We look at six areas the new manager and hierarchy must address after Nuno’s miserable, short-lived spell
It been nearly two years since Mauricio Pochettino was dismissed after an awful start to the 2019-20 season yet Tottenham have never really moved on from the manager who had led them to the Champions League final a few months earlier. Five of the side that started against Liverpool in Madrid remain at the club – Hugo Lloris, Harry Winks, Dele Alli, Son Heung-min and Harry Kane – but neither José Mourinho nor Nuno Espírito Santo was able to establish their imprint on a squad created by Pochettino and weakened by poor recruitment. The expected appointment of Antonio Conte is a statement of intent given the Italian’s vast experience of finding a winning formula, albeit often only in the short term. He demands that players stick to his plan; anyone who does not quickly finds themselves out in the cold.
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