Next Tottenham manager: Erik ten Hag favourite for Spurs job – Brendan Rodgers, Maurizio Sarri, Scott Parker and Gareth Southgate among names linked to succeed Jose Mourinho
Tottenham are on the hunt for a new manager.
Chairman Daniel Levy sacked Jose Mourinho last week, just days before their Carabao Cup final defeat to Manchester City.
Ryan Mason, 29, was placed in temporary charge for Sunday’s Wembley showpiece as Spurs lost 1-0 to Man City to extend their trophy drought into a 14th year.
Mason will remain in the hotseat for the remainder of the season, with Levy taking his time over a decision on who will permanently replace Mourinho.
The club currently sit seventh in the Premier League and their chances of making the top four and qualifying for the Champions League look to be over.
That could significantly impact on their search for a manager and one of their top targets, Julian Nagelsmann, will now join Bayern Munich at the end of the season.
According to The Telegraph, Ajax manager Erik ten Hag is now moving to the top of Tottenham’s list of targets and is the bookies’ favourite too.
Ten Hag has been in charge of the Dutch club since 2017 and has them on the verge of a second league title in four years, while they have also reached the Champions League semi-finals under him – famously losing a dramatic encounter to Tottenham in 2020.
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Tottenham are also reported to be keen on Ralf Rangnick, the revolutionary German coach and sporting director, while England manager Gareth Southgate is said to have his admirers at boardroom level.
Maurizio Sarri, the former Chelsea manager, is also being heavily linked with the role and is out of work having left Juventus last summer despite leading them to the Serie A title. Roma are also keen on him.
Brendan Rodgers is another man Spurs have looked at before but the price he may cost to land from Leicester could be prohibitive, while he has been insistent that he has no interest in leaving the Champions League-bound Foxes.
Elsewhere, former Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri and ex-Tottenham star Scott Parker, now Fulham head coach, are also in the running.
Next Tottenham manager odds
- Erik Ten Hag – 8/11
- Brendan Rodgers – 15/2
- Maurizio Sarri – 17/2
- Jurgen Klinsmann – 14/1
- Rafa Benitez – 14/1
- Eddie Howe – 14/1
- Nuno Espirito Santo – 17/1
- Roberto Martinez – 20/1
- Gareth Southgate – 20/1
- Steven Gerrard – 20/1
- Scott Parker – 25/1
*Odds taken from Betfair and may have changed since publication. BeGambleAware.Org.
Parker certainly has his backers, with former Spurs star Michael Dawson explaining why he’d be the perfect man on talkSPORT this week.
“Look, Scotty knows the football club and I went strong on this one, because I believe they need a project, they need a plan,” he said on Monday’s talkSPORT Breakfast.
“They had that when Mauricio Pochettino went there, a long-term plan. You can’t just say: ’Right, we want to win a trophy’.
“When they sacked Mauricio I thought they’re going to bring Jose Mourinho and they’re going to win a trophy, I was one of the first to say that. He’s a serial winner and we all thought, whatever trophy it will be, he can win it.
“Look, I would love to see Brendan Rodgers there, but he’s doing an incredible job at Leicester, why would they let him go?
“So I think, right, you look at Scott Parker at Fulham, yes it looks like they’re going to get relegated, but he played there as a player, he was there as a coach and did all this work at Tottenham.
“I just think we have to get a younger manager with the backing of the owners and say we have a plan, we have a five-year plan, can we get to the level they were under Pochettino?
“I believe they’ve gone back in that time and they have to rebuild again and try and get into the Champions League, because you look at the top-four teams now and it looks like real big ask for Spurs to get in there.”
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