Juande Ramos toca fondo con el Tottenham

Algunos diarios deportivos se hacen eco de la pésima situación en la que se encuentra el equipo inglés dirigido por quien fuera entrenador del Sevilla FC. El rotativo inglés The Sun arremete con duras críticas contra el técnico español acusándolo de ser el causante del peor arranque ligero del Spurs desde 1955. ¿Tanto ha cambiado este entrenador desde su marcha de Sevilla?

Por su interés, reproducimos parte del artículo que nos recomienda nuestro socio Rafael Morales, publicado por el International Herald Tribune acerca de Juan Ramos y su paso por el Sevilla: "A year ago, Tottenham secretively wined and dined Juande Ramos, enticing him to break his contract as coach to Sevilla. The supposedly clandestine approaches were all over the Spanish media, rendering Jol, the most successful coach Spurs had had during Levy's tenure, utterly undermined. Jol had to go because Tottenham want a place in the Premier League big four; he took them no higher than fifth. Today? Jol's new team, Hamburg, is on top of Germany's Bundesliga, while Tottenham is dead last in the Premiership. Spurs has gone six league games without a victory this season and won just three times in 18 English league games since February. Ramos bears some responsibility, but by no means all. His record showed him to be a wanderer, not highly successful until he joined Sevilla and led it to unprecedented success, both in Spain and in Europe. The style of Sevilla was just what the faithful at Tottenham demand - swift movement and stylish passing. As a declared lifelong Spurs fan, Levy knew what the customers craved, and made Ramos one of the highest salaried coaches in soccer, doubling his Spanish wages. This summer, Tottenham spent £77 million, or $138.8 million, on new players, but sold Robbie Keane to Liverpool and Dimitar Berbatov to Manchester United. It then nose-dived while Sevilla, under its former second-team coach Manolo Jiménez, regained momentum.
So maybe the answer was not to covet and steal the coach of another club. Maybe the virtue of Sevilla is in its structure under a streetwise lawyer president, José Maria del Nido, who has tied down his sporting director, Ramón Rodríguez, nicknamed "Monchi," until 2012. Monchi emerged from the reserve ranks as a Sevilla goalie to become the pivotal talent spotter, the general manager who could see in Brazil or in the youth of Seville embryonic talents to grow into the club's style of playing. If they were sold on, as some profitably were, to Real Madrid in particular, then Monchi, not the coach, found replacements. Del Niro negotiated the deals."