Few Premier League stalwarts have boasted a range of coaches quite like Tottenham.
Under their very best coaches, Spurs qualified for the Champions League and achieved some memorable results against some of Europe’s biggest clubs. Under their worst, they were languishing in the bottom half of the table.
Here’s how we’ve rated their 16 full-time managers.
16. Jacques Santini
David Pleat had spent much of the 2003-04 season in temporary charge at White Hart Lane as Spurs spent 10 months searching for the right manager to end their long period of mediocrity.
Daniel Levy was confident Santini, the France manager who it was announced in June 2004 would take over after the European Championship, was that man.
“We haven’t had success for such a long time. It’s a credit to Tottenham we can attract this type of manager,” Levy said.
“I said some time ago that we would make the right appointment – a big name to take the club forward.”
As it turned out, Santini lasted only 13 games before resigning, reportedly due to a falling-out with Director of Football Frank Arnesen. After witnessing just six goals in 11 league games, Spurs fans weren’t too disappointed.
15. Nuno Espirito Santo
It wasn’t that easy to choose between Santini and Espirito Santo for the wooden spoon in this race, but the former Wolves boss just edged ahead, owing to the fact that he did actually win five of his 10 league games in charge and his side scored at a better rate than Santini’s.
Still, some of the football was dire and that thumping at the hands of a bang average Arsenal side was without doubt the low point.
14. Juande Ramos
It may very well be a tad harsh that the last manager to actually win silverware in charge of Spurs is ranked as their third-worst manager of the past 26 years, but that 2008 League Cup win was simply a thin spreading of butter in a sh*t sandwich.
In fairness, he steered the team from 18th to 11th after taking over from Martin Jol in October 2007,…
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