A year has passed -a year, in addition, one of the most complicated in the world of football remembered-, since Mourinho landed at the New White Hart Lane to try to rescue the ship from the spurs at the bottom of the sea. There, in 14th place in the Premier League and with just 12 points out of 42 possible, was a Tottenham who had seen how the project of a Pochettino that is the history of the club was traumatically exhausted. Now 365 days later the North London team ranks second, and has even momentarily become the leader, something that had not happened since 2014. Optimism returns and the best Mourinho returns just before the match of this Saturday against Manchester City in which Guardiola will be measured again.
He, in fact, needed it, and surely could not identify more with another club than with Tottenham. Both arrived with wounded credibility, with the collective judgment that perhaps their best moments had already passed, and both seem to have joined forces to prove otherwise. Since ‘Mou’ arrived, for example, the team has played 32 Premier League matches and has been able to score 56 points, that is, 16 wins, 8 draws and 8 losses. By comparison, it is practically the same as Manchester United, a little more than Arsenal and Chelsea and infinitely less than Manchester City (67 points) and especially Liverpool (78 points).
Among the great achievements of the Portuguese there, who warned on the day of his presentation that he was going to sleep “with Tottenham pajamas on”, is that of carry out the renewal of the staff that ‘Poche’ could not do and the recovery, emotional and sports, of a Harry Kane that he ran the risk of becoming frustrated after the most important injury of his life so far and that he even threatened to leave.
Now, it seems that he could be between eyebrows and become the top scorer in the history of the Spurs, something for which he needs 65 more goals, but, at 27 years, he has plenty of time to get it. “He's a young boy, of course he's going to get it. It is only a matter of time ”, said Mou in statements to Sky Sports, where he has also appreciated the fact that they doubted that he could get the best of Kane. “It is something that never worried me, I knew about the quality of the player and the style of play that I wanted to practice. Both my team and I knew that Harry was not going to have any problems. with our style, so it was never a concern. “