In years to come Nuno Espirito Santo’s time at Tottenham Hotspur may feel like something of a fever dream.
Indeed the former Wolves boss lasted less than four months in north London, and he’s sure to be filed alongside Jacques Santini, Juande Ramos and Tim Sherwood as one of the most forgettable gaffers in the club’s history.
We hate to criticise any manager too much, but it’s hard to describe Nuno’s time at Spurs as anything other than an abject failure.
However, the failure wasn’t only on his part.
Indeed, if a manager is getting sacked after just 10 league games, you have to ask questions of the people who hired him, and Daniel Levy’s first comments after hiring Nuno show just how poor his judgment was.
“First of all, I’d like to welcome Nuno to the Club. We should like to thank our supporters for all their patience throughout this process. I’ve spoken already about the need to revert back to our core DNA of playing attacking, entertaining football and Fabio and I believe Nuno is the man who can take our talented group of players, embrace our young players coming through and build something special,” Levy said.
Attacking and entertaining football? Which manager was Levy watching at Wolves?
Nuno is a lot of things – some good, some bad -but one thing he certainly isn’t is attack-minded.
Indeed, the Portuguese boss hasn’t won a league game by more than one goal for over 12 months, and his style is heavily based around counter-attacking rather than dominating a game.
In hindsight, it seems as though this appointment wasn’t well thought-out and Levy was just trying to appease the fanbase with these comments rather than giving an honest appraisal of what his new manager would bring.
Nuno’s time at Spurs is over, but if we’re being honest, he probably never should have been given the job if Levy was looking for an attacking and entertaining coach.
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