Mauricio Pochettino leaves Chelsea dwell – Latest updates and response | EUROtoday

Mauricio Pochettino has left Chelsea by mutual consent after assembly with sporting administrators Paul Winstanley and Laurence Stewart, and co-controlling proprietor Behdad Eghbali over the course of two days.

Telegraph Sport can reveal that Pochettino agreed to his departure with Chelsea late on Tuesday morning, following the membership’s end-of-season overview that began on Monday.

There just isn’t regarded as any unhealthy blood between Pochettino and Chelsea, who will instantly begin their seek for a substitute with a younger and progressive coach to be focused.

Among the names more likely to be thought of can be Stuttgart’s Sebastian Hoeness, Girona’s Michel, Ipswich Town’s Kieran McKenna, who has been lined up by Brighton, and Leicester City’s Enzo Maresca.

Pochettino had met co-controlling proprietor Todd Boehly for dinner final Friday night time, earlier than, on Monday and Tuesday, spending a number of hours with Winstanley and Stewart, and assembly with Eghbali.

It means Pochettino leaves Chelsea after one yr of the two-year contract he signed final summer time and is in line to pocket a major compensation charge.

The departure of Pochettino, which has been described as being ‘amicable’, makes him the third everlasting head coach to lose his job underneath the Clearlake Capital-Boehly possession after Thomas Tuchel and Graham Potter.

Bruno Saltor managed Chelsea for one recreation final season, earlier than Frank Lampard took interim cost, which means a complete of 5 managers have labored underneath Chelsea’s present homeowners in two years.

A run of 5 successive wins on the finish of this season clinched European qualification for Chelsea underneath Pochettino, who additionally took the membership to the ultimate of the Carabao Cup and the semi-final of the FA Cup.

The Argentine has left along with his head held excessive and his popularity intact. But, within the view of key figures at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea’s season, seen as an entire, fell in need of pre-season expectations and raised points such because the crippling damage listing.

Pochettino stated: “Thank you to the Chelsea ownership group and sporting directors for the opportunity to be part of this football club’s history. The club is now well positioned to keep moving forward in the Premier League and Europe in the years to come.”

Confirming Telegraph Sport’s unique, Chelsea additionally introduced that Pochettino’s teaching workers, Jesus Perez, Miguel d’Agostino, Toni Jimenez and Sebastiano Pochettino, have left the membership.

Sporting administrators Winstanley and Stewart stated: “On behalf of everyone at Chelsea, we would like to express our gratitude to Mauricio for his service this season. He will be welcome back to Stamford Bridge any time and we wish him all the very best in his future coaching career.”