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Five months after leading Tottenham Hotspur to the Champions League final and five years into a tenure in which he transformed Spurs from a perennial also-ran into a Premier League title contender, Mauricio Pochettino was fired by the north London club on Tuesday.
Tottenham’s chairman, Daniel Levy, confirmed the change in a message posted on the club’s website, which appeared to crash as news of the firing spread. Levy said that while he and the club’s board had been “extremely reluctant to make this change,” it had decided to part ways with Pochettino, an Argentine, and the four members of his coaching team “in the club’s best interests.