Time is winding down for Igor Tudor at Tottenham Hotspur, and after personal tragedy and a 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest in a relegation six pointer, it feels like the Italian manager's days at the N17 are numbered.
Spurs are being increasingly linked with immediate options to replace Tudor, but they are finding it difficult to hire the most well known names available. Roberto De Zerbi appears to be the No. 1 target for Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham, but he is unsurprisingly thoroughly uninterested in taking on the risk of being Spurs manager right now.
As Tottenham talk to Adi Hutter and feel out any possible replacements with Premier League ties - while fans smoke a pipe, dreaming of Mauricio Pochettino saving the day - they will have to make a decision on Tudor soon during this March international break.
Igor Tudor may not last past Monday
According to new information from Sam Wallace and Matt Law of the Daily Telegraph, Tottenham Hotspur are expected to decide on Tudor's future at the club this coming Monday, leaving potentially just a few days until Spurs fans hear word of a new manager coming in.
Tudor hasn't done a good or a bad job as Tottenham manager, in truth. He has basically inherited an impossible task with the team in shambles mentally and physically, owing to so many injuries accruing this season that nobody - not even Tudor, who just took the job - can wrap their head around this horrendous luck.
But notably, Tottenham are just one point above relegation and certainly did themselves no favors by being hopelessly outplayed by Nottingham Forest last weekend. That has made Tudor's position, in the eyes of many, untenable at this point with Tottenham facing true emergency and a threat to their very future as a Premier League club.
The most interesting thing about the report that Tottenham are set to decide Tudor's future in a matter of days after the weekend ends is the fact that there is no real favorite right now to take on the job. If De Zerbi is not going to coach any clubs before the season ends, the only name concretely linked to Spurs who is in active talks with Tottenham is Adi Hutter, and while he was a good coach in the Bundesliga and pretty decent in Ligue 1 for Monaco, he's never managed in the Premier League - let alone in a relegation fight of any sort.