Tottenham Hotspur are currently looking for a new manager after Antonio Conte left Spurs by mutual consent.
The Italian saw his time at N17 come to an end in wake of his controversial post-Southampton press conference.
Plenty of names have been doing the rounds regarding the Tottenham job over the past few weeks.
Intriguingly, the prospect of Mauricio Pochettino making an emotional return to Spurs is a realistic option.
The 51-year-old is currently out of work, so Tottenham wouldn’t have to work compensation out with a club.
Pochettino’s time at Spurs was incredibly fruitful.
He turned Tottenham into Premier League challengers and Champions League finalists.
And Michail Antonio, speaking on The Footballer’s Football Podcast, reckons Pochettino will once again be “the one”.
“I think Poch will be back,” he said.
“He has the connection with a lot of the players and he feels like he has something that is not finished at Spurs.
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“I’m pretty sure it was always said he has somewhere in his heart for Spurs and he’ll come back, so you never know.”
Great in theory, risky in reality – our view
Pochettino to Tottenham would be a feelgood story, no doubt about it.
Spurs aren’t having a great time, and so their greatest manager in recent history comes back to save them.
Great in theory, but in reality, there could be some issues.
The first is whether the issues that saw him get the sack in the first place are still there.
Would Pochettino get a big enough budget and control over transfers to actually transform the team?
Also, there’s a risk that there could be over-inflated expectations from his first spell at the club.
Would fans accept one, two or even three transitional seasons under Pochettino, bearing in mind he had them near the very top for so long?
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