Tottenham sack Jose Mourinho six days before Carabao Cup final

Mourinho replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs head coach in November 2019

Tottenham Hotspur coach Jose Mourinho ahead of the Premier League match against Everton at Goodison Park on April 16, 2021. The match finished 2-2 and was the Portuguese's last game in charge of Spurs before he was sacked. AFP

Tottenham's Jose Mourinho gives a post-match interview after the FA Cup third round football match against Marine on January 10, 2021. Tottenham won the game 5-0. AFP

Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho watches the players warm up before the start of the Premier League football match against West Ham United at The London Stadium on November 23, 2019. It was Mourinho's first match in charge after succeeding Mauricio Pochettino. Spurs won 3-2. AFP

Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho celebrates with his coaching staff after the Premier League match against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park on July 26, 2020. AFP

Tottenham Hotspur's Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho watches from the touchline during the English Premier League football match against Manchester United at Old Trafford on December 4, 2019. AFP

Jose Mourinho watches as midfielder Harry Winks vies with Olympiakos' midfielder Daniel Podence during the UEFA Champions League Group B football match at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London, on November 26, 2019. AFP

Jose Mourinho walks on the pitch before the Premier League football match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, on July 12, 2020. AFP

Jose Mourinho with striker Harry Kane and midfielder Harry Winks at the final whistle during the Premier League match against West Ham United on November 23, 2019. AFP

Jose Mourinho attends a team training session at Tottenham Hotspur's Enfield Training Centre, in north London on March 9, 2020. AFP

Mourinho gestures to the referee following a foul on a player during the English FA Cup fourth round football match against Southampton at St Mary's Stadium on January 25, 2020. AFP

Mourinho reacts during the Premier League football match against Crystal Palace at Selhurst Park in south London on July 26, 2020. AFP

Mourinho speaks with Manchester United's Ivorian defender Eric Bailly on June 19, 2020. AFP

Liverpool's German manager Jurgen Klopp greets Mourinho ahead of the Premier League football match at Anfield in Liverpool on December 16, 2020. AFP

Mourinho speaks to his players during the Premier League football match against Bournemouth at the Vitality Stadium on July 9, 2020. AFP

Manchester United's Daniel James collides with Mourinho on the touchline at Old Trafford in Manchester, north west England, on December 4, 2019. AFP

Mourinho gestures on the touchline during the FA Cup third round match between Middlesbrough and Tottenham Hotspur at the Riverside Stadium in Middlesbrough, north-east England on January 5, 2020. AFP

Tottenham striker Son Heung-min celebrates with teammates and Mourinho after scoring their second goal during the Premier League football match against Manchester City on February 2, 2020. AFP

Tottenham Hotspur have parted ways with coach Jose Mourinho less than a week before the Carabao Cup final against Manchester City, according to several reports.

Ryan Mason will take charge of first-team training on Monday, the club said in a statement, and a further update will follow in "due course".

"The club can today announce that Jose Mourinho and his coaching staff Joao Sacramento, Nuno Santos, Carlos Lalin and Giovanni Cerra have been relieved of their duties," a club statement said.

Chairman Daniel Levy said: "Jose and his coaching staff have been with us through some of our most challenging times as a club. Jose is a true professional who showed enormous resilience during the pandemic. On a personal level I have enjoyed working with him and regret that things have not worked out as we both had envisaged. He will always be welcome here and we should like to thank him and his coaching staff for their contribution."

The news comes the morning after the London club said it was one of 12 clubs forming a breakaway European Super League.

Former Porto, Chelsea, Inter Milan, Real Madrid and Manchester United manager Mourinho had been in charge of 86 games at the club, leading them to a sixth-place finish in the 2019/20 campaign.

Mourinho, 58, replaced Mauricio Pochettino as Spurs head coach in November 2019 but has struggled to get the best out of a squad packed with quality and is reported to have fallen out with several prominent first-team players.

Spurs are currently seventh in the Premier League and in danger of missing out on a top-four finish. They were knocked out of the Europa League at the last-16 stage last month. Mourinho's last match in charge was Friday's 2-2 Premier League draw against Everton.

The North London club contest Sunday's League Cup final against City at Wembley hoping to clinch a first trophy since 2008.