Pedro Porro should be concerned about his Tottenham Hotspur future beyond the summer.
Igor Tudor departed by mutual consent on Sunday after just 44 days, and the club are working to convince Roberto De Zerbi to take charge before the end of the season.
Porro will be playing for his seventh head coach since joining in January 2023, and one club employee has predicted he will be in trouble no matter who takes charge.
De Zerbi is Spurs’ No 1 target to replace Tudor and is now believed to be open to holding talks, having been offered a long-term contract in a major show of faith in his abilities.
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Why is Pedro Porro’s Tottenham future in doubt?
However, this may not be the news that Porro wanted to hear.
While he poses an offensive threat, the next head coach is likely to also judge him heavily on his defensive abilities, which have been exposed too many times throughout this campaign.
A look at his statistics reveals what supporters already know: that he is questionable in and around his own penalty area. Under De Zerbi, that would not be allowed to stand.
According to Sofascore, he has been dribbled past 1.3 times per Premier League game and blocked roughly 0.3 shots every 90 minutes.
Porro has also made five errors leading to efforts this season.
He is also beaten by his opponents too often. Indeed, the 26-year-old wins around 50 per cent of his duels in the top-flight, a figure which drops down to 47 per cent in the air.
His pass accuracy of 81 per cent inside his own half looks reasonable, but in fact shows his habit of gifting away the ball in dangerous areas and putting Spurs under pressure.
Spurs haven’t helped Porro
Porro will rightly point to Tudor’s indecision over his best position to defend himself, and he would certainly have a point. The constant chopping and changing was to nobody’s benefit.
The Spaniard was used as a centre-back, a right-back, a right wing-back and a right midfielder under the former head coach, and simply couldn’t build up a sustained rhythm.
On the decision to play him at the heart of the backline, one former Spurs employee told The Telegraph: “He [Tudor] can’t even be looking at the players properly to do that.
“Pedro is a great player, but he’s one of the worst defenders at the club.”