It looks like that is the season for shock managerial departures. Simply days after Roberto de Zerbi finalised his departure from Brighton on the finish of the season, a bolt from the Blues has arrived. Mauricio Pochettino has left Chelsea with speedy impact and the suddenness of the departure poses extra questions than solutions.
Chelsea had a robust end to the season and the hope was that they’d construct on it with their younger core and a supervisor who was attending to grips with all of it. Nonetheless, with the shock announcement, there’s a feeling that possibly Pochettino has one other job lined up already.
Whereas the potential De Zerbi to Bayern Munich rumours had been turned off as shortly as they started, the ideas flip to Mauricio Pochettino’s subsequent membership. Listed below are the highest contenders-
Bayern Munich
These Vincent Kompany rumours don’t sound plausible, do they? Even when Bayern are searching for a stopgap answer earlier than they fight for the likes of Jurgen Klopp and Xabi Alonso subsequent summer season, an rising supervisor who would need a long-term undertaking is hardly the perfect stopgap answer.
Pochettino’s departure places a giant title in the marketplace and the Harry Kane issue looms massive too.
The striker discovered his footing within the sport below Pochettino and a return, mixed with lastly successful some trophies, may properly bookend a spell that started at Tottenham.
Manchester United
Shut ties with INEOS, previously linked to United, championed because the promoter of youth and all of the sudden out of labor. The celebs completely align for this transfer to occur.
Ten Hag beat out competitors from the Argentinian two years in the past to safe the United job and it may come full circle now. The Dutchman’s inventory has by no means been decrease and Chelsea leveraging a robust second half of the season to surge forward of United regardless of having related damage issues and a chaotic government construction could possibly be the ultimate nail in his coffin, hammered by Pochettino.
