Welcome to our live rolling coverage of the breaking news that Tottenham have sacked Jose Mourinho. Mourinho has been relieved on his duties by Daniel Levy just six days before Tottenham face Manchester City in the Carabao Cup Final, and the morning after Spurs sensationally announced they are among the 12 founding members of a new European Super League. Mourinho succeeded Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs manager in November 2019 and was tasked with taking the club to the next level.
Arsenal chief executive Vinai Venkatesham will meet with the club’s players on Monday to explain plans for the Gunners to join a new European Super League. It was revealed on Sunday that the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - would join six other teams - AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid - in forming a new midweek competition.
The 29-year-old, who lost to Ronnie O’Sullivan in the delayed 2020 final, trails had been 5-1 down.
By the end, Mourinho’s Spurs were a shell of a side, devoid of belief, structure, energy and entirely reliant on Kane
The Portuguese won three Premier League titles in two spells with Chelsea but could not deliver any trophies for Tottenham.
The German boss becomes the first Premier League manager to face a full press conference since news broke of the breakaway competition’s launch
Everything you need to know ahead of the game
Everything you need to know ahead of the game
Everything you need to know ahead of the game
Everything you need to know ahead of the game
Saints travel to Spurs on Wednesday night.
Six English clubs, as well as three from Italy and three from Spain, have agreed to form a rival competition to the Champions League.
Glenn Hoddle has accused the owners of the Premier League’s ‘Big Six’ of disregarding “the history and traditions of football” and said their plans are “only about greed”. As plans to launch a European Super League were met with a huge backlash, Hoddle said the rebel clubs are “trying to get blood out of a stone” by forming a new tournament. “It is only about greed, it is only about money,” said Hoddle in his Standard Sport column and on the Glenn Hoddle Footy Show podcast.
Despite universal criticism clubs remain ‘100% committed’ to breaking away to form a new competition in what - in a very real sense - amounts to the end of football as we know it
Six English clubs are part of the proposed breakaway competition.
English champions are one of six Premier League clubs set to be involved in the breakaway competition
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The real voices which matter could yet turn out to be those asked to play in the new competition
Supporters groups from every Premier League club announced as a founder member of the new European Super League have strongly spoken out against the controversial plans. It was announced on Sunday night that the Premier League’s ‘big six’ - Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Tottenham - intended to join a new midweek competition, along with AC Milan, Atletico Madrid, Barcelona, Inter Milan, Juventus and Real Madrid.
Bayern like to be in control and did not like Flick wresting it from them. Hansi Flick is a players’ man and that meant his tenure at the club could not last longer than 18 exhilarating months