Comments made by Jose Mourinho earlier this year should get Tottenham fans excited by his appointment, as he highlighted the transfer assurances he wanted in his next post.
Since leaving Manchester United last year, Mourinho has made regular punditry appearances for BeIN Sports and Sky Sports, where he has not been afraid to take a swipe at United's hierarchy for not backing him in the transfer market.
The Portuguese boss identified that he had not received the same sort of backing at Old Trafford that Manchester City and Liverpool have given Pep Guardiola and Jurgen Klopp, which irritated him.
As a result, he made it clear that he would be seeking promises before engaging in talks regarding a new job - which suggests that he may have greater freedom at Spurs .
“I would love to go to a club and be in conditions to do what Jurgen and Pep did. If you look at the [Liverpool] team that started the game [against Barcelona], how many of them were there when Jurgen arrived? A couple," he told BeIN Sports earlier this year.
“And when Pep was not happy with the full-backs he had [at City in 2016-17] and in the [next] summer bought four full-backs that he liked. When he bought one goalkeeper like Claudio Bravo and was not happy with Claudio Bravo, the next season he bought Ederson.
“When Jurgen is in the club and wins absolutely nothing for three-and-a-half years and he still has the trust, still has the confidence, still has the conditions to try to keep going and going.
“Probably this season they have a big chance to do it – the first time that they win a trophy. In my next job I will not be starting a conversation without knowing exactly what the club wants and what the club has to give in terms of structure and the club objectives.”
