested in a regression of any kind, which is precisely what managing PSG is tantamount to. Pochettino’s career is like Falcon Heavy, continually on an upward trajectory.
While PSG can weaponize their insurmountable war chest to try coax the Argentinian away from North London, Spurs supporters can take solace knowing that Pochettino is the perfect embodiment of a football puritan, whose interest in coaching an élite team in the most competitive league in the world far outweighs the allure of superficial, glitz and glam-riddled destinations.
PSG has a viable chance of winning the Champions League each successive year, but nothing compares to the daily rigours of football in England, where coming across an easy, straightforward match is as unlikely as Juan Foyth starting against Arsenal on Saturday.
The same cannot be said for Ligue 1, where the disparity between the haves and have-nots is at its most extreme.
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Zahavi, Qatar Sports Investment and the rest of the ostentatious PSG cohort can save their collective breath, as they have a better chance of running the table next season than they do of robbing Spurs of their magisterial maestro.
The Real Madrid grapevine, however, is another scenario entirely.
Nobody can rule out the Argentinian moving to the Bernabéu in the future, where the glitz and glam is actually matched by a consistent level of élite football. Plus we all know Pochettino, at some point in his career, dreams of getting one over on Barcelona, his career-long arch nemesis.