http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/new...p-leaves-to-manage-England-article879295.html Tottenham will throw everything at Jose Mourinho to try to entice him to the club if manager Harry Redknapp quits. Spurs are attempting to put the block on further speculation linking Redknapp to the vacant England post, but while chairman Daniel Levy will drive a hard bargain if and when FA chiefs come knocking on his door, Mourinho will be his prime target. The Special One has made it clear he plans to quit as Real Madrid coach at the end of the season and the Mirror revealed earlier this month that he has agreed to buy a new family home in London. Mourinho, who flew into London on a whistle-stop trip on Friday, has let it be known that he wants to return to the Premier League, and Spurs and his former club Chelsea are the obvious options. Although the Portugueseâs broken relationship with Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich has been repaired - and many Blues fans are dreaming of him coming back to Stamford Bridge to replace caretaker boss Roberto Di Matteo - Levy believes he can tempt Mourinho to N17. Levyâs stewardship at White Hart Lane has always been about avoiding controversy and while appointing Mourinho would, at first glance, be a break with that approach, the Spurs chairman believes that, post-Redknapp, the next manager must be capable of taking the club on to the next level and making Tottenham genuine title challengers. Mourinho is a proven winner, while commercially, with Spurs looking to start work on their new 55,000 capacity home in the next 12 months, having Mourinho as the public figurehead of the club would be a massive financial pull. And the Portuguese is understood to be ready to embrace a long-term project rather that opt for another short-term fix. Should Manchester City blow the title after surrendering what was a five-point lead, Mourinho would be the most likely candidate to replace manager Roberto Mancini if Sheikh Mansour decides he needs to make a change. Levy, though, who is aware of suggestions that Mourinho would be more interested in a serious project which could leave a legacy rather than purely his own salary demands, will make a determined move if Redknapp does agree to take on the England challenge he has long spoken of as his biggest personal ambition. The impetus towards Mourinho has been increased by Levy and the Spurs board, considering there is a dearth of other viable options. Chelsea Double winner Carlo Ancelotti would have been an obvious contender had he not taken up the offer to join Paris Saint-Germain a few months ago. Spurs are believed to have reservations over whether Evertonâs David Moyes really is the man to turn the club into potential title winners, while impressive Swansea boss Brandan Rodgers is deemed to be slightly too inexperienced. Former Liverpool boss Rafa Benitez is unlikely to appeal to Levy, although, ironically, Mancini might fit the bill should he be displaced by Mourinho. But it is the Special One that Levy envisages as the perfect choice to turn Spurs - whose last league title was under Bill Nicholson in 1961 - from wannabes to the real deal should Redknapp leave the club. And he will make an all-out effort to persuade the Portuguese to take up the opportunity.
i won't beleive it until he's paraded round whl with a Spurs scarf round his neck until then it's just paper talk
I just don't see this happening. I don't think we'd pay the wages. We've been after a marquee striker for 2 years, but fees and wages have always been an issue. I don't think this would be any different with Mourinho. I just hope the new manager isn't a massive let down. At the end of several recent transfer windows we've been a little surprised about not signing players we'd needed. I hope after all this paper talk we're not scrapping away with a manager in the same way we are with new players.
I'll throw whatever isn't nailed down at him until the overrated tosser takes the hint and leaves our club alone.
I can easily see why he would want to come to Spurs. There'd be absolutely no pressure on him, here. And with a squad better than Chelsea's he won't need a massive transfer pot. All this talking of him needing or wanting an unlimited pot is ridiculous. At United or City there'd be immense pressure on him to make an immediate impact, in a league that is far more open than the Spanish league. And it's not as if we'd pay him peanuts, anyway ffs!
He doesn't need an unlimited pot at Real Madrid to guarantee a top two spot and Champions League semi at the very least, yet has spent a combined €129.5m in his two seasons there.
I don't know what players Madrid sold to bring funds in, and I'd be surprised if they sold no one. If you give any manager the money, he's going to spend it. But that doesn't mean he has to have huge funds in order to come to a club. Yes, he has to have some funds, but we're not exactly a poor club, and whilst we probably can't or certainly won't blow the kind of money that LFC does, we've still got funds to bring in the players that we need.
yes,but whatever club he goes to he want's ronaldo there,that blow's us out of the water as we would'nt/could'nt pay them
He will want money to spend, a lot if it. If you could afford you would stand a chance of winning the league but I don't see it ever happening.
To be fair, accepting 2nd place just for the CL isn't Mourinho at all is it, that figure is probably what it takes to topple Barca and win the league. The side he inherited got royally roasted each meeting with Barca, 5 zip was one result, their games are much closer now, and Real are 10pts clear in LaLiga...having spent some money.
Liverpool fan laughing at us for going backwards Mind you I'd lose perspective a bit if we'd battered a championship club to win a trophy with a team that only cosy cost around £130m
Well that's Klanfield off of his "to do" list. We were actually looking for a manager who's had been out the game for years and didn't have a ****ing clue, but they all seem to be taken.
Actually, we were looking for a jock has-been with delusions of adequacy. You wouldn't know where we could get one, do you??
They sold €25m worth, the best part of that being Van Der Vaart - they still need to recoup €104.5m in transfer fees to balance the income and expenditure. He spent €50m on three players in the summer (Coentrao, Sahin, Varane), something the majority of clubs are unable to do at present. Plenty of Chelsea managers have had the funds available that Mourinho did, but did not spend anything like the fees he was paying for the likes of Drogba and Essien on a regular basis (or Roman paid for Shevchenko and Torres...), and the fact Mourinho kept up with the big spending at Inter and at Real is the reason why he's acknowledged as only being as good as the chequebook he has available. If he was in charge of Villa, his reputation would nosedive when the transfer window slammed shut.
