Who’d go to Spurs?
IT should hardly be a surprise that Brendan Rodgers is not leaping into his car and driving straight down the M1 in his eagerness to take the Spurs job. The hard truth for Tottenham fans is that if Rodgers does decide to leave Leicester any time soon, he could do an awful lot better than Spurs. Spurs are skint for a start. They have a magnificent new stadium but paying for it is already bringing huge financial pressures. Managers who work within the financial constraints caused by paying for a new stadium get scarce thanks for it: just ask Arsene Wenger. Spurs, under Daniel Levy, have also become a byword for a club that lacks ambition on the field. That’s why they got rid of Mauricio Pochettino when Pochettino told them they needed to rebuild the team. That’s why they made the disastrous vanity-project move to appoint Jose Mourinho. That’s why a host of managers ran straight into the arms of other suitors as soon as Spurs came calling. It looks as if their best player, Harry Kane, wants to leave in the summer. The squad still needs a rebuild. The fans are disillusioned with Levy and the owner, Joe Lewis.
The club made themselves a symbol of everything that was wrong with the Super League when they were allowed in even though they haven’t won the domestic league title for 50 years. It became a laughing stock when it was mocked by one of its own sponsors.
‘Spursy’ is gaining renewed currency as shorthand for snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Mourinho has left behind a divided, unhappy group of players, as he so often does. And the odds are that Spurs are about to miss out on the Champions League. Apart from that, Brendan, it would be a great move.