Did Spurs Get the Wrong Man from Sevilla?

Six games in to the season and Spurs boss Juande Ramos is under pressure. When Tottenham went looking to replace Martin Jol last season, Sevilla were doing well (they’d just won the UEFA Cup) and Juande Ramos looked like the perfect man for the job. The man who could bring some of that Seville magic to North London. And – depending on how you feel about the Carling Cup – he did, for a while.

But now Spurs are stuck to the bottom of the Premier League while Sevilla are doing just fine without him, still unbeaten after five games in La Liga. Ironically the Spanish team are in fourth place, which is exactly where Spurs wanted to be this season. So is it possible that Spurs got the wrong man from Sevilla?

The current head coach at Sevilla is Manuel Jiménez Jiménez, a guy who’s only previous experience was coaching the reserve team. But if you look a little higher in the Sevilla hierarchy you’ll find Sporting Director Ramon Rodriguez.

Rodriguez (left) seems to be the real architect of the current Sevilla team. It was under his (literal) direction that Seville signed players like Dani Alves for ridiculous bargain prices (£500,000 according to this) and brought the likes of José Antonio Reyes and Sergio Ramos through the youth system.

There’s already been plenty of talk from Spurs fans that the club should have hired Rodriguez to replace the none-too-popular Damien Comolli, and reformed the Ramos-Rodriguez dream team. But given Sevilla’s success so far this season, seems maybe Spurs should have offered the big money deal to Rodriguez instead of Ramos.

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Category: English Premier League, World Football