Alex MacQuoid
Tottenham Hotspur Move for Igor Tudor to Steady Premier League Campaign
Tottenham Hotspur have reached a verbal agreement with Igor Tudor to take over as interim manager until the end of the current season. The decision comes rapidly following the dismissal of Thomas Frank on Wednesday. Club officials Vinai Venkatesham and Johan Lange reportedly led the negotiations for the 47 year old Croatian coach. The deal is strictly short term and contains no provision for a permanent extension at the conclusion of the campaign.
Igor Tudor arrives in North London with a resume featuring stints at heavyweights like Juventus, Marseille, and Galatasaray. His most recent tenure at Juventus ended abruptly in October after just seven months. During that period, the Italian side languished in eighth place in Serie A following an eight match winless streak. The former defender also managed Hellas Verona, Udinese, and PAOK after starting his coaching career at Hajduk Split.
“It’s a fair departure from me, anyone who studies the game, it wasn’t like it was a progression from me. I built that sort of squad for want of a better word to play a certain way for a number of years and he’s sort of coming in and like we said, it’s a curious club Tottenham.”
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Ange Postecoglou, the man Thomas Frank replaced, offered a blunt assessment of the situation on The Overlap. Frank, who joined from Brentford in the summer, struggled significantly in the Tottenham dugout. The team won just twice in 17 matches under his leadership. A failure to secure a victory in the last eight league fixtures left the club in 16th place, hovering dangerously close to the relegation zone. A 2-1 home defeat to Newcastle United proved the final straw for the board. Tudor now faces the immediate task of lifting the squad out of its current slump after winning only 10 of his final 24 games in Turin. Stay updated with TipsGG for more developments on Tottenham’s managerial shift.