Mourinho, Gagiardo and Galtier on the list of candidates for Paris if Pochettino is sacked

His position Maurice Pochettino in Paris is precarious and the club is said to have already made initial contacts with candidates to replace the French champions’ coach.

Luis Campos is expected to be announced as the next person to oversee racing affairs, under the title of Sports Advisor to the President, in place of Leonardo. The Portuguese is a friend of Jose Mourinho. and Andero Enrique, the club’s former sporting director and current Qatari league sporting director, who advises the royal family (and the Parisian owners) on both the domestic league and other sporting development matters.

Both the former and the latter are said to promote Special One to the Paris manager role should Nasser al-Kalaifi decide to remove Pochettino after the meeting the two will have very soon.

Also on the list of candidates is another Argentina coach, Marcelo Gagiardo, who has done an excellent job at River Plate since 2014 and has occasionally been linked with a transatlantic voyage. A meeting has been set for the 46-year-old coach, who is also a key candidate, especially as Lionel Messi remains in the squad.

Campos has another great choice in his block, a coach he used to work with at Lille Christophe Galtier. The 55-year-old coach led ‘Lilua’ to Ligue 1 conquest last season and took over Nis this year whom he will defeat in the Champions League. According to Equipe, Galtier and Campos have spoken to each other several times over the past few days, although the French coach has denied the report.

In addition, there are other options that can rise to the top of the list if the main candidates’ cases are unsuccessful. Zinedine Zidane will always be in the spotlight as long as he’s free, even as he dismisses Paris’ approaches, while with Campos at the helm, the last two Portuguese champions, Sporting’s Ruben Amorim and Porto’s Sergio Conceiç θαo, come under scrutiny.