You have the second most valued squad in world football with an estimate of 909.5 million eurosyou count on him current Ballon d’Or, with the most coveted player in the world and the one with the most covers. As if that weren’t enough you have a four-time Champions League champion on your squad, several world champions and even a recent European Championship champion. They have given you a Ferrari and it seems that you drive it with fear of stepping on the accelerator.
That must be the feeling you have nowadays Nasser Al-Khelaifi with Mauricio Pochettino. The most famous Qatari in European football handed over the keys to a great car to the coach and not a few are those who describe their season as a failure. Paris Saint Germain was eliminated in the French Cup by Nice and last season lost Ligue 1 against Lille. Two setbacks point to the Argentine coach, who arrived in the winter of 2020 and that it seems that it will be difficult to continue beyond this coming summer with a football that does not excite anyone.
Pochettino may be lucky not to be fired mid-season as it happened to a Thomas Tuchel who managed to make Chelsea European champion that same year. Al-Khelaifi will return to his classic behavior of pushing his coaches into the street in the summer as he did at the time with Unai Emery, Laurent Blanc or Carlo Ancelotti in a telegraphed move that will most likely end with the hiring of Zinedine Zidane as the new coach .
The Argentinian knows that he risks everything to the bullet of the Champions League and that this will be his main argument as long as he manages to win it. The truth is that Pochettino has a top-level squad to take on the challenge, but at the same time he knows that his first visible obstacle -Real Madrid- could end up sentencing him for the rest of the season.
The titles did not save the I fire a Carletto that when he fought with Leonardo -the sports director- they let it be known that he was not at the level they wanted. Blanc won Leagues, but his limit was that being struck down in 2016. The sheik then thought of a winner of European titles like Unai Emery to channel your project by living another failure after two seasons without winning away from France. Pochettino envisions a similar situation after failing to impose his dynamic Tottenham game idea and giving the image of an exhausted project. Now the Champions League bullet is the only one that can rescue him from early dismissal.