Properly, some huge information simply dropped in Tottenham Hotspur Land — in response to a number of sources together with the Commonplace’s Dan Kilpatrick and Soccer.London’s Alasdair Gold, Julian Nagelsmann is not a contender to change into Tottenham Hotspur’s new head coach.
[rictus grin]
Large information popping out of Spurs of their managerial search. Julian Nagelsmann just isn’t being thought-about as a candidate for the vacant head coach publish and the membership insist they haven’t met with him and don’t intend to.
— Alasdair Gold (@AlasdairGold) Could 12, 2023
Now, I do know everybody’s first inclination is to assign blame and fly fully off the deal with. I confess, I as effectively am contemplating some handle-flying myself within the speedy wake of this information. That mentioned, it’s in all probability fairly necessary that we take a breath and look ahead to some additional info to return out.
Nevertheless it’s not nice! Up till as we speak, nearly the entire background reporting prompt that Nagelsmann was Tottenham’s #1 candidate for the job, that casual talks had taken place, and that the German supervisor was within the job pending extra info on the vacant Director of Soccer place and the inner construction of the membership. So if we assume that reporting was correct and observe that thread, it implies that Nagelsmann noticed one thing he didn’t like in regards to the state of affairs and walked away. Extra to the purpose, it will recommend that this information, which is sort of actually leaked from Tottenham’s camp, is Spurs making an attempt to get forward of the state of affairs and management the narrative.
Let’s not neglect that Nagelsmann additionally was approached by Chelsea, and he turned them down flat. We don’t know why precisely he did that, however it could possibly be that he didn’t suppose the state of affairs was a very good match there, and doesn’t suppose it’s at Tottenham both.
Even that’s unhealthy information. The reporting had prompt that every one we needed to do to draw Nagelsmann was to be a severe soccer membership and create a very good construction. And if the membership can’t even try this, then it isn’t a severe membership, and it completely does NOT bode effectively for the quick, and even medium time period future.
One other chance, nonetheless, is that the above tweets ought to be taken at face worth — Tottenham had a transparent lane in the direction of appointing top-of-the-line younger managers in world soccer, took a have a look at him, and mentioned “Naaah.” And if that’s the case, I feel I is likely to be seeking to purchase some white greasepaint and inexperienced hair dye within the close to future.
However we actually don’t know, and whereas hypothesis is enjoyable I’ve a sense that there’s going to be much more info that can come out within the close to future. Hopefully it’s clarifying, as a result of there’s actually not a great way to spin this into being excellent news for the time being.
And so now, all eyes will flip to the opposite names supposedly on the shortlist, together with Arne Slot, Ruben Amorim, Roberto De Zerbi, Luis Enrique, Xabi Alonso, Marco Silva, and even Ryan Mason. However within the extra speedy time period, there’s additionally the matter of the brand new Director of Soccer, and if that had any impression on Nagelsmann not becoming a member of Tottenham Hotspur, it could possibly be a very powerful appointment of all. (And there’s information on that too… however that’s one other article.)