It isn’t typically a supervisor is employed by Actual Madrid after being sacked by Tottenham with the membership backside of the Premier League.
However this was the case for Juande Ramos, who endured a rollercoaster 12-month stint of cost of Spurs, which peaked when he delivered a primary main trophy in 9 years with League Cup glory in 2008.
As Ange Postecoglou bids to turn into the primary supervisor to ship main silverware for the reason that Spaniard, there could possibly be some hanging similarities between the pair ought to he obtain this.
The Australian leads the north Londoners into their Europa League ultimate towards Manchester United together with his future very a lot up within the air.
A torrid Premier League marketing campaign sees Spurs seventeenth within the desk, and talkSPORT understands that even European glory will not be sufficient to maintain Postecoglou within the job.
Ought to he depart having landed silverware, he would observe within the footsteps of each of Tottenham’s final trophy-winning managers.
Each Ramos and 1999 League Cup winner George Graham had been sacked shortly after ending respective trophy droughts.
And whereas Graham’s sacking spelled the tip of his managerial profession, it had the other impact on Ramos, who arguably went on to land soccer’s dream job.
In December 2008, the well-travelled Spanish coach was named as Actual Madrid’s new supervisor, taking cost of a squad full of superstars together with Sergio Ramos, Raul and Fabio Cannavaro.
However this could have seemed inconceivable six weeks earlier, when he was proven the door with Spurs backside of the Premier League.
It drew the curtain on a brief however eventful spell at White Hart Lane, which at first promised nice issues following his appointment in October 2007.
Simply 4 months into his tenure, Ramos delivered a long-awaited trophy when his facet beat Chelsea within the 2008 League Cup ultimate.
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The two-1 extra-time victory appeared to have secured the previous Sevilla boss legend standing in north London, particularly provided that Spurs had battered bitter rivals Arsenal 5-1 to e book their spot at Wembley.
However issues took a flip for the more serious, as an Eleventh-place end within the Premier League and a dreadful begin to the 2008/09 marketing campaign piled the strain on Ramos.
By October, Tottenham had gained simply three league video games since their League Cup victory in February, and picked up two factors from their opening eight matches.
Throughout this time, Ramos’ brutal coaching and dietary regime additionally made the headlines, with the Spaniard banning ketchup, salt and pepper within the canteen.
Actually, his strategies had been so robust that they left one participant in hospital on a drip, in accordance with former Spurs striker Darren Bent.
In the end, this was all an excessive amount of for chairman Daniel Levy, who dismissed the Spaniard together with his facet on the foot of the league desk.
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However the disappointment actually did not hinder Ramos’ job prospects, who secured an instantaneous return to soccer when he was surprisingly unveiled by Actual Madrid weeks later.
With the Spanish giants sitting a disappointing fifth within the LaLiga desk on the time of his appointment, the ex-Spurs boss managed to show the tide in spectacular vogue.
He introduced Los Blancos again into the title race after profitable 52 factors out of a attainable 54 in 18 consecutive video games.
In the end nevertheless, Actual fell simply brief on the finish of the season, ending second within the league, 9 factors behind champions Barcelona.
And regardless of steadying the ship on the Santiago Bernabeu, a scarcity of league success and a 5-0 mixture exit to Liverpool within the Champions League wasn’t sufficient to earn Ramos an extension on his short-term deal till the tip of the season.
This delivered to an finish a whirlwind interval for the 70-year-old, who went on to see out the remainder of his managerial profession with spells at CSKA Moscow, Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Malaga.