Widely seen as the favourite to take over from Paulo Fonseca at AS Roma, Maurizio Sarri, like everyone else, will have been blindsided by the announcement that José Mourinho would be taking the job starting next season.
The Portuguese manager had only been sacked by Tottenham for a couple, and despite him saying it might be some time before we saw him in football again, ‘surprised everyone’, seemingly jumped into the first opportunity presented to him.
This has left Sarri free to choose another club, and he’s described by Gazzetta dello Sport as a ‘strong candidate’ for the Spurs bench.
If the former Chelsea manager does take the job presented to him by Daniel Levy, the newspaper think ‘it will be nice to be able to understand in a few months who will have made the right choice between Rome and Tottenham’.
They think ‘the Italian roads’, those leading to Italian managers, ‘were less popular’ with Roma’s owners, meaning the Portuguese always had the upper hand, and ‘the only certainty is that the enthusiasm that was unleashed for the arrival of the Special One would never have been ignited for Maurizio Sarri’.
Either way, one thing currently works in the ex-Napoli man, and that’s the fact he’s currently without a job, something the other named Spurs targets, such as Antonio Conte and Gian Piero, are not.
