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Expert: Tottenham set to agree ‘strange’ hire - 'It's a little bit concerning'

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Mon 29 December 2025 7:51, UK Tottenham’s instability at the top of the club is concerning and could be affecting manager Thomas Frank. That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, giving his verdict on the latest hire at Spurs.Carlos Raphael Moersen is set to be appointed as Spurs’ new director of football operations, joining from City Football Group.It has been a season of change at the top of Spurs since Daniel Levy’s departure as executive chairman after 25 years in the role.Tottenham have ‘confused group of people’ at the topEverton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes Moersen could join Spurs without “a clear definition of responsibility.”Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast, Wyness states that Spurs must stabilise to be able to fully support Frank.He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “I think Moersen, look, he’s a good operator.



He’s well thought of. He did well at Man City.

But he’s taking on a lot of things like transfer negotiations and different things like this and that, that you’d have thought Johan Lange would have been doing as well, and Vinai, the new CEO. So we’ll just have to watch that one again in the coming days, particularly through the January window as to what happens there and who’s making the decisions.