You never want to be in a situation where going about your business as usual is bring reported on as news, but that’s just the precarious situation Mauricio Pochettino finds himself in.
The manager is under more pressure than he’s ever been at Chelsea after two defeats in a week, with 8 goals conceded and humiliation at Anfield followed by humiliation at home against Wolves yesterday.
Today, insiders like Simon Johnson are Tweeting out that the manager is “scheduled to do his pre match press conference as normal tomorrow.”
The very fact that that is being reported as news tells you everything you need to know about the situation that Pochettino is in now. The fact that he’s still in a job now means it’s likely that he he will get another game to turn things around, but if we start getting regular updates on whether he’s going to make it to his next presser or not, we’ll know things have got really bad.