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Mauricio Pochettino is being unceremoniously dumped by Paris Saint-Germain, talks of a successor search happening out in the open before his termination package has even been agreed upon. He’ll leave behind a sense of vague dissatisfaction and regret, no legacy to speak of. He won a league title and French Cup, but he failed in Europe and so will join an ever-lengthening list of managers who have found themselves unable to overcome the internal contradictions of a club that is beginning to look unmanageable.
The good news for Pochettino is that managers tend to recover from the PSG experience. Thomas Tuchel only left the job in December 2020 (and so bears as much responsibility for the failure to win the league in ’20–21 as Pochettino) but he has already won the Champions League since. Carlo Ancelotti, sacked in ’13, also won the Champions League the season after his departure, and has since won another. Unai Emery has added a Europa League title and taken little Villarreal to a Champions League semifinal. PSG does not make people into bad managers; it is just extremely difficult to manage.
