AFTER 72 days managerless, Spurs appointed Nuno Espirito Santo as head coach — having sacked Jose Mourinho just days before their League Cup Final clash against Man City.

At Tottenham, the age-old question whenever a new manager comes in is: will they be backed by the chairman? To put it nicely, the team has gone stale and is desperate for the rebuild that has been discussed for years, since Mauricio Pochettino left in 2019.

Nuno has the qualities of a great manager; similar to Pochettino he makes the players feel as though they are part of something bigger, which is both motivating and unifying. It will of course take time for him to build an atmosphere in the dressing room and a relationship with the players, but one would hope that a full pre-season would give him the time and ability to get that started.