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“Chelsea FC can confirm that the Club and Mauricio Pochettino have mutually agreed to part ways.” The announcement came Tuesday evening, somewhat against all expectations. Chelsea management has decided to part ways with its coach, who was in office for only one season. The exercise, without a European Cup, will have been complicated until the spring between disappointments in the championship, a defeat in the League Cup, a full infirmary and recruits paid a fortune who are struggling to integrate. Despite everything, the Blues finished the year better and managed to qualify for a European Cup by taking 6th place in the Premier League.
After this chaotic exercise, it was still a small miracle as the club got stuck in the soft underbelly. The best in the game validated the Argentinian’s work after months of trial and error. This is why his ouster may be surprising in terms of timing, even if rumors were beginning to flourish. A statement from the coach was even surprising on May 10. “Both sides have to make a decision. Chelsea are not happy, neither are the owners, nor the sporting directors. Maybe we’re not happy either because we came here with a job to do and in the end it didn’t happen the way we hoped.”
The locker room didn’t like Pochettino’s training sessions
“I’m not saying I’m not happycontinued the 52-year-old technician, but it’s always one side and maybe we need to look at the other side.” After the announcement of his departure, many players quickly showed their support for the former PSG player, thanking him for the work accomplished. A facade message? This is what asserts The Athletic, evoking big doubts expressed by part of the locker room as to the quality of the training sessions. According to certain elements of the group, they were limited in terms of quality and not always adapted to what Pochettino and his technical staff wanted to put in place.
One of the team’s executives would also not have appreciated being placed in a position where he had never worked before, without having been informed beforehand, or even having trained in this new role. . For his part, Pochettino has always privately expressed doubts about the Fernandez-Caicedo duo, aligned for their price (respectively arriving for €121 million and €116 million) more than for their complementarity. The Argentinian felt that his compatriot was not capable of being a box-to-box in the Premier League, and that the Ecuadorian lacked discipline. After evaluating all these parameters, Chelsea therefore decided to part ways with a coach who had little confidence in the quality of his team, despite the hundreds of millions of euros invested.
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