Athletic Club angling according to the French L’Equipe to the services of Mauricio Pochettino. According to the newspaper, it seems that the Argentinian will no longer be at the helm of Paris Saint-Germain next season and the Spanish club hopes to tempt the trainer to switch to the Basque Country. Athletic would have already reached out to investigate the possibilities of capturing Pochettino.
The Spaniards have pinned their hopes on the arrival of Pochettino, where the Argentinian should succeed the current coach of the Basque club, Marcelino. The 56-year-old coach’s contract expires this summer and neither Marcelino nor Athletic have any intention of extending the current contract. The Spanish club threatens to miss out on European football, which means there is a good chance that Marcelino’s contract will not be renewed. Athletic Club currently occupies eighth place, with the top seven spots in Spain entitling them to European football. The trainer would feel that the club wants to get rid of him and also sees the possibilities for strengthening the selection without European football. The first contact would have already been made by Athletic to see whether the chance of attracting the Argentinian is a real one.
previously knew Le Parisien Already to report that Pochettino and PSG will part ways after this season. Both sides would see nothing in a longer cooperation, despite the recently won national title of the Parisians. PSG was already knocked out by Real Madrid in the eighth final of the Champions League. The management also wants to experience European success with PSG and would therefore like to say goodbye to Pochettino in the summer. The Argentine’s contract will continue in the French capital until 2023, but after talks about a new contract failed, PSG would now even consider buying Pochettino’s contract. In this way, the losing finalist in the Champions League of 2020 can immediately look for a new trainer.
The daily reported last week that Tottenham Hotspur manager Antonio Conte has already reported to the French top club to succeed the Argentinian in Paris. provided the club wants to meet its substantial set of requirements, according to RMC Sports† However, the Italian does set significant requirements that the French club will have to meet before the trainer actually makes the switch to Paris. For example, Conte wants to almost double his current annual salary. The former national coach of Italy currently earns seventeen million euros in England, but wants to earn almost double that with an employment in France: about thirty million euros. With that amount, Conte would become the highest-paid trainer in the world after Diego Simeone (Simeone currently earns more than 40 million euros gross per year at Atlético Madrid, according to research by L’Equipe and Calcio e Finanza†
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