Mauricio Pochettino, a former manager of Paris Saint-Germain, has acknowledged that his failure to help the Paris club win the UEFA Champions League contributed to his dismissal.
Pochettino made this claim in an interview with Argentine outlet Infobae.
The French Ligue 1 champions are all about the Champions League, according to Pochettino, who also added that anything less than victory in the continent’s top competition is a failure.
“Everything [at PSG] is focused on the Champions League,” Pochettino told Argentine outlet Infobae, “and sometimes that can be a little distracting.”
“Those demands seem to only exist in the build-up to European games, and other competitions are taken for granted due to PSG’s superiority.
“The Champions League is the obsession, and anything short of winning the Champions League is equivalent to failure.”