Do Spurs' ex-managers have the same trophy trait as their former players?

Following Jose Mourinho's sacking by Roma, a look at how managers' careers have gone after leaving Spurs

There's a long-held and mostly true belief that when a player leaves Tottenham Hotspur they will invariably go somewhere else and win a trophy or three along the way.

It was worked out a couple of months ago that 57 former Spurs players have won 180 trophies elsewhere across the world since the north London club last lifted a trophy in 2008.

In Tottenham's defence, the bulk of players who leave them move on to less competitive leagues and to win a title or a domestic trophy there has a lesser degree of difficulty than winning the Premier League or the FA Cup.

There are of course those who have in relatively recent years gone on to bigger and better things with silverware galore such as Dimitar Berbatov at Manchester United, Gareth Bale and Luka Modric at Real Madrid, Kyle Walker at Manchester City, Christian Eriksen at Inter Milan and Kieran Trippier winning La Liga with Atletico Madrid.

Gareth Bale enjoyed a trophy-laden career at Real Madrid

If you want to throw in European trophies, you could add Juan Foyth, Erik Lamela, Bryan Gil, Etienne Capoue and probably Tanguy Ndombele and Pierluigi Gollini deserve a nod as well for playing some part in Napoli's Serie A win last season, while Paulinho and Benjamin Stambouli won La Liga and Ligue 1 with Barcelona and PSG respectively. Yes we know Gil and Ndombele are technically still with Tottenham.

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Then there was Fernando Llorente who lifted the Coppa Italia with Napoli to add to his already glittering CV, Didier Zokora claimed the Copa del Rey with Sevilla and Kevin-Prince Boateng managed to win Serie A with AC Milan and La Liga with Barcelona after leaving N17.

Harry Kane, and now Eric Dier, will be hoping to add their names to that list. Whether the Bundesliga title, with Bayern's usual dominance in the league - despite being four points behind Leverkusen currently - would feel like a huge achievement is one thing, the Champions League certainly would. Kane breaking more goal records in another country is something to behold, although Spurs fans are used to him putting the ball in the net an absurd amount of times.

But what about the managers? Is life better for them once they depart through the doors of Hotspur Way? Roma parting company with Jose Mourinho on Tuesday has brought that question into the spotlight.