Pochettino has 3 'difficult' Chelsea demands for Boehly as key talks are held

Chelsea news: Todd Boehly needs to give Mauricio Pochettino three things to ensure new manager thrives at Stamford Bridge

Mauricio Pochettino understands that times have changed since he took over at Tottenham near on 10 years ago. At that point he was the new kid on the block, treated with caution but excitement.

His first two years brought about little immediate improvement though. In his first season, Tottenham won the same amount of games, 21, but lost three more and finished three points worse off, scoring fewer goals and conceding more.

Chelsea rarely give much thought to sob stories such as this, though. During that time the Blues won the league three times and blew their rivals out of the water financially, boasting the intangible knowhow that their counterparts seemingly didn't have.

Was Pochettino too weak? Did he lack the cliched winning instinct? Or had he in fact just reached the end of a long and successful tenure, one that had been attracting the attention of Roman Abramovich's serial winning ability.

Success has different forms. Chelsea, for nearly two decades, have had it in the purest form. Now they are about to embrace different methods and a new style of coaching with a near-opposite track record. The good is that Pochettino appears a mixture of the Graham Potter gradual improvement and high ceiling but also has the cut-throat Jose Mourinho-isms so desired by fans.

"I'm very open to wait for the seduction of the project rather than the country. It's about the club and about the people, the human dimension."

"We feel something special we didn't feel when we had conversations with different clubs. We took the decision with our heart," he said. The French giants are closer to old Chelsea than new Chelsea but his more recent quotes from an interview in Spain give reason to believe his goals are still closely aligned with the Blues' owners.

"Today, talking about projects in football is very difficult," he said Pochettino in November. "There are few lucky ones who can be involved in a project in the medium or long term.." He also made references to the growing demands of modern football and the decreasing patience.

These things straddle Chelsea and sum up the crossroads they are at. Todd Boehly and Behdad Eghbali want to create a long-term project (whatever that actually means) but also know the pressure that an expectant Stamford Bridge crowd has.

Pochettino is better for having managed PSG in the madhouse but his time in north London also prepare him for the long haul. "The experience we needed," he said of the time in France. "Living with big stars and interacting at the top level of football."