Mauricio Pochettino is increasingly on the back foot when it comes to Conor Gallagher.
He uses him every week, makes him captain and clearly loves him as a player.
But the instructions he gets from upstairs are that the midfielder is up for sale, and that he can’t make any promises to the fans. The media know this, and they’re really making the boss squirm at the moment with their questions on the topic. Yesterday the boss dodged question after question about the subject, with the elephant in the room growing bigger by the minute.
You can see the manager speaking in the clip embedded here:
