Mauricio Pochettino believes that his Tottenham Hotspur team should be awarded the 2016-17 Premier League title because of Chelsea’s 74 breaches of financial rules.
Chelsea were fined £10million by the FA this summer, and given a suspended transfer ban, after admitting breaching agent regulations during the Roman Abramovich era, specifically regarding signing players between 2011 and 2018.
But there was no sporting sanction and Pochettino, who managed Tottenham to a second-placed finish behind Chelsea in 2016-17, believes that title should be stripped from Chelsea and re-awarded.
“I’ve said that we should win one title, one Premier League,” Pochettino told reporters.
“We should have been awarded it. If that was true, and that happened, for sure we deserve to be champions for that year. Because we were the second best.”
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