If nothing else, almost six years at Tottenham and 18 more months at Paris Saint-Germain would have taught Mauricio Pochettino how to be a diplomat.
It would be impossible not to learn as the public face of a club run by the divisive Daniel Levy and then having to try and manage the at times out-of-control egos, some of them forced on him, at France’s biggest club.
Subsequently, reading Pochettino is not always the most straightforward task
‘I am happy’ was something he appeared at pains to point out multiple times ahead of the final game of Chelsea’s five stop pre-season tour of America against Borussia Dortmund.