Following the sack of Portuguese manager, Jose Mourinho, Tottenham Hotspur have appointed a 29-year-old Ryan Mason coach to oversee proceedings in at the club until the end of the season.
Ex-Manager Jose Mourinho was sacked on Monday after less than 17 months in charge, six days before the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City.
New interim boss, Mason, is a former Spurs, and Hull midfielder, who was forced to retire from playing in 2018, steps up from his role as head of player development at the club.
Chris Powell and Nigel Gibbs will assist him, while Ledley King stays on as a first-team coach and former goalkeeper Michel Vorm return to the club as a goalkeeping coach.
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Mason’s first game in charge is a Premier League match with Southampton on Wednesday, before leading his boyhood club out at Wembley on Sunday in the Carabao Cup final
Spurs chairman Daniel Levy said: ‘We have great belief in this squad of talented players.
‘We have a cup final and six Premier League games ahead of us and we shall now focus all our energies on achieving a strong finish to the season.’
After joining the club as an eight-year-old, Mason played 70 times for Tottenham between 2008 and 2016 before moving to Hull.
However, just six months into his stay at the Tigers he suffered a fractured skull that eventually forced him to retire 12 months later.
He returned to Spurs soon after in a coaching capacity and was named as the club’s head of player development in the summer of 2019.
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