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Eric Abidal comments on why Barcelona rejected appointing Mauricio Pochettino despite his Tottenham Hotspur’s exploits

Tottenham Hotspur parted ways with Argentine manager Mauricio Pochettino in November 2019 following a woeful start to 2019-20 that had left the club in 14th in the Premier League table before his departure.

The 49-year-old has since become the boss of French giants Paris Saint-Germain, succeeding Thomas Tuchel at the Parc des Princes in January 2021.

However, he was linked with becoming Barcelona boss just after he left Spurs, but his links with Espanyol and a joke he had made while he was at Tottenham about preferring to work on a farm in Argentina than manage the Catalans did not do him any favours with the Josep Bartomeu-led board.