FA Cup winner the next manager of Tottenham after Postecoglou sack?

Ange Postecoglou is being roundly embarrassed by Tottenham’s Premier League form and is only being kept in the job by the Europa League.

Spurs lost once again against Wolves and the Midlands club’s form under Vitor Pereira makes a mockery of the Australian’s reign at Spurs, before another desperately naive display as they got pantsed by Nottingham Forest and something close to a ritual humiliation during Liverpool’s Premier League title party.

It now seems that not even winning the Europa League – still inexplicably possible for a few more hours at least – could or should save Postecoglou from the inevitable.

So who are the possible contenders for the most poisoned of Premier League chalices? According to the latest odds, these poor sods…

10) Kieran McKenna
Never hurts your chances in these kinds of markets to have pulled the pants down of the Big Club in question while managing a Small Club. McKenna is a highly-rated young coach and it feels inevitable that a Big Eight job lies somewhere in his future. This one feels like not quite the right one at not quite the right time, though, despite some valuable Knows The Club credentials.

Beating Chelsea is the sort of thing that will get Spurs’ attention, mind. It might in fact rank second only to actually being Chelsea manager on the list of desirable qualities for a potential Spurs boss.

6=) Marco Silva
Pleasantly surprising to see Silva so prominent in a big next-manager market, because he probably deserves it for the work he’s done at Fulham. Always a danger for mid-table managers that sustained competence is exactly what big clubs ought to want but can also make you a bit invisible. Spurs fans would, we suspect, kick off about this as an idea, but we’ve heard worse ones.

According to reports on March 18, Silva is one of two managers being considered.

6=) Andoni Iraola
Hard not to think this would be welcomed by the Spurs fans with eyes who can see that Bournemouth are much higher in the Premier League table and playing far better football. It’s on our list of things that will happen in 2025, so it’s basically a done deal given that feature’s unblemished record of 100 per cent accuracy.

6=) Xavi Hernandez
Still actual favourite in some places despite no apparently obvious fresh chat about the former Barcelona manager deciding to rock up at Clown Shoes FC for some reason.

6=) Roberto De Zerbi
Obvious appeal in terms of playing style and philosophy to the fans, but also almost no chance of this happening in the short to medium-term, and we grow increasingly convinced Spurs are going to be looking for a manager in the short to medium term.

5) Mauricio Pochettino
Hard to blame anyone for looking for a way out of the USA right now, and for a while there it really did seem inevitable that a Poch-Levy reunion would happen at some point. But to really have any chance of working it probably did need to be pre-Ange for Spurs and pre-Chelsea for Poch.

Now it would look like what it is: a manager and club both desperately trying to recapture a moment now long gone.

2=) Francesco Farioli
The Italian has left Ajax after one season, citing a difference in ‘visions and timeframes’. Maybe the club did not have the ‘vision’ of f***ing up the Eredivisie title within the ‘timeframe’ of the final day.

2=) Thomas Frank
Just far, far too sensible. Frank would represent thinking close to the last truly successful managerial appointment Spurs made with the Southampton-era Mauricio Pochettino. Since then it’s been showy elite appointments of managers who treated Spurs like the sh*t on their shoes, wild gambles, or fifth-choice desperation.

A manager doing a quietly effective job further down the Premier League food chain simply won’t do.

2=) Scott Parker
Spurs are Spurs and thus the idea of them doing the stupidest possible thing imaginable can never entirely be ruled out, but surely even Spurs at the absolute Spursiest peak of their Spurs wouldn’t actually do something this batsh*t. Would they?

1) Oliver Glasner
The Crystal Palace manager has taken less than two seasons to deliver the first silverware in Palace’s actual history, entirely out-thinking Pep Guardiola in the process. Tottenham should absolutely be interested.