[Sport]Pochettino, from anti-Barcelona player recognized to favorite on the Barça bench

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Mauricio Pochettino is the last lifeline that Josep Maria Bartomeu is willing to cling to to re-float a Barça that hit rock bottom in Lisbon. The Argentine, who has a good relationship with both the Barcelona president and Ramón Planes, attached to the technical secretariat, did not hesitate in the not-so-distant past to show a marked anti-Barcelonaism. For this reason, his possible arrival has generated a strong controversy, both at the level of the board of directors and in the staff.

 

I will never be a Barcelona or Arsenal manager because I am closely linked to Espanyol and Tottenham. I have grown up in Newell's Old Boys and I will never coach Rosario Central. I prefer to work on my farm in Argentina before going to train at certain clubs, Pochettino pointed out in January 2018. Before, in 2017 he had already issued a first serious warning about the possibility of being a Barça manager. It would be impossible, because my emotional ties are created in Barcelona with Espanyol. There are values in life that cannot be changed. Evolution exists, of course, but I cannot change that feeling, he stressed.

 

                                                     

 

This same 2020, on the other hand, he tried to qualify his words of 2018 through the press. I was in Barcelona that year and I met Bartomeu in a bar. We greeted each other because we took our children to the same school and we chatted for five minutes. That generated a rumor that set off alarms because there were more teams that wanted us, and when they asked me I wanted to settle it drastically; I did not want to disrespect Barcelona, he highlighted to immediately leave a door clearly open: I am not arrogant and I did not like to make a statement like that. Maybe now I wouldn't because you never know what will happen in life.

 

That anti-Barcelonaism that he is now trying to qualify was in turn a great argument for Real Madrid to also notice him. Pochettino himself even confessed some time ago that he came to see himself as a replacement for José Mourinho. In recent months, his name once again rang out strongly around the Santiago Bernabéu. If Zidane does not get to win the League, perhaps today he would be in Valdebebas. Things in life, his return to the Spanish League could finally have the Camp Nou as the stage.