There\u2019s more coaching news today \u2014 on the same day that Tottenham Hotspur announced that one of their academy coaches is leaving for Ipswich Town, there\u2019s new reporting from Sami Mockbel at the BBC that Roberto De Zerbi is adding another assistant. Mockbel writes that longtime Brighton assistant Andrew Crofts is joining De Zerbi\u2019s coaching staff.<\/p>\n
I really can\u2019t tell you much about Crofts \u2014 he had a 20 year career as a player, retiring in 2021 at Brighton where he was a player\/coach for the Seagulls academy. Afterwards, he continued coaching in Brighton\u2019s academy and has worked his way up the Brighton coaching ladder. He even served as interim head coach in 2022 after the sacking of Graham Potter. He was promoted to first team assistant coach under Roberto De Zerbi when he was at Brighton, so we know that RDZ knows Crofts and what he can bring to his staff. As of last season, Crofts was assistant head coach under Fabian Hurzeler. He also serves as an assistant for the Wales national team.<\/p>\n
There\u2019s no real indication that I\u2019ve seen as to what Crofts will be doing on De Zerbi\u2019s staff at Spurs, but I can\u2019t think of a reason why hiring an assistant who\u2019s worked under De Zerbi before could be construed as a BAD thing. He\u2019ll be one of several new faces in Tottenham\u2019s coaching ranks.<\/p>\n
Spurs play their first preseason friendly this coming Wednesday against MK Dons at Spurs\u2019 Hotspur Way training center. The match is not televised, but will be streamed on SpursPLAY, Tottenham\u2019s in-house subscription video platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s more coaching news today \u2014 on the same day that Tottenham Hotspur announced that one of their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,53930,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-tottenham-hotspur-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702602","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=702602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}