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What signs indicate that you are no longer in love with someone?
Perhaps it happens when you stop giving them constant thought. or once they cease tormenting you in dreams. Alternatively, it might occur when you locate an Australian who speaks straight and has a preference for inverted full-backs to replace them.
Four years after his departure, Tottenham Hotspur appears to have moved past its collective longing for Mauricio Pochettino. Ange Postecoglou, the head coach they hired this summer, is the new object of their affections.
On Monday night, the two men will meet as opposing managers at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, bringing the dynamic into sharp focus. Pochettino, now managing Spurs’ loathed rivals Chelsea, up against the first of his four successors the Tottenham fans have taken to their hearts.
It will be the first time Pochettino has returned to the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium since his final game as Spurs manager against Sheffield United almost exactly four years ago — a painful 1-1 draw on a grizzly, wet afternoon in north London when Spurs were lucky to escape with a point.
It’s hard to imagine the emotions Pochettino will be feeling. He was sacked 10 days after that Sheffield United game and didn’t get the chance to say goodbye to the players — leaving a message on a training ground whiteboard instead.
He will now be going back to a place that consumed nearly all of his time while he was a member of the club. Even though Spurs didn’t move into the new stadium until April 2019, every move the team made leading up to that point was intended to ensure that, by the time it was finished, they would be in the Champions League.
It seemed to represent the group’s development and evolution into a legitimate “Big Six” member. Yet Pochettino had to perform another example of working with essentially one hand tied behind his back when the transfer was delayed, resulting in two years of playing at Wembley Stadium at a time when his Spurs team was reaching the pinnacle of their success.
In any case, once Spurs had belatedly moved, Pochettino was seen as the man who would lead the club into the new stadium and the new era it represented. He and his assistant, Jesus Perez, even had input into how the home areas, like the dressing room, were designed. When Pochettino enters the stadium on Monday, he will be intimately familiar with the place and its setup.
And as for that aim of being a Champions League team by the time of the stadium’s opening, Pochettino had obliterated the target. When they finally moved, Spurs weren’t just competing in the Champions League, they were playing quarter-finals and semis at the new ground within a month of its opening.
