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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast with me, Ayo Akimwalere.

Spurs have hired Igor Tudor as interim head coach.

So why him and what does this mean for their summer plans?

In with us today, we've got James Horncastle. We've got Jay Harris. We've also got Adam

Crafton in New York as well. All right, Tudor has been appointed head coach until the end of the

season. Jay, talk us through the decision makers for this, but also who else was in the running

for this position? Yeah, so when I talk about the decision makers, I'm going to give you a brief

answer and then, you know, my good friend decision makers, I'm going to give you a brief answer

and then, you know, my good friend to the right is maybe going to peel back the layers of that. Firstly on who was involved, we know that Spurs had Robbie Keene on their list, who's obviously done a pretty decent job at Ferrant Varus. Edyn Terzic and Marco Rosa were informally approached. I think Tursich wasn't really interested in taking over a club mid-season,

and I think there's interest from him or in him for a job in the summer.

And then Marco Rosa, I think, is still being paid off by R.B. Leipzig,

even though he left them quite some time ago.

Which brings us on to the decision makers.

We know that the Lewis family have had a strong grasp on spurs

ever since former executive chairman Daniel Levy left in September.

And in theory, which will become clear momentarily,

the two people who made this decision were Johann Langer and Vinat Venetetheum.

Venkatesum is the CEO who already joined in April last year.

Lang has been the sporting director and the co-sporting director, which is a little tease. So it would have been those two who's sort of drawn up a list of potential replacements for Thomas Frank, and this is the solution they've come to. But I've teased it for too long. So I take over, James. Well, yeah, I suppose this candidacy for Igor Tudor was first presented, I'm led to

understand, sort of in late November, December time, by someone who's no longer at the club,

which is the former co-sporting director, Fabio Parathachi.

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