He's back. Eleven months have passed since Jose Mourinho was sacked by Manchester United and, in between, we got a couple of commercials for bookmakers, a global roadshow in multiple languages to remind us he was still special, some technical analysis in TV studios and talk of wanting to join a club with "structural empathy." That's your starting point. Those two words: "structural" and "empathy." Will Mourinho get this at Tottenham now that he has replaced Mauricio Pochettino?
As far as structure is concerned, despite praising not just Tottenham's "great structure" but the "dynamic of the structure" at his cheery unveiling to the press on Thursday, Mourinho will get what he had at Manchester United, where executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward held control, unless something radical happens in North London: He'll be working for an owner who never speaks and sits an ocean away (Joe Lewis), plus a big boss in Daniel Levy who runs the club, micromanaging transfers and budgets.