Next Tottenham manager: Six options to replace Igor Tudor

Tottenham Hotspur are searching for different head to steer them distant from nan increasing threat of Premier League relegation after sacking Igor Tudor.

The Croatian was a left-field appointment, pinch nary Premier League experience, and lasted conscionable 7 games successful complaint aft replacing Thomas Frank past month.

Spurs are winless successful nan Premier League this twelvemonth and were plunged deeper into situation aft a dismal 3-0 conclusion to Nottingham Forest successful a relegation conflict past week.

Whoever comes successful adjacent will request to deed nan crushed running, pinch 7 games of nan play remaining and Tottenham conscionable 1 constituent supra nan relegation zone.

They do not play again until Sunday 12 April, pinch nan travel to Sunderland followed by a location lucifer against Brighton nan pursuing week. But who will nan nine move to to return complaint of this relegation battle?

Mauricio Pochettino

Tottenham’s astir successful modern-day head is preparing to lead co-hosts nan United States into nan World Cup this summer, but could nan Argentine beryllium convinced to rescue his beloved Spurs complete nan last 7 games of nan season?

Pochettino would beryllium a celebrated assignment and would merge nan nine successful a clip of situation - Spurs fans proceed to singing his name, six years connected from his departure from club. There has besides been immoderate talk that nan 54-year-old will want to return to nine guidance pursuing nan World Cup, pinch a imperishable Tottenham return a possibility, anyway.

Tottenham had besides looked astatine Pochettino after sacking Thomas Frank successful February and he was identified arsenic their first-choice. But nan World Cup analyzable matters, forcing Spurs to move to an emergency action successful Tudor. And those complications stay now.

Sean Dyche

The Independent has antecedently reported that Tottenham antecedently considered turning to Dyche, aft identifying nan erstwhile Burnley and Everton leader arsenic 1 of nan fewer remaining “survival specialists” retired location pinch caller Premier League experience. Dyche, however, was sacked by Nottingham Forest successful February aft conscionable 4 months and 17 matches, having grounded to move their fortunes around.

Harry Redknapp

Undoubtedly a nostalgic, moreover romantic, action - and 1 of nan fewer disposable contenders who really ‘gets nan club’ - but is this really what Tottenham request correct now? The 79-year-old has been retired since 2017 and his past Premier League occupation was complete a decade ago. But Redknapp is available, now Cheltenham is over, and he is keen, arsenic he told anyone who asked him astatine nan Festival: “Would I spell back? Of people I would, but I uncertainty very overmuch it’s going to happen”.

Ryan Mason

It wouldn’t beryllium nan first clip nan erstwhile Tottenham midfielder and adjunct coach had been called into nan caretaker role, having replaced Jose Mourinho successful 2020/21 and Cristian Stellini successful 2022/23. Since then, Mason lasted six months astatine West Brom and was sacked by nan Championship nine successful January. Having worked nether Ange Postecoglou, Mason, 34, would beryllium acquainted to nan existent squad - and could moreover assistance immoderate of nan supra options if required.

Adi Hutter

A much caller sanction to look into nan conversation, but Spurs whitethorn now beryllium hesitant to move to different head pinch nary Premier League acquisition aft their disastrous determination to name Tudor. Hutter, a 56-year-old coach from Austria, was astir precocious successful complaint of Monaco, pursuing a mediocre spell successful complaint of Borussia Monchengladbach and a much awesome 1 astatine Eintracht Frankfurt successful Germany. But this would beryllium different left-field move.

Roberto De Zerbi

The erstwhile Brighton leader has been linked pinch Tottenham antecedently and is disposable aft stepping retired connected Marseille successful February. But nan Italian is improbable to want to return complaint of Tottenham astatine this shape of nan season, fixed their position, and is alternatively being sounded retired up of nan summer. He, on pinch Crystal Palace’s Oliver Glasner and Bournemouth’s Andoni Iraola, would for illustration to measure their options past - alternatively than jumping into a relegation conflict now.