Jose Mourinho is a manager that guarantees you trophies even in his worst seasons, and it is understandable that Daniel Levy made him the new Spurs’ boss.
The Lilywhites did brilliantly last season and reached the final of the Champions League.
Fans expected their team to build on that this season and they didn’t, so it was important to make a statement like making Mourinho the new manager.
The Portuguese manager hasn’t had the best of times at Tottenham since his appointment, and Sun journalist David Kidd reckons that the manager’s failure has become a problem for Levy.
Tottenham are now with just a win in their last nine games and Kidd reckons that their recent run of form under the Portuguese manager has become “a nightmare scenario for Levy”
He seems to suggest that Levy is now stuck with Mourinho, who is costing the club £15million-a-year and still has three years to run on his current deal.
The Lilywhites have been hit hard financially, which could limit their spending in the next transfer window, and Kidd points to the fact that Mourinho has always spent well before earning his trophies.
He wrote in his Sun column: “This is a nightmare scenario for Levy – Spurs have been hit harder than any other Premier League club by the coronavirus pandemic”
“Since the opening of their impressive new stadium, they have higher matchday revenues than any other club, and were also banking on a significant income stream from NFL matches and music gigs”
“So now, without footfall, Spurs are – at least in Premier League terms – skint. Perhaps too skint to jettison a failing manager”
“Mourinho has a glittering CV but his triumphs at Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and even his limited successes at Manchester United – a Europa League, a League Cup and a Premier League runners-up spot – came after significant investment”
“At Spurs that was never going to be the case. Not pre-Covid and certainly not post-Covid. This is not a manager in tune with Tottenham’s ‘to dare is to do’, ‘glory, glory’ ethos.”
Kidd may be a journalist at the discredited Sun but he does make a very valid point, Levy is stuck with Mourinho, he cannot just fire him now without it costing an arm and a leg and Tottenham simply no longer have the cash to eject another manager.
This really is a nightmare scenario for Levy and to a large extent, self-inflicted.