Mauricio Pochettino’s Lionel Messi comments which may hint at PSG transfer offer

Mauricio Pochettino is lastly again in administration after he was confirmed as the brand new boss of Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday.

The 48-year-old, who has been out of the sport since being sacked by Tottenham in 2019, has put pen to paper on a year-and-a-half lengthy contract with the French giants, who he represented as a participant.

Pochettino will little question be relishing the chance to take cost of one in every of Europe’s elite golf equipment.

And he could nicely quickly be on the cellphone to his compatriot Lionel Messi to attempt to persuade him to affix him in Paris.

Messi is now free to speak to golf equipment outdoors Spain a couple of summer season transfer, along with his contract at Barcelona expiring on the finish of the season.

He has been linked with a transfer to the US in latest weeks, however becoming a member of up with Pochettino and trying to win the Champions League once more is a problem which might nicely entice him as an alternative.

And Pochettino has made no secret previously on his want to sooner or later work with the six-time Ballon d’Or winner – albeit his plan was to take action at Argentinean membership Newell’s Previous Boys.

Chatting with Radio de Plata final yr, Pochettino stated: “I wish to return to Newell’s with Messi.

“I can nonetheless wait, [for an opportunity] and the very best [possible scenario] can be in 10 years with Messi.”

The situation could nicely have arrived sooner than he anticipated, with PSG one of many solely golf equipment in world soccer who would be capable of afford Messi’s mammoth wages.

Pochettino was additionally unable to cover his admiration for the participant forward of his Spurs facet’s Champions League recreation in opposition to Barcelona in 2018.

He stated: “I’m going to say to the gamers: ‘Get pleasure from taking part in in opposition to Messi, as a result of you will have the chance to play in opposition to top-of-the-line gamers within the historical past of soccer’.

“Greater than it worrying you, it must excite you to play and so you possibly can say – such as you say to me – ‘Oh, I performed in opposition to Messi, or I performed in opposition to Maradona, or I performed in opposition to Ronaldo.

“That is the kind of participant that you’re going to bear in mind. In your ego, it’s a factor that you’re going to inform your children and grandkids.”

It’s fairly clear, then, that Messi going to PSG is one thing which might be of giant curiosity to Pochettino.

Now it’s all the way down to Messi to determine precisely the place he sees his future in what will likely be an intriguing few weeks of decision-making.