Tottenham Hotspur assistant coach Ryan Mason is in talks with Anderlecht about their vacant manager’s position.
Mason is a contender to take over at the Belgian club, who dismissed Danish manager Brian Riemer last month.
The 33-year-old has been coaching at Tottenham since April 2018, soon after he was forced to retire from playing early following a head injury.
He has had two separate spells in interim charge of the first team. Firstly at the end of the 2020-21 season following the dismissal of Jose Mourinho, a spell that included the 2021 League Cup final.
Mason took the reigns again at the end of the 2022-23 season, taking over from Cristian Stellini, having taken the team alongside Stellini following Antonio Conte’s dismissal.
Since the arrival of Ange Postecoglou in the summer of 2023, Mason has been part of his coaching staff, given responsibility by Postecoglou for taking training sessions.
If Mason takes the job it would be the latest change in Spurs’ coaching staff following the departure of Chris Davies for Birmingham City last summer, and the arrival of Nick Montgomery and Sergio Raimundo.
Mason started his playing career at Tottenham and was a first-team regular under Mauricio Pochettino before leaving for Hull City in 2016.
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