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 fast impact and the suddenness of the departure poses extra questions than solutions.
Chelsea had a powerful end to the season and the hope was that they might 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 have been turned off as rapidly 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 on the lookout for a stopgap answer earlier than they struggle for the likes of Jurgen Klopp and Xabi Alonso subsequent summer time, an rising supervisor who would desire a long-term venture is hardly the perfect stopgap answer.
Pochettino’s departure places an enormous title available on the market and the Harry Kane issue looms giant too.
The striker discovered his footing within the recreation beneath Pochettino and a return, mixed with lastly profitable some trophies, might 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 might come full circle now. The Dutchman’s inventory has by no means been decrease and Chelsea leveraging a powerful second half of the season to surge forward of United regardless of having comparable damage issues and a chaotic government construction could possibly be the ultimate nail in his coffin, hammered by Pochettino.
