Former Chelsea man Tony Cascarino has taken aim at Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino following his side's defeat to Liverpool in the Champions League final.
Goals in either half from Mo Salah and Divock Origi condemned Spurs to a 2-0 defeat at Atletico Madrid's Wanda Metropolitano Stadium on Saturday night.
The Argentine made the controversial call to drop semi-final hat-trick hero Lucas Moura in favour of Harry Kane, who hadn't played since picking up an ankle injury in the quarter-final win over Manchester City, and Cascarino believes that was just one of a number of big calls the Spurs boss got wrong.
“Kane, Winks and Trippier were three names I had written down yesterday morning," the former Republic of Ireland international told talkSPORT.
“Kane, I just didn’t get it at all. Football is littered with some clubs, and internationally, that selected players who have been injured and I don’t like it.
“I think it is silly because you cannot prepare a player for a match, especially of this magnitude.
“I felt Poch really managed his team like a rookie manager.
“Poch got it wrong last night. It’s hard to criticise a guy who has done so brilliantly for a football club and like we chatted earlier about the finances of the club, being competitive, it has been exceptional.
“Poch had all the decisions to make in this game and not Klopp as we knew how they played and their personnel, we knew that.
“I think his team lack experience because he is always wanting to improve players. Poch has always gone for that.
“He wants to get a player in and make them better. He’s done that and that’s fine but you are missing that in the final.”
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