Mauricio Pochettino asked three world champions to reinforce Chelsea

The Argentinian Mauricio Pochettino will be Chelsea’s manager starting next season, after one of the last meetings between DT and the club’s leadership ended positively.

As reported by the English media, the 51-year-old from Rosario will sign a contract in the coming days contract until mid-2026but it will only take over when the current season ends.

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Chelsea needs to rediscover the good level that characterized it in recent years, since after the departure of Roman Abramovich, the club could not find a footing with the new owners, despite having spent a fortune on transfers.

So bad was the last season of the London team that Four coaches passed through his bench: the German Thomas Tuchel, the British Graham Potter, the Spanish Bruno Saltor and Frank Lampard, who was designated as interim until the end of the cycle.

The team of Argentine Enzo Fernández, world champion in Qatar 2022, is eleventh with two dates left to conclude the Premier League, now without a chance of qualifying for a European competition for the following season.

Mauricio Pochettino wants three Argentine world champions to reinforce Chelsea

Mauricio Pochettino will be announced as the new Chelsea manager in the coming days and according to the English press, he would have already requested three Argentine soccer playersworld champions, to reinforce the squad.

According to the information provided by the Daily Mail, Pochettino would have asked for a goalkeeper, a midfielder and a striker. And in those three positions, four names appeared, with three Argentines: Emiliano Dibu Martínez, Declan Rice, Alexis Mac Allister and Lautaro Martínez.

The request of the Rosario DT is not a rarity since the three Argentines are going through an excellent moment and are figures in their teams.

Dibu Martínez is one of the pillars of Aston Villa and other teams like Manchester United and Tottenham are behind the goalkeeper. As to Alexis Mac Allister is known to have received a pre-contract from Liverpool, although he is still waiting to evaluate the offer.

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With respect to Lautaro Martínez, hiring him will not be easy since he will have to fight with other teams to be a reinforcement for Chelsea next season. El Toro still has a contract with Inter and its value is 80 million euros, a very high sum for the market.

What will Mauricio Pochettino’s coaching staff be like at Chelsea?

Pochettino would arrive at Chelsea with his usual coaching staff, with Jesús Pérez as his main assistant, his son Sebastián, goalkeeping coach Toni Jiménez and assistant coach Miguel D’Agostino.

Chelsea will be Pochettino’s third team from the first division of English football, after Southampton and Tottenham Hotspur, whom he qualified to the final of the 2018/19 European Champions League.

Subsequently, the former defender who emerged from Newell’s Old Boys from Rosario led Paris Saint-Germain, with Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappé, with whom he won three local titles.