Pressure on Mauricio Pochettino to deliver with PSG 'galacticos' after Lionel Messi's arrival
Lionel Messi's arrival at Paris Saint-Germain has left the club with the most frightening frontline in the sport, but now coach Mauricio Pochettino is under pressure to deliver the glory on the pitch that the team's Qatari owners covet more than anything. That means winning ...
Mauricio Pochettino signs new five-year contract with Tottenham
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino signed a new five-year contract on Thursday that will keep him at the Premier League club until 2023. Pochettino, who joined Spurs in 2014, led the club to a third-placed finish in the league this past season, ensuring it would ...
Spurs likely to come up short again in title hunt
Such is the standard Manchester City are setting this season, an away draw against a title rival can no longer be considered a good result. Unless the wheels fall off of Pep Guardiola's record-making team — and there have been no signs of this — ...
Mourinho giving old nemesis Wenger a break on Sunday
It is a measure of the popularity of Mauricio Pochettino with Tottenham fans and the continued displeasure Arsenal supporters have with Arsene Wenger that for the majority of Spurs followers ending a season without a trophy will be more satisfying than winning the second-most ...
Guardiola looking for right formula after Everton rout
As Manchester City was being taught a football lesson by Everton last Sunday, the television cameras panned to Pep Guardiola in the visitors' dugout. For the most decorated manager over the past 10 years Guardiola cut a strangely sad figure, sitting motionless, a man ...
Spurs hope to ease sting of CL failure by solving Stamford Bridge riddle
Harry Kane, the Tottenham striker, said Chelsea celebrated like it had won the title. In fact, the 2-2 draw at Stamford Bridge in April meant Leicester City was champion and Spurs' hopes of a first English crown since John F. Kennedy was inaugurated as ...
Premier League teams remain behind rest of Europe
The Premier League is awash with money. Middle-class clubs can afford to pay fees of £30 million. Never has the top flight been so prosperous. It also has the best collection of coaches in its history with Pep Guardiola, Jose Mourinho, Arsene Wenger, Antonio Conte, ...
Strong managerial ranks highlight start of new season
This is the season the Premier League has been waiting for since its inception in 1992. It boasts the most glittering array of Hollywood managers with expensively assembled supporting casts and tempting fate as it may be, it is virtually impossible not to visualize a ...
Pochettino a worthy choice for next England manager
When Southampton appointed Mauricio Pochettino as manager in January 2013, former Saints player and TV pundit Jamie Redknapp called the decision "deluded." This was understandable as the Argentinian was virtually unknown here, his coaching resume comprising two successful seasons with Espanyol before, amid a financial ...
Pochettino making believers out of Tottenham fans
The accent was so rough the suspicion was it had been honed on a cheese grater. "Pochettino," said Mike from Edmonton, "he has to go . . . we ain't moving nowhere under him." Planet Twitter joined in with predictable criticism of Mauricio Pochettino, who ...
No end to Tottenham's revolving managerial door
When you have appointed eight managers during your 13 years as chairman winning only one League Cup, it is understandable that the fans view you with a certain cynicism. One Spurs supporter called Mauricio Pochettino "Tottenham's eighth ex-manager under Daniel Levy." Another said: "Make Levy ...
