Tuesday evening through to Wednesday saw countless articles in the English media explaining why Tottenham Hotspur decided to part ways with Mauricio Pochettino.
There was implied and outright criticism of the former manager, with the idea seemingly to make Spurs’ decision making look justified and get as many fans onside as possible.
Pochettino’s side of the story hasn’t been told, and it’s unlikely to be given he’s taken a pay-off from the Premier League club.
However, there’s an interesting article in Spanish newspaper AS from Guillem Balague, who has long had a good relationship with the manager. Even dating back to when Pochettino took over at Southampton, the Spanish journalist has been fighting the Argentine’s corner and has often been spot on.
The pair worked closely on 2017 book ‘Brave New World: Inside Pochettino’s Spurs’.
Balague takes claims the manager ‘got along badly with Daniel Levy’, that his 
methods were ‘suffocating’ players, and that assistant Jesús Pérez ‘created a tense atmosphere’. These are then called ‘falsehoods’ which are being used to ‘feed the idea’ Tottenham’s stagnation wasn’t down to Levy.
The Spurs boss is described as someone who ‘knows little about football’, but still ‘makes all the decisions’.
As these claims published in Spain have it, Pochettino wanted his club to make a ‘leap in quality’ and Levy wasn’t up for the same.
