‘Alan Sugar stated, ‘Ring Alex Ferguson – he is aware of everybody’. He didn’t know a lot about him, both. I instructed Sugar, however he went forward and employed him anyway’: Ex-Tottenham government on mistake of appointing Christian Gross
Tottenham Hotspur had simply 13 factors from their first 14 video games of the 1997/98 Premier League season when Gerry Francis was sacked, and chairman Alan Sugar needed to make a left-field appointment to show the membership’s fortunes round.
In search of the recommendation of Tottenham’s former supervisor David Pleat, Sugar needed to study extra about two-time Swiss Tremendous League winner Christian Gross. Pleat, although, knew little of the Swiss supervisor who had had success with Grasshopper in 1995 and 1996.
