Ange Postecoglou, assuming he stays on as Tottenham manager (and at this point that’s a pretty big if), might be losing his second top assistant this year. According to the Yorkshire Post, current Spurs assistant coach and two-time interim Tottenham manager Ryan Mason is a top candidate for the open managerial job at Championship club West Bromwich Albion. The source of the rumor is former S-n journalist Alan Nixon on his paywalled Patreon page.
West Brom parted ways with Tony Mowbray last week with the Baggies currently tenth in the Championship table, and are looking for a new skipper for 2025-26. Mason, a Tottenham academy graduate who cracked the first team for a few years before being sold to Hull City in 2016, started his coaching career at Tottenham in the academy and has steadily worked his way up the ranks.
Mason has made no secret of the fact that he wants to be a manager/head coach. He was a finalist for the head coaching position at Belgian side Anderlecht in October of 2024 but was passed over for David Hubert. He’s been lightly linked with a few other head coaching positions in the English Pyramid, but this would appear to be the most solid rumor since the Anderlecht job.
Mason has served as an interim and acting head coach of Spurs on two different occasions — after Spurs sacked Jose Mourinho in April of 2021, and again two years later after the firings of Antonio Conte and Cristian Stellini in 2023. He served as an assistant coach under Conte and Postecoglou.
It’s probably time that Mason gets a crack at a top job somewhere, so we can finally start to know if he’s good or not — it’s usually impossible to tell from where we’re sitting when it comes to assistant coaches. I hope he is good, because it’d be cool to have a homegrown Tottenham talent in the modern coaching ranks who could one day return to Spurs — I’m not sure we’ve had one since Chris Hughton.