The Premier League leaders are negotiating a contract extension to bring MacKenzie back to the team, where he was employed for eighteen months between 2015 and 2016.
Johan Lange 
Tottenham have set their sights on the Villa head of recruitment after announcing on 9th October that Johan Lange was joining from the Midlands giants as their technical director.
The Dane is set to officially begin work at Spurs on Wednesday and will have responsibility for recruitment, analytics and talent identification across the club’s senior and academy teams.
Tottenham are keen to reunite Lange with MacKenzie, who has been head of recruitment at Villa since August 2020.
He has previously held senior recruitment roles at Derby County and Belgian club OH Leuven, after making his name as head of player identification at Tottenham, which involved recommending scouting targets to the club’s transfer team.
Lange had been squeezed out at Villa after Monchi took over as the club’s president of football operations in the summer, in a move that effectively put the Spaniard in charge of the first-team recruitment.
Villa owners NSWE had been concerned with Lange’s transfer record during his three-year reign at the club.
He hwas responsible for signing flops like Bertrand Traore, Morgan Sanson and Leon Bailey for big-money fees – while more successful stars like Ollie Watkins and Matty Cash were also signed on his watch.
Lange was Villa’s worldwide director of football development starting in June 2023. Prior to that, he was the sporting director starting in 2020.
