{"id":456188,"date":"2026-03-04T00:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456188\/"},"modified":"2026-03-04T00:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-04T00:46:12","slug":"tottenham-board-considering-brutal-igor-tudor-decision-ahead-of-crystal-palace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/456188\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham board considering brutal Igor Tudor decision ahead of Crystal Palace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tag\/tottenham-hotspur\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tottenham<\/a> are reportedly considering what would be a brutal Igor Tudor call ahead of their showdown with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tag\/crystal-palace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Crystal Palace<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/premier-league\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Premier League<\/a> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>                        Spurs battling relegation after disastrous Premier League season<\/p>\n<p>Tudor arrived at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in February as the club&#8217;s second manager of a catastrophic campaign, handed the interim reins after Thomas Frank was shown the door following just eight months in the job.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"1376\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Thomas Frank record at Spurs (timeless)\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thomas-frank-record-at-spurs-timeless.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/thomas-frank-record-at-spurs-timeless.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> The Croatian was brought in to provide an immediate shot in the arm and arrest a slide that had seen Spurs go 10 Premier League games without a win in 2026. It has not gone to plan so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/what-tottenham-players-might-not-like-about-igor-tudor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tudor arrived at N17 with a fearsome reputation as a firefighter<\/a> who has rescued previous campaigns of multiple Serie A clubs, including Lazio and Juventus.<\/p>\n<p>However, under the tactician, things have got worse rather than better.<\/p>\n<p>A 4-1 thumping at Arsenal was as embarrassing as it sounds, and a 2-1 defeat to Fulham did nothing to suggest the new man had any kind of answers.<\/p>\n<p>The performances have been listless, the defending alarming, and the goals have dried up at exactly the wrong end of the season.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"440\" height=\"364\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bayern-munich\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mixcollage-25-sep-2025-10-04-am-2794.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/mixcollage-25-sep-2025-10-04-am-2794.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    Related<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tottenham-next-manager-niko-kovac-borussia-dortmind-bayern-munich\/\" title=\"Club desperate to stop title-winning former Bayern Munich boss from joining Tottenham after contact\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n\t\t\tClub desperate to stop title-winning former Bayern Munich boss from joining Tottenham after contact<br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"display-card-excerpt\">Spurs have reportedly reached out.<\/p>\n<p>Spurs currently sit just four points above the relegation zone with games running out. A club that won the Europa League less than a year ago under Ange Postecoglou are now in a genuine fight for their top-flight survival.<\/p>\n<p>The contrast is staggering.<\/p>\n<p>The problems run deeper, with Fabio Paratici, who returned from a lengthy FIFA ban in October only to leave for Fiorentina in February, barely having time to make an impact before walking out the door.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tottenham Hotspur manager Thomas Frank with sporting directors Fabio Paratici and Johan Lange during training\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tottenham-hotspur-manager-thomas-frank-with-sporting-directors-fabio-paratici-and-johan-lange-during.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tottenham-hotspur-manager-thomas-frank-with-sporting-directors-fabio-paratici-and-johan-lange-during.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> Reports suggest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballfancast.com\/tottenham-crystal-palace-dougie-freedman-fabio-paratici-next-manager\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tottenham are eyeing up Dougie Freedman and Chelsea&#8217;s Paul Winstanley as replacements for Paratici<\/a>, and the new co-sporting director will have a big say on their next permanent manager.<\/p>\n<p>Against all of this backdrop and real turmoil in north London, Thursday&#8217;s home clash with Crystal Palace has taken on enormous significance \u2014 and not just in terms of the table.<\/p>\n<p>                        Tottenham considering brutal Igor Tudor decision ahead of Crystal Palace<\/p>\n<p>According to a report from Match Day Central on X, formerly Twitter, Tudor&#8217;s position may depend entirely on what happens against Palace.<\/p>\n<p>        <img width=\"1650\" height=\"826\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Tottenham interim coach Igor Tudor\" data-img-url=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tottenham-interim-coach-igor-tudor.jpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/tottenham-interim-coach-igor-tudor.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p> The club&#8217;s board are apparently alarmed by the performances since his appointment and that patience is wearing thin at a rapid rate.<\/p>\n<p>Tudor was installed with the clear expectation that he would turn results around quickly. That has not happened.<\/p>\n<p>A win on Thursday, the report suggests, could buy him more time. Anything short of three points, and the club may decide that another change is necessary \u2014 even with the chaos that would inevitably bring.<\/p>\n<p>It would be an extraordinary situation even by Spurs&#8217; recent standards. Sacking a third manager in 12 months with just 10 games to go, while simultaneously battling relegation and hunting for a permanent appointment, would be the kind of chaos that the club cannot afford \u2014 financially or by reputation.<\/p>\n<p>Palace are no pushovers either.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Glasner&#8217;s side have won three of their last six games in all competitions and gave Man United a good game last time out, so they&#8217;ll arrive at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with some confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham are reportedly considering what would be a brutal Igor Tudor call ahead of their showdown with Crystal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-456188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456188","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=456188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}