‘To be honest’: Jamie O’Hara makes Arne Slot admission amid Tottenham manager news

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Jamie O’Hara has admitted that he doesn’t know much about Tottenham Hotspur’s next possible manager, Arne Slot.

The Feyenoord coach guided his team to the Dutch title this season, and just like Erik ten Hag with Ajax 12 months ago, he could now be Premier League bound, but Tottenham-mad pundit O’Hara knows little about him, as he told talkSPORT.

It was reported on Wednesday morning that Arne Slot’s representatives will meet Feyenoord to work out what Tottenham need to pay for his services.

The 44-year-old is an attack-minded coach, who has been likened to a certain Pep Guardiola, so from an entertaining perspective, Spurs fans should now enjoy watching their football again.

Of course, style of play aside, Arne Slot, if appointed, will have many, many issues to deal with and he will be tested right from the off.

One of the issues at the club, according to O’Hara, is the ‘deadwood’ within the squad, which he thinks Tottenham need to go.

“We can talk about managers and you can ask me about Arne Slot,” said O’Hara. “To be honest, I don’t really know much about. He’s done a good job at Feyenoord.

“You could talk about bringing in Nagelsmann. You could talk about bringing in Brendan Rodgers.

“But, at the end of the day, until you get rid of the deadwood of the football club, until you get rid of the players that aren’t good enough to play for Tottenham, until you change the mentality of the football club, then nothing is going to change.”

WILL HE SLOT IN AT TOTTENHAM?

In terms of profile, Daniel Levy is going down the right road with this one. He has tried the trophy-laden coaches and it’s not worked.

Many Spurs fans will point the finger at him, and rightly so, but that doesn’t mean the mistakes have to keep rolling in.

Not since Mauricio Pochettino have Tottenham had a coach that the whole fanbase believes in, if Slot starts right, then regardless of their feelings toward Levy, they will believe in the Dutchman and get well on board with where he wants to take the club.