The latest step in Tottenham Hotspur’s evolving football operations was to confirm last week that Scott Munn will be joining in a new chief football officer role.
Munn, who until accepting the Spurs job was the chief executive of City Football Group (CFG) China, will join the Tottenham board and take charge of all footballing departments on July 1, including the academy and the women’s team. He will effectively be Levy’s No 2, his “eyes and ears”, and will have managing director of football Fabio Paratici reporting into him should the Italian’s ban from all footballing activities by FIFA be overturned.
It’s a significant hire that, coupled with Paratici’s appointment in 2021, sees Levy taking much more of a backseat when it comes to Tottenham’s football operations.
For those reading and asking “Scott who?”, you’re not alone in reacting to the appointment with scepticism. Eyebrows were certainly raised by some in high-level football circles on Friday given that the Australian Munn has never worked in Europe and the scale of the job facing him. Spurs currently have no permanent men’s or women’s first-team head coach, their director of football is banned, and their talismanic top-scorer Harry Kane will enter the final year of his contract on Munn’s…
