Sweeping Tottenham changes continue as top man placed on gardening leave

Tottenham Hotspur's chief football officer Scott Munn has been placed on gardening leave, football.london understands.

The 51-year-old Australian joined Tottenham less than two years ago after some initial delays in his announced move from the City Football Group and was a key ally of Ange Postecoglou during his time at the club. However, when the head coach was sacked this month following the Europa League win in Bilbao, along with the arrival of a new chief executive officer in Vinai Venkatesham, Munn's time at the club looked to be heading towards its close.

football.london understands that while no official announcement has been made about him yet, Munn has now been placed on gardening leave by the north London club as the changes continue to take place at the top at Spurs.

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Along with Venkatesham's arrival, so Tottenham appointed a new head coach in Thomas Frank and it was announced that the club's executive director Donna-Maria Cullen, a long-time advisor to Daniel Levy, would be stepping down from the board and would be leaving the club this summer.

Former managing director of footballFabio Paratici is expected by staff within the club to return at some point this year. The Italian currently remains in a consultancy role with Spurs with a contract that lasts until the end of August and he is nearing the end of his ban from specific football activities. Paratici does remain part of a civil trial in Italy with others who used to be in the Juventus hierarchy over investigations into what took place at the Serie A club during his time there.

When Munn joined Tottenham back in 2023 in the newly-created chief football officer role, Levy said: "Scott has a unique and broad experience of running sporting organisations at the highest level and will take responsibility for the leadership and management of our football activities to instil best practice both on and off the pitch."

Now new head coach Frank will deal with Venkatesham, technical director Johan Lange and Levy. The Dane spoke last week about the club's current hierarchy.

"They've done a very, very good process. I would say Daniel Levy and Vinai and Johan Lange. I've had very good conversations and meetings with them, where we discussed everything in depth, details about club structure, processes, and of course I came with my view on things and how I saw it and my ideas and the way I want to do things and how I try to build a team and the club, and of course it's not, it's not just me," he said.

"I think it's very important to say, yes, the head coach is an important person, but if I don't have good people around me, it's impossible. You can't do anything alone in my opinion. If you want to do something quick, you can go alone, if you want to do something big or achieve something big, you go together. So it's definitely a thing about doing things together. Me, staff and players.

"I think the alignment is key from top to bottom, and of course it starts from Daniel and Vinai and Johan and me, and the more the four of us can be aligned, just like a unit and like unbreakable unit, the stronger we will be, and there will be ups and downs. I think right now it's a fairy tale. Everyone is happy. The sun is shining. It's fantastic, but we haven't played one game yet.

"Hopefully we win a lot. We'll work very hard every single day to make sure we create as many magic moments for the fans, and put them together and hopefully at the end of the season there will be a very good season, but the alignment in terms of structure, processes, transfers, squad, playing style, culture, all that is is key."

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