Daniel Levy and Tottenham Hotspur are at a real cross roads in terms of where to go next with their managerial appointment, but maybe, in Ryan Mason, their answer is staring them right in the face.
The north Londoners have stumbled from one crisis to another this season, but at least with Mason masterminding a comeback from two goals down against Man United, he’s given the long-suffering supporters something to shout about.
It doesn’t appear that the current caretaker manager is the favourite for the job full time, but what he perhaps lacks at the moment, when compared to the likes of Luis Enrique and Julian Nagelsmann, he more than makes up for in other ways.
The lead evaporates! ?
It's that duo again ????
Kane ? Son pic.twitter.com/WTaTzym24h
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He’s played for the north Londoners, he knows the club inside and out, knows how Levy operates, is clearly liked by the players – as Son’s celebration for the equaliser showed – and isn’t frightened to drop the big names, with Hugo Lloris and Dejan Kulusevski on the bench for the visit of the Red Devils.
He isn’t a big name himself but then maybe he doesn’t need to be. He just needs to get results.
If Mason can follow up the United draw with a few more decent performances, then he arguably does put himself into that managerial conversation.
Tottenham may think they can do better than him… but they could certainly do a lot worse.
"I hope our fans felt that we were a team today"
"I know I have men in this team"
"I was a player here I know what it's like when the fans are with us"
Ryan Mason gives his verdict on Spurs' comeback ?
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We as Spurs fans are so deluded short term memory loss our team is poor n it starts from the top get ur head out ur a$$ n see the big pic this happens year on year every since levy n co took over time for change signing levy out won’t make him leave boycotting the whole club does u won’t miss anything so get boycotting or this is our future crap football crap players enjoy
It makes absolutely NO sense to give Mason the job, permanently. We all know that this is a results business and once we hit a bad spell, it would be curtains for Mason. Like everyone before him, he would face the sack. That would get him out of the Club, altogether – which would be a disaster for Levy. By keeping him on, as an Assistant to the Manager, in one capacity, or another, he can be called upon to fill the interim gap, between managerial appointments, with no real pressure on him to get results, one way or the other. When he decides to become a full-time manager, the Tottenham job should not be his first. Kompany and Carrick are learning their craft and paying their dues in the Championship. Mason could gain valuable experience in a lower division. He can always come back later. At 31 years of age, he surely has time on his side.