Jose? A winner? Not any more he isn’t. Spurs had a better chance with Pochettino STAN COLLYMORE

DANIEL LEVY’S decision to sack Mauricio Pochettino and hire Jose Mourinho is modern-day football lunacy.

And the only way the decision will ever be justified is if Mourinho leads Tottenham to Premier League or Champions League glory.

I’m going to stick my neck on the line here, though, by telling you that, despite his claims to the contrary, Mourinho will never – NEVER – win the top flight with Spurs.

Aggressive

seems to think a man who builds a castle should be vilified for not quite putting the flag on top, while someone who puts flags on crumpled castles is hailed as some kind of g genius.

Let’s get this right, ght, though. Mourinho is only nly at Spurs because of his PR ability and because he was a good d manager years ago.

He has known that by dangling his hook in the water by appearing on n Sky Sports in recent nt weeks that, t, eventually, the chairman rman of a big club would swim up and swallow it.

Levy has been snagged and what amazes me is that even the supposed best chairmen in the country can still be wowed by a bright, shiny new toy.

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The response to Mourinho’s appointment in some quarters has astonished me as well, with plenty of people arguing that Spurs now have a winner in the Portuguese.

But not a any more he isn’t.

I know kno he might win Spurs a League Cup, FA Cup or even a Europa League, L but that’s a very v narrow definition of a winner, isn’t it?

I’d say a winner is someone who leaves a club in a much better place than th the one they found fo it and in a positionsitio to compete at the business end of elite competitions for the next five, 10 or 15 years. And when did Mourinho last do that?

Take his first 10 buys at Manchester

United – Eric Bailly, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, Paul Pogba, Victor Lindelof, Romelu Lukaku, Nemanja Matic, Alexis Sanchez, Fred, Diogo Dalot and Lee Grant?

How many of those players did he make better? None.

Yet Pochettino improved just about every player he worked with at Spurs in his five-and-a-half years there and turned the club into serial Champions League competitors for the first time.

Levy has axed

a man who promotes talent and youth for someone who fell out with all his players and is spiteful and

obstinate

Slaughtered

The only glass ceiling Pochettino needs to break now is in winning that first trophy, but he will do that sooner rather than later and build great things wherever he goes next.

If getting a club to their first Champions League final isn’t a reflection of its good health, then I’m not sure what is.

He is the antithesis of Mourinho and, as I have said several times this season, he should have been given the