Date published: Wednesday 26th April 2023 7:24 – Dave Tickner
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Julian Nagelsmann is very much the favourite for the Spurs job once again having pulled out of the running to take over at Chelsea.
Rankings are on the best odds available from Oddschecker.
1) Julian Nagelsmann
We thought he could do better, but having withdrawn from the race for Stamford Bridge, it’s now claimed Nagelsmann is ‘very tempted’ by the Tottenham job which should arguably be a Groucho Marx-like reason not to appoint him. Anyway, he’s shot from seventh back to first.
2) Vincent Kompany
Former City team-mate Yaya Toure is already on the Spurs coaching staff in the academy, suggesting there may be a brilliant if bonkers strategy of reuniting that entire brilliant City team at Spurs behind the scenes. We don’t fully understand the plan, but we know we’re on board with all our heart.
3) Arne Slot
With Erik ten Hag providing proof of concept that bald Dutchmen can be mighty effective Premier League managers, Spurs are reportedly considering the man currently making waves at Feyenoord. Leeds were very interested, but Spurs might be more tempting in the summer.
4) Brendan Rodgers
Straight in at second favourite on the day he got mutualled by Leicester and then promoted to first favourite when Chelsea sacked Graham Potter and targeted Nagelsmann.
His last win as Leicester boss was actually a 4-1 dismantling of Spurs, which is funny if probably irrelevant. Pros: might bring James Maddison with him. Cons: is Brendan Rodgers.
On the list of ‘Potential Spurs managers who are suddenly available’, Rodgers still feels a lot more plausible to us than Nagelsmann, but what do we know? And also, Brendan Rodgers would honestly be a pretty good Spurs manager – better than most Spurs fans are willing to admit.
5) Will Still
Tottenham officials have met up with Stade de Reims boss Will Still as they consider him as their new permanent manager, according to reports. He is 30 years old. Even for Spurs, it’s a bit much, surely.
6) Luis Enrique
Had drifted right out of the top 10 after being among the early favourites, but reports suggest Spurs are once again keen on the former Spain boss, who like Nagelsmann, is no longer in the running at Chelsea.
7) Graham Potter
Initially high on this market but even Tottenham would not immediately appoint a failed Chelsea manager.
8) Ange Postecoglou
At some point he will surely make that leap. Just as Brendan Rodgers and Steven Gerrard did before him. But Spurs? That would be a giant leap.
9) Ruben Amorim
Has done decent work with Sporting, has proven more than capable of getting a tune out of Pedro Porro, and favours the 3-4-3 formation on which this Antonio Conte-stained Spurs squad was built. That’s as much negative as positive given how crap they’ve been recently, but the Newcastle game highlighted just how painful and expensive any switch back to 4-3-3 or 4-2-3-1 is going to be. Amorim, more than any other name on the ever-lengthening list of possible Spurs managers, looks capable of working with what’s already there. Might appeal.
10) Mauricio Pochettino
Is Daniel Levy stumbling into a PR crisis here? Re-appointing Pochettino was the easiest and most obvious way to lift the spirits at WHL2.0 and Levy is too stubborn or daft or badly advised to have done it. And now it looks like he’s missed his chance, with Pochettino – a man whose name has been sung from all corners of the Spurs ground for the last month – set to join Chelsea instead. Hard to see how Levy’s standard response to such things – a condescending club announcement telling fans to stop being silly and that the board knows best – will get him out of that one.
