It's anyone's guess as to what Tottenham do with Ange Postecoglou this summer, as the second-year manager is at a crossroads after helping Spurs win the Europa League for the first time in 41 years while also finishing a worst-ever 17th in the Premier League.
As time trudges on without a real judgment on Postecoglou's future, the chances of the former Celtic boss remaining in North London increase. The managerial musical chairs in Serie A has already yielded a couple of big hires - Max Allegri to AC Milan and Gian Piero Gasperini to Roma - and there could still be a third that leads to Spurs missing out on another top manager.
While Tottenham have, per a report from The Sun's Tom Barclay, reached out with interest in Inter Milan manager Simone Inzaghi, they have not yet decided on Big Ange's future and have thus not really pursued Inzaghi hard.
Tottenham aren't looking hard enough at top managers
For the most part, the main manager names that come up in their search are those in the mid-table of the Premier League like Thomas Frank of Brentford, Andoni Iraola at Bournemouth, and Fulham's Marco Silva. All decent managers but none with the kind of track record that Tottenham are aiming for, which is competitiveness at the upper echelon of the Champions League.
Inzaghi has been to two Champions League Finals in the last three years, leading the Nerazzurri back to those heights for the first time in more than a decade when Jose Mourinho became the first and only manager to win a treble with a Serie A club.
Yet all of that may be a moot point, because as brilliant of a tactician as Inzaghi is, Tottenham seem to have so little interest in hiring him that he seems poised to pick a totally different option on Tuesday. Fabrizio Romano reports that this is the date that one of the most highly-regarded managers in world football will decide his future, and he is between staying at Inter Milan and joining Al-Hilal ahead of the Club World Cup for a fat paycheck.
Now, Tuesday is all about Inzaghi choosing to stay at Inter or hit the open market, so he isn't necessarily going to Al-Hilal and his interest in the Saudi Arabia giants is plausible but debatable at this juncture.
The real issue is, why aren't Tottenham more interested? Why isn't Fab tweeting about Tottenham being highly interested in Inzaghi, as interested as Al-Hilal? A lot of that is probably down to the fact that Spurs are legitimately undecided on Postecoglou and may be swayed by public endorsements from key figures in the locker room like James Maddison and Lucas Bergvall.