There’s an interesting piece in L’Equipe in reply to the Pochettino to Tottenham rumours doing the rounds, and one that sheds light upon what the French outlet has termed a ‘lying poker game’.
We live in an increasingly hungry age for the next click, the next headline, and it would serve fans well to note that nobody loses when their name is linked with anyone with any cache about them.
Certainly, Daniel Levy is staring at an undignified mess, no Champions League football is not only absent from his job offer, but instead, he has this new third circle of hell tier of European football to try to apply lipstick too.
L’Equipe spoke to the Argentine camp at PSG and by 11am French time on Thursday, as if underlining the immediate denial, Mauricio took to Instagram, holding a cold drink in the sunshine, whilst clearly sporting a PSG branded top. As if a reply.
Next L’Equipe asked the Ligie 1 club about the rumour and received not just a swift rejection, and didn’t want to give credit to what was perceived to be unrest.
A point here, by the way, divisive language is being employed in reports around Pochettino and PSG. Let’s throw light upon them. Anyone who knows anything about that club and many others will tell you it is a political business and Leonardo is a formidable figure. This is not news, and it is not something Poch has only just discovered.
The Argentine is 6 months into an 18-month deal, after which Leonardo will offer the man more months or replace him. This is the way PSG operate. Furthermore, there is the business of Poch living in a hotel. To the average person, a hotel room is something one might book for a week or two. For life’s higher flyers one might stay in a suite for months, even years on end.
No big shocks in any of this unless you are of a fragile and unworldly disposition.
To extricate Pochettino from the Qatari owned club – after 6 months – would be no more fascinating than watching a dinosaur stamp on a Morris Minor. L’Equipe believes that Mourinho’s sacking cost Tottenham £30million. How much money and how many lawyers does the now beleaguered Daniel Levy have on-call these days?
I take a view that few things in life are impossible, but this looks to be a very small, shoddy little rumour that for a few days got out of control, and I value what L’Equipe’s thoughts above the English reporters than have blown this up.
