Daniel Levy must grant Mauricio Pochettino two-word wish to become next Tottenham manager

It is not new news that Mauricio Pochettino wants to return to Tottenham Hotspur one day. But it is pertinent once again given the immense pressure current head coach Ange Postecoglou find himself under.

Pochettino left Spurs in 2019 following five successful seasons in North London. And he has openly said in the past that he would like to come back to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium one day for another crack at his "unfinished job".

Now the head coach of the US men's national team, with a contract until the end of the 2026 World Cup, Pochettino has once again reiterated his desire to manage Tottenham once more.

Speaking in an exclusive interview with Sky Sports, the Argentinian said: "When I left the club I remember one interview, I said I would like one day to come back to Tottenham and I'm not going to say now because I'm in USA that I don't want to talk about that. but what I told then, I still feel in my heart that one day I would lilke to come back. We will see in the future the timing.

"Spurs is a special club for me, my coaching staff, my family, it's always going to be special."

There will be plenty of Tottenham supporters out there who would happily take Pochettino back. I am one of them. He is, without question, the one Spurs boss in my lifetime who has given me the most joy - the last moments of Terry Venables' reign excepted.

He did not win a trophy - not many have - but that is where the 'unfinished job' comes in. That's what Pochettino wants to do, desperately. he wants it for the Spurs fans, he wants it for himself. He came close, but just not quite close enough.

Before he was sacked, Pochettino urged that there needed to be a "painful rebuild" at Tottenham. The five-year cycle he had with his players was at an end and he needed sweeping changes to be made. That was not really forthcoming, though.

Spurs signed Tanguy Ndombele, Giovani Lo Celso, Ryan Sessegnon, Gedson Fernandes and Steven Bergwijn in the summer of 2019, with all five being something of a disaster. It was painful all right, but not the kind of rebuild the Argentinian was thinking about and he was sacked three months into the season.

At the time he really needed money, Tottenham had pumped all their money and a load of the bank's money into building their glorious new stadium. The stadium was just what the club needed, but at a time when Pochettino and Spurs were really challenging at the top of the table, a couple of statement big-money signings could have pushed them to that next level.

Money invested remains a bone of contention with supporters. Would Pochettino be handed a war-chest were he to take over at the club now? It seems unlikely, given the spending habits of previous years. But the issue of the stadium, albeit with the club still paying off debts remaining in place, is not quite hanging over the club like it was when Pochettino was last in situ.

Pochettino either needed a couple of statement signings, or he needed investment over a period to rebuild his squad slowly. He was not given statement signings and he was not given time.

Pochettino back at Tottenham would be a dream and I'm sure it will happen at some point, but he has a huge job as the USMNT head coach and with a World Cup in America, Canada and Mexico it's an exciting time to be in that role.

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