Mauricio Pochettino suggests he will not join Manchester United as he vows to stick with Tottenham ‘until the end’

Mauricio Pochettino has promised to stick with Tottenham until he achieves all of the club’s goals.

The Spurs boss is reportedly among one of Manchester United’s first picks to become their next permanent manager.

He has been forced to defend his managerial record in recent days after Tottenham crashed out of the Carabao Cup and the FA Cup in the space of 72 hours last week.

And while the club are yet to win a trophy under his reign, Pochettino stressed he has overachieved by providing regular Champions League football and the club are a victim of their own success.

In a lengthy and passionate press conference on Tuesday, he said: “I love my job, I love my job. And of course I love a big challenge.

“I am a very positive person and I am going to try and deliver in my job. I am going to stick with the club until the end to help the club achieve all they want.

“When I arrived at Tottenham I knew very well the challenge will be tough and what happen now will happen now.

“We are victims of our own success, the club was in a different level. No one believed in us, no one believed the way we operated from beginning will bring success to club.

“Of course the club played once in 22 years in the Champions League and now after four years we played three times in row – that was the dream of our fans, our staff and players to play in Champions League.

“The principal thing that we need to clarify, our fans need to know, when you ask me if I agree to win a domestic cup will help us to achieve the last level, I cannot agree.

“In the last four or five years we played in four semi-finals, one final, I think we try, we were there, we were close, and in last three seasons, we are consistently playing Champions League, be in the top four.

“We are so close, we need to try to keep working, the fans that are not happy, of course with perspective in the future they are going to appreciate the job everyone is doing at this football club.

“Right now we are focused on trying to win every game in every competition, but for different reasons we are still missing something that means we cannot deliver.”

Spurs have challenged at the top of the English game without spending anywhere near the money their top four rivals have and they have had to contend with playing at Wembley while their ever-increasingly expensive – and delayed – new stadium gets built.

They are also set to go through two successive transfer windows without signing anyone.

Pochettino often complains that such circumstances are overlooked.

He added: “We cannot underestimate all the club is doing in the last few years, or this group of players and staff, because we have been competing with all the circumstances in last four years, the people thinking we are real contenders, that we have capacity to compete against big sides, fighting is a massive prize, not criticism and I take it as a positive.

“It’s a moment to explain a little bit more the big picture. It’s so important because sometimes the people can get confused.

“I am not going to complain, I am going to translate the reality, the fans want the reality. Then other people want to give their opinion from outside.”