{"id":466708,"date":"2026-02-13T18:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466708\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T18:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T18:01:10","slug":"tottenham-finalizing-igor-tudor-as-interim-boss-sources","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/466708\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham finalizing Igor Tudor as interim boss – sources"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham<\/a> are finalizing the appointment of Igor Tudor as interim head coach until the end of the season, sources have told ESPN.<\/p>\n

Talks progressed quickly in the past 24 hours as Spurs accelerated their search following Thomas Frank’s sacking on Monday after just eight months in charge.<\/p>\n

Sources have told ESPN that Tottenham looked at a small pool of candidates and identified Tudor as a leading option given his vast head coaching experience, which most recently included a seven-month spell at Juventus<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Igor Tudor is set to become Tottenham interim head coach.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The 47-year-old has verbally agreed to take the job but the finer points of his contract are still to be sorted.<\/p>\n

Sources have told ESPN that Spurs are confident Tudor will be in place by Monday, when the players return from a five-day break. Their next match is against north London rivals Arsenal<\/a> at home on Feb. 22.<\/p>\n

Tudor left Juventus in October after an eight-game winless run and has previously managed various clubs across Europe including Hajduk Split twice, Udinese<\/a> twice, Marseille<\/a> and Lazio<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sources added that Tudor, who won two Serie A<\/a> titles as a player with Juventus, will be given a chance to stake a claim for a permanent role beyond the summer if Tottenham are successful.<\/p>\n

They currently lie in 16th place, five points above the Premier League’s relegation zone with a Champions League round-of-16 tie to come next month.<\/p>\n

– Laurens: Who are the candidates to replace Thomas Frank as Spurs boss?
–<\/a> Olley: Spurs job was too much for Frank, but Tottenham’s problems run much deeper
–<\/a> The brutal stats behind Thomas Frank’s dismissal<\/a><\/p>\n

USMNT coach and former Spurs manager Mauricio Pochettino is prominent in the club’s thinking as a permanent appointment and would be a popular choice with supporters but the Argentine’s future after the tournament is currently unclear.<\/p>\n

Roberto De Zerbi is out of work after leaving Marseille<\/a> while Oliver Glasner and Andoni Iraola are running down the final few months of their deals at Crystal Palace<\/a> and AFC Bournemouth<\/a>, respectively.<\/p>\n

Spurs also considered Fulham<\/a> boss Marco Silva prior to appointing Frank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham are finalizing the appointment of Igor Tudor as interim head coach until the end of the season,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":466709,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-466708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/466709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}