EPL: Mauricio Pochettino Plans To Repeat Tottenham's Feat

Chelsea FC players training on Cobham ground

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The new coach is prepared to employ his Spurs playbook in west London along with a few fresh additions.

Including the on-loan Brighton defender Levi Colwill, Mauricio Pochettino wants to assemble his Chelsea team around a nucleus of homegrown players.

Prior to a vital summer in the transfer market, Pochettino has already started evaluating the Blues' bloated roster. He is finally expected to be officially announced as the club's new head coach this week.

Conor Gallagher, Mason Mount, Reece James, and Colwill, a center back who is scheduled to return to Stamford Bridge at the end of the season, are believed to be among the individuals the Argentine considered as potential key contributors.

Mauricio Pochettino 

The Argentine is said to have highlighted Reece James, Conor Gallagher, Mason Mount, and center back Colwill as players who could be crucial to his project. Colwill is scheduled to return to Stamford Bridge at the end of the current campaign.

As they start to reduce the team and balance the budget in the summer, the club may reconsider its intentions in light of his plans. They were considering selling a number of academy graduates.

The 24-year-old Mount has one year left on his contract and was supposed to depart his childhood team in the summer, but Pochettino is set to advocate giving him a new term despite strong interest from Liverpool, Manchester United, and Newcastle.

The hiring of Pochettino may also provide Gallagher with a chance to stay at Stamford Bridge after Chelsea expressed interest in the England international in January.

The Blues did not want to sell Gallagher in the middle of the season to a reputed European rival, despite the fact that Newcastle was interested in signing him. According to reports, the 23-year-old wants to remain at Chelsea under a boss who has faith in him because of his high-octane attitude, which seems to work well for Pochettino.

Pochettino, the former manager of Tottenham and Paris Saint-Germain, is prioritizing a goalkeeper and striker in the summer, but he is also interested in bringing in a new midfielder, which may have an impact on the futures of Mount and Gallagher.

Even though Colwill had a fantastic breakthrough season while on loan at the south coast, his future was questionable.

The 20-year-old has two years left on his deal, although a one-year extension will be triggered automatically if he makes 15 Premier League appearances for the Blues. He has also caught the attention of Manchester City, Liverpool, and Brighton.

Colwill is a candidate for an England call-up after excelling for Brighton in their 3-0 victory over Arsenal on Sunday.

Pochettino is believed to have been pleased with the England youth international. He wants to play regularly for the first team, but it is unclear if he can get along with new £32.7 million left-footed centre-back Benoit Badiashile. This is especially true if there is no European competition next season.

After investing more than £600 million in new players over the course of the last two transfer windows, there has been speculation that Chelsea may try to cash in on local stars in order to comply with Financial Fair Play rules.

The club would be able to more easily balance its books if it sold some of its local stars, which would qualify as pure profit under the new UEFA FFP regulations.

Although the club might still raise money by disposing players like Callum Hudson-Odoi and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Pochettino's ambition to repeat what he accomplished at Spurs by building his squad around a nucleus of young, homegrown stars may force a different strategy to the summer.

Pochettino wants to give each player in the squad a fresh start and an opportunity to shine, but the club is under pressure to sell players by June 30 so the sales may be recorded in their 2022–23 financial statements. Thus, the incoming head coach might have to decide quickly whose players he is willing to let go over the course of the next six weeks.

Pochettino structured his team around Harry Kane, Ryan Mason, Andros Townsend, Nabil Bentaleb, and Danny Rose, all of whom were academy graduates, after arriving at Spurs in 2014. He promptly cut loose underperforming senior players.

Young English stars Kyle Walker, Eric Dier, and Dele Alli were also members of his title-challenging team the following season.