It's time for a new episode of Talking Tottenham as our Spurs correspondents Alasdair Gold and Ryan Taylor discuss the new man in charge
There is a new man at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor will have found some familiar faces when he walked through the doors of the north London club.
The 47-year-old has been called upon to do a similar firefighting job to the one he had previously managed at Juventus, Lazio and Udinese in recent years in order to pull Spurs out of their current mess. Those woes had brought the end of the Thomas Frank era after just seven months and now Tudor must navigate a way forward for an injury-ravaged squad low on confidence.
The Croatian will at least know some of the squad after working with them at Juventus. Although they are both currently out with a hamstring and knee injuries respectively, Tudor worked with both Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski during his season as Andrea Pirlo's assistant head coach.
There was also a young Romanian centre-back at Juventus named Radu Dragusin who was called up in that 2020/21 season from the U23s squad to train with the team and he appeared in four senior matches during the campaign, once in the Champions League, once in Serie A and two appearances in the Coppa Italia.
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There may have also been a fourth Tottenham player who might have worked briefly with Tudor and that's the currently suspended captain Cristian Romero. The Argentine was signed by Juventus before being loaned back to Genoa.
However there was a period of time when the defender was back at Juve, with Tudor joining the coaching staff on August 21, 2020 and Romero not moving on to Atalanta on a two-year loan with an option to buy until September 5. So the former Croatia defender may just have worked briefly for a couple of weeks with the Argentina international before his move to Atalanta, from where he joined Spurs in 2022.
Our Tottenham correspondents Alasdair Gold and Ryan Taylor spoke in depth about Igor Tudor, his arrival in north London, his new-look coaching staff and his first game being Sunday's north London derby on their podcast Talking Tottenham. You can listen to the latest episode of their show by clicking here for the podcast or going right here to watch it on YouTube.