Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou's days are numbered at the club, because the results in the Premier League have been so poor that there's a pervasive belief among journalists covering the league that even a Europa League triumph won't be enough for Big Ange to save his job.
For the most part, Tottenham are focused on managers within the Premier League who have achieved greater success than Spurs this season at clubs with smaller budgets. Fulham's Marco Silva, Bournemouth's Andoni Iraola, Brentford's Thomas Frank, and FA Cup winner Oliver Glasner of Crystal Palace are all high-profile manager targets for Spurs.
But there have been coaches outside of the Premier League generating interest, too. Tottenham have been linked with Scott Parker and even Dortmund's Niko Kovac, who rescued BVB from missing out on the Champions League. These options are largely underwhelming, but there is one new name worth thinking about who isn't obviously linked to Spurs.
Tottenham can't just focus on the biggest names
On Saturday, Lens manager Will Still made it official and stepped down as manager of the overperforming Ligue 1 club, per Fabrizio Romano, in order to be closer to his partner who has a serious medical illness. Still is expected to take a job in England, and Southampton, set to be relegated from the Premier League, have reportedly held talks with the 32-year-old coach.
Although Tottenham should be prioritizing big names with experienced track records who can right the ship, it's not really realistic for Spurs to do that. Of the available managers with links to Tottenham, Glasner is the only one with a clear record of top-level success as a Europa League winner with Eintracht Frankfurt and an FA Cup winner with Palace, but he's hardly proven at the absolute top level; his resume isn't all that much more convincing than Kovac's.
But resume isn't everything. Ideas and results compared to situation are. Still was exceptional at Reims and Lens, somehow improving Lens's results in the 2024/25 season despite the fact that they sold four of their most important players, including phenom center backs Kevin Danso (to Tottenham) and Abdukodir Khusanov (to Manchester City).
Still shouldn't necessarily jump the line as an immediate favorite for the Tottenham job, but Spurs should at least consider him an option, given what he has done in Ligue 1 for two clubs in getting them to outperform expectations. Perhaps he's ready for a step up from Lens to Spurs, like Danso, rather than an arguable major step down to Southampton. It's hard to argue that Still isn't a better manager candidate for Spurs than Scott Parker, after all.