Football news - Paul Parker: Mauricio Pochettino can be Tottenham legend, why would he join United?

Everyone will talk about Mauricio Pochettino taking on the Manchester United job at the end of the season.

As the Arsenal manager Unai Emery rightly points out he's done great with Spurs, absolutely fantastic.

Tottenham have been playing at Wembley yet keep winning games in his second season without a ground. Which is essentially forcing him to confront an away game every week.

Everyone will say he hasn't won a trophy, but there is only so much you can win.

There are four trophies you can win, but it is very difficult to win titles when you are a big club because everybody wants to beat you.

Football fans question managers if they don't win a trophy and then these so-called football fans want to have a go if you don't spend any money.

People forget you are employed as a coach, and if you are a good coach you work with, invest and improve young talent for your club.

If you don't spend money and achieve success, you get more respect from everyone within football. That is why everyone loves Pochettino because of what he is doing without money. He has improved Spurs without demanding millions.

He has young players coming in that he trusts, gives them their chance for the longer term and has young dedicated players actually looking the part and affecting games as Oliver Skipp did against Burnley at the weekend.

Not like Jose Mourinho did by wheeling in a kid like Scott McTominay to fill a berth when the mood takes him.

Poch is moving into an unbelievable stadium with Spurs. If the chairman Daniel Levy can give him a little bit of money in the new stadium to improve certain bits of his squad with the young players, why would he leave there?

If he can win a first English title with Tottenham since 1961, suddenly he's going to have his own statue outside the ground. If he wins it for Manchester United, they will say 'we expect you to do that: that's why you are here'.

If I had the choice to go to Liverpool or Manchester United in the early 1990s, the easy option would have been Liverpool back then, but I ended up joining United and they hadn't won a title for 26 years. Which was immediately the challenge under Sir Alex.

You think about yourself, and what you can become if you go and really achieve something at a club. I was involved in United's first Premier League win in 26 years in 1993. The following year, I was playing in the first United team to win a Premier League and FA Cup double at Wembley.

Why would Pochettino want to go straight to United after all he has built at Tottenham over the past four years? People will shout about the size of United and the money he would have to spend, but football is not like that any more.

People don't automatically go and play for United because of the name. First of all, they think they want to be in London and secondly, they think who the coach is. They all want to be around London. Even Mourinho stayed in London as United manager.

If the coach is right, the players are there. Look at Liverpool. Why have Liverpool brought all those exciting players to Anfield?

It is Liverpool to a point, but it is mainly because of Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool's history comes in after that. If United get the right coach, they can attract better players. If Mourinho had stayed on, he wouldn't have signed any great players because they know it is was going to be a dispiriting existence.

United need a coach that connects with the players, and makes them the priority. Games are won and lost by what happens before players go on the pitch.

If you get them tuned up physically and mentally right, the football takes care of itself. The problem with United is that those players were not prepared properly mentally, being run by a manager whose face was screwed up like a bulldog chewing a wasp.

That is not a good look. If you wake up in the morning, and your missus isn't talking to you, you are going to go through your day wondering what is wrong.

It's the same in football. If you go on the pitch, and know the manager isn't on your side, you are going to be uptight wondering if he's going to have a go at you if you make a mistake.

You create a blame culture rather than one where players can express themselves freely.

United need a proper coach, a figure who can develop young talent without constantly demanding money. Pochettino fits the bill for United, but I'm not convinced he will give up what he is building at Tottenham.