Mauricio Pochettino dropped a bombshell on the eve of Tottenham Hotspur’s Champions League semi-final second leg against Ajax by revealing he would consider walking away from the club if he completes a “miracle” and wins the competition.

Tottenham trail Ajax by a single goal from last week’s first leg ahead of Wednesday night’s second leg in Amsterdam, with a place in the Champions League final at stake.

Pochettino has already described the end of this season as being the culmination of a five-year chapter at Spurs and when asked whether or not winning the Champions League would provide the perfect sign-off to that spell, the Argentine replied: “Winning the Champions League? It would be fantastic, no? Close the five-year chapter and go home.”

When it was then put to Pochettino that he had made it sound like he would consider leaving Tottenham if they win the Champions League, he added: “To win the Champions League with Tottenham, in this circumstance, in this season, maybe I need to think a little bit to do something different in the future, for sure. Because to repeat this miracle, you know...”

Pochettino was also asked to clarify whether or not he was joking and he said: “It’s not a joke, why?”