Nuno Espirito Santo is back in management. It’s been a wild 370 days since he took the Tottenham job…
It was June 30 last year when a shambling and confused search for a manager – that had begun with the righteous if unusually timed dismissal of Jose Mourinho the week of the Carabao Cup final and lurched from there to Potter to Pochettino to Conte to Gattuso to Fonseca and others too numerous to list that we’ve forgotten about and simply cannot be bothered to look up now – came to an end.
It felt unsustainable. It was unsustainable. Spurs lost five of their next seven, culminating in a 3-0 whomping off Manchester United that cost Nuno his job. There was at the time a decent argument it should also cost those higher up the food chain. But this is where the pair lucked out. It would be wrong to attribute Antonio Conte’s availability and more importantly willingness to pure dumb luck on the part of Levy and Paratici, but it really wasn’t far off. After the mess that had been made of the summer, they really didn’t deserve this kind of break.
Where Paratici and especially Levy do deserve credit is they didn’t look the gift horse in the mouth. Having had Conte fall into their lap and the added bonus of Manchester United having a full-scale meltdown, Spurs made decisive moves in January for Juventus pair Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski.
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