‘ANGRY’
“We missed winning the Champions League by one match. And we never had the feeling that we had convinced people and that they recognised our performance. Sometimes that makes you a little sad or angry,” he told Sport1.
He also complained about the demands imposed upon him.
“During the first six months, I was asking myself ‘am I still a coach…or a minister of Sport?'”
He was reportedly given his marching orders less than 24 hours after Wednesday’s 4-0 win over Strasbourg which left them a point off the top of the table in Ligue 1 ahead of the winter break.
If his dismissal is confirmed he leaves PSG with two Ligue 1 titles, a French Cup and a League Cup.
In 2017, he lost his job as Borussia Dortmund boss three days after guiding the Bundesliga side to the German Cup and reportedly fell out with the club’s hierarchy.
The new man in the PSG dugout when the season resumes in the New Year will be Pochettino, RMC suggests.
The Argentine, a popular PSG centre-back between 2001 and 2003, left his position as Tottenham boss in November 2019, six months after leading them into their maiden Champions League final.
The 48-year-old transformed Spurs’ fortunes during his five-and-a-half-year reign but failed to win a trophy.
He has been heavily linked with a return to the Premier League with Newcastle if their proposed Saudi Arabia-backed takeover goes through, while speculation over the Manchester United job has never gone away.
But now it appears he will be leaving his London home and finding fresh accommodation across the channel.