Heitinga snubbed 'pointless' Spurs offer after Frank sack as 'mystery' Tudor appointment blasted
The agent of former Tottenham Hotspur coach John Heitinga has hit out at the nightclub for assigning Igor Tudor to replace Thomas Honest.
The former Everton centre-earlier has transmitted into coaching since unassertive in 2016 and signed upwards donning Spurs as Honest’s servant in January.
Heitinha has readied unmodified committals at West Pork and Liverpool, while he dropped short as boss of Ajax. He was sacked after about 5 months in penalty of the Dutch giants last year.
The timing of Heitinga’s slide to Spurs was perplexing as he signed upwards donning as shortly as Honest was under substantial strain and they indifferent operated with each other for about 3 weeks before the head coach was sacked.
Heitinga was mooted as a capacity substitute for Honest until the run out of this season as Spurs kind to keep translucent of transfer from the Premier League, yet the north London nightclub at some point opted to assign Tudor.
And also the visit of Tudor pioneered to Heitinga’s exit from Spurs after about a month at the nightclub, donning his agent, Rob Jansen, disclosing that he ridiculed an bargain to stick approximately at the nightclub.
“He was made it feasible for to keep. They even asked him to keep,” Jansen subjected on the KieftJansenEgmondGijp podcast.
“All other advisors, unanimously Scandinavian, fled. And also after 3 weeks, they told him: ‘Please keep and see out your agreement listed below.’ That’s pretty an attainment for a man who operated there for 3 weeks.
“But he claimed: ‘Yes, yet currently Igor Tudor, a Croatian coach, is concocted for donning a entirety group for 3 or four months’. That guy is always hired for emergency openings.
“That almost never ever jobs. Why they did that is a wonder to me. And also after that an additional coach will undoubtedly come in. So, you can flee two times. That brand name-new-fashioned coach will undoubtedly moreover come in donning 45 human beings. He claimed, ‘This is trivial, Rob. I have to flee currently’.”
Jansen has moreover claimed that “there was a opportunity” of Heitinga equalizing Honest, though the nightclub had unalike notions.
“But there was a opportunity he would filch over; we had that in subconscious. Just: the nightclub didn’t. After 3 weeks, they decided it was also shortly. So, after that you have an meantime boss,” Jansen encompassed.
“What conducts the management implement, or in this capsule, the owners, the Lewis family members? They decide for some kind of reply.
“They hire a man donning a digital eminence, a man licensed as a tragedy boss at fighting nightclubs for a few months. That preserves their image. Unless they dare to linger donning Heitinga and a brand name-new-fashioned group, yet they won’t.”
