Four reasons why Chelsea should not keep Mauricio Pochettino.
Unpopular opinion We looked at a review from WAGNH and here are their four solid reasons why Chelsea should not keep Mauricio Pochettino next season: 1. Outdated style of football: Pochettino’s style evolved a decade (and a half) ago during the rise of gegenpressing , an intensive running and often chaotic brand of football originating in Germany and spearheaded by Jürgen Klopp. In the meantime, even Klopp (reportedly under the influence of his assistant Lijnders) migrated towards Guardiola’s positional, controlled style, has adapted to modern football which nowadays consists of exclusively positional approaches inspired by Pep with all the young coaches being direct or indirect disciples of Guardiola. Not too long ago, Klopp almost exclusively played a similar type of football to Poch (often referred to as gegenpressing ), which led him to thrive against big teams and often struggle against anyone who sat deep and let his Liverpool team have ...