Chief Football Officer Scott Munn

[mummy]

If all you care about is a trophy then you might be better served by fucking back to the emirates. You’ll have more luck there.

Or, alternatively, accept that spurs fans don’t all think like you do.

You can fuck off back there too.

If you have no hunger for a trophy, you're not a fan.

 

[LeParisien]

You can fuck off back there too.

If you have no hunger for a trophy, you're not a fan.

I’d love a trophy. But like a majority fans I’d rather have us get back to playing some good football.

If you had a basic grasp of our financial reality (you thought that levy was taking money out of the club) then you might have more realistic ambitions.

 

[Art Vandelay]

If any of you want to critique him because he's Australian.

If any of you want to critique him because he's from Australian Football.

If any of you want to critique him because he's from CFG.

But if any of you critique, denigrate, mock, laugh at or snigger at our national game.

 

[skywalker68]

Spurs fans are realistic, we all know that, with ENIC in charge the club is winning nothing.
Until the owners pass on, or, we are sold to a Newcastle style ownership, it's top six ceiling

 

[Airfixx]

Spurs fans are realistic, we all know that, with ENIC in charge the club is winning nothing.
Until the owners pass on, or, we are sold to a Newcastle style ownership, it's top six ceiling

Gibbering nonsense.

Current: 5th:
Prev: 4, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4

9 of the last 12 seasons your theory has been proven wrong.

 

[skywalker68]

Gibbering nonsense.

Current: 5th:
Prev: 4, 7, 6, 4, 3, 2, 3, 5, 6, 5, 4, 4

9 of the last 12 seasons your theory has been proven wrong.

We finish in the top six, which is what we do anything else like winning it isn't.
So you have backed me up cheers matey

 

[Airfixx]

We finish in the top six, which is what we do anything else like winning it isn't.
So you have backed me up cheers matey

You really are dumb if you think this.

Words and truth have no meaning to you obviously.........

 

[skywalker68]

You really are dumb if you think this.

Words and truth have no meaning to you obviously.........

You should of read it properly first then dumb cunt.
I thought a man such as yourself never gets it wrong.
But aren't you the man that claimed, our team was better than the gooners at the start of the season.
And yet here we are, struggling to finish top four, whilst they are very likely going to win the league.
I knew I made a mistake taking you off ignore, fuck off two Bob useless cunt

 

[Airfixx]

You should of read it properly first then dumb cunt.

"Should have", Einstein...... Proof further that regardless of what your extremely limited intellect tells you; your ramblings are incoherent, if not factually flawed.... Mostly both.

I thought a man such as yourself never gets it wrong.
But aren't you the man that claimed, our team was better than the gooners at the start of the season.
And yet here we are, struggling to finish top four, whilst they are very likely going to win the league.
I knew I made a mistake taking you off ignore, fuck off two Bob useless cunt

Rambling deflection from a moron......

 

[Lenny Hatchet]

Ugly wanker

 

[NotThatTedHughes]

You really are dumb if you think this.

Words and truth have no meaning to you obviously.........

He runs out of fingers at 4.

 

[Airfixx]

He runs out of fingers at 4.

Too complicated to bring toes into the equation.... Strangulation risk.

 

[Airfixx]

Ugly wanker

You need to be able to fancy him before he can be any good at his job?

 

[bonaspur23]

Undefeated and 3 PPG since Scott Munn was hired.

 

[Football Chap]

Thought he did well today

 

[Maureen]

He's worked in football for over a decade. He ran Melbourne City FC for 9 years and established them as a dominant team in the A-League. And was then given the job of building a club in China for CFG.

Him not having been a player shouldn't play into him getting a executive position what so ever.

May be but no top level European football experience!

 

[SpiderSpurs]

They had no choice but to freeze STs, and they really are still too high for what is being served up.

Appointing a football director that has no real indicators of any quality doesn't inspire confidence. It may be a master stroke. We don't know, of course.

But right now everything looks dire. We are looking for something to inspire and lead the way. This doesn't appear to be it.

Which is sort of my point, the guy has literally only been in the job 5 mins and people are already using him as a stick to bash Levy.

