Tottenham appoint two assistant coaches to replace Chris Davies

Ange Postecoglou’s coaching staff at Tottenham Hotspur will welcome two new additions this summer. A few weeks after Big Ange’s top assistant Chris Davies left the team to become the new head coach at Birmingham City, Australian magazine FTBL revealed that Tottenham will hire Nick Montgomery as their new assistant. The report has since been confirmed by Jack Pitt-Brooke in The Athletic, who also mentioned the appointment of Sergio Raimundo.

Montgomery, 42, was born in Leeds but has coached all over the place. As a player he had a long career with Sheffield United before eventually finishing his career in Australia. As a coach he won the A-League with the Central Coast Mariners in 2022/23 and was sacked by Hibernian FC in the Scottish Premier League in May after a year at the helm, finishing in the bottom half of the league. FTBL paints a picture of “a lot of turmoil and broken promises from club owners on player recruitment”, which, you know, sounds pretty toxic. There’s a feeling this is probably another stepping stone to another head coaching job for Montgomery, but Ange doesn’t seem to care and he even encourages such things.

I don’t know much about Raimundo – just that he was Montgomery’s top assistant at Central Coast Mariners and Hibs and, if confirmed, would join Ange’s team. Hopefully he knows how to coach set pieces? That would be cool.

As JPB mentions, this doesn’t appear to be a direct replacement for Davies, and we don’t yet know who will take on the role of “senior associate head coach.” Perhaps that’s Ryan Mason, who has been groomed for a future head coaching position somewhere. We’ll no doubt find out soon.