Tottenham Hotspur’s Jesus Perez on what Mauricio Pochettino has told him about being a manager

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Tottenham Hotspur assistant boss Jesus Perez has been given great credit for his coaching skills.

Tottenham Hotspur assistant manager Jesus Perez has admitted to Football London that Mauricio Pochettino has always said that if he wants to leave to become a manager then he would have his blessing.

Perez has teamed up with Pochettino throughout his managerial career to date, but always as a number two.

Perez has earned great credit for the role he has done at Tottenham, and is talked of as one of the finest coaches in the Premier League.

As a result Perez is likely to have earned enough praise to get him a job as a manager elsewhere.

But Perez insists that he has absolutely no desire to leave Tottenham, as he loves working with Pochettino.

“I don’t have any ambition to be number one,” he said. “I fulfil everything being number two at this level, because to reach this level, wow. I wouldn’t change working with him to be number one elsewhere.

“He always says to us ‘if one of you wants to be number one’. It’s not my ambition. As soon as one of the staff starts to think they want to be number one, for me, they have to leave the team. You know why? Because their energy is somewhere else.”

Pochettino’s own future at Spurs was heavily speculated about earlier this year, as he was linked with Real Madrid.

Pochettino, though, has decided that sticking with Spurs at least until the end of the season is his best plan of action.

Tottenham are currently in fourth place in the Premier League table, and take on Chelsea in their next match.