Daniel Levy Blocked Manager's Arrival at Tottenham - Didn't Want a Dutchman or Dane

How Levy stopped Morten Olsen joining Tottenham in 2004

Frank Arnesen has revealed that Daniel Levy blocked him from appointing Danish coach Morten Olsen as Tottenham manager in 2004, with the then-chairman refusing to hire a coach from Denmark or the Netherlands due to concerns about the optics of Arnesen choosing someone from a country he had personal ties to. Arnesen, who has detailed the story in his book ‘Total football’, was Tottenham’s sporting director at the time and had identified Olsen as …

Daniel Levy blocked manager's arrival at Tottenham - Didn't want a Dutchman or Dane

Daniel Levy once blocked Danish coach Morten Olsen from becoming Tottenham Hotspur manager, as he didn’t want a Dane or Dutch coach at the time. Ekstra Bladet report comments from Frank Arnesen today regarding the sliding doors moment back in 2004. Tottenham interest The newspaper explains that Morten Olsen was a hot name back in European football at the time, having guided Denmark to the World Cup in 2002 and then the European Championship in 2…