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The Athletic FC Podcast

Is De Zerbi the man to save Spurs?

The Athletic FC Podcast

The Athletic

Sports, Soccer,, Premier League, Champions League, World Cup

4.01.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Igor Tudor has left Tottenham Hotspur, after just one win from seven games in charge.


They’re now pursuing Roberto De Zerbi to replace him.


So, can he save them from relegation? 


Host: Ayo Akinwolere

With: James Horncastle & Dan Kilpatrick

Executive Producers: Adey Moorhead

Producer: Guy Clarke & Jay Beale


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0:00.0

The Athletic FC

0:03.1

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

0:09.2

Igor Tudor has left Tottenham Hotspur after just one win from seven games in charge.

0:15.4

They're now pursuing Roberto Deserbe to replace him.

0:18.3

So can he save them from relegation? In for this one, we've got James

0:24.6

Horncastle. We've also got Dan Kilpatrick as well. All right, before we talk about Deserterby later,

0:30.8

let's check in with Jack Pitt Brook, who has the details on Tudor's exit.

0:34.8

Tottenham announced on Sunday afternoon that Eagle Tudor would be leaving as their manager

0:40.2

after a very brief spell in charge of the club. Remember that Tudor only took charge of Spurs

0:45.4

in the middle of February replacing Thomas Frank. He only had 44 days in charge and just seven games,

0:51.4

five of them in the Premier League, and from those five league games, Spurs only took one point. It currently stand just one point ahead of the relegation zone,

0:59.3

with only seven Premier League games left, meaning that Spurs are now scrambling around trying

1:03.9

to find their third manager of the season, a bizarre situation for them to be in, with the hope

1:08.8

that the next man in will be able to turn around

1:11.1

their form and keep them up in the Premier League. Clearly, the Tudor appointment has been a disaster

1:15.9

really for Tottenham, but he did come in and inherit a squad who had not won a league game since

1:20.7

December, whose confidence was on the floor. He tried to rebuild that confidence to get the

1:25.7

movie back up the table away from the relegation

1:28.0

zone. But sadly for Tudor, it didn't work out like that. And he's now being dismissed and Spurs

1:33.4

are looking for a third manager of the season. Yeah, Dan, despite some encouraging results against

1:38.4

Liverpool and also you think about the Champions League's second leg against Athletic home Madrid.

1:43.3

It sort of felt like the writing was on the

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