Tottenham goalkeeper, Hugo Lloris has hailed Mauricio Pochettino for saving his career as the team prepare for the UCL against Liverpool on Saturday.
LLoris, who has now spent 7 years at Spurs after signing from Lyon believes things might’ve been different in his football journey if Poch did not sign him up.
His words, “It is quite simple,”
“At that time, after two years at the club, I didn’t really like the way things had turned for me here. I put a lot of questions in my mind. Then I met [Pochettino].”
“As soon as I met him, I knew straight away that he was the right man,”
“He is the type of person that you want to work for, that you want to fight for. It is difficult to describe the feeling when you meet someone and that you know he will have a big impact on your career. It is his approach of football, his ideas of football, the man who he is, how he develops relationships and ours is stronger than ever now.”
“There is no place for random in football. You get what you deserve. In the last five seasons, we have made so much effort to help the club improve, to go in the right way. Credit goes to the gaffer and his coaching staff for it. They brought the right energy and the right philosophy into the club,”
“We have all worked so much to be at this level. I can remember a few moments when Leicester won the title in 2016 and we were in the race for the title that year. You could see that things didn’t go our way.
“This season in the Champions League, it is the opposite. It doesn’t mean that we are going to win but all those things happened because we deserved it. Now, it is the biggest chance of our career to make history.”
On the UCL Final, he said, “I think Liverpool can use [last season’s final] as an experience,”
“It is not the case for us. In both teams, there is plenty of quality and talent. The semifinals were amazing for them and for us. Both teams deserve to be at that level in the competition. Now, we all know, the final is about emotion, desire, pain …we have to give our maximum.”
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