Tottenham are looking in all the wrong places for their next manager | OneFootball

At this point, it is incredibly difficult to envision Ange Postecoglou coming back for the 2025/26 season as the Tottenham manager. He's lost a lot of goodwill around the park and the dressing room with his antics, particularly recently when it's become obvious that Spurs aren't going anywhere besides the basement in the Premier League.

Tottenham could still salvage Champions League football next season by winning the Europa League, but even that doesn't seem like it will be enough for Postecoglou to save his job at Spurs. And so the search for a new manager has already begun in earnest, though you wouldn't think it based on some of the names recently linked to the club.

Current Premier League standout coaches like Thomas Frank and Marco Silva make sense for Tottenham, but, now, we're getting some more bizarre candidates. Burnley coach Scott Parker is one puzzling recent link, and now BILD's Yannick Huber reports that Tottenham have enquired after Borussia Dortmund manager Niko Kovac as a possible Ange Postecoglou replacement.

Niko Kovac can't build sustainable success for Tottenham

While Kovac helped Eintracht Frankfurt win the DFB Pokal many years ago, he got his big break immediately after and nearly ran Bayern Munich into the ground. He barely lasted long at mid-level jobs with Monaco and Wolfsburg before taking on this gig with Dortmund, where he was just hired a few months ago.

Granted, Kovac has done a good job to start with at Dortmund, but that was also the case at Wolfsburg and Monaco before he rubbed everyone the wrong way and got canned. Kovac has never proven he can be more than a mid-table coach, and his Draconian coaching style seems to quickly wear out its welcome.

If anything, Kovac is a short-term hire who can bring discipline to a talented team that needs it (Frankfurt and Dortmund come to mind), but you can never build something long-term with him, nor has he proven he can manage a high-profile club or take a club to heights greater than a cup win or the Europa League.

On no level does Kovac make sense as a potential hire for Tottenham, and he is, at best, a lateral move from Postecoglou and potentially worse. Because at least Big Ange's first season at Spurs was pretty good, and it's significantly better than what Kovac did for Bayern, which is the closest gig in size and ambition to what Spurs are hoping to achieve in the Premier League.