Mauricio Pochettino has said Frank de Boer’s dismissal by Crystal Palace after only four league games could further prevent top-flight clubs from appointing young bosses.
“The problem was he didn’t have experience in the Premier League. It depends on results. If you sign an experienced manager and you don’t achieve what you want, then why not sign a young manager with different ideas and different energy?”
Pochettino said he could see similarities between himself and Silva but, despite their success, is sympathetic to the pressures faced by risk-averse owners and chairmen when it comes to managerial appointments.
“It’s not my responsibility,” he said. “Of course, young managers will always appear with different ideas, but I am not in a position to talk too much because I don’t have experience of running clubs.
“That depends on the owners and sporting directors, who take the decisions on whether they want to risk a young manager or not.
“It’s so difficult because we’re always going to give our opinion after the results, after the decisions. It is so difficult if you are in the position of taking the decisions.
“If you play PlayStation and take decisions — sign players, change the bench, new system — you feel what it means to take the decisions and it has a massive effect in a negative way or in a positive way.
“As a manager you need to be calm in your mind for taking decisions. Then the board is completely different. They work on a different level, have different pressures.
“They need to take decisions about not only what happens in the changing rooms or with the results but about the dynamic.
“They care for many things, not only football, in a club. That is why it is so complicated, so difficult to manage a football club like Tottenham or another club in the Premier League.”
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