{"id":552685,"date":"2020-06-02T10:09:20","date_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=552685"},"modified":"2020-06-02T10:09:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-02T14:09:20","slug":"report-mauricio-pochettino-wants-trophies-at-next-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/06\/02\/report-mauricio-pochettino-wants-trophies-at-next-club\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Mauricio Pochettino Wants Trophies At Next Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/92c5faee\/Mauricio-Pochettino\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mauricio Pochettino<\/a> may go down as one of the best <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham<\/a> managers in <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Premier League<\/a> history; he took them from mid-table staleness to the excitement of title challenges. But, the fact is, his reign will always be tainted by the lack of trophies. Pochettino&#8217;s side always seemed within touching distance of success before it was snatched away by a better, more prepared team.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Even Pochettino&#8217;s biggest achievement of reaching the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/champions-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Champions League<\/a> final ended in defeat before facing the sack just months later. And now, months after his Spurs departure, Mauricio Pochettino desires a team of winners at his next club to finally end his trophy curse. He told Spanish TV via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/sport\/football\/1289975\/Newcastle-news-Mauricio-Pochettino-Premier-League\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the Express<\/a>: &#8220;That moment will arrive when we have to win a trophy.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">REPORT: Mauricio Pochettino Wants Trophies At Next Club<\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Possible Destinations\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Argentine manager has been heavily linked with the <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/clubs\/newcastle-united\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newcastle<\/a> job ahead of the Magpies&#8217; takeover.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The takeover will allow Newcastle to rebuild what is an average squad into potential top-six challengers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">It&#8217;s a project that could see many world-class players grace St James&#8217; Park; players that will want a top manager to perform under.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And, unfortunately for <a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/535d3678\/Steve-Bruce\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Steve Bruce<\/a>, he is not that man. Instead, a manager of Pochettino&#8217;s calibre will likely be persuaded to take part in the ambitious project.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">A Chance Of Success Outside Of England?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Pochettino has now managed in both Spain and England where he took smaller sides to heights they had previously failed to reach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">And maybe that&#8217;s why he has failed in the trophy department; he has never been in charge of the best team, but instead the team that needs the biggest rebuild<a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b21fe2db\/Pep-Guardiola\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fbref.com\/en\/players\/b21fe2db\/Pep-Guardiola\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pep Guardiola<\/a> has won many trophies throughout his illustrious career due to his obvious managerial expertise, but also because he has only taken charge of historic serial winners. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">The Spaniard has always been given the job of continuing the cycle of success, instead of rebuilding it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">This is the type of job Pochettino needs to take for the betterment of his career.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">With Maurizio Sarri struggling at<a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/category\/serie-a\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Juventus<\/a>, Pochettino could well have the chance to offer his resume to the Italian giants in the summer; giving him the chance to fulfil his trophy desires.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Either way, however, the former Spurs boss needs trophies to cement his place amongst the worlds elite, trophies that he may find outside of England.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"U8fRYiUlST5JoDrXMGol3A\" class=\"gie-single\" style=\"color: #a7a7a7; text-decoration: none; font-weight: normal !important; border: none; display: inline-block;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.gettyimages.co.uk\/detail\/1181073560\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'U8fRYiUlST5JoDrXMGol3A',sig:'-v_E1lVQIy6NDzia4lNT3eeugxIubG5XO29y90B0TJ0=',w:'594px',h:'396px',items:'1181073560',caption: true ,tld:'co.uk',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mauricio Pochettino may go down as one of the best Tottenham managers in Premier League history; he took them from mid-table staleness to the excitement of title challenges. But, the fact is, his reign will always be tainted by the lack of trophies. Pochettino&#8217;s side always seemed within touching distance of success before it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3402,"featured_media":552689,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,378,6,1267,30,3,24],"tags":[4063,707,5377,116,181,96],"class_list":["post-552685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-champions-league","category-la-liga","category-newcastle-united","category-news","category-premier-league","category-tottenham","tag-2019-20-premier-league","tag-maurcio-pochettino","tag-newcastle-takeover","tag-newcastle-united","tag-pep-guardiola","tag-tottenham-hotspur"],"modified_by":"Matt Lee","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552685\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}