Nuno Espirito Santo announced as new Tottenham head coach

Tottenham Hotspur has confirmed the appointment of Portuguese Nuno Esprito Santo as the new head coach of the side ahead of the 2021/22 football season.

Nuno Santo comes in as a replacement for outspoken gaffer José Mourinho, who was sacked in December last year.

The former Wolves manager penned down a two-year deal.

“When you have a squad with quality and talent, we want to make the fans proud and enjoy,” he told the club’s official website.

“It’s an enormous pleasure and honour, there’s joy and I’m happy and looking forward to starting work. We don’t have any days to lose and we must start working immediately as pre-season starts in a few days.”

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy added: “We should like to thank our supporters for all their patience throughout this process.

“I’ve spoken already about the need to revert back to our core DNA of playing attacking, entertaining football and Fabio and I believe Nuno is the man who can take our talented group of players, embrace our young players coming through and build something special.”

Nuno arrives following the appointment of former Juventus boss Fabio Paratici after their new managing director of football, to oversee transfers as well as playing a role in Nuno’s appointment.

Paratici said: “The brief for this appointment has always been clear, we wanted a head coach that can instil all the values that are important to this club.

“You only have to look at Nuno’s time at Wolves to see his ability to take a group of players and implement an adaptive style that brings success and allows players to develop and thrive. We are all looking forward to getting started in what we hope will be a successful time with the club.”

His previous stint in England was with Wolves, where he spent four years guiding them back to the Premier League and even to the Europa League quarter-finals in 2020.