Tottenham spent 72 days without a manager earlier this year, amid the surreal interregnum of Cristian Stellini and then the tenure of the interim to the interim, Ryan Mason, amongst talk of Julian Nagelsmann and Thomas Tuchel and Arne Slot and Luis Enrique and Xabi Alonso and Vincent Kompany and Ruben Amorim and Roberto De Zerbi.
And yet, the eventual appointment Ange Postecoglou has soon discovered, it is not the longest they have spent in limbo. A few weeks into his reign – or, perhaps more pertinently, after a few weeks of working for Daniel Levy – and the Australian has found that Spurs have spent the summer so far in a state of permanent uncertainty.
