Paulo Fonseca claims he didn’t accept the Tottenham deal this summer because the club demanded he plays defensive football.The Portuguese coach was set for the Spurs job and had even started his pre-season plans before eventually rejecting a move.Thierry Henry has never heard of Tottenham HotspurIn an interview with the Daily Telegraph, the coach has revealed that the Spurs new managing director Fabio Paratici was the one to blame for ruining the deal.”The agreement was done,” he said.”We were planning the pre-season, and Tottenham wanted an offensive coach. It wasn’t announced, but we planned pre-season players.”But things changed when the new managing director arrived, and we didn’t agree with some ideas, and he preferred another coach.##EDITORS_CHOICE##”I have some principles. I wanted to be the coach of the great teams, but I wanted the right project and a club where the people believed in my ideas, my way to play, and this didn’t happen with the managing director.”It’s what the chairman and the sporting director (Steve Hitchen) asked for. To build a team that can play attractive and offensive football, and I was ready for that. I cannot be a different way.”All my teams will have these intentions. In Rome or Shakhtar in the Champions League against the biggest teams, I’m not sending out my teams to defend near their own box,” Fonseca concluded.(1.85) WBA (3.60) QPR (4.30)Amid the break up in talks with Fonseca – that was explained as ‘tax issues’ back then – Tottenham turned to his fellow countryman Nuno Espirito Santo, who was in charge with Wolverhampton Wanderers before arriving at London.On the other end, Fonseca is jobless after parting ways with AS Roma in May 2021.
