The very urbane Mauricio Pochettino appeared on Sky Sports’ Monday Night Football and spoke on a range of issues. A year after he was sacked by Tottenham Hotspur, the 48-year-old Argentine made a high-profile public appearance on a UK TV channel.
The timing was important. At a time when Ole Gunnar Solskjær is walking a managerial tightrope at Manchester United, Pochettino’s appearance on a hugely popular football show probably said something, if you want to read between the lines. For the last 12 months, he had been sort of lying low.
Pochettino was asked about his next job. “I don’t know. I’m not going to close any door. I learnt when I was really, really young, (Pochettino’s former coach) Jorge Griffa would say, ‘Mauricio, football is going to dictate your way’. And I’m waiting to feel what is the right project for us, which is…