The recent announcement that Tottenham Hotspur are appointing former Arsenal executive Vinai Venkatesham as club CEO signaled a significant change to Spurs’ leadership structure. And many fans, upon reading that Venkatesham would be in charge of “all on- and off-pitch operations,” what that meant for Chief Football Officer Scott Munn.
The Australian Munn has been at the club since 2023 and has spearheaded a backroom reorganization of many aspects within the club, but according to Jack Pitt-Brooke in The Athletic, Venkatesham’s future appointment now puts Munn’s job potentially in doubt. The report says that several sources at the club have suggested, privately, that Munn could be on the outs soon.
But even the arrival of Venkatesham is unlikely to be the end of the changes to executive roles at Spurs this summer. Multiple sources have told The Athletic that Munn’s future as chief football officer is in severe doubt, too.
— Jack Pitt-Brooke, The Athletic
If you were looking for more detail about how and why Munn might leave the club, well, so was I. Unfortunately, this is one of those articles where you can basically get the entire point by reading the headline, and that paragraph basically is the only juicy bit in the entire piece. The rest is background info about Munn’s current role, what he has and hasn’t done, and how it’s kind of impossible to quantify or qualify his job performance based on what we know.
That’s not really Jack’s fault, of course — you work with what you have, and the mere fact that Munn could be departing Tottenham Hotspur is newsworthy in and of itself. (I also sympathize with having to write an extended article based on one single nugget of off the record, backgrounded information.) It’s a pretty intriguing nugget, though and nobody’s quite sure what it means just yet. Venkatesham coming to Tottenham is seen by many with familiarity with football executive structures as something of a coup, and it could be simply that Vinai is a better fit for that role than Munn.
Tottenham, angry fans notwithstanding, is already a well-run football club, but when faced with the prospects of competing with other clubs who are just, or nearly, as well-run and are backed by literal nation-states, Spurs are likely finding that they have to be exceptionally good at the background stuff in order to compete on the pitch. That could be what we’re seeing here, or maybe Munn displeased Daniel Levy with his job performance. It’s difficult to speculate, but don’t let that stop you from trying.
At any rate, it seems like we’re on the precipice of a mass Aussie exodus from Spurs. Interesting times.