When Mauricio Pochettino logged on to the Zoom call with Chelsea’s co-sporting directors, Laurence Stewart and Paul Winstanley, in their first meeting during the club’s search for a new head coach this year, he reached for an ice-breaker.
“I need to know if I need to convince you or if you need to convince me,” the Argentinian said. “If I need to convince you, I need a shower and a nice shirt.”
Pochettino, 51, laughs as he tells this story sitting in the Drake Suite at Stamford Bridge after being introduced as the new Chelsea head coach, the latest and most crucial appointment of the Todd Boehly-Clearlake Capital ownership. The past year, the first of their ownership, has been bumpy and question marks were raised
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