{"id":486454,"date":"2026-02-17T20:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486454\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T20:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T20:32:08","slug":"new-tottenham-hotspur-manager-igor-tudors-first-comments-since-taking-over-from-thomas-frank-news-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/486454\/","title":{"rendered":"New Tottenham Hotspur manager Igor Tudor\u2019s first comments since taking over from Thomas Frank, news, video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham\u2019s new interim manager Igor Tudor said on Tuesday that the club\u2019s perilous position in the Premier League is unacceptable as he aims to ward off a relegation battle.<\/p>\n<p>The former Juventus boss has been appointed until the end of the season after Spurs slipped to 16th in the table under Thomas Frank, who was sacked last week.<\/p>\n<p>Get all the latest football news, highlights and analysis delivered straight to your inbox with Fox Sports Sportsmail. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxsports.com.au\/newsletter-sign-up?utm_source=FootballArticle&amp;utm_medium=TextLink&amp;utm_campaign=signup\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Sign up now!!!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content i-amphtml-replaced-content\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/poster-fallback.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tudor faces a baptism of fire at home to league leaders Arsenal in the north London derby on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>But he said there can be no excuses despite a lengthy injury list that hampered Frank\u2019s eight-month tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to be, with my staff, very intelligent to find the best possible way in a very short time,\u201d Tudor told Tottenham\u2019s in-house media channel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m coming here knowing that situation is not easy. There is no time to find excuses. 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But the Hammers have picked up seven more points than Tottenham over the past eight league games as they have turned a corner under Nuno Espirito Santo.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs, by contrast, have won just two of their last 17 league games. <\/p>\n<p>Igor Tudor is now the interim manager of Tottenham.Source: AFP<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe position of the club in this moment is one that nobody can accept,\u201d added Tudor, who was sacked by Juventus earlier this season after just seven months in charge.<\/p>\n<p>\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<p>\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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Captain Cristian Romero is suspended for the visit of Arsenal, while James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, Mohammed Kudus, Richarlison, Rodrigo Bentancur and Lucas Bergvall are among those set to miss out through injury.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham\u2019s new interim manager Igor Tudor said on Tuesday that the club\u2019s perilous position in the Premier League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486455,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[2620,103494,64,63,49838,70378,246079,2057,246077,242509,596,6234,6246,112414,246081,119867,2328,22554,5996,67609,246078,2022,3583,246080,53016,151267,3595,85,2639,3586],"class_list":{"0":"post-486454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-agence-france-presse","9":"tag-antonio-conte","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-como","13":"tag-cristian-romero","14":"tag-croatian-coach","15":"tag-europe","16":"tag-european-glory","17":"tag-explosive-interview","18":"tag-football","19":"tag-football-match","20":"tag-football-news","21":"tag-igor-tudor","22":"tag-in-house-media-channel","23":"tag-interim-manager","24":"tag-italy","25":"tag-james-maddison","26":"tag-jose-mourinho","27":"tag-league-games","28":"tag-lengthy-injury-list","29":"tag-london","30":"tag-northern-europe","31":"tag-perilous-position","32":"tag-relegation-battle","33":"tag-rodrigo-bentancur","34":"tag-southern-europe","35":"tag-sports","36":"tag-thomas-h-frank","37":"tag-united-kingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486454","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=486454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}