Pochettino has four years left on his contract at SpursTottenham boss Mauricio Pochettino's apparent joke about where his team would stay in Madrid for the Champions League final appears to have backfired - and prompted Real Madrid to release an official statement. "I asked Florentino [Perez, Real's president] to let us sleep in the sports centre, but he told me that I can only sleep there when I become the coach of Real Madrid." "Real Madrid wants to make it clear that it is outright false that this request was produced," they said. "At no time has our club been requested that these teams could be accommodated in the facilities of Ciudad Real Madrid," they added. "Real Madrid?

Source: BBC May 24, 2019 13:07 UTC