The Croatian took his first training session at the north London club on Monday and his arrival should be a boost to a few different people
Igor Tudor got down to work on the training pitches at Tottenham on Monday afternoon as he looked to guide the club away from disaster.
Spurs have appointed the 47-year-old Croatian on a short-term contract until the end of the season to fix the mess at the north London outfit which saw Thomas Frank sacked after just seven months in charge. Tudor must pick up the club with the team sitting in 16th spot and placed perilously just five points above West Ham in 18th place and the drop zone in the Premier League.
Tudor is one of football's firefighters, having been parachuted into clubs such as Juventus, Lazio and Udinese in recent years to quickly improve their fortunes which he always did in the immediate months after arriving at each of them.
Now the former Juventus centre-back must work that same magic in a new environment in the Premier League to ensure Spurs do not sink to the unthinkable depths of relegation.
Here are five people connected with the club who should benefit from Tudor's arrival:
The Tottenham fans
Ok, technically this isn't one person, more like 60,000 or so every other week. The Spurs fans went after Frank like no other manager in recent memory as he was quickly informed in no uncertain manner that he was not wanted at the north London club, with his every move booed by the supporters in his final months at the organisation.
They did not like his football, they did not like his press conferences and they did not like the mystery around various injuries one bit.
It had got to a point where the atmosphere at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium was turning toxic and Tudor, with his more end-to-end style of football, should bring the fans something to cheer for despite the lack of players. You can't call for one manager to be sacked and then not back the replacement and that's what the Spurs supporters will do.
The team need all the help they can get and with six home games to come in the Premier League, the supporters can play their part in pushing Spurs to safety, starting with Sunday's north London derby.
Randal Kolo Muani
Randal Kolo Muani has scored three goals and laid on two assists in seven Champions League games but he is yet to score or set up a single goal in the Premier League.
Kolo Muani could be rejuvenated by the arrival of Tudor as he netted five times and provided one assist in 11 appearances under the Croatian at the end of last season at Juventus as he and the Croatian helped push the Old Lady into the top four. The new interim boss wanted to sign the forward last summer and was reportedly very unhappy when Juventus failed to get him.
With Wilson Odobert out for most of 2026 with an ACL injury, Spurs are going to need his fellow Frenchman to step up in the remaining months of this season and they might just have brought in the perfect person to make that happen.
Mathys Tel
Mathys Tel could become much more important to Tottenham after being pretty much discarded by Frank for much of the season and Tudor should try to tap into the young Frenchman's hunger to impress.
The main thing for both Tel and Kolo Muani is that they may need to adapt to a number 10 role as the width in Tudor's teams comes from the wing-backs. His 3-4-2-1 formation employs two number 10s behind the striker, which should get the best out of Xavi Simons but it might take some adapting for the two Frenchmen.
Either way, Tel should at least get plenty more game time than he did under his previous boss.
Yves Bissouma
Frank was yet another manager Yves Bissouma fell foul of during his time at Tottenham. With the Dane and his predecessor Ange Postecoglou it was time-keeping, as well as some other more dubious activities, that saw him suspended from club duty.
The Mali international looked to have come to the end of his career with Spurs, only for this year's edition of the club's injury crisis to hand him an unexpected lifeline and he has ending up playing in the past five Premier League matches for the club, starting three of them.
Bissouma gets a fresh start under Tudor and the Croatian might just decide that the 29-year-old is his best option in the centre of the pitch when he's trying to prove a point and impress a new manager. Tudor's predecessor might point towards the incidents that marked exactly those early moments with them.
If the experienced midfielder can find some consistency, as he did towards the end of last season in Europe, then it could be crucial to Tottenham veering away from trouble.
A third centre-back
In recent years, the problem for Tottenham's centre-backs has always been how exactly were they going to get minutes in the team unless Cristian Romero or Micky van de Ven were out injured.
Frank started to move towards a back three only to drop it in his final couple of games after it faltered in the first half against Manchester City. Sticking with it in those later games after might have prolonged his time at Spurs that little bit longer.
Now Tudor is coming in with a 3-4-2-1 formation and that opens the door for various centre-backs to get game time even when Romero returns from suspension.
For right now that means Radu Dragusin and possibly even 17-year-old Jun'ai Byfield while Kevin Danso will be hoping to return sooner rather than later from his toe ligament injury to step into the backline.
It could also mean midfielder Joao Palhinha getting further time in defence or Archie Gray on the right of a back three when Pedro Porro returns at right-back. Either way, someone should be getting more game time in defence.