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Alla Zakarian

07-11-2018 | 17:11 Football
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Mauricio Pochettino “accepted” Real Madrid’s offer to become new boss

Real Madrid were close to appointing Mauricio Pochettino as manager last summer, however, Tottenham boss Daniel Levy put a block on the move going through. Journalist Duncan Castles revealed on last week’s episode of The Transfer Window podcast that Pochettino was actually the man Real were on the lookout to replace Zinedine Zidane after he quit in the wake of the Champions League final victory over Liverpool in Kiev. Castles said: “Pochettino wanted the job in the summer, he was offered the job, accepted it and Daniel Levy prevented it from happening. “You have to take from all of that that he’s very much a Real candidate and still the No.1 candidate from Madrid’s perspective to be the next permanent manager of Real Madrid.” Pochettino signed a new long-term contract with Spurs in May, which ties him to the club until 2023. However, Ian McGarry, a fellow guest on the Transfer Window podcast, believes Pochettino could yet be tempted away from north London to replace caretaker boss Santiago Solari long-term. “I am convinced that Florentino Perez does not want to make a mistake on this next appointment,” McGarry said on last week’s show. “His one job as president, his own election credibility depends on the guy who comes in next and therefore he wants to put someone in charge until next May, at which point he will have had six, seven months to schmooze Mauricio Pochettino and Daniel Levy, to get Pochettino in to the job by the start of the 2019 season. “I would say Solari is very much real for 14 days but in the spirit of Halloween, he may well come as a ghost after that.”

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