Mauricio Pochettino Says He Has Improved As A Manager Since Leaving Tottenham

New Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said that he and his coaching team have improved since their last gig in the Premier League with Tottenham Hotspur.

New Chelsea manager Mauricio Pochettino has said he and his coaching team have improved since their last gig in the Premier League.

Pochettino began work at Chelsea on Monday.

He was joined at the club's Cobham training center by Jesus Perez, Miguel D'Agostino, Toni Jimenez and son Sebastiano Pochettino.

Those four men all previously worked under Pochettino at Tottenham.

Perez, D'Agostino and Jimenez were also part of Pochettino's backroom staff at Southampton, where their EPL journey began in January 2013.

After 23 wins, 18 draws and 19 losses in all competitions with the Saints, Pochettino and Co left to join Spurs in May 2014.

They oversaw 159 wins and 62 draws with Tottenham, as well as 72 defeats, including a 2-0 loss to Liverpool in the 2019 UEFA Champions League final.

Pochettino was fired less than six months after that final.

Mauricio Pochettino pictured (left) speaking to Harry Kane during a Tottenham match in 2018 :: IMAGO/Shaun Brooks

His most recent role came in France with Paris Saint-Germain, where he won his first trophies as a manager, including the 2021/22 Ligue 1 title.

Pochettino gave his first interview as Chelsea manager on Monday, during which he was asked: "Do you feel that you have evolved as a coach over the last few years?"

He smiled and replied: "I am much, much, much better! No, I think it is an important experience to analyze. We have had times in the past to analyze everything and to be better. Evolution is every day, trying to be better. Experiences are something you must capitalize on because if not, experience is nothing."

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He added: "I think we are in the correct way to try to add things and help the players to be better. We are a better coaching staff and a staff that loves to innovate, be ahead of everything, but also share and mix with the football of the past.

"We are responsible to keep the values of football from the past, they are amazing and why we are in love with football. Football is a contact of emotion; it is so important. The emotion can't only come through the fans. That is our responsibility."

Pochettino will face Tottenham in his 11th EPL game as Chelsea boss.

Chelsea travel to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in the first weekend of November.

Spurs finished eighth in the Premier League last season, 16 points ahead of Chelsea in 12th.