NEXT TOTTENHAM MANAGER:
Roberto De Zerbi appointed, contract details & Past records

Roberto De Zerbi becomes Tottenham’s final hope

The managerial crisis at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium exploded once again at the end of March, with interim head coach Igor Tudor sacked. Tudor had briefly lifted spirits with a resilient draw at Liverpool and a morale-boosting home win over Atletico Madrid – though that victory still marked the end of Spurs’ Champions League campaign – but a 3-0 home defeat to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest was the final straw in North London.

The board was increasingly concerned about the lack of immediate improvement and whether Tudor could galvanise a squad that had struggled for consistency all season. With survival in the Premier League hanging by a thread, ENIC made the dramatic decision to go all out for a high-profile managerial appointment immediately. Tudor’s position, once cautiously optimistic, is now forgotten.

Roberto De Zerbi is now in place, becoming Spurs’ third manager of the season after the failed hire of Thomas Frank, as he agreed to a long-term five-year contract that surprisingly includes no relegation cut clause for the Italian.

With defeat at Sunderland and a late 2-2 draw with Brighton kickstarting his reign, De Zerbi needs to find answers and fast, with only five games to save his skin.

What can Tottenham fans expect from Roberto De Zerbi?

Now that De Zerbi is in the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium dugout, it’s time to look over his whirlwind few years of management, starting with Sassuolo in Italy.

ROBERTO DE ZERBI

Manager Profile

Club	Years	Matches	Win %
Marseille	2024–2026	36	58.3%
Brighton	2022–2024	89	46.1%
Shakhtar	2021–2022	30	66.7%
Sassuolo	2018–2021	120	38.3%

Spurs faced a difficult dilemma of possibly waiting for Mauricio Pochettino after the World Cup, but the magnitude of this relegation fight saw them go elsewhere.

De Zerbi tasted success at Shakhtar Donetsk before moving to Brighton, where he initially took the Premier League by storm, really putting the Seagulls on the map after Graham Potter.

Now he’s back in England, it’s all about Premier League survival, with his passion clearly shown with his first yellow card at Spurs already picked up against Brighton.

The Ultimate Managerial Record: Premier League Era (1992–2026)

All-Competitions Win Records

The Statistical Hall of Fame & Shame

Manager	Games	Wins	Win %
André Villas-Boas	80	44	55.0%
Mauricio Pochettino	293	159	54.3%
Antonio Conte	76	41	54.0%
José Mourinho	86	44	51.2%
Harry Redknapp	198	98	49.5%
Ange Postecoglou	101	41	41.0%
Thomas Frank	38	13	34.2%
Christian Gross	33	11	33.3%
Igor Tudor (Interim)	7	1	14.3%

Note: Figures updated following the sixth defeat of Tudor’s tenure. Win record includes League, Domestic Cups, and European competitions.

Thomas Frank‘s dreadful record shows just why he had to go when he did, but Igor Tudor somehow performed even worse. Antonio Conte, for all his critics, is third on the list, behind Mauricio Pochettino and – surprisingly – Andre Villas-Boas.

Now, it’s over to De Zerbi to climb the ladder, and he needs to do it quickly.