Ole gone, now Poch is the one

because of my respect to my club, PSG,” he said. “What another club is doing is not my business. I’m not going to make the mistake of talking about it.”

But United players, who responded to the sacking of Ole Gunnar Solskjaer by winning 2-0 at Villarreal last night, are in no doubt that the Old Trafford push is 100 percent for Poch.

They have even been discussing Sir Alex Ferguson’s admiration for the Argentinian and the methods which helped transform Spurs and take them to the Champions League final in 2019.

Pochettino, who has steered the star-studded PSG into an 11-point lead in Ligue 1, added: “If I talk it’s going to be misunderstood and taken out of context.

“I am so happy at PSG, I am focused to try and give my best. I was a player at PSG, I love the club, I love the fans, it’s a fantastic time to be at the club.”

If PSG lose Pochettino, they are likely to turn to former Real Madrid manager Zinedine Zidane, a French footballing icon.

But the appointment is no done deal. Indeed

United have opened talks with ex-barcelona boss Ernesto Valverde about becoming caretaker if they can’t prise Pochettino from Paris immediately.

Pochettino, who moved to Spurs back in 2014 from Southampton, said: “I am happy at PSG. That is a fact. The fact is I am happy in Paris. And football is about the present.

“I am focused. I am very focused on football. I’m not a kid, I spent my whole life playing football and now 12 years being a coach.

“We are in a business where the rumours are there, sometimes positive, sometimes negative, and I completely understand what’s going on.

“But this type of thing cannot distract us.

Rumours are there and we have to live with that.

“But we are so focused and giving 100 percent to get the best from the players and to get the best results we can.”

STANDING BY Valverde could step in at Old Trafford