Clinton Morrison has claimed that Aston Villa manager target Mauricio Pochettino wouldn’t want the Wolves job if it was offered to him, as he told Amazon Prime Sport.
Wolves are without a manager after sacking Bruno Lage, whilst there is serious pressure on Steven Gerrard’s job at Villa Park.
Whilst Pochettino’s name hasn’t landed on Wolves’ radar, the 50-year-old is seemingly being targeted by Villa – and it seems as though he would be keen to join.
Villa are just hovering above the Premier League’s relegation zone, and if they were to lose against Fulham on Thursday night, then it could be goodbye Gerrard.
Whilst fans wait to see how the drama unfolds on one side of the Midlands, those at Molineux could be appointing a man that donned Villa’s dugout last season in Mick Beale of QPR.
Nonetheless, when former Birmingham striker Morrison was asked about Pochettino to Wolves, he issued this response.
“I don’t think Pochettino would want that job, at the moment,” said Morrison. “That’s not being disrespectful to Wolves. He would want to manage a top-six team, at the moment.
Alan Shearer then tells Morrison that “Wolves fans will be screaming at you.” to which he responded, “they never liked me, anyways.”
WHAT NEXT FOR POCHETTINO?
In the Premier League alone, Pochettino won’t get a job with a team currently in Europe, so from that prescriptive, it gives Villa a chance.
But that still doesn’t mean Villa will get their man if they sack Gerrard.
There are other elite jobs in Europe that could become available, such as the Juventus job.
Then there is a case of Pochettino remaining patient, and given clubs can sack managers in next to no time, that possible European job in the Premier League could become available after the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
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