Postecoglou delivers update on Tottenham's director of football and when Bentancur will return

Ange Postecoglou believes Tottenham will soon appoint a new director of football and expects Rodrigo Bentancur to return to action in November.

Spurs have been operating without an official director of football since Fabio Paratici resigned in April following a 30-month ban from the Italian football federation, which was rolled out globally. FIFA did walk back somewhat on the scale of the ban which has meant that the 51-year-old has been able to continue to help out Tottenham in a consultancy capacity.

In a higher role, Tottenham were set to appoint Scott Munn in a newly-created chief football officer post — essentially second in command to chairman Daniel Levy — on July 1 only for that move to be delayed by his former employers The City Group. It is Munn who would be one of those chiefly responsible for brining in the new director of football to work below him.

That has meant Postecoglou has had to drive much of his own recruitment at Spurs with the club's scouting team and he admitted to football.london that it had been an «unusual» summer transfer window.

«It's not usual. It's unusual. If you look at the way the club's worked previously, [a director of football has] always been in place,» said the head coach. «It's different, which I assume won't be the case moving forward.»

When asked if it had slowed Spurs' transfer business down, he replied: «No. It's just unusual. It's different. When you're doing something and there's already a process in place, then you know how it's going to work. Whereas this is a new manager and no sporting director so I think anyone would say it's unusual.

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