Tottenham Hotspur appear to be on the lookout for a new permanent manager.
According to The Athletic, Spurs have compiled a shortlist of candidates to replace Antonio Conte as their next head coach.
The feeling at Tottenham is that Conte’s departure from N17 is now “inevitable”, as per the report.
And one of the frontrunners is believed to be former Barcelona and Spain manager Luis Enrique.
The Athletic’s Jack-Pitt Brooke claims that, if it were completely up to Fabio Paratici, then the Spaniard would be all-but set for the Spurs dugout.
Enrique is a top manager who has worked wonders for Barcelona and Spain.
The 52-year-old was an icon for both club and country – as well as Real Madrid – in his playing days.
In 2008, Enrique began his coaching career at Barcelona B before subsequently managing Roma and Celta Vigo.
In 2014, he then took the reins of Barcelona’s first team, enjoying three successful years at Camp Nou.
Enrique then became head coach of Spain in 2018, a role he briefly vacated in 2019 before resuming it later that year and holding until 2022.
He is currently unattached, making him an even more viable option for Tottenham at this point in the season.
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“There are few managers in the world better than Luis Enrique,” Pep Guardiola once said, as per The Coaches Voice.
“(He was) the perfect trainer for Barcelona – his personality, his character.
“He had two or three years and played some unbelievable football with unbelievable players.”
TCV also wrote: ‘Enrique favours an attacking brand of football that… demonstrates his understanding of a positional game, or juego de posición.
‘His teams impress with their vertical and transitional play, as well as the way they keep the ball away from the opposition.
‘His favoured shape is a 4-3-3, but he has also regularly experimented with a 3-4-3 and 3-4-2-1.
‘He is not wedded to a particular shape, and regularly varies how he sets his teams up.’
At the same time, what worked for Barca and Spain may not work for Spurs.
With that in mind, the Tottenham board really must be careful over who to bring to N17 this time.
They’ve gone down the marquee manager route with Conte and Jose Mourinho, and it hasn’t exactly worked.
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