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According to The Daily Mail, Jose Mourinho has expressed an interest in replacing Mauricio Pochettino at Tottenham Hotspur if the Argentine was to leave, but the idea of him working well with Daniel Levy is quite dumbfounding.

What's the word, then?

Well, The Daily Mail says that Spurs are one of the clubs that appeal to the out-of-work 56-year-old, who has been unemployed since being sacked by Manchester United last December.

The report adds that the Portuguese boss is ready to wait for the right opportunity, with Real Madrid another team who he would be interested in taking charge at – for the second time, of course.

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While Pochettino's role reportedly isn't under threat as things stand, there is no doubt that he finds himself in a sticky situation with the club already exiting the Carabao Cup, losing 7-2 at home to Bayern Munich and lying 13 points behind leaders Liverpool in the Premier League.

It would never work

Whichever club Mourinho has been at previously he has made plenty of big-money signings - in fact he has reportedly spent more than any other manager in football history - and it just wouldn't be the same at Spurs if recent history is anything to go by.

The north London club of course went two transfer windows without signing a single player in the summer of 2018 and January 2019, and it appears they are now paying the price for standing still with an ageing squad at that point.

Yes, they did make the club-record addition of Tanguy Ndombele during the summer transfer window, but that is never going to be a regular thing.

The thing with Tottenham right now is that they may soon need some big-money signings if they lose out-of-contract trio Christian Eriksen, Jan Vertonghen and Toby Alderweireld next summer – and they won't come cheap if you want to replace quality with quality, seeing as though Manchester United paid £80m for one centre-back in Harry Maguire just a few months ago.

From the outside looking in, Pochettino appears to be less demanding when it comes to bringing new players in than someone like Mourinho would be -hence going two transfer windows without doing any incoming business - and if he was to deliver trophies it would likely need some big investment based on how they've fared so far this term.

Levy isn't the right man for him to work with in that sense then, and the two working in unison would simply never work from a financial point of view.