Liverpool and Man City transfer advantage over Tottenham highlighted by Mauricio Pochettino
Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino has highlighted how the likes of Liverpool's Jurgen Klopp and Manchester City counterpart Pep Guardiola have a crucial advantage over himself when it comes to the transfer market.
The result marked a glorious end to arguably the most consistent season in Liverpool's history as they slugged it out with City in the most intense Premier League title race of all-time with the defending champions retaining their crown just a single point above the Reds who finished on a club record 97 points.
Pochettino – who hasn't signed a player for 18 months since Lucas Moura joined from Paris St Germain for £25million in January 2018 – has pointed out that at his club, who finished fourth in the Premier League on 71 points, he is not able to exercise the same kind of control as either Klopp or Guardiola .
The former Espanyol coach told Catalunya Radio – via Sport Witness : “At Manchester City and Liverpool, Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp are free to decide which players they want and which ones they do not.
“However, in other teams such as Tottenham, Chelsea or Arsenal the make up of the squad isn’t in the hands of the coaches. Who decides, in our case, is the president.”
Tottenham's lack of activity in the transfer market of late has also been attributed to the building of their new stadium which they moved into in April with chairman Daniel Levy acknowledging their move had cost in “the order of one billion pounds.”
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