Tottenham narrow down search for new director of football with one known as a 'big operator'

Tottenham are beginning to narrow down the field when it comes to appointing their new director of football.

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy is simultaneously running the club's search for a new head coach as well as the director of football, with a desire to pick a candidate for each position with similar values and football beliefs. In an ideal world, the director of football would arrive first in order to help and advise on the final stages of the move for the head coach.

Tottenham are understood to have narrowed down the field when it comes to the hunt for their new director of football with Roma's Tiago Pinto and ex-Bayer Leverkusen sporting director Tim Steidten among the candidates at this stage.