POCHETTINO: BARCELONA MOVE WOULD BE LIKE JOINING ARSENAL FROM TOTTENHAM

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Taking the Catalan job is pretty much out of the question for the Tottenham manager and for the former Espanyol manager.

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The 45 year old Tottenham manager avouched that he will never take the charge of the Catalan side; he says if he is going to take that job it would be like taking the job of Arsenal by quitting the Tottenham job.

After the end of this season the Current Barcelona manager Luis Enrique will step down from his post and there are rumors are lurking in the air the Barcelona side will approach the Argentine manager to take their helm.

As everyone is saying that he would be the perfect successor of Luis Enrique in Barcelona.

As per our sources, we get to know that in the recent past the Argentine manager Pochettino met with the Barcelona president Josep Maria Bartomeu, but the Tottenham manager says that his move to Barcelona is impossible.

The coach expresses some specific reason,    

He said: "I'm an Espanyol supporter — I think then I don't need to speak too much,"

It is like one day if [Spurs chairman] Daniel Levy sacks me in a few years, for me it would be impossible to manage Arsenal.

"In football it is difficult to keep values like loyalty but, to me, loyalty and honesty come before being a manager or a player. I am an Espanyol fan and I love Espanyol. Now I am at Tottenham it would be impossible for me to move to Arsenal one day."

And questioned asked to him about the meeting with the Barcelona president,

On this he said: "It was a coincidence in a bar in Barcelona last Tuesday. I have known him for a long time, before he became president of Barcelona. There were many people around us.

"We said hello, we spent five minutes together but that was the reality. You know that after that it is impossible to stop the rumours."

In this Saturday Tottenham side will play against Burnley City on the EPL.