{"id":473262,"date":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473262\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T10:52:08","slug":"klinsmann-vows-to-make-tottenham-really-ugly-and-nasty-as-shock-appointment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/473262\/","title":{"rendered":"Klinsmann vows to make Tottenham &#8216;really ugly and nasty&#8217; as shock appointment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jurgen Klinsmann has thrown his hat in the ring for the Tottenham job, insisting he would \u201cdevelop a really nasty, ugly, fighting spirit\u201d in the players.<\/p>\n<p>Igor Tudor oversaw his fourth defeat in four as Spurs boss on Tuesday as Atletico Madrid put them to the sword in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie to run out 5-2 winners.<\/p>\n<p>Three consecutive defeats in the Premier League leaves them just one point above the relegation zone ahead of their trip to play Liverpool at Anfield on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Another loss will surely bring an end to Tudor\u2019s brief and horrific tenure; it\u2019s a surprise he\u2019s still in the job given the Spurs players clearly haven\u2019t responded to his tactics and \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/tudor-sack-spurs-career-killed-kinsky-champions-league-atletico\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">as Antonin Kinsky will advise<\/a> \u2013 are some less than mediocre man-management skills.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/tottenham-igor-tudor-sack-robbie-keane-dilemma-sean-dyche-availability\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tottenham wrestling with Robbie Keane dilemma to leave Sean Dyche still in Tudor-replacement play<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wayne Rooney insists there\u2019s \u201cno way\u201d Robbie Keane should leave Ferencv\u00e1ros for Tottenham in their current state and with Sean Dyche and Ryan Mason tipped for an interim stint until the end of the season, former Spurs striker Jurgen Klinsmann insists he would be open to the challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Klinsmann is currently available having been sacked by South Korea in February 2024 after their defeat in the semi-final of the Asia Cup.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"noopener nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/soccer\/story\/_\/id\/48182951\/jurgen-klinsmann-refuses-rule-tottenham-hotspur-job-igor-tudor-fire\" target=\"_blank\">He told ESPN<\/a>: \u201cWho wouldn\u2019t want the job? It is Tottenham.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever you choose, you need a person who can connect to everyone emotionally, that knows the club, that feels the club, that feels the people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause, to get out of this mess, they need to develop a fighting spirit, a really nasty, ugly, fighting spirit and that goes only over the emotions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo you don\u2019t need to have to bring in the mastermind of tactical stuff or whatever, you need to have somebody who gets everybody onboard and go and get these games done in a positive way and get everybody behind the fact that they are in danger of going down to the Championship.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo no matter who you put in charge now, it goes only over the emotions, the willingness to suffer and fight and maybe take the ball away from some ballboys on the sidelines.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/who-will-be-tottenham-manager-next-season-pochettino-the-favourite\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Who will be Spurs manager next season? \u2018Dark horse\u2019 joins Pochettino on list<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Klinsmann was referencing the clash between Pedro Neto and a PSG ballboy in Chelsea\u2019s 5-2 defeat on Wednesday and then also reflected on Tudor\u2019s decision to take Spurs goalkeeper Kinsky off just 17 minutes into their defeat to Atletico Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>Tudor has been on the end of stinging criticism, firstly for starting Kinsky ahead of Guglielmo Vicario and secondly for hooking him so early in the game.<\/p>\n<p>Klinsmann added: \u201cI think if you ask him [Tudor] today and he reflects about the decision making before the game to play him and then during the game, obviously to sub him out after 17 minutes, he would re-think their whole situation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cObviously, it is a killer for the kid, it is the worst thing a goalkeeper can go through, I feel for the kid because my own son is a goalkeeper and I hope he never gets a moment like that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will obviously make mistakes and he will make similar mistakes like Kinsky did there but obviously to then get pulled off after 17 minutes in a game in front of a sold-out crowd in Madrid, because you have these two blackouts is simply brutal.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I think we all felt for the boy and obviously you are on the ground, you get back up and you get going but this is a massive shocker for a young player like him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe threw him in the cold water and in that moment, the water was too cold.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made those two huge mistakes and then the other story to discuss certainly is how do you react to it, just drag it out until half-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaybe then you can talk to him and then you explain to him that you will sub him off and bring back Vicario in that moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe decided to do it after 17 minutes and that is a huge punishment for a young kid like him.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jurgen Klinsmann has thrown his hat in the ring for the Tottenham job, insisting he would \u201cdevelop a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,448,155868,168916,50,101,919,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-473262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-front-page","tag-igor-tudor","tag-jurgen-klinsmann","tag-news","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\/473262","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=473262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}