Tottenham appoint new assistants, Matt Wells promoted to Senior Assistant Coach

Tottenham appoint new assistants, Matt Wells promoted to Senior Assistant Coach

Ange Postecoglou’s Tottenham Hotspur coaching staff is set to welcome two new additions this summer. A few weeks after Big Ange’s top assistant Chris Davies left to become the new head coach at Birmingham City, Australian outlet FTBL announced that Tottenham will appoint Nick Montgomery as a new assistant. The reporting has since been confirmed by Jack Pitt-Brooke in The Athletic, who also notes the appointment of Sergio Raimundo.

Montgomery, 42, was born in Leeds but has managed all over. As a player he had a long career at Sheffield United before eventually ending his career in Australia. As a manager, he won the A-League with Central Coast Mariners in 2022-23 and was sacked in May by Hibernian F.C. in the Scottish Premier League after one year in charge, finishing in the bottom half of the league. FTBL paints a picture of “much upheaval and broken promises on player recruitment by the club’s owners” which sounds, y’know, pretty toxic. There’s the sense that this is likely another springboard position to another head coaching job for Montgomery, but Ange seems to not care and even encourage such things.

Raimundo I know less about — just that he was Montgomery’s top assistant at Central Coast Mariners and Hibs and would also be joining Ange’s staff, should it be confirmed. Hopefully he knows how to coach set pieces? That’d be cool.

As JPB mentions, it appears as though this is not a direct replacement for Davies, and we don’t yet know who will assume the mantle of “senior assistant head coach”. Maybe that’s Ryan Mason, who has been groomed for an eventual head coaching position somewhere. We’ll find out pretty soon, no doubt.

Update: It’s official! And Spurs also confirmed that Matt Wells has been promoted to Senior Assistant Coach, replacing Davies’ role. Ryan Mason stays in his current position on staff.