AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Tottenham Hotspur manager Mauricio Pochettino was overcome by emotion after the extraordinary Champions League semi-final victory over Ajax Amsterdam on Wednesday and who could blame him?
Few managers have had to deal with what Pochettino has this season -- from being the only European club to make no signings in consecutive transfer windows to playing home games at Wembley because of delays in the completion of the club's new stadium.
At halftime on Wednesday they looked down and out with Ajax, already 1-0 up after the first leg, leading 2-0 thanks to goals by Matthijs de Ligt and Hakim Ziyech. Tottenham's Champions League campaign had looked all but over after they picked up one point from their first three group games. Tottenham fans will hope he was only joking but if Spurs do upset the odds again in Madrid and Pochettino does depart, he would do so ranked up alongside Bill Nicolson on the club's list of all-time managerial greats.
With fewer resources than the rest of England's top six, not to mention the likes of European heavyweights like Barcelona and Real Madrid, Pochettino has had to extract every last drop of value from his squad. Moussa Sissoko, whose energy drove Tottenham forward in the second half, is another player who has thrived under Pochettino after initially being written off.
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