USMNT star opens up about Mauricio Pochettino-Manchester United rumors

It was business as usual at the U.S.Soccer National Training Center in Fayetteville, Ga., where the U.S.

men’s national team is conducting camp ahead of the Concacaf Nations League quarterfinals against Haiti. This comes as rumors have been swirling around head coach Mauricio Pochettino, linking him to a potential job with Manchester United as the successor to manager Michael Carrick, who has found himself on the hot seat amid an awful start to the Premier League season for the Red Devils. While USMNT defender Antonee Robinson told reporters on Tuesday that the “news kind of got sprung on us like the rest of the world,” he indicated that it didn’t faze the group in Georgia. “Similar things happened in the past, after the World Cup, where huge teams lose their manager and they start looking at possible candidates,” Robinson said.“For us to have a manager who’s linked with those sorts of jobs means we’re very lucky we’re working with a top-class manager, but that never seems to leak into the work that we do — whether it was the World Cup or whether it’s going to be this camp.

All of that is sort of outside noise. “Nothing to do with him, he’s very much focused on getting the best out of the team and getting these two wins in the Nations League.We’ll be on the same page as that.” Pochettino was at the training center on Tuesday and greeted the media, but did not address the reports about Manchester United. U.S.

Soccer Federation President Cindy Parlow Cone was also on the ground in Georgia on Tuesday, but did not comment on the situation either, Yahoo Sports reported. The USMNT opened its November camp on Monday and will run through the end of the week, when Pochettino is scheduled to give his pre-match press conference on Friday ahead of the first leg of the quarterfinals, which is being played in Miami. The second leg will take place next Tuesday in Cincinnati. While the reports about the USMNT boss have become the biggest ...