The stench of the Thomas Frank hire won't wash out of the N17 for a while, but Tottenham Hotspur are still after some pretty underwhelming options in the manager's chair, as they are currently being linked back to yesterday's news Niko Kovac.
According to a report from Yannick Huber, Maximilian Wessing, and Michel Schroer for German outlet Bild, Premier League Big Six clubs Manchester United and Tottenham are both interested in the Dortmund manager, who has also had stints with Monaco, Wolfsburg, Eintracht Frankfurt, and most infamously Bayern Munich over the years.
Mostly a Bundesliga manager, Kovac has never tried out a bigger league than the German or French top flights, and though he did coach one of the biggest clubs in the world in Bayern, he was pretty much ran out of Bavaria for a horrid defensive style that alienated fans, star players, and the front office, though he did win the Bundesliga with the weakest Bayern squad in recent memory against the strongest Dortmund squad since their last title triumph more than a decade ago.
Tottenham are linked to Niko Kovac again
Kovac has kept Dortmund in second and within legitimate punching distance of the Bundesliga title despite a horrendous squad that is their worst in recent memory. So he is not actually a terrible candidate for Tottenham and would be a better coach than either Frank or Igor Tudor with much more caerer achievement than both, given he also famously won the DFB Pokal in an upset over Bayern while at Eintracht to put himself on Bayern's radar in the first place.
But the former Croatian national team and Bundesliga icon is far from ideal for Tottenham. A club with Spurs ambitions and issues probably shouldn't be going after a defensive specialist who is known more for stabilizing issues than rather developing talent or building something long term.
Spurs need to think bigger than Kovac. He is a manager who, even in his best period at Dortmund, was embarrassed by Spurs and Thomas Frank in the Champions League in the North London giant's worst period.