PSG fired Pochettino. REUTERS / Benoit Tessier / photo file
Paris Saint-Germain made official this Tuesday thedismissal of the Argentine coach Mauricio Pochettino, after a season and a half on the bench of the institution, which plans to announce the arrival of Christophe Galtier shortly.
“The club would like to thank Mauricio Pochettino and his team for their work and wish them the best,” PSG said in a statement released on Tuesday, which they confirmed. an exit that had already been decided for some time but that was hampered by the economic conditions of the exit.
The Argentine arrived at the Parisian club in January 2021, at the height of the pandemic. Under his management, PSG won the 2022 Ligue 1, the 2021 French Cup and the 2020 French Super Cup (played late due to the pandemic).
However, the lack of results in the Champions League (semi-final in 2021 and, above all, the painful elimination against Real Madrid in this year’s round of 16) ended up condemning Pochettino, who was the latest victim of an electric stool.
Not only the failures at the Champions level, but the management has also had some setbacks at the national level. A loss in Ligue 1 in May 2021 against Lille and a defeat in the Super Cup in August 2021 against Lille, elimination in the second round of Coupe de France in 2022.
In the first two cases, the defeat was against Lille led by Christophe Galtier, the 55-year-old coach who has all the credentials to take over as PSG manager as soon as possible. Without going further, the club will introduce him to society this Tuesday at noon.
Pochettino had a contract until June 2023 and in recent weeks he had expressed his willingness to keep it, despite the rumors of his departure in the French capital. “There are many rumors. They’ve already fired me every week, ”he said in early June. In the end, That separation announced so many times took place last Thursday, Even if there was no confirmation.
The Parisian leaders were determined to conclude the negotiation in these hours, since their goal was have a new technical staff before Monday, when the team started the preseason. But they did not want to pay the full compensation provided for in the contracts of the Santa Fe and its technical staff.
The former coach of Espanyol, Southampton and Tottenham was unwilling to make too many concessions to facilitate his dismissal. For this reason, the procedures were extended by 20 days. According to L’Équipe, the agreement was signed last Thursday and provides for the payment of 10 million euros for Pochettino and his collaborators.
Thus ended a cycle that began on January 2, 2021, nine days after the dismissal of the German Thomas Tuchel. In these 17 months, the Murphy-born manager has led the Parisian team in 84 games, including 56 won, 13 drawn and 15 lost.
He thus becomes part of a long list of departures, including Carlo Ancelotti, Laurent Blanc, Unai Emery and Tuchel, renowned coaches who, however, failed to achieve the success revealed by the owners of the Qatari club.
Source: Clarin
