Tottenham manager search: Julian Nagelsmann is out, could Arne Slot, Xabi Alonso or Luis Enrique get the job?

Another day, another defeat for Tottenham, who lost 2-1 to astonville on Saturday, but they are becoming expected after the team changed its third manager of the season. It’s critical that they make the right decision on the next manager, but one thing the club knows is that whoever is patrolling the sidelines comes next year, they won’t be julian nagelsman. After being sacked by Bayern Munich, Nagelsmann was one of the top choices in Tottenham’s coaching search due to his ability to build a team and his tactical knowledge. However, as of Friday the club no longer pursues him.

Someone in the Nagelsmann mold is what the club needs as the summer should include tearing down the foundations of the team to make a complete reset. After adding Scott Munn to the City Football Group front office to oversee the sporting director and head coach, Chairman Daniel Levy appears to be relinquishing control of front office decisions. Then again, he seemed to have done that too a couple of years ago, but it ended up with Fabio Paratici needing to step down as director after losing his appeal of a ban on football activities for his role in juventus‘ inappropriate financial transactions.

Frankly, it’s a mess Nagelsmann doesn’t need to risk getting into unless all the variables line up in his favor, but considering the visibility and potential of the role, it’s one that should be of interest to some managers in the future. world. former manager Mauricio Pochettino is off the market after agreeing terms with chelsea to take over. Robert De Zerbi he’s someone who’s been linked but, like Nagelsmann, leaving Brighton for anything other than a top-notch job doesn’t make much sense. But if they can’t guide the club towards its future, who can?

ryan mason

It’s time for the Spurs to start thinking outside the box. Mason hasn’t been very good as interim manager, but he, too, was dealt an impossible hand as second choice for a temp job. Someone the players can connect with and be able to motivate them, if Mason gets the job and gets the help of a number two who can help him grow tactically, it could be a move that helps Spurs get back to their ethos. Mason is Tottenham through and through, a former academy graduate and player whose career was spent entirely with Spurs until a stretch right at the end of 2016-2018. And when a head injury forced him into early retirement, he immediately returned to Spurs as manager.

In their prime, Tottenham was a club that relied on the academy and developing young talent. While Oliver Skipp he is buying time with the first team, that academy path has dried up in recent years and has led the club to play as a group of individuals rather than a team. Some of this isn’t just down to academy players, as a team can go offline after five coaches in less than four years. Taking time with a young manager would show that the Spurs are acknowledging that they aren’t close to competing right now as they look into a transition phase.

Arne Slots

Another manager who has been linked to the role is Slot, the manager of Feyenoord. Overseeing a team that likes to play on their front foot and control the game through attack, Slot would bring fun soccer to the tottenham hotspur Stadium. That’s something that has been missing recently during the reign of defensive managers. The team needs an identity and that is something that Slot can instill if given time and at the same time improve the players of the club.

A rebuild of the lineup would be needed to get players adjusted to Slot’s passing style, but that would be necessary nonetheless. Bringing in a credentialed manager after leading Feyenoord to the Europa Conference League final and to the top of the Eredivisie to beat Ajax would also be a boon for the club. It would still be an adjustment to life in the Premier League, but Erik ten Hag, who jumped from Ajax last season to manchester united this year, he has shown the plan that Slot could follow. Emulation may be the best way to succeed and Tottenham need to align with what the most successful clubs in the Premier League are doing.

Xabi Alonso

Like Slot, Alonso is someone who is overseeing an attacking side with bayer leverkusen in Germany. But there would be some obstacles to bring him to the club. His current club could not only qualify for Europe this summer while Tottenham will be without European football, but could also be affected by what happens to Carlo Ancelotti in real Madrid because he could be among the frontrunners to move to the club, given his record as a star in the club’s midfield, although Madrid have recently suggested that it’s okay to keep their manager until next year, even if they are eliminated from the Champions League.

With only a limited proven track record in top flight football, he is a risk-taking manager, but as Alonso has shown in Germany, he is learning things quickly. Alonso also has the credentials as a former player to earn respect from day one on the job.

Luis Enrique

While Luis Enrique was involved in Chelsea’s managerial search, he ended up not joining the club, which could give Spurs a chance. Luis Enrique is one of the most qualified coaches out there, winning a treble with Barcelona as he manages the superstar attacking trio of neymar, Lionel Messi and louis suarez ahead of a period focused on developing a new generation of talent with Spain. A winner who can employ multiple tactics, under Luis Enrique, Spurs would know what to do in possession. Like Nagelsmann, it would take a lot of promise to attract Luis bEnrique, but the club wouldn’t be doing its due diligence on this manager search without at least talking to him about the role.

His vertical passing style can be tailored to where the team wants to go, but it all comes down to whether a deal can be struck.

Looking elsewhere?

With names like Vincent Kompany also linked before signing a new contract with Burnley, it seems that the club is looking in the right direction for the next manager. But, for things to work, that coach will also need to have a good relationship with the sporting director who hasn’t been hired yet. If Munn and Levy can nail down those decisions, the club can quickly turn around some of these issues, but if they pursue more stopgap solutions, it will only set things back further than they already have been. The only way to remove “Spursy” from the vocabulary of many is to win, but the club can’t win without being lined up to advance.