{"id":909,"date":"2018-06-02T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2018-06-02T13:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=909"},"modified":"2018-06-01T12:00:06","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T10:00:06","slug":"real-madrid-target-tottenhams-mauricio-pochettino-to-replace-zidane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/?p=909","title":{"rendered":"Real Madrid target Tottenham\u2019s Mauricio Pochettino to replace Zidane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have identified Mauricio Pochettino as the principal candidate to take over as manager after Zinedine Zidane\u2019s surprise decision to\u00a0<a class=\"u-underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/may\/31\/zinedine-zidane-real-madrid-manager-steps-down\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">walk away<\/a>. Tottenham, however, are adamant the Argentinian\u2019s new contract does not contain a clause that allows him to join the triple European champions.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"element element-rich-link element--thumbnail element-rich-link--upgraded\" data-component=\"rich-link\" data-link-name=\"rich-link-1 | 1\">\n<div class=\"rich-link tone-news--item rich-link--pillar-sport\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__container\">\n<div class=\"rich-link__header\">\n<p class=\"rich-link__title\">Zidane announced he was leaving the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u on Thursday, five days after Real beat Liverpool 3-1 in the Champions League final in Kiev. It is understood the Real president, Florentino P\u00e9rez, has anointed Pochettino and has already sought to make contact with the 46-year-old after being caught off-guard by Zidane\u2019s departure.<\/p>\n<p>Real are aware Pochettino signed a five-year deal with Spurs six days ago and had believed it contains a clause that allows him to leave. Tottenham insist that is not the case and have also denied the existence of any verbal agreement between the former Espanyol and Southampton manager and the Spurs chairman, Daniel Levy, over a potential departure to La Liga.<\/p>\n<p>Pochettino\u2019s contract is worth a reported \u00a38m a year, making him the fourth-best paid manager in the Premier League. Before signing, he urged Levy to \u201cbe brave and take risks\u201d and it is believed he has been given assurances Tottenham will have money to spend as they prepare to move into their renovated stadium next season.<\/p>\n<p>But the lure of moving back to Spain, where he spent eight years as a player before cutting his managerial teeth with Espanyol between 2009-2012, may prove too strong to resist.<\/p>\n<p>source:https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2018\/may\/31\/real-madrid-mauricio-pochettino-tottenham<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Real Madrid have identified Mauricio Pochettino as the principal candidate to take over as manager after Zinedine Zidane\u2019s surprise decision to\u00a0walk away. Tottenham, however, are adamant the Argentinian\u2019s new contract does not contain a clause that allows him to join the triple European champions. Zidane announced he was leaving the Santiago Bernab\u00e9u on Thursday, five [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":911,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions\/911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/britishdailynews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}