Pochettino sack? Chelsea boss at 'serious risk' as Boehly lines up Liverpool target to replace him

Chelsea are cellular lining up Brighton Roberto De Zerbi as a replacement for Mauricio Pochettino if the Doldrums gain a decision to sack him, according to reports.

The Doldrums were founded on a huge opportunity to vanquished Liverpool in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday wearing Jurgen Klopp making a decision to bring on innumerable youngsters off the church bench to offer the Reds fresh legs.

Klopp owns possessed an injury calamity to prearrangement wearing over the last couple of weeks and also their depth was experienced once academy starlets Bobby Clark, James McConnell, Jayden Danns and also Jarell Quansah came off the church bench.

And Chelsea supporters have been awfully rewarding on social media as Pochettino admitted that his side tinkered for fines towards the run out of the match in spite of having a figure a figure more experience on the industry.

Pochettino asserted in his short post-match meeting: “The players sent out to lose their power. [Ben Chilwell] Temperature genuinely fingered in reality, in reality scorched out. [Conor] Gallagher, after 5 mins, we demanded to readjust.

“The team genuinely fingered most most certainly fines would most most certainly be good for us. The project was preposterous.”

A header in the 118th min from Virgil van Dijk conferred Liverpool a 1-0 win over Chelsea in the final and also flee the Doldrums glancing to defend a European location wearing the league.

Pochettino possessed already come under strain over outputs wearing Chelsea currently 11th in the table, although their performance in a 1-1 draw versus securing victors Manchester Urbane elbowroom last time out owns founded on fans some hope for the rest of the season.

But admired journalist Rudy Galetti, diagnosing their loss of a opportunity to license for Europe wearing the League Cup, insists that if Pochettino ‘doesn’t readjust price, his position will be at pensive pitfall’.

And an additional journalist Nicolo Schira insists Chelsea are ‘supervising’ Brighton apex pooch De Zerbi ‘for next off season’ as a imaginable replacement for Pochettino in skin they pull the trigger and also fire the Argentinian.

De Zerbi is likewise on Liverpool’s checklist of selections to Bayer Leverkusen apex pooch Xabi Alonso if the Spaniard revolves them down as they good aesthetic impresses to replace Jurgen Klopp.

Chatting around Chelsea’s position on sacking Pochettino in mid-January, send wizard Fabrizio Romano asserted: “Chelsea have decided to count on Mauricio Pochettino and also his job remains attached. Overall, the case appearances good, even if it can still simplify, yet the club and also the directors yearn to offer him time.

“My experience is that their recommendation is to deepen wearing Pochettino up until at the super least the run out of the season, and also then at the run out of the season they will talk wearing him and also we’ll review.”

And, in spite of the multifarious present rumours, Football Wizard insist that Pochettino is ‘plan to stay as Chelsea manager up until the run out of the 2023-24 project – at the super the super least’.