“He almost ruined my Football career” “Thank God he got sacked” – Chelsea star slams Pochettino methods of playing
In some shocking remarks that surfaced overnight, Chelsea midfielder Moises Caicedo criticized Mauricio Pochettino’s methods and called his training “difficult.” In a somewhat candid interview.
Caicedo compared his time at Chelsea to his time at Brighton, and it sounded like he didn’t enjoy training under Pochettino.
Since Pochettino is no longer with us, Caicedo will be training under Enzo Maresca, and based on these most recent remarks, Caicedo will be hoping that Maresca’s methods are much more tactical than they are running, which you’d suspect they will be.
Pochettino was run, run, and run!
Caicedo has claimed that Pochettino’s techniques was all about running and energy, whilst at Brighton it was all about the tactical part of the game.
In words picked up and translated via X this week, Caicedo said: “At Brighton it was all tactical, just with the ball; tactical, tactical, tactical. And at Chelsea, it was run, run, run and it was very difficult for me.
“With Chelsea I always ran a bit more and with Brighton we almost always had the ball, with Chelsea it was a different football and we had to run more.”
Yikes. That’s not good reading for Pochettino, who had a real focus on high pressing and high energy football. But he was also often criticised for his lack of tactics on the pitch and an inability to out-fox his opponent.
Things got much better for Chelsea and Pochettino towards the end of last season, but it wasn’t enough for him to mutually part ways with the club and move on. And it sounds like it was the best thing to do, which I was more than content with at the time.