{"id":445584,"date":"2026-02-25T22:57:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445584\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T22:57:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T22:57:10","slug":"spurs-will-get-relegated-unless-igor-tudor-quickly-fixes-biggest-problem-as-summer-signing-blasted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/445584\/","title":{"rendered":"Spurs &#8216;will&#8217; get relegated unless Igor Tudor &#8216;quickly&#8217; fixes &#8216;biggest&#8217; problem as summer signing blasted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham Hotspur have been tipped to \u201cgo down\u201d from the Premier League unless new head coach Igor Tudor \u201cquickly addresses\u201d their \u201cbiggest\u201d problem.<\/p>\n<p>The north London outfit are in a desperate situation in the Premier League,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/premier-league\/table\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> sitting only four points clear of the relegation zone in 16th.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tottenham-hotspur\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham\u2019<\/a>s relegation fears have increased during a shambolic nine-game winless run in the Premier League, with the appointment of new boss Tudor not having the desired effect against Arsenal in Sunday\u2019s north London derby.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/tag\/igor-tudor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tudor<\/a>\u2018s side struggled to lay a glove on Arsenal as they slumped to a 4-1 home defeat, so they desperately need to bounce back when they visit Fulham at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the loss against Arsenal, former Spurs midfielder Jamie O\u2019Hara explained why the performance against the Gunners was the \u201ccomplete opposite\u201d of what he was \u201cexpecting\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was expecting a bit of a manager bounce. Arsenal had a couple of sticky performances against Wolves and Brentford, so I was expecting the team to go into this game with a high attitude, a bit of passion, fight, relentless pressing, and not letting easy crosses in the box,\u201d O\u2019Hara said on Sky Sports.<\/p>\n<p>READ:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/feature-tottenham-premier-league-relegation-reassigned\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Liverpool and Man Utd boosted as Tottenham players reassigned after relegation<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201c[It was the] complete opposite. It was miles away from where I thought it was. I know there\u2019s injuries, but the attitude of the players is my biggest concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attitude to defend, to run, to compete, to not concede goals. That for me is basic 101, and then you can talk about creativity, whether we\u2019re good enough, whether we\u2019ve got the players, the formation, but the basic defending, basic mentality of a football club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you\u2019re down at the bottom, when you\u2019re fighting for results, Spurs haven\u2019t got it. They have not got the stomach for a fight, and it was evident in that Arsenal game, and it was actually embarrassing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/arsenal-win-premier-league-but-remain-bottlers-spurs-relegated-pereira-sack-10-predictions-for-the-run-in\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arsenal win Premier League but remain bottlers, Spurs relegated, Pereira sack \u2013 10 predictions for the run-in<\/a><\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Hara has also explained why he thinks Spurs \u201cwill go down\u201d unless they start to show that they have \u201cgot the stomach\u201d for the relegation fight.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it matters in the Premier League, when you\u2019re fighting for points, they haven\u2019t got the stomach for it. That\u2019s what I\u2019ve noticed, and that\u2019s what needs to be addressed, and it needs to be addressed quickly, because Spurs will go down.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe teams down the bottom, West Ham, Nottingham Forest, they\u2019ll run. They\u2019ll fight. They\u2019ll scrap, because they know they\u2019re in it. They\u2019ve been in it before. Spurs don\u2019t want to be in it. Players don\u2019t want to be in it. They want to be in the Champions League, playing nice football.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re in a relegation fight, and that for me was the biggest thing that I\u2019ve noticed, especially in the Arsenal game, how embarrassing it was to see. Forget the creativity. Forget the chances that you can create because you\u2019ve got some decent players, that right there [points at running stats], is why Spurs are in big trouble.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/maresca-frank-vindicated-transfer-wars-chelsea-spurs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maresca among sacked managers proved right in transfer tussles this season<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham Hotspur have been tipped to \u201cgo down\u201d from the Premier League unless new head coach Igor Tudor&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445585,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,348,155868,67259,50,221,101,919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-445584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-home-page","tag-igor-tudor","tag-jamie-o","tag-news","tag-premier-league","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}