Mido played for Tottenham for two and a half years between January 2005 and the summer of 2007.
Mido has told Soccer AM’s podcast that he is desperate to manage Tottenham Hotspur in the future but is understanding that he needs to do a lot of work before he can be considered for such a job.
The 35-year-old retired striker was very much a fringe player at Spurs during his two-and-a-half-year spell at the club, which began in an 18-month loan from Italian side AS Roma.
Scoring four goals in the second half of the 2004-05 season and then 11 the next despite being in and out of the side, Mido was signed permanently by Spurs. But just a year later, he was sold after just five goals in 23 games during 2006-07.
Now, the former Spurs, Middlesbrough, West Ham, Wigan and Barnsley striker is keen to return to Tottenham as the club’s manager, describing it as a dream of his. He also spoke of his regret at leaving Spurs in 2007.
“I would love to manage Tottenham one day, that’s my dream – to manage in the Premier League and to manage Tottenham,” Mido said. “I know it’s not easy but my dream is to be Tottenham manager.
“It’s not easy because I am not English, but I am trying to make the right steps and the right education, maybe I will try to be an assistant somewhere for two or three years and then see what happens.
“Leaving Tottenham was one of the worst decisions I made. I had the chance to stay and I decided to go to Middlesbrough. I wished I could have stayed longer, but as a person if I didn’t play for three or four games I was going crazy.”
Mido has managed clubs despite his young age, taking over Egyptian sides Zamalek on two occasions, Ismaily and Wadi Degla, but he has been out of work since the end of the 2016-17 campaign.
A 51-time Egypt international, Mido also turned out for the likes of Gent in Belgium, Ajax in Holland, Celta Vigo in Spain, Marseille in France before his move to Roma and then Spurs.
Mauricio Pochettino remains in charge and has a contract until the summer of 2023, with the Argentine telling media that he would never manage Barcelona due to his relationship with Espanyol.
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