Chelsea’s board are reportedly operating out of persistence with Mauricio Pochettino, and he’s attempting to avoid wasting his job earlier than the upcoming season.
Despite the fact that Pochettino has not even completed his whole season as Chelsea’s head coach, he’s already dealing with intense criticism.
Chelsea, who completed in twelfth place the earlier season and are presently 19 factors off of the Champions League spots, haven’t progressed a lot beneath the previous Tottenham head coach.
Following his workforce’s 1-0 loss to Liverpool within the Carabao Cup closing, Pochettino is beneath extra stress than ever and is likely one of the favorites to be fired as the following Premier League supervisor.
Journalist Ben Jacobs claims that though Roberto De Zerbi of Brighton and Ruben Amorim of Sporting Lisbon have been linked to Chelsea lately, they could have a look at Eddie Howe.
The Englishman has been linked to Newcastle’s dismissal on a number of events this season, and in accordance with Jacobs, Chelsea would take into consideration hiring him if he and Pochettino are fired earlier than the 2024–2025 season.
Jacobs explains on GiveMeSport: ‘Hansi Flick and Julen Lopetegui could possibly be checked out, and even 46-year-old Eddie Howe ought to he go away Newcastle.
‘A Thomas Tuchel return is unlikely, regardless that the present Bayern boss is a free agent this summer time. Tuchel’s return would show very fashionable amongst the fanbase, however his exit in September 2022 was all the way down to not being deemed a strategic or persona match moderately than primarily based on soccer causes alone.
‘Behdad Eghbali, specifically, would want to alter his thoughts on Tuchel and tweak the extremely collaborative mannequin to go well with Tuchel’s wants and elegance. It’s not thought this may occur.
‘There may be some discuss of a Jose Mourinho return as nicely, which might be one other PR win, however a number of of Chelsea’s hierarchy really feel the transfer might back-fire in the long run.’
As per the report, that the 52-year-old’s future will probably be decided by his potential to handle a profitable season finale and by the seen progress of his lavishly constructed squad.
Chelsea are presently mired in the course of the league desk, don’t look more likely to make it to Europe the following season, and misplaced the League Cup final month regardless of enjoying a Liverpool workforce beset by accidents.
It’s a mountain to climb for Pochettino from right here and his future at Stamford Bridge is trying darkish as issues stand.
