In a new twist, it turns out that hiring a flavour of the month coach works out to be as expensive as hiring a serial winner. Florian Plettenberg is the chief reporter for the behemoth German sports site Sport1. The reported cost of extracting Julian Nagelsmann from Red Bull Leipzig is thought to be in the region of €15/20million. This may shock some, but if you have a successful coach torn between interest from big clubs and the national side, this outcome is far from unreasonable.
Getting José Mourinho out of N17 is a subject that has delighted the English press over the last few weeks and if we opt to ignore those who have inventing stories, then the truth is, Spurs’ current gaffer has 2 more years to be paid up.
Naglesmann denied discussions with anyone yesterday, either personally or via his agents.
For a club in the economic state that Tottenham is in, it would take a giant leap of faith to blow the wrong end of £50million on a coach to come in and try to get a tune out of more or less the same players that Pochettino and Mourinho failed with…