"We are delighted to announce the appointment of Scott Munn as Chief Football Officer. Scott will be joining the Club’s Board and will take charge of all footballing departments.
As referenced in the Chairman’s statement (Financial Results 2021/22 - 10 February 2023) there has been an ongoing review over the past six months of all of our footballing activities. Changes have been made and further improvements continue to ensure future progress and competitiveness.
Scott, former City Football Group Executive, has extensive experience within sporting organisations having started his career with the Sydney Organising Committee for the 2000 Olympic Games and then transitioning into the National Rugby League, before joining the Australia Football League. Scott joined Melbourne City FC as Chief Executive Officer in 2010. In 2019 he was appointed Chief Executive Officer of City Football Group China.
Daniel Levy, Chairman: “Scott has a unique and broad experience of running sporting organisations at the highest level and will take responsibility for the leadership and management of our football activities to instil best practice both on and off the pitch."
https://www.tottenhamhotspur.com/news/2023/april/club-appoints-chief-football-officer/
@David_Ornstein
🚨 EXCL: Tottenham to appoint Scott Munn as chief football officer. Australian was CEO of City Football Group China. Not related to Fabio Paratici situation - if Paratici returns, he (+ academy, women’s etc) will report into Munn @TheAthleticFC #THFC #MCFC
https://twitter.com/David_Ornstein/status/1644315535021072384?t=XsIpqURXmTEbWTeF3f48eA&s=19
Suggests to me that Levy is taking a further step back from the footballing side of things, having already surrendered some power to Paratici. I suspect this makes it less likely that Paratici will be replaced with a new DoF being brought in. Rather, Munn and Performance Managers Andy Scoulding and Grètar Steinsson will probably take the reigns imo.
Interesting appointment regardless though.
Scott Munn Appointed Chief Football Officer
posted on 7/4/23
I've been Levy out for a while now but this is realistically as close as we're going to get without ENIC selling up. Gotta be happy. Of course he needs to not be chit, and he's not worked in Europe before so I'd say it's a bit of a risky appointment, but a Paratici replacement he ain't.
posted on 7/4/23
Hiring an Aussie is abit weird. Wonder if he has worked with Ange before?
posted on 7/4/23
Levy deciding to take more and more of a backseat can only be good for the club. It's about the only good decision he's capable of making.
posted on 7/4/23
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 17 minutes ago
Levy deciding to take more and more of a backseat can only be good for the club. It's about the only good decision he's capable of making.
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Only if the new guy is any good. Paratici came in and fecked the club from top to bottom so I've no real faith that this appointment will be any different. After all, Levy chose him.
posted on 7/4/23
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 17 minutes ago
Levy deciding to take more and more of a backseat can only be good for the club. It's about the only good decision he's capable of making.
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Only if the new guy is any good. Paratici came in and fecked the club from top to bottom so I've no real faith that this appointment will be any different. After all, Levy chose him.
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Think that’s harsh on Paratici - his managerial appointments were schitt but he has bought some good players - compare to Hitchen
posted on 8/4/23
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 17 minutes ago
Levy deciding to take more and more of a backseat can only be good for the club. It's about the only good decision he's capable of making.
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Only if the new guy is any good. Paratici came in and fecked the club from top to bottom so I've no real faith that this appointment will be any different. After all, Levy chose him.
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Think that’s harsh on Paratici - his managerial appointments were schitt but he has bought some good players - compare to Hitchen
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Not for me. He's spent a lot of money compared to most in the past. For me only Romero, Kulu and Bentancur can be considered a success and for the total price of those three, which was about £110m, I'd expect them to work out. He bought Gil for big money and practically gave him back to the same club, he spent big money on a striker that's yet to score in the Prem, he bought not one, not two, but three right wing backs, one of which, despite a slight upsurge in performance, has been woeful for two seasons now, another who didn't get a game, and I hope to god the new one works out. We had to lose Doherty for nothing on account of Paratici's error counting the amount of players permitted for loan.
As far as I'm concerned he's been an absolute joke. He's lined up some terrible managers, committed fraudulent crimes in his own country and deliberately overpaid his old club to do them a favour (using our money), suggesting he would have continued the pattern of using underhand financial tactics to the detriment of his current employer and to be honest, as far as I'm concerned his transfer record is no better than any of the previous Sporting Director's we've had. If anything he's been the worst given the money he's spent.
Comparisons with Hitchen are unfair. He was chief scout at Spurs, not Sporting Director.
posted on 8/4/23
Yay
posted on 8/4/23
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posted on 8/4/23
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 5 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by Striketeam7 - the smartest person you know - Bronze medal khunt 2022 - Buy..Bellingham and another mid 20s Thiago type...lets just call him "frank" (U18109)
posted 5 hours, 20 minutes ago
comment by fridgeboy (U1053)
posted 1 hour, 9 minutes ago
comment by Spurtle (U1608)
posted 17 minutes ago
Levy deciding to take more and more of a backseat can only be good for the club. It's about the only good decision he's capable of making.
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Only if the new guy is any good. Paratici came in and fecked the club from top to bottom so I've no real faith that this appointment will be any different. After all, Levy chose him.
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Think that’s harsh on Paratici - his managerial appointments were schitt but he has bought some good players - compare to Hitchen
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Not for me. He's spent a lot of money compared to most in the past. For me only Romero, Kulu and Bentancur can be considered a success and for the total price of those three, which was about £110m, I'd expect them to work out. He bought Gil for big money and practically gave him back to the same club, he spent big money on a striker that's yet to score in the Prem, he bought not one, not two, but three right wing backs, one of which, despite a slight upsurge in performance, has been woeful for two seasons now, another who didn't get a game, and I hope to god the new one works out. We had to lose Doherty for nothing on account of Paratici's error counting the amount of players permitted for loan.
As far as I'm concerned he's been an absolute joke. He's lined up some terrible managers, committed fraudulent crimes in his own country and deliberately overpaid his old club to do them a favour (using our money), suggesting he would have continued the pattern of using underhand financial tactics to the detriment of his current employer and to be honest, as far as I'm concerned his transfer record is no better than any of the previous Sporting Director's we've had. If anything he's been the worst given the money he's spent.
Comparisons with Hitchen are unfair. He was chief scout at Spurs, not Sporting Director.
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Paratici should never of been hired at spurs. Investigations were underway before he joined and many people warned of what may come.
Levy had a boner for him and chose to ignore everything and hire him
Another example of megalomaniacal incompetence that continues to hurt our club.
posted on 8/4/23
Good move by Spurs this.
The structure of the off field football setup is critical, and you need football or sport people in these key positions.
As it was Paraticci reported to Levy and he was the ultimate voice. Now Munn will sit on the board and advise so we nownhave a high level voice who is more than a businessman who has oversight over all things football.
This exercise has been underway for quite a while and for those Levy haters you should be delighted that there is more expertise coming into the club and advising the ultimate decision makers who are the businessmen of the club.
Note though, this is a sporting appointment, not a financial one .