By David Williams
Swansea City have been encouraged by Ange Postecoglou they could be pushing at an open door for Chris Davies at Tottenham.
Spurs manager Postecoglou has suggested Davies could well end up being allowed to leave the London club to take up the vacant head coach’s post with the Swans.
Postecoglou insists his senior assistant coach is yet to make a decision over whether to leave to move up the coaching ladder.
Spurs rejected an approach from the Swans to speak with Davies earlier this week, but the club have not given up hoping of hiring Postecoglou’s number two as Michael Duff’s replacement.
Tottenham manager Ange Postecoglou says his assistant Chris Davies has yet to decide whether or not he will become Swansea City's new head coach ⚽#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/vuqA1wSxkX
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Ex-Celtic and Leicester coach Davies was on the touchline for Tottenham’s 2-1 home loss to West Ham on Thursday, which made it four defeats in five for the injury-hit hosts.
Top-four rivals Newcastle are up next for Spurs on Sunday and Postecoglou admitted Davies could still leave for Swansea after that fixture.
“I’ve had a brief discussion with Chris and he knows we’ve got a busy week, so we’ll focus on that,” Postecoglou said.
“He’s an outstanding individual; he’s done some great work with us and great work in the past. It’s not surprising to me that Swansea or other clubs would look at him.
“It’s what you want to be honest. You want good people and when you’ve got good people, they’re going to attract attention.
“From my perspective, whatever that transpires to, it’s very much in Chris’ hands.
“It’s his decision in terms of what he wants to do moving forward and obviously the club will deal with it from there.”
Tottenham Hotspur have rejected an approach from Swansea City for their senior assistant coach Chris Davies ⚽#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/GElG5kdcCy
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Davies leaving would be another unwanted disruption for Spurs, who remain without several key personnel due to injury and have not tasted victory since October 27.
But Postecoglou added: “I’ve always been relaxed.
“I have said in the past, it is part of my role to develop staff and I am really proud of the fact a lot of the guys I’ve worked with, the reason they are not with me as assistants is because they are senior managers in their own right.
“If you are looking for things that will be disruptive, you can use that as a clutch or an excuse for anything.
“We lost Harry Kane the day before the season started so there is a disruption, we lost half the squad after one game so there is a disruption. There will always be this.
“You can’t work in a vacuum where everything is perfect and, for me, I have been relaxed in these kind of situations because I have always believed the environment will cover whatever challenges we have if we get it right.”
Spurs will need to check on captain Son Heung-min ahead of Sunday’s match after he took a blow to the back late on in the West Ham defeat.
“He was a bit sore after the game obviously, but the extent of it we’ll need to see how he recovers today,” Postecoglou said of Son.
“There were a couple of others with knocks but I don’t think anything else is significant.
“Obviously we got Pape (Sarr) a few minutes last night and I understand him and Richarlison came through OK but there won’t be anyone else coming back between now and the new year.”
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