{"id":22569,"date":"2022-07-02T15:00:30","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/02\/tottenham-prize-gretar-steinsson-from-everton-as-new-performance-director\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T15:00:30","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T19:00:30","slug":"tottenham-prize-gretar-steinsson-from-everton-as-new-performance-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2022\/07\/02\/tottenham-prize-gretar-steinsson-from-everton-as-new-performance-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham prize Gretar Steinsson from Everton as new performance director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<hr>\n<p>Tottenham continues to change their clothes this summer as Spurs have added another name to their recruitment team in north London after prizing former Iceland international Gr\u00e9tar Steinsson away from Everton.<\/p>\n<p>That report comes via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football.london\/tottenham-hotspur-fc\/news\/tottenham-fabio-paratici-team-appointment-24383206\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Football.London<\/a>, stated that Steinsson will now take up his new position as the club\u2019s performance director and will work alongside director of football Fabio Paratici as part of a new-look recruitment department that will hopefully propel Spurs to further heights under Antonio Conte.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Tottenham have confirmed a new addition to Fabio Paratici\u2019s team\u26aa <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/THFC?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#THFC<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/gAQ6iLyc2l\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/gAQ6iLyc2l<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 football.london (@Football_LDN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Football_LDN\/status\/1543271677806710785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>In a statement on the club\u2019s official website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/arsenal-fans-will-love-what-jack-wilshere-said-about-tottenhams-signing-of-richarlison\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tottenham<\/a> welcomed the former Premier League player to his new position while citing his experience both on and off the pitch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are pleased to confirm the appointment of Gr\u00e8tar Steinsson as our new Performance Director. A former Iceland international who played against us in the Premier League during his time at Bolton Wanderers and who also lists AZ Alkmaar among his former clubs, Gr\u00e8tar joins us from the Icelandic FA, where he has been working as Technical Advisor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPrior to this, he held senior roles at Everton, where he was Head of Recruitment and Development, and at Fleetwood Town, where he served as Technical Director.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Steinsson can certainly offer a good deal of Premier League knowledge to the backroom team at Tottenham given the connections that Conte and Paratici can bring to bear regarding links to Serie A and Italy as a whole, which could provide the club boost in its ability to continue to prize talent from not just in the Premier League, but the Championship as well.<\/p>\n<p>Given the club\u2019s recent deal for Jed Spence, further such deals could be in the pipeline moving forward thanks to Steinsson\u2019s arrival in north London.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><strong>For more on Tottenham, read below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/tottenham-and-everton-weigh-up-jesse-lingard-signing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Tottenham to go head-to-head with Everton for Jesse Lingard<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.101greatgoals.com\/news\/transfers\/revealed-tottenhams-buy-option-on-clement-lenglet\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet\u2019s buy-option for Tottenham revealed.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham continues to change their clothes this summer as Spurs have added another name to their recruitment team in north London after prizing former Iceland international Gr\u00e9tar Steinsson away from Everton. That report comes via Football.London, stated that Steinsson will now take up his new position as the club\u2019s performance director and will work alongside [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,7],"tags":[13,14],"class_list":["post-22569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football","category-sport","tag-football","tag-soccer","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}