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Cameron Smith

Wed 11 March 2026 20:58, UK

Tottenham Hotspur find themselves in crisis.

Spurs are locked in a relegation battle, and are all but out of the Champions League as a result of their 5-2 first-leg defeat to Atletico Madrid.

Thomas Frank was sacked last month, before he was replaced by Igor Tudor.

Since then, the Croatian has seen his side lose all four of his matches in charge, before a difficult trip to Liverpool on Sunday.

The players simply are not responding to his ideas, causing immediate sack threats. And the recent reveal from The Telegraph’s Matt Law regarding his future highlights serious issues within the club.

Igor Tudor’s future is in doubt – Tottenham are panicking

While it could have been obvious just from watching Tottenham as of late, Law’s report outlines that Tudor “has failed to bond with his squad.”

This now being in writing and not just a general assumption is deeply concerning, alongside chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and sporting director Johan Lange seemingly covering their own back rather than opting for the right decision.

“Just as they recommended the sacking of Thomas Frank and temporary appointment of Tudor to the club’s Lewis family owners, it will come down to Venkatesham and Lange to recommend whether to change head coach again, but the pair are facing scrutiny over their decision-making.”

“There is a belief around Spurs that Venkatesham and Lange could face difficult questions internally if they are forced to admit they made an error regarding Tudor, or if they stick with him and the situation does not improve.”

However, that decision is going to have to be made at some point, with the report outlining the quote from a source saying: “There is hardly anybody, if anybody at all, in that dressing room who has any faith in him (Tudor).”

Issues at Tottenham are much higher up than Igor Tudor

When it comes to the managerial conveyor belt in North London, Tudor is simply the latest to be chewed up and spat out.

The latest reveal outlining the views of Venkatesham and Lange show two individuals more concerned with covering their own back after a series of bad decisions, rather than face the consequences.

For years, Tottenham have bounced between managers carrying different ideas from one another, with no discernible plan in place as to where the club is going.

This has led to Tudor inheriting a squad that is simply a combination of multiple coaches ideas, that simply does not look ready to fight for the club’s safety in a relegation battle.

Tudor, as with his predecessors stretching back to Mauricio Pochettino, does not go without blame. But the fact that the club ends up in crisis year in and year out proves that there are problems much more serious than the man in the dugout.

Spurs are a club without a direction, while higher-ups are more concerned about their own jobs, and players know that they will be on the first plane out of N17 this summer.

Tottenham are in crisis, and it is hard to argue that it is anything but self-inflicted.