Chelsea manager, Mauricio Pochettino has come out to react to the big business of Chelsea spending £1 billion on transfers under the club’s Todd Boehly-led ownership team. He recently had his say while speaking to the press, and fans have been reacting.
According to him, nobody would have believed such a hefty amount could be spent by one club twenty years ago, but it is the norm nowadays and prices are being inflated everywhere.
Poch added that the owners of the club want to keep developing their project till they are fully satisfied with results.
His words, “I don’t know how much the club was selling. You can talk about being surprised about that or not but we need to evolve. Football today is different – we manage different numbers. Twenty years ago, if we think this is going to happen, maybe nobody believes us. Today, I think it is normal this kind of money moving around. It is big business and we cannot stop. We all get the benefit. We are living on what this business produces. I am not here to give a lesson to anyone. It’s about balance. Chelsea is spending money but selling players. Always in that case people arrive in a club. It is normal. [Our owners] they want to develop the project and we are going to help them because we are professional, giving our vision and advice.”
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Mauricio Roberto Pochettino Trossero (born 2 March 1972) is an Argentine professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of Premier League club Chelsea.
Pochettino played as a centre back and began his career in 1989 with Primera División club Newell’s Old Boys, winning a league title and finishing as runner-up in the 1992 Copa Libertadores. In 1994, he transferred to newly promoted La Liga club Espanyol, helping establish their top-flight status and winning the 2000 Copa del Rey, their first trophy in 60 years.
In 2001, he joined Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and then had a stint with Bordeaux before returning to Espanyol in 2004, winning another Copa del Rey in 2006. Pochettino was capped 20 times for the Argentina national team and played at the 1999 Copa América and 2002 FIFA World Cup.
Pochettino was born in Murphy, Santa Fe to Amalia and Héctor Pochettino, a farm labourer. His family is of Italian descent from Piedmont. Between the age of eight and ten, he played both football and volleyball, and also learned judo. He supported Racing Club de Avellaneda as a child.
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