Igor Tudor leaves Tottenham Hotspur – what next for Spurs?
Tottenham HotspurThe team’s hierarchy have finally overcome the mistake they made with the strange appointment of Igor Tudor as interim head coach – but the stakes are now so high they can’t afford another one.
Tudor’s departure after just 44 days resulted in a bizarre and potentially very expensive affair that left fingers pointed at CEO Vinai Venkatesham and sporting director Johan Lange.
If Venkatesham and Lange get the next big decision wrong, it could possibly result in Spurs finishing in the Championship and leave an irreparable scar on their record.
If the argument that it is better to correct a mistake as quickly as possible has some merit, the counter-argument is that appointing Tudor was a mistake that should never have been made in the first place.
Time will tell, but Tudor’s spell in charge could end up being the 44 days that decide Spurs’ fate in the Premier League.
Having carefully noted Venkatesham’s links with Arsenal through his previous job, Tottenham fans will be waiting to see what he can achieve next.
The ominous prospect of relegation is looming ever stronger after Tudor’s seven-game tenure, which ended with a Champions League exit against Atletico Madrid and a blowout victory he has never won in the Premier League.
Venkatesham and Lange will know the outcome with Spurs sitting one point and one place above the relegation zone; Tudor’s end would come after an embarrassing 3-0 defeat at home to fellow strugglers Nottingham Forest.
They were behind the decision to replace the sacked Thomas Frank with Tudor, a hot-headed Croatian with an up-and-down coaching career and no Premier League experience.
Delaying Frank’s sacking, returning to Tudor in the hope of a revival that apparently never came and a change in the toxic mood among fans that had gone too far beyond redemption was left field at best.
