{"id":10993,"date":"2021-11-01T16:24:48","date_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=163599"},"modified":"2021-11-01T16:24:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T10:54:48","slug":"tottenham-hotspur-sacks-nuno-espirito-santo-following-a-humiliating-defeat-against-manchester-united","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/football\/tottenham-hotspur-sacks-nuno-espirito-santo-following-a-humiliating-defeat-against-manchester-united\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur sacks Nuno Espirito Santo following a humiliating defeat against Manchester United"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following an abysmal home loss against Manchester United on Saturday, the Tottenham Hotspur management released a statement on Monday that they have relieved Nuno Santo. According to Skysports, the statement from Spurs said: \u201cThe club has announced that Nuno Espirito Santo and his coaching staff of Ian Cathro, Rui Barbosa and Antonio Dias have been relieved of their duties.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Official. Nuno Espirito Santo has been sacked by Tottenham board. It\u2019s over for the Portuguese manager after defeat with Man Utd. \u26aa\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THFC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Spurs?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Spurs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Club can today announce that Nuno and his coaching staff Cathro, Barbosa and Dias have been relieved of their duties\u201d. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Nuno?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Nuno<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9j0YAToWvC\">pic.twitter.com\/9j0YAToWvC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1455110536283185152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Nuno, who had been in charge of the Wolves for four years, joined Tottenham in June after signing a 2-year contract. He was sacked after Spurs showed a sudden decline in their form and efficiency. Their players were so lacking in the past few matches, the even the fans started booing their manager when he replaced Lucas Moura on Sunday with Steven Bergwijn. Their game was called out as out and out boring in the last game by Roy Keane as they failed to hit even a shot on target, let alone score a goal. \u201cSpurs are boring,\u201d Kean said on Sky Sports, \u201cthey are boring to watch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Even their star striker Harry Kane has been on the receiving end of the criticism for the degraded performance of their team. Critics even believe that the reason behind Kane\u2019s depleted form is the declined summer transfer which the English Striker wanted badly. \u00a0The last year\u2019s Golden boot winner has only 1 goal to his name.<\/p>\n<p>Fabrizio Romano has put up a statement on Twitter, that the Tottenham Clubs is already in contact with Italian coach Antonio Conte to take up the job at the London-based club. Noticeably, Conte has previously won the Premier League with another London-based club in the form of Chelsea in the 2016-17 season.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Antonio Conte is ready to accept Tottenham proposal. Talks underway and understood to be \u2018at final stages\u2019 \u2013 salary and long term contract discussed but he seems convinced to say \u2018yes\u2019. \u26aa\ufe0f\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf9 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THFC<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Negotiations to continue in the next few hours in order to complete the agreement. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/quih3onc7z\">pic.twitter.com\/quih3onc7z<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Fabrizio Romano (@FabrizioRomano) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FabrizioRomano\/status\/1455117390900088841?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 1, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fabrizio Romano has put up a statement on Twitter, that the Tottenham Clubs is already in contact with Italian coach Antonio Conte to take up the job at the London-based club.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":215,"featured_media":33469,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[571,1823,249,218,1162,998],"class_list":["post-10993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","tag-antonio-conte","tag-fabrizio-romano","tag-manchester-united","tag-premier-league","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-wolves"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/215"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}