Mauricio Pochettino does not know how he would have reacted if the opportunity to resume his love affair with Tottenham had ever truly been on the cards. “It’s a good question,” the Argentinian says as he sits in the press room at Chelsea’s training ground thinking about facing his old club for the first time since they fired him four years ago. “But it’s difficult to answer.”
Would the connection have been the same second time around? They say you should never go back but for a while there was a sense that Pochettino had unfinished business with the side he led to the Champions League final in 2019. The reunion could have happened when Spurs sacked José Mourinho in 2021, only for Paris Saint-Germain to derail it. The fans would have loved it. There were more calls for Pochettino to return when Spurs parted company with Antonio Conte in March.
