{"id":575650,"date":"2020-12-24T06:02:14","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=575650"},"modified":"2020-12-24T06:02:14","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T11:02:14","slug":"report-mauricio-pochettino-likely-to-replace-thomas-tuchel-at-paris-saint-germain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2020\/12\/24\/report-mauricio-pochettino-likely-to-replace-thomas-tuchel-at-paris-saint-germain\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: Mauricio Pochettino Likely to Replace Thomas Tuchel at Paris Saint-Germain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/tottenham\/\" target=\"_self\">Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> manager Mauricio Pochettino looks like he is finally returning to management. RMCsport journalist <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohamedbouhafsi\/status\/1342053779152269313\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mohamed Bouhafsi<\/a> is reporting that the Argentine is close to taking over at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/paris-saint-germain\/\" target=\"_self\">Paris Saint-Germain<\/a> after they parted company with Thomas Tuchel this morning. Pochettino has been out of the game after being sacked by Spurs over a year ago but is now set to return to the side he represented 95 times as a player.<\/p>\n<h2>Mauricio Pochettino Likely to Replace Thomas Tuchel at Paris Saint-Germain<\/h2>\n<h3>Pochettino Returns?<\/h3>\n<p>When his five-year spell at Spurs came to an end last year, with Spurs struggling in 14th place in the Premier League, nobody expected Pochettino to be out of the game for long.<\/p>\n<p>He has been linked with numerous high-profile jobs around Europe, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk\/sport\/football\/football-news\/man-united-news-pochettino-manager-19223901\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replacing<\/a> Ole Gunnar Solskjaer at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/manchester-united\/\" target=\"_self\">Manchester United<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/sport\/football\/european\/barcelona-news-mauricio-pochettino-backtracks-never-manage-club-a9703181.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">taking over<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/barcelona\/\" target=\"_self\">Barcelona<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">\ud83d\udea8\ud83d\udea8 Info <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RMCsport?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@RMCsport<\/a> : Sauf improbable retournement de situation, Mauricio <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Pochettino?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#Pochettino<\/a> devrait \u00eatre le nouvel entra\u00eeneur du <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PSG?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#PSG<\/a>. L\u2019ancien joueur du PSG a toujours voulu entra\u00eener Paris. Tuchel a appris son d\u00e9part hier soir. Le PSG n\u00e9gocie d\u00e9sormais avec les avocats de l\u2019allemand.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mohamed Bouhafsi (@mohamedbouhafsi) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mohamedbouhafsi\/status\/1342053779152269313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">December 24, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>United have undergone a dramatic turnaround with Solskjaer, though, and the Barcelona role has since been filled by former <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/clubs\/everton\/\" target=\"_self\">Everton<\/a> boss Ronald Koeman.<\/p>\n<p>It didn&#8217;t leave many high-profile vacancies for Pochettino to consider, but PSG&#8217;s decision to part ways with Tuchel is the perfect opportunity for the Argentine to take.<\/p>\n<p>They are currently third in Ligue 1 but are only a point behind both Lille and Lyon, who are joint on 36 points at the top.<\/p>\n<p>There is nothing confirmed yet, though. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1342058239249281028?s=19&amp;fbclid=IwAR3xaO-IDnpmDiSmoY9ufWvZfcOSlhTOGki7M5kGMoAmVXfAsG3t00Bc3Fk\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabrizio Romano<\/a> reports that Pochettino&#8217;s lawyers have been contacted regarding the position and that he is leading the race. However, Thiago Motta is also under consideration by the club.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Main Photo<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"0SQtd3RBSlNpdX5gEvS2iQ\" 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:'0SQtd3RBSlNpdX5gEvS2iQ',sig:'DZ96JYr0rmwgVGCwUQckGrySYr1c-vYGIEO3eug3KQ8=',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>Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino looks like he is finally returning to management. RMCsport journalist Mohamed Bouhafsi is reporting that the Argentine is close to taking over at Paris Saint-Germain after they parted company with Thomas Tuchel this morning. Pochettino has been out of the game after being sacked by Spurs over a year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1144,"featured_media":575654,"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":[2,7,30,1367],"tags":[122,258,84,1895,96,136],"class_list":["post-575650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-ligue-1","category-news","category-paris-saint-germain","tag-ligue-1","tag-mauricio-pochettino","tag-paris-saint-germain","tag-thomas-tuchel","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-world-football"],"modified_by":"Nat Goodlad, Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575650","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\/1144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}