Pochettino has been the subject of protests while Nagelsmann received hundreds of death threats. The biggest clubs just don’t seem very happy.
The predictable finishes to some European league seasons has provoked much comment, largely about how damaging it might be for the game across the continent. But less seems to be said of whether it might be damaging for those who work at those clubs, or perhaps even the clubs themselves. Because if there’s one thing that can be said for many of these super-clubs, it’s that so many of them seem to be so unhappy for so much of the time.
The appointment of Mauricio Pochettino at PSG at the start of last year was the best of appointments and the worst of appointments. Despite a failure to win any silverware with Spurs, his talents were widely acknowledged, while Pochettino got to work with some of the world’s best players, and at a club with an unlimited budget for shiny new ones. PSG have won Ligue Un at a canter this season but they tripped up again in the Champions League, and that’s where they set the bar for success now. Supporters boycotted their title celebrations. With three games of their league season left to play, they are 14 points clear at the top of the table.
Meanwhile in Germany, the one-sidedness of club football is even more severe than in France. Bayern Munich have just won their tenth Bundesliga title in a row, a remarkable achievement in a country that can hardly be said to be wanting for big and storied football clubs. But again, that bar is set so high as to be almost unmanageable, as can be seen from the 450 death threats that head coach Julian Nagelsmann received after his team was eliminated from the Champions League in the quarter-finals by Villarreal. Bayern Munich are currently 12 points clear at the top of the Bundesliga.
Both of these stories are particularly troubling because of the scale of the anger. In the case of PSG, the nature of their capitulation to Real Madrid in the…
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