Tottenham Hotspur are searching for a new boss having surprised everyone with the sacking of Jose Mourinho on Monday morning.
Sure, Mourinho wasn’t faring well and a parting of the ways seemed inevitable at the end of the season, but few could have expected him to go just days before the Carabao Cup.
With Ryan Mason in charge until the end of the season, a new appointment is unlikely to come before the summer, but names are still being linked.
The Athletic now suggest Ralf Rangnick could emerge as one of the options on Tottenham’s wish list because of his experience developing young players.
Rangnick has become quite the enigma in European football. He led the Hoffenheim project between 2006 and 2011, then guided Schalke into the Champions League semi-finals in 2011.
The German quit just months later citing exhaustion, and his only managerial roles since then have been with RB Leipzig, taking interim charge for two separate seasons.
Rangnick most recently held a position with Red Bull and their football output, and his name always seems to come up for big jobs before falling away for some reason or another, such as with AC Milan last summer.
Now 62, Rangnick is ultimately running out of time to make a return to management. Tottenham may well admire him, but the idea of him working with Daniel Levy seems baffling given the character of the two men.
Still, Rangnick would bring an exciting brand of football to Spurs having been tabbed as the inspiration for Jurgen Klopp’s brand of football, and Spurs fans may be interested in that sort of change after Mourinho.
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