Martin Jol has suggested he could have ushered in an era of success at Tottenham had it not been for the interference of Damien Comolli.
Dutchman Jol had three years in charge of Spurs, only to be axed in 2007. He led the club to back-to-back European campaigns, and missed out on Champions League qualification on the final day of the 2005-2006 season, but was shown the door in October - following a sizeable summer spending spree. It has been suggested that Jol was overruled on transfers and it would appear the wound is still a little sore.
"When I first came to England, I said to Daniel [Levy] 'If you leave me alone to work for you, the people will mob you in the streets like you're the king'. But he never did that," Jol, who was speaking at his first press conference since taking charge of Fulham, said.
Jol claims his relationship with chairman Daniel Levy was good, but has suggested his position was undermined by now Liverpool director of football Comolli.
He said: "The problem was that Damien Comolli was responsible for most of the football things.
"I took Gareth Bale and Aaron Lennon to Tottenham. Comolli took Benoit Assou-Ekotto, for example. But there are no hard feelings for me. I like Daniel."
Jol was not out of management for long, taking charge of Hamburg, and he has put the boot into Tottenham by insisting the Germans are a bigger club than Spurs.
"I won't lie, I didn't feel great when they sacked me," Jol said. "But then I went to Hamburg, where they have 55,000 season ticket holders and we were playing in European semi-finals. So that was an even bigger club."
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