Jose Mourinho has been sacked as Tottenham coach after 17 months in charge of the London club.
According to reports, Ryan Mason and Chris Powell will be in temporary charge until a new permanent manager is appointed.
It was gathered that Tottenham have begun the process of appointing a new coach.
Mourinho was sacked less than a week to the Carabao Cup final between Tottenham and Manchester City on Sunday.
He replaced Mauricio Pochettino in the club in November 2019, signing a deal expected to end in 2023.
Last season, Tottenham finished sixth as against their previous 14th position in the Premier League.
The club also qualified for Europa League but were knocked out of the Champions League by RB Leipzig at the last-16 stage.
This season, the club embarrassingly crashed out of Europa League at the last-16 stage following defeat to Dinamo Zagreb.
Spurs are currently in the seventh position in the EPL table, needing five points to move to the Champions League spot.
Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy, said, “Jose and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club.
“Jose is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic.
“On a personal level, I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both had envisaged.
“He will always be welcome here and we should like to thank him and his coaching staff for their contribution.”
Leipzig boss Julian Nagelsmann is the bookmakers’ favourite to replace Mourinho, while Leicester manager Brendan Rodgers is also a contender, according to AFP.
Nagelsmann has also been linked with Bayern Munich, who are set to lose boss Hansi Flick in a move that could have persuaded Tottenham to act on Mourinho now rather than wait until the end of the season.
The former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United boss was appointed by Tottenham in November 2019, less than 12 hours after Mauricio Pochettino had been dismissed.
But unlike Pochettino, who led Tottenham to the 2019 Champions League final and regularly finished in the top four, Mourinho was unable to spark a response from his squad.
Tottenham finished sixth last season and went out of the Champions League in the last 16.
Amid reports of player discontent with Mourinho’s conservative tactics and boring training sessions, the Portuguese coach had been losing his grip on the job for several weeks.
He had a public spat with on-loan Real Madrid star Gareth Bale about his fitness for an FA Cup defeat at Everton and claimed Toby Alderweireld was absent from the squad due to a late return from the international break when the Belgian was actually pictured at the training ground.
With Tottenham unlikely to qualify for the Champions League, there are also fears star striker Harry Kane will ask to leave in the close-season.
Only during his spell at Portuguese club Leiria has Mourinho posted a lower win ratio in all competitions (45 percent) in his managerial career than he did with Tottenham (51 percent).
Tottenham dropped 20 points from winning positions and blew a 2-0 first leg lead against Dinamo in the Europa League.
For the first time, Mourinho suffered 10 league defeats in a single season.
Having branded himself the ‘Special One’ after winning the 2004 Champions League with Porto, Mourinho won the Premier League title three times in two spells with Chelsea.
He also led Inter Milan to Champions League glory in 2010 and won La Liga with Real Madrid.
But his second spell at Chelsea ended in acrimony in 2015 when he was sacked after losing the support of key players.
A two-year spell in charge at Manchester United brought Europa League and League Cup glory, but again Mourinho’s failure to keep his stars happy led to his sacking in 2018.
Mourinho’s last game with Tottenham was a frustrating 2-2 draw at Everton on Friday that extended the team’s winless run to three matches and prompted the axe to fall.
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