Brian Kerr believes that Spurs need to look to Italy for their next full-time manager - and need to do so sooner rather than later.

Ryan Mason is in temporary charge of the first team following the sacking of Jose Mourinho in April.

Kerr thinks that Massimiliano Allegri, the former Juventus coach, is the ideal target.

Spurs next target?

"I would be happier if they got someone who was more experienced," said Kerr when asked if they should go for an up-and-coming manager like Graham Potter.

"If they can get someone like Allegri who has handled a lot of players with big egos and had a lot of success in Italy and has a style of play that combines the defensive qualities needed to have success with attacking play, I think he would be the type of guy that I think could do it.

"But I don't think that Spurs is a great attraction to those guys other than the money that Spurs could pay them. The training ground may be an attraction to the manager, the stadium may be an attraction - the quality of players probably wouldn't.

"I think that a manager who has had success in the past would look at Spurs and say there is a lot of potential there. A bit like Mourinho would say: 'I think I can do it.'

"I don't think that [someone like] Graham Potter can say that he has done enough to take on the Spurs job. His career in Sweden was impressive, he has a couple of years at Brighton but Chris Hughton put them in a position where they are a very solid team and are in good shape.

"With the owner there, Tony Bloom, there has been a lot of investment. [Potter] has done well but he's inherited a good situation and he has done well with it. But I wouldn't be jumping for joy about Graham Potter becoming Spurs manager."

Daniel Levy

Spurs chairman Daniel Levy needs to make a choice quickly if the new coach is to intervene in a summer where some key choices are afoot.

"There are big decisions to be made, I don't know where they are going to go. Targets that they might have tried have gone elsewhere - [Julian] Nagelsmann and [Erik] ten Hag.

"He needs to get something sorted out now so that the manager can assess the players he has before the end of the season."

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