Welcome to the Total Soccer Show weekend review.

My name is Ryan Bailey and joining me to cast an eye over the events of the last few days

is a man who's under no danger of being fired by Roman Abramovich, Graham Rudvin.

Graham, how you doing, sir?

I'm not bad. I am glad that 2020 is now behind us and I'm leaping into 2021 with the exuberance of

Kear and Tierney in the snow. That's wonderful to hear like a bounding puppy in the snow. I like to hear it.

You see, you're glad that the previous year is in the rearview. Was there some sort of global event I should have been aware of that made it bad for

everybody? Yeah, you might have heard of it. It was actually the crown was pretty poor and I

didn't really enjoy that much. So that was really the worst thing that happened to me in 2020.

Oh, I'm so sorry. I heard that Target King redressed the balance there, but perhaps it didn't. Anyway, we should probably talk about some soccer, that being the going concern of this podcast, Graham. We're going to talk about Chelsea's game with Manchester City. We've got a couple of derbies to talk about, the old firm, no less, one that's very local to your area of the woods. And we've got the Seville Derby coming up. We're going to do some Bundesliga.

But first, we had a fairly big story break this weekend, which we should start off by discussing

Marizio Pochertino. He has now found himself some gainful employment for 2021. Congratulations,

Potch. He's been given an 18-month deal with Paris Saint-Germain. It's bad news, Graham, for Manchester United. They're going to have to wait at least a few months more until he sacked, perhaps before reaching a Champions League final like his predecessor did. It's an interesting movie. He was a former player with PSG, a former captain. 18 months. That's an interesting one, isn't it? Yeah, it is. That was the

thing that caught my eyes straight away was normally expect a long-term deal, especially when

it's a big name, elite-level coach like Pochino. 18 months, I'd be interested to know if that was

PSG that stipulated that or whether that was Pochino's demands. If it's Pochitino's demands, it says to me that he maybe wants to use PSG like Carlo Angelootti did after leaving Chelsea, which was kind of a little bit of a holding pen keeping him in the public eye, but if another job, a more an more appealing job to him comes up, will he jump? That's what that says to me.

That is interesting. Yeah. And 18 months, it doesn't strike me as he an appropriate amount of time to make an impact. Perhaps it is an appropriate amount of time. I did actually look at

how soon Potch had impact at Tottenham, for example. You know, they almost won the league in

2015-16. He joined the year before. He joined 2014, I think.

So he did make things happen in that time frame at Tottenham, you could argue.

Interesting, the announcement didn't mention any of the trophies that he's won as manager.

They must have, did they leave those off?

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