{"id":486204,"date":"2026-02-17T17:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486204\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T17:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:51:08","slug":"igor-tudor-hopes-courage-and-confidence-can-arrest-tottenham-slide-tottenham-hotspur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486204\/","title":{"rendered":"Igor Tudor hopes courage and confidence can arrest Tottenham slide | Tottenham Hotspur"},"content":{"rendered":"

Igor Tudor says there is \u201cno time to find excuses\u201d as he attempts to halt Tottenham\u2019s Premier League slide. The 47-year-old former Juventus manager, brought in last week<\/a> as the sacked Thomas Frank\u2019s replacement until the end of the season, believes instilling the players with confidence is his most important task.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe team need, I believe, first of all, to get some confidence, to get some courage, but also, in same way, the concrete things in the pitch,\u201d Tudor told Spursplay. \u201cOf course, I\u2019m coming here knowing that situation is not easy. There is no time to find excuses. What I said from the first day here, each of us need to give something more, something extra.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frank was sacked<\/a> after eight months in the wake of a 2-1 home defeat by Newcastle<\/a>, which extended Spurs\u2019 winless top-flight run to eight matches. The club are 16th, five points above the relegation zone, and Tudor faces a tough mission in his first game, at home to title-chasing Arsenal on Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe position of the club in this moment is one that nobody can accept,\u201d Tudor said. \u201cEvery Tottenham fan cannot accept the situation. We are aware of that. But it\u2019s not enough to just be aware of that.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation is not easy because we have a lot of injured players, so we need first to find the best system to suit the players that are available in this moment. Maybe this can sound strange, but I believe that the thing that we need to be focused on is the training. So the training from today, that\u2019s the key.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe coach needs to show the path, where is the way we want to go, how we want to go, and the players need to accept this.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tudor, sacked by Juventus in October last year after an eight-game winless run, said he was aware of the club\u2019s culture and the fans\u2019 demand for a stylish brand of winning football. He added: \u201cI believe in the style. The style is more important than the system, of course. So every club has its particularity. That is first as a culture of the club, which kind of football they like.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it\u2019s always important to think about that, but in the same way, not forget who I am, what I want, what the team can achieve. So I need to be, with my staff, very intelligent to find the best possible way in a very short time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Igor Tudor says there is \u201cno time to find excuses\u201d as he attempts to halt Tottenham\u2019s Premier League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":["post-486204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-football","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}