Jamie Carragher has expressed extreme reservations over Tottenham looking at current Burnley manager Vincent Kompany for the vacant head coach role. Spurs have already dismissed two bodies in charge, first sacking Antonio Conte before letting his assistant Cristian Stellini go after just four weeks.
With any hopes of the top four hanging by a thread Daniel Levy and owners ENIC Group have come in for major scrutiny, attention and protest from within the fanbase. They are also facing a summer that could see all-time record scorer Harry Kane leave as well.
Ryan Mason is currently in charge at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium but outside candidates are also being looked at by the club with the next appointment set to be key for the short and long-term future. Kompany, who has just achieved promotion with Burnley, is highly rated.
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The former Manchester City defender has taken the shell of Sean Dyche's side and bounced straight back into the top flight, attracting interest from some of Europe's top clubs including Chelsea. Spurs have a run at the Belgian if they want, though, with the Blues closing in on Mauricio Pochettino.
Carragher has a word of caution for Levy, explaining that getting the fit is more important than a big name in the dugout. "This talk about Tottenham's type of manager, the managers you've managed that ruined their reputation, I was talking about before them not being the right fit for how they play football but Tottenham have got to look at Liverpool and Arsenal and how they've gone about challenging," he said on The Overlap.
"Those teams have sort of been built through [Jurgen] Klopp, year on year getting better. Arsenal under [Mikel] Arteta four or five years. Think about what [Mauricio] Pochettino did. Jose Mourinho and [Antonio] Conte have to win right now. Tottenham are not a club who can win right now, it's got to be a building process where they get closer each year.
"When you talk about what type of manager they need, there's talk about Vincent Kompany and whether he could be that man, who knows, he might go on to be a great manager but I think it's far too early for him in terms of talking like this."
Kompany is only into his third year of management having taken over at Anderlecht in Belgium. His rebuilding job in the north has seen him rise to prominence as a coach already, though. It is something that Carragher can see going wrong for the 37-year-old.
"The reason I say that, there's two managers, Steven Gerrard and Frank Lampard, who are two of the best players we've seen in the Premier League era," he explained. "Kompany is the same, there's almost this rush, I know [Pep] Guardiola goes against the grain, I get that, there's a rush to get the top players into the top jobs.
"I don't know if it would be too early for Kompany at Tottenham but what's this rush, let him build his CV, his experience, his ups and down. It didn't go that well for him in Belgium let's be honest. I just think for managers there's no rush to get these big-name footballers in at the top.
"Once it doesn't go well there, where do you go from there? The building process for a manager is to eventually be there competing for trophies, the Champions League. I think we've got to be careful with these top players and being desperate as the media, as a fanbase, saying 'we want this manager in there.'
"I think it'd be far too early for Kompany."
Reports have said that Kompany is the man Spurs are most set on despite the availability of Julian Nagelsmann. The German is open for talks but Kompany is the man more closely linked to the vacancy.
"I don't waste answers on my future," he said after sealing the Championship victory last week. "I said it on day one of my job here at Burnley, that one day in anticipation that there might be a question like this so crack on.
"I am focusing on Reading and the next games." He added: "I know the question but what can I say? Am I going to say I am not happy? "We are 14 points clear at the top of the Championship, so we are all right.
"The key part is always be happy, never satisfied." Kompany went on to speak about life at Burnley and what has made them such a formidable outfit this season and, for him, an 'enviable' place to work.
"This is something that is the reason why I chose Burnley, I said it again and you can trace back to my very first interviews before I even played a game with this team," he said. "I chose for people and I feel that I made the right decision and it is an enviable place to work in, trust me, especially when we are speaking about managers getting sacked left, right and centre.
"We have got the infrastructure and talent, it is an enjoyable place to work in. "I think wherever I am, in my head it is always the biggest job in the world."
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