Paulo Fonseca has explained the reason why his appointment to become Tottenham’s head coach this summer fell through at the last minute, referring to a change in the club’s mindset when the new football manager Fabio Paratici came on board.
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Fonseca had left the former club Roma, where he was ironically replaced by ex-Spurs boss Jose Mourinho, and looked set to be named in north London. Instead, the deal was terminated and the club eventually hired Nuno Espirito Santo instead.
Now Fonseca has lifted the lid on what happened in an interview with the Portuguese TV channel SIC and stated that “All details were clear.”
However, things seemed to change when Paratici arrived at the club from Juventus as a new hire to monitor football issues. Even at that time, it was reported that the Italian had a different opinion about the search for a new manager for chairman Daniel Levy and technical performance manager Steve Hitchen, who was believed to have been responsible for the original shortlist.
Levy’s preference is said to have been for a certain type of expansive and attacking football, where Paratici prefers a more conservative approach, a version of events that now seems to be in line with what Fonseca has revealed.
“I was really ready for a new adventure at Tottenham, but when the general manager (Paratici) came in we had disagreements that were difficult to overcome,” he explained.
“I really want to coach the best teams, but I can not compromise with my ideas, I can not jeopardize my values just to coach a great team. The truth is that [Levy] and [Hitchen] have always argued that the team should be offensive, be attractive, be a dominant team that went in the direction of what my teams are, essentially.
“And with the appointment of the new CEO, things changed a bit. They wanted to go in another direction and it was obviously not possible to develop something I did not believe in. ”
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