The new interim Tottenham head coach has set his staff for the remaining months of the season and football.london has taken a closer look at them
There's a new-look coaching staff at Tottenham Hotspur under the stewardship of Igor Tudor and they are going to have to hit the ground running.
With Spurs 16th in the table and facing a big Champions League last 16 tie next month, the 47-year-old Croatian has brought in some trusted allies that he knows can get his ideas across quickly to the players as they look to steer Tottenham away from the relegation mix.
Leaving Spurs with Thomas Frank are the Dane's assistant coaches Justin Cochrane and John Heitinga along with head of performance Chris Haslam, as well as first team coach analyst Joe Newton. Heitinga was only appointed last month as Frank's new assistant to take over from Matt Wells, who left for his first managerial role at MLS side Colorado Rapids.
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Here's a closer look at Tudor's new coaching staff, who will quickly get out on the training pitches of Hotspur Way, subject to them all getting work permits. The new boss took charge of his first training session on Monday afternoon at the Enfield complex.
Ivan Javorcic
Ivan Javorcic, Tudor's assistant manager, is another 47-year-old Croatian and he and Tudor know each other well. Javorcic, who was also born in Split, was his assistant manager at both Juventus and Lazio and played his part in both clubs having an immediate surge in form just when they needed it the most.
Tudor and Javorcic stabilized Lazio after Maurizio Sarri quit in March 2024 and they led the team to an unbeaten run in the league for his first two months after they joined. Then in March last year the duo arrived at Juventus and took them up the table to fourth place and Champions League qualification.
In both jobs, the duo recorded exactly the same set of results in the remainder of the season with nine games, five wins, three draws and one defeat. Tottenham would likely be delighted with a similar outcome.
Before linking up with Tudor, Javorcic was a manager himself at lower levels in Italian football, taking on newly-relegated Serie B side Venezia in 2022, and had worked within the youth set-up at Brescia before enjoying a caretaker stint for that club's senior team. In his playing days, Brescia was where he made his name as a defensive midfielder, playing in Serie A but mainly in Serie B and C.
Now he will look to bring his coaching attributes to the Premier League and a third stint by Tudor's side.
Riccardo Ragnacci
Tottenham's new physical coach Riccardo Ragnacci does not look like someone you or the players would want to cross. The 49-year-old Italian has been getting players into top physical shape for decades across the game in his home country.
He has worked at two different clubs with Tudor, at both Juventus after joining him last summer from Empoli and previously during the head coach's successful stint at Hellas Verona. Ragnacci was at Verona for half a decade before moving to Lecce in 2023 ahead of those spells at Empoli and Juventus.
Now he will bring his fitness conditioning to Spurs to ensure the players are able to handle Tudor's all-action high-pressing style, while having to be mindful of the club's dreadful injury record.
Tomislav Rogic
Tomislav Rogic makes it a hat-trick of Croatians on the coaching team as the 50-year-old comes in as a goalkeeping coach at Tottenham.
Rogic is another who has followed Tudor in recent jobs, having worked with him at both Lazio and Juventus, but he's a very experienced coach in his own right with his career having taken him around the world to clubs like Club Brugge, Zenit, Shakhtar and even coaching India's national team goalkeepers.
Now the former Zadar goalkeeper will be working with Guglielmo Vicario, Antonin Kinsky and Brandon Austin. He will not however be doing it alone.
Fabian Otte
That's because goalkeeping coach Fabian Otte will remain with Spurs despite Rogic's arrival. The ex-Liverpool and USA goalkeeping coach arrived last summer to add some winning experience to Frank's staff and the decision has been made for him to continue to work with Rogic for the remainder of the season.
The 35-year-old has plenty of Premier League experience, having worked with Tottenham, Liverpool's title-winning side last season and Burnley as well as spending three years at Borussia Monchengladbach.
It remains to be seen which of the two men will be the more senior as while Rogic is 15 years older both have plenty of high level experience.
Andreas Georgson
Tottenham fans will be happy to see Andreas Georgson sticking around because he has been one of the few bright spots of the campaign so far with his set piece coaching.
That is definitely one area, perhaps the only area, in which Spurs have improved this season and the 43-year-old Swede can often be seen on the touchline with his cap on, shouting instructions to the team at both attacking and defensive set pieces.
With experience at Manchester United, Arsenal, Brentford and Southampton, Georgson will continue to provide vital help to Tudor as both a set piece coach but also able to handle general coaching as he's a bit of an all-rounder.
Cameron Campbell
Another piece of the coaching puzzle is individual development coach Cameron Campbell, who will be sticking around after joining last summer. You can often see the 34-year-old Scot working on players' skills but he is also able to take more general sessions when required.
Campbell was specifically brought in by Frank and sporting director Johan Lange to fill a role they felt was missing within the club's coaching set-up.
"We have added Cameron Campbell, that is an individual coach, big on how we develop the players,” said Frank last summer. "And that was a big wish from both Johan and I, and it is something we talked about, that we thought was crucial. I think not many clubs have actually nailed that. We tried in the past, so hopefully we can take it to the next level."
The Scot has clearly done enough to convince the Spurs hierarchy and Tudor to continue his work at Hotspur Way.
Stuart Lewis
Highly-rated within Spurs, Stuart Lewis will continue in his role as first team academy transition coach and the 38-year-old will no doubt be hoping for Tudor to actually give some more of young players minutes in the months ahead than Frank did during his seven-month tenure.
"I think it's important for us to have specialists. We are very fortunate as a club that we are able to attract some of the best specialist coaches in the world. And we made a couple of internal promotions," Lange said last summer. "Stuart Lewis will come into a new role as transition coach between the first team and the academy.
"We want players of all ages to have that development mindset. But of course to strengthen even more the bond between the first team and the academy is something that we have worked hard on for a number of years and with this new hire of Stuart coming into this new role we believe that it will be even even stronger in the years to come because we have some very, very exciting young players that will come through, push in the upcoming years and they need maybe a little bit of special attention as well to bridge that big gap that it is to go from academy football to the Premier League."
Dean Brill
Along with Lewis, Dean Brill had stepped up from head of academy goalkeeper coaching last summer to a role of assistant goalkeeper coach with Otte and could often be seen up in the press box taking his place among the analysts to get a better view from above of what was going on in the box.
The 40-year-old former Luton Town and Leyton Orient stopper will continue his role in working with the young goalkeepers who step up to work with the first team such as Luca Gunter, Aaron Maguire and Samuel Archer.