There’s much Mour to come

WHAT a great day to bury bad news.

Jose Mourinho’s sacking by Tottenham could not have been better timed because it means the club and Daniel Levy won’t have to take any ownership of the fact that hiring him was a dreadful decision in the first place.

At any other moment in time, I’d have been telling you here that Mourinho’s departure from Spurs was a complete vindication of how I saw the man and where he was in his career from day one in north London.

But the reality is that Tottenham would have kept him if they hadn’t committed to the European Super League and that as soon as they signed up to the riches of the breakaway they knew they could pull the trigger.

The big question for Spurs fans now, of course, will be who they should get next.

But it doesn’t matter who they have now because they will be at such a competitive disadvantage in the ESL that, like Arsenal, maybe like Chelsea, no one will be able to win them the trophy anyway.

Real Madrid, Barcelona, Liverpool and Manchester United are set up to win the ESL and that means there will be teams who have their backsides handed to them and, season in, season out, be down at the bottom of the table.

I guarantee as well that there will be a little cabal of managers getting sacked by one ESL club one minute and then being picked up by another team for a year or so the next, and so it will continue.

There won’t be any long-term projects, it’ll be bish, bash, bosh and then on to the next payday.

It’ll be Pep Guardiola, Thomas Tuchel and Carlo Ancelotti on a loop if they so wish, so congratulations, Spurs fans, you’ll finally be getting the managers you’ve always dreamed of.

As for Mourinho (below), he will get a gig somewhere.

He has the emotional relationship with Inter Milan, and given the madness that is Chelsea, don’t rule out a third appearance there somewhere down the line.

Any club that gets a tickle of being in the Champions League can go for him and he’ll promise to get them there.

It wouldn’t even surprise me to see him turning up at Newcastle if the Saudis were to come back.

I could see him hoovering up a wedge of their cash and claiming, ‘It had to happen, it was serendipity, because Sir Bobby Robson told me I’d manage here one day’.

So don’t worry, Mourinho lovers, we haven’t heard the last of him.