Former PSG Manager Mauricio Pochettino Set for ‘Talks’ With French Side Nice Over the Manager’s Role

Former PSG Manager Mauricio Pochettino Set for ‘Talks’ With French Side Nice Over the Manager’s Role

Edwin Kiplagat
updated at April 12, 2023 at 8:12 PM
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  • A few months after being sacked by PSG, Mauricio Pochettino is set to hold talks with French side OGC Nice over the manager's position
  • Pochettino has been without a job since leaving the capital and is expected to take over from Lucien Favre, who is likely to be sacked
  • The 50-year-old won the Ligue 1 title with PSG last season, but the owners were unimpressed with him

Former Tottenham Hotspur and Paris Saint Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino is expected to hold talks with Nice as he looks to return to management.

Pochettino was let go by PSG last June and is yet to find another coaching job. However, his credentials indicate that he will find himself somewhere in due course.

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Mauricio Pochettino might replace Lucien Favre, a coach who is under threat after a poor start to the season. Photos by John Berry and Jean Catuffe.
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Pochettino to hold talks with Nice

According to Get French Football News, the former PSG manager is eyeing a return to management after he left PSG this past summer. Pochettino is set to meet with Nice to discuss a possible move if they decide to part ways with current coach Lucien Favre.

Favre's position is in danger following a string of poor results this season.

Favre was hired in the summer to replace Christophe Galtier, who went on to replace the Argentine at PSG. Favre's team have picked up just two wins this season in the French Ligue 1 and currently lie 13th, just two points above the relegation zone.

Nice suffered a frustrating 1-0 defeat to Angers this past weekend, a result that is said to have increased pressure on the former Borussia Dortmund manager, who is in his second spell at the club.

Pochettino arrived midway through the 2020/2021 season to his former side. He left the French giants with a league title, a feat most fans and pundits said was missing on his CV.

Nice are owned by Britain's richest man Sir Jim Ratcliffe and signed some high-profile players like Kasper Schmeichel, Ross Barkley, Aaron Ramsey and Nicolas Pepe.

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Edwin Kiplagat has five years of experience in journalism working as a Sports Editor at Africa Insight Communications and ESPN. Edwin Kiplagat is a Bachelor's Degree holder in journalism from the Multimedia University of Kenya.