{"id":135228,"date":"2025-09-05T18:16:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135228\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:16:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:16:07","slug":"mauricio-pochettino-shocked-by-daniel-levys-tottenham-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/135228\/","title":{"rendered":"Mauricio Pochettino ‘shocked’ by Daniel Levy’s Tottenham exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Tottenham Hotspur<\/a> manager Mauricio Pochettino has admitted he was “in shock” after learning the news that long-serving chairman Daniel Levy was leaving the club.<\/p>\n

After nearly 25 years serving as the club’s executive chairman, Tottenham announced on Thursday<\/a> that Levy had stepped down with immediate effect.<\/p>\n

Pochettino worked with Levy for five years as the Premier League<\/a> side’s boss — leading the club to a Champions League final with a talented squad but ultimately falling short of major honours — and said he was surprised by the sudden change.<\/p>\n

“I am a little bit in shock because he was my former president,” Pochettino, now head coach of the United States<\/a> men’s national team, said on Friday. “I don’t know what happened there.<\/p>\n

USMNT coach Mauricio Pochettino was shocked by Daniel Levy’s departure at Tottenham.\u00a0Chris Brunskill\/Fantasista\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

“Of course, I sent a text to him, and I sent a text to different people that were very close to him.<\/p>\n

“I wish him the best … my relationship [with him] always was very good, and yes, I was in shock.”<\/p>\n

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After joining Tottenham from Southampton in 2014, Pochettino quickly made an impact in north London, finishing in the top-four in four straight seasons. The Argentine also built an impressive squad, featuring Harry Kane<\/a> and his own signings, Son Heung-Min<\/a> and Dele Alli<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But major trophies alluded Pochettino and Tottenham, with two lost finals during his tenure. Pochettino was sacked by the club in November 2019, five months after a Champions League final defeat to Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He has since managed Paris Saint-Germain<\/a>, Chelsea<\/a> and now the USMNT, while Thomas Frank is Tottenham’s newest boss.<\/p>\n

In a statement<\/a> regarding his exit, Levy said: “I am incredibly proud of the work I have done together with the executive team and all our employees. We have built this club into a global heavyweight competing at the highest level.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has admitted he was “in shock” after learning the news that long-serving…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135229,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-135228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}