Bit daft if you ask me.

 

[Shadydan]

You really are dumb if you think this.

Words and truth have no meaning to you obviously.........

Skywalker doing Skywalker things, 0 self awareness that one, the guy is a travesty

 

[Get in!]

You’re such a fucking illiterate moron.

Why don't you just fuck off back to the Emirates then?

So much anger. I'm not the kind of person who will foul vote you, because it's just a stupid internet forum, but I do wonder about your mental states.

 

[ShutUpPatrik]

Scott Munn: Who is he, what is his role at Spurs, and what will it mean for Paratici?

The former chief executive of City Football Group in China will join the Tottenham board this summer - but what does he bring to the table?

theathletic.com

Contrasting reactions from high level football circles compared to people who have worked with Munn:

For those reading and asking “Scott who?”, you’re not alone in reacting to the appointment with scepticism. Eyebrows were certainly raised by some in high-level football circles on Friday given that the Australian Munn has never worked in Europe and the scale of the job facing him. Spurs currently have no permanent men’s or women’s first-team head coach, their director of football is banned, and their talismanic top-scorer Harry Kane will enter the final year of his contract on Munn’s first day in the job.
On the flipside, those who have worked with Munn — speaking to The Athletic anonymously to protect relationships — have been very complimentary and believe he can make the considerable step up.

The appointment came about in part after an ongoing review of footballing activities:

As Spurs said when confirming Munn’s hire, this is an appointment that came about in part after “an ongoing review over the past six months of all of our footballing activities”. This review was led by Levy and involved Tottenham bringing in an external consultant to conduct interviews with employees about how all the club’s footballing activities were being run. Hiring someone to oversee the various footballing departments was a consequence of this review. It’s also an illustration that this has been an appointment in the works for months rather than a reaction to the Paratici ban, as some assumed.

Youth Development:

Developing young players was a focus of his time at Melbourne City, where he was the CEO for 10 years (from the club’s foundation as Melbourne Heart in 2009) until moving to China in 2019. Under Munn and after the CFG takeover in 2014, City hoovered up much of the country’s best young talent and dominated youth competitions. In 2016, they signed a teenage Daniel Arzani from the Sydney FC academy; two years later he played all three of Australia’s 2018 World Cup games and was signed by Manchester City. Serious injuries have unfortunately hampered him since then. Aaron Mooy was another success story — rehabilitated at Melbourne City after a run of injuries with St Mirren before joining Manchester City and then being sold to Huddersfield Town for a fee of up to £10million in 2017.

Men's team:

On the men’s side, Munn also made some adventurous hires to try and get the team playing exciting attacking football — something that Spurs fans have been crying out for. Most notably by appointing the former Dutch winger John van ‘t Schip as the club’s first ever manager in 2009 and then again four years later. Van ‘t Schip had spent the majority of his career playing or coaching at Ajax and was raised on the Johan Cruyff principles of how to play the game. Bringing him in was a big statement therefore and a significant departure from how football was being played in the rest of the A-League at the time.

Paratici wont be replaced quickly(if it gets to that):

That said, there’s also an expectation that Munn will have more of a CEO role once he officially joins Spurs on July 1 (he’s currently on gardening leave). This was the role he held at Melbourne City and then running CFG’s China operations. Either way, as a board member and in such a prominent role, he will have a voice in the discussions on the new head coach and, if it comes to it, managing director of football. The expectation is that Paratici would be replaced if he were to leave, but Spurs would not want to rush into that appointment, and the hope is that Munn can add another layer of expertise to the search.

Levy executed the hire of Antonio Conte. Questions over autonomy.

As ever, there is a question mark over how much autonomy Munn will have at Spurs under Levy. Even with Paratici in situ and supposedly in charge of managerial appointments, it was still Levy who drove and executed the hire of Antonio Conte in November 2021. That said, the last couple of years have seen not only Paratici brought in, but also Gretar Steinsson, Andy Scoulding and Leonardo Gabbanini into senior recruitment roles, with Levy less hands-on than previously.
All four will report into Munn, as Tottenham continue their attempts to boost their off-field staff and improve the structure of their football operations.