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Mauricio Pochettino has again confirmed his desire to return to Tottenham.

The Argentine during over five years at Spurs oversaw the club's most successful spell in decades, with three Premier League title challenges and a Champions League final, but failed to win any silverware.

Pochettino, now in charge of the USA national team, has since spent one season at Tottenham's bitter rivals Chelsea, before a mutually agreed exit last summer, which is said to have tainted his reputation among some Spurs fans.

Spurs could be looking for another new manager in the coming weeks and months, with current incumbent Ange Postecoglou overseeing one of the club's worst ever Premier League campaigns but remains in post due to their progress to the Europa League quarter-finals.

Ange Postecoglou is under pressure at Spurs

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Pochettino has previously expressed hope to one day return to Spurs and has reiterated that stance.

He told Sky Sports: "Look, when I left the club I always remember one interview I said I would like one day to come back to Tottenham ... what I said then still after six years or five years, I still feel in my heart that, yes, I would like one day to come back.

"We see the timing, like Daniel [Levy, Spurs chairman] said."

Pochettino still has a healthy relationship with Daniel Levy, more than five years after he was sacked by the Spurs chairman.

Mauricio Pochettino is currently head coach of the USA national team

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The Argentine said of his former boss: "He is always there and he's going to be there. It's another thing to take professional decisions. It's true after nearly six years with all that we lived together, it was tough because of all the ups and downs and emotional things that we lived.

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