One thing you don’t get when appointing Jose Mourinho as your coach, is a tick in your ‘no publicity’ box.
Rob Beasley was a confidante journalist to Jose during his first Chelsea era, and the former Sun journalist didn’t mince his words on Sky news on Saturday morning [approx 08:35hrs], when he called the situation at Spurs as he saw it, “Serial champion replaces serial choker”.
Football London however are clearly still mourning the dismissal of Mauricio Pochettino and one has to question some elements of the sentiment on display.
“It’s not as if Tottenham had a manager at the helm who nobody liked and they had all lost respect for him, someone they were desperate to see the back of. It’s been quite the opposite.”
This conflicts with both the performances, the results, Pochettino’s own description of the squad being at it’s most unsettled during his tenure, not to mention Jason Burt of The Telegraph flagging up Harry Kane’s dissatisfaction at the club.
Dave Kidd for The Sun called Mourinho, “The old rascal”.
“There was a fire in the belly, there were winking eyes and there were warm words on his lips.”
Kidd went on to warn us, though…
“This won’t last, of course. With Mourinho, it never does. Soon, there will be internal conflict, imaginary sieges and media blackouts.”
Paul Wilson for the Guardian refuses to rule out Spurs making a significant impact in the Champions League again, this season.
Spurs look a good bet for the knockout stages as they prepare to host Olympiakos on Tuesday.
If Jose were able to keep the Champions League cash coming at Tottenham, he would endear himself to Levy no end.
For those readers really unhappy with the appointment, then let me introduce you bedfellow Stan Collymore to you.
Stan, for The Mirror, is raging over the entire business and one cannot help but wonder if there is bad blood between the two men?
Daniel Levy’s decision to sack Mauricio Pochettino and hire Jose Mourinho is modern-day football lunacy.
One thing is for certain, Spurs are certainly generating plenty of opinion.