all BSDunno if this has been mentioned here already, but your old friend Paulo Fonseca was interviewed yesterday here in Portugal, and he had interesting things to say...
Quick translation:
Paulo Fonseca confirmed that he was very close to succeeding JosƩ Mourinho in charge of Tottenham, but that the arrival of the new General Director at the club threw the process into disarray.
"All the details were settled, I was prepared for a new adventure at Tottenham, but with the entry of the general manager we had some differences that were difficult to overcome. I want to coach the best teams, but I cannot compromise my ideals, my values just to coach a great team" he said.
The coach explained that initially the idea of the club president, Daniel Levy and his sporting director was in line with the style of play of their teams, but that this idea ended up changing.
"The truth is that the president and the sporting director have always defended that the team should be attacking, it should be an attractive, dominant team that went in the direction of what my teams are. With the entry of the general director, things changed a little bit, they wanted to go in another direction and it wasn't possible to develop something that I didn't believe in," he concluded.
Paulo Fonseca esteve muito prĆ³ximo do Tottenham: "NĆ£o posso comprometer os meus ideais"
paratici chose to run an attacking via at Juventus, a club storically focused on the defence, by buying young offensive players, passers, and by firing allegri and hiring sarri.
thing is that fonseca wanted to focus the transfer market on attacking players (from spain and portugal), but paratici believes that tottenham problems are especially in the defensive area (he took gollini, romero as priorities)