The one thing that pretty much all Tottenham Hotspur supporters can agree on is that Spurs have not historically been a well-run club from an organizational level. Now, that’s gotten significantly muddied since the owner uprising that led to the sacking of Daniel Levy by the Lewis Kids, but there’s been so much change at the executive level over the past number of years you’ll be forgiven if you can’t remember all the backroom staff who have come and gone (remember Todd Kline?)
So I bring you this news with very little opinion or judgement — according to David Ornstein in The Athletic, Spurs are in advanced talks to appoint Manchester City football executive Rafi Moersen as Head of Football Operations. Moersen is currently Head of Football Transactions with the City Group, and previously worked with DC United and NYCFC in MLS.
What does this mean? Beats me! Most of Ornstein’s article provides a summary of the executive shuffling and changes that have gone on at Spurs over the past few months and years, and it’s not especially clear what it is exactly that Moersen will be doing at Tottenham. Is his position one that is above those of co-Sporting Directors Johan Lange and Fabio Paratici? Is it under? What is his remit and what will he do? We have no idea! I’d kill for a Tottenham Hotspur org chart!
I’d like to say that appointing a former City execeutive to Spurs would be a good thing but we tried that once before with Scott Munn and that clearly didn’t work out either, so I don’t really have a ton of guidance on how to interpret this. What we can intuit is that at minimum there’s recognition by the Lewis Kids that Spurs need(ed) an organizational shakeup, and Moersen fits into that org structure, somehow. I guess we’ll have to wait to figure out what that means. I hope he’s good!