As Newcastle United edge ever closer to potentially one of the biggest takeovers of a football club in the sport's history thoughts were always likely to turn to what great names they could attract with new found riches.
The rumours of links with Phillipe Coutinho, Harry Kane, Edinson Cavani and more have been followed by rumours of who might follow Steve Bruce into the St James' Park hotseat.
Rising to the top of the list recently has been former Tottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino, but there is something that does not quite compute about the Argentine possibly managing in the north east.
Newcastle just aren't big enough.
Sure, they're about to come into a lot of money and have the history, fanbase, and local pride that some clubs in the top echelons of the Premier League can only dream of, but they aren't big. At least not in the way that you would expect to tempt a manager like Pochettino.
Two years ago he was being heavily linked with the vacant post at Real Madrid as they looked to continue their dominant run in the Champions League.
The next season he showed why, guiding a Tottenham side that had seen no investment and had lost its best player to injury into a Champions League final.
Throughout that season and into the summer he was still being linked with the Real Madrid job as they stumbled through life without Zinedine Zidane and being mentioned constantly as the man to return Manchester United to the fight for titles.
The circumstances that saw him sacked from Spurs may well have hurt how some clubs saw him but the fact remains that Pochettino was a man being linked with the manager's job at the two biggest clubs in the world.
To then take a job at a club who haven't won a real top level trophy since 1969 (or 1955 if you object to the Fairs Cup as a real trophy) after already proving himself on a far more limited budget at an already bigger club would be a colossal step backwards.
In a few years' time who is to say that Newcastle United won't be the biggest club in world football, but right now they are a club on the brink of becoming very rich without a guarantee of success.
They are still the same club that gave Alan Pardew a contract so long it still has months left to run, hired Joe Kinnear twice, and twice led Kevin Keegan to resign.
For Pochettino to join the Magpies it would be a big risk at the point in his career when he should be looking to step on from Spurs to the very top of the game and not down to a club that is yet to even reach Spurs.
