Pochettino wants Premier League return after PSG exit but where would he fit?

Mauricio Pochettino is on his way out of PSG. Given that he’d like to return to the Premier League, where could he go next?

In the end, the departure of Mauricio Pochettino from PSG became a slow-motion sacking taking place over a period of months, inevitable from the point that his team capitulated in Madrid in the Champions League, possibly unavoidable even had he won the tournament, and eventually dragged out to a degrading unofficial open secret in which the identity of his successor was known to all before the axe had technically fallen. In the binary world of football discourse, opinions on Pochettino are of course polarised; he’s either yet another ‘fraud’ who switched his game of FIFA to the easiest skill setting and still lost, or he never stood a chance, ground into the dirt by a dysfunctional club with more money than sense and a hopelessly unbalanced squad filled with preening millionaires.

But in the world of professional football, the departure of any high-profile manager will turn heads. But unfortunately for Pochettino, this is hardly the right time for this to happen. It has been reported that he would like to return to the Premier League, but there are currently no vacancies and it might take until the World Cup break in November for the right profile of job to become available. Last season, five Premier League managers had come and gone by November 12, but this season the international break comes on September 24. Would many clubs be brave (or skittish) enough to go that early? Or would it not make sense for them to hang on until November, in the full knowledge that there is a substantial break to source and stabilise a replacement.

So the question of where Mauricio Pochettino ends up next is an open