Tottenham Hotspur are already drafting a list of managers who can take over from Igor Tudor, and though the interim coach could leave before the season ends by a mutual parting of ways, there is no ambiguity about the fact that Spurs will be hiring a new, permanent manager when the 2025/26 Premier League season concludes.
Spurs got the hiring of Thomas Frank horribly wrong, and the inability of Vinai Venkatesham and Johan Lange to appropriately contingency plan forced Spurs into keeping Frank around for longer than they should have. Hence Spurs are now fighting for their lives in a relegation battle with Nottingham Forest and West Ham United.
Tottenham appear to be focused on Roberto De Zerbi with a reunion with Mauricio Pochettino also being a 1a and 1b type of option. But Spurs have also been linked to a number of mid table option in the Permier League dating back to their Frank choice last year, including Bournemouth's Andoni Iraola.
Crystal Palace may try to hire Andoni Iraola
The former Athletic Club right back is in demand already, even though he has not decided yet if he willl stay at Bournemouth for the 2026/27 season or elect not to renew. A reunion with Athletic