The Manchester United legend has been comparing situations at Tottenham and Celtic.
It might have gone awry for Celtic on Sunday - but Paul Scholes insists Tottenham could learn a thing or two from the Hoops’ managerial approach.
After Brendan Rodgers’ exit from Parkhead earlier this season, legendary ex-gaffer Martin O’Neill came into the dugout on an interim basis, then replacing Wilfried Nancy until the end of this Premiership season after his calamitous tenure ended. Dundee United defeated O’Neill’s men 2-0 on Sunday to leave them five points off the top but they have been dragged back into a serious title challenge under the Irishman’s guidance.
As Tottenham flirt with Premier League relegation under interim manager Igor Tudor, after the sacking of Thomas Frank, ex-bosses like Harry Redknapp and Tim Sherwood have been touted as Plan B alternatives. Manchester United legend Scholes, speaking on his The Good, The Bad & The Football podcast alongside ex-Red Devil Nicky Butt and presenter Paddy McGuiness, says an O’Neill type is needed at Tottenham.
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Scholes said: ”Don't you think they get what they deserve, Tottenham, for what they've done? Even sacking Thomas Frank, why do that? A manager who's got great experience in the Premier League. I don't think in a million years they go down if he's there. Then they bring someone in who's not got a clue about the Premier League.
“When you've got a man already there, he looks a good man, okay he was having a bit of a bad run. Now if you brought someone in with a bit more experience like you talk about your Harry Redknapp or a top Premier League manager in the past, but to change Thomas Frank for somebody who's, what they call, he's an interim manager. In Italy, in France, nowhere else.
“We don't know exactly how he’s went about it but it looks like he has a big stature. He looks like he's come in like b********* them all the time. They look like they needed more of a grandad type. I think Harry would definitely do it, I think he'd snap the hand off. Almost in the way Martin O'Neill went to Celtic now. I know he went a bit pear shaped yesterday (Sunday) but I think it'd be very similar to that.”
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Butt added: “You'd like to think that they thought about some sort of personalities loved by the Spurs fans to lift it, like Michael Carrick’s happened at Man United, and certain other interim managers at United as well.
“You've got to lift the crowd. That crowd is flat, and when that first goal went in you just knew they were going to get battered because everyone went boom, flat, here we go again. I don't get why they brought him. I agree with Scholes, you can't see the crowds screaming yes we've got one of ours here who knows what it's all about.”
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