Tony Cascarino is of the opinion that Mauricio Pochettino will not last the season as manager of Tottenham Hotspur.
The Spurs boss made his feelings known following his side's 1-0 win over Real Madrid in Audi Cup, claiming he had no influence on the club’s transfer plans for the rest of the summer and knew nothing about rumours regarding their purchases or sales.
Pochettino went on to suggest that his job title should change from manager to coach. According to Cascarino, these comments point to the former Southampton boss becoming the first managerial casualty of the season.
“We all question whether Frank Lampard will still be at Chelsea by the end of the season and if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer will still be Manchester United manager next summer," the former Chelsea man told talkSPORT.
“But the one I feel is the more likely to go from the top six first is Pochettino.
“I look at Poch and I just feel from what’s happening and what he’s communicating, I’m not sure he’s going to be there at the end of this season.
“I just don’t see it.
“I think it was as good as it was going to get for them last year, with them getting to the Champions League final. They lost 18 or 19 games by the end of the season – that’s a lot of matches.
“I think he knows deep down the team isn’t there to win the title, they’re still 20 points behind the top two and I don’t see that changing next year.
“I think there’s an element of frustration that his imprint in the club is still not where he thinks it should be.
“He’s been at the club a long time and they haven’t won anything and there’s frustration in the way he’s talking.
“When he used the words, ‘now my job is the coach’, he’s sort of saying it wasn’t that when he first joined the club and he had a much bigger say on who came in.
"But now he’s saying he’s just given the players and is coaching them and trying to improve them, which he is doing.”
