Manchester United look set to have a new manager and he doesn’t arrive alone. Mauricio Pochettino and his assistant Jesús Pérez have worked side by side since Espanyol, through Southampton, Tottenham, Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and the USA. Earlier this year they sat down with Jake and Damian together. It’s as close as you’ll get to sitting in their staff room before they walk into Carrington.

In this conversation:

• The statement Mauricio refused to put out at Tottenham, and how it protected a young Harry Kane
• Six o’clock every morning, going through the squad from player one to twenty-five, and how they decide when to challenge a player and when to put an arm round him
• What Cole Palmer told them in their office after only a handful of sessions at Chelsea
• Walking into a Chelsea squad that had just finished twelfth, and why the foundations came first
• Messi, Neymar and Mbappé in one dressing room, and the substitution that even Mauricio’s wife questioned
• Why tactics are the easy part, and what Mauricio calls “the real tactic”
• The bowl of lemons in the manager’s office

And when we asked whether he’ll ever win the Premier League, he said he didn’t know how, or with which club, only that he would!

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