José Mourinho Sacked .😣 Replacements?
Tottenham have sacked manager Jose Mourinho, bringing a contract that had been due to run until the summer of 2023 to a premature conclusion. The former Chelsea and Manchester United boss has been shown the door in north London a matter of days before Spurs are due to face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup final. Mourinho had been appointed as successor to Mauricio Pochettino in November 2019 due to his proven track record on the trophy front, but he will now depart empty-handed. What have Spurs said? In a statement, Spurs said: "The club can today announce that Jose Mourinho and his coaching staff Joao Sacramento, Nuno Santos, Carlos Lalin and Giovanni Cerra have been relieved of their duties." Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: "Jose and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club. Jose is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic. "On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both had envisaged. He will always be welcome here and we should like to thank him and his coaching staff for their contribution." Spurs have also confirmed that the club's former midfielder Ryan Mason, who is currently head of player development, will take first-team training on Monday. What went wrong? After re-signing Gareth Bale on loan, Spurs had enjoyed a promising start to the current season, including a 6-1 win against Mourinho's former club Manchester United at Old Trafford. A 2-0 home win over north London rivals Arsenal in early December saw them go top of the Premier League, as Mourinho - a three-time Premier League and two-time Champions League winner - became only the second Spurs manager in history to win his first two north London derbies. They weren't top for long, dropping back to second later that month with defeat by Liverpool. Since then, Spurs have won seven of 19 league games, losing eight of them. In February, they were knocked out of the FA Cup in a 5-4 quarter-final defeat by Everton, marking the first time a Mourinho side had conceded five goals since 2010. They were beaten 2-1 at Arsenal on 14 March and four days later were eliminated from the Europa League, losing 3-2 on aggregate to Dinamo Zagreb having won the first leg 2-0. Two weeks ago, Mourinho - who has earned a reputation as a master tactician and defensive-minded coach and is a former Fifa world coach of the year - refused to accept the blame for Spurs' dropped points. "Same coach, different players," he said when it was pointed out to him how good his teams usually are at defending leads. Mourinho's Spurs stats:- Jose Mourinho won just 51% of his games in charge at Tottenham in all competitions (44/86). Only with Leiria (45%) has he posted a lower win ratio with a single club during his managerial career. Tottenham have lost 13 games in all competitions this season, which is the highest number of defeats Jose Mourinho has suffered in a single campaign as a manager. During Mourinho's time at Tottenham, only Man City (130), Liverpool (117) and Manchester United (116) picked up more Premier League points than Spurs (95). Only during the 2015-16 season with Chelsea (0.9) and 2018-19 with Man Utd (1.5) has a Mourinho side averaged fewer points per game in a league season than Spurs in 2020-21 (1.6). Only Brighton (31) and Southampton (30) dropped more points from winning positions in the Premier League during the period Mourinho was in charge at Tottenham (27). Eleven of the 20 points dropped from winning positions this season have come from goals conceded in the final 10 minutes of matches. Mourinho leaves Spurs with a record of 27 wins, 14 draws and 17 defeats from 58 Premier League games. Of all managers to take charge of 10 or more matches for Tottenham in the Premier League, only Tim Sherwood (1.91), Mauricio Pochettino (1.89), Andre Villas-Boas (1.83) and Harry Redknapp (1.74) have averaged more points per game than Mourinho (1.64). #footballindepth #mourinhosacked #spurs #COYS Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for 'Fair Use' for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research, Fair use is a permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing, Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.
