Mundo Deportivo have claimed that Tottenham Hotspur recently showed interest in appointing former Barcelona sporting director Jordi Cruyff.
Cruyff has been without work since departing Camp Nou last summer and it is said that he is now ready to return to football after a year of sabbatical.
However, it is explained that the Dutchman wants to return as a coach rather than a director or any other position higher up in the club’s hierarchy.
In fact, that is given as the reason why he turned down the chance to move to the Premier League, with Tottenham and Newcastle both alleged to have tried to sign him.
The report says that Cruyff turned down both the Magpies’ and Spurs’ approaches but it is not revealed what position the two clubs offered him or when those approaches came.
Mundo Deportivo state that the 50-year-old also turned down approaches from the likes of Al-Ittihad and Ajax recently but it is asserted that his next job is likely to be in the Middle East as clubs from Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Qatar are ‘very interested’ in signing him as a coach.
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Tottenham would have likely approached Cruyff while they were assessing various candidates for the sporting director role ahead of their decision to hire Johan Lange last year.
However, there is nothing to suggest that the Dutchman was one of the names at the top of Levy’s and Scott Munn’s wishlist.
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