Long before Ange Postecoglou was shown the door at Tottenham Hotspur, indeed going back several months, multiple managers have been linked with taking over at Spurs.
Links to Brentford manager Thomas Frank go back to last year and it’s the 51-year-old Dane who is considered by many to be the shoe-in option.
However, Portuguese newspaper Record has it differently.
In their Saturday edition, Record report – and make it clear this is according to their own information – that Fulham’s Marco Silva is on the verge of becoming Tottenham manager.
To make it clear, Record state: ‘Marco Silva is set to swap Fulham for Tottenham. Marco Silva is very close to taking over as Tottenham coach. Record knows that the agreement between the parties is close to being reached and everything suggests that the Portuguese coach will succeed Ange Postecoglou, who was fired yesterday.’
The report acknowledges that the UK media has been pushing Thomas Frank and Andoni Iraola, ‘but everything points to Marco Silva being the chosen one’.
Tottenham would be the 47-year-old’s fifth club in English football, following Hull City, Watford, Everton and current club Fulham.
Record will certainly have been told this information from a source, there’s no reason for them to pluck it from thin air because the target audience for hits isn’t the same as the audience who purchase their newspaper, and it’s tucked away on page 25 rather than being a selling point.
Whether the information they’ve been given is correct remains to be seen.