Mauricio Pochettino has managed four clubs so far in his coaching career and spent the longest spell with Tottenham Hotspur, between 2014 to 2019.
The Argentine guided the north London to their first ever Champions League final in June 2019, which they lost to Liverpool, and months later, he was shown the exit door at Spurs.
Pochettino returned to management when Paris Saint-Germain appointed him in January 2021.
The French giants are sitting comfortably at the top of the table and have progressed to the knockout stages of the Champions League, where they will face Real Madrid in a two-legged tie.
Ahead of the clash between the two clubs, the former Spurs manager gave an interview to Cadena Ser’s El Larguero. The 49-year-old worked with youngsters at Espanyol, Southampton and Tottenham, but that doesn’t seem to be the case in Paris.
Asked whether the PSG job is ‘almost different’ to the one’s he had in the past, with Spurs specifically mentioned, the South American said: “Every project lays a foundation from the beginning. Today, in football, when you train Espanyol, Southampton, Tottenham, now PSG… it doesn’t matter. If you don’t win, there’s no time.
“Romanticism was lost except in some clubs with an incredible capacity to give it and believe in forming a structure so that this visible head has time to bring people together, not just players, to make a long-term project.
“We have seen it at City with Guardiola, at Liverpool with Klopp… The rest, we already work thinking much more about day to day. One of our maxims is to think that we are going to be 10 years knowing that the present is going to dictate that possibility.
“If you don’t win, there is no livelihood that can allow you to last over time. You have the responsibility to work as if you were going to be there for many years. Nothing has changed for me.
“The day to day gives me the possibility of being tomorrow. We never think beyond. The work is the same, the media exposure changes. Paris, and more this season, exposes you more. That is the important management, managing everything that happens around.”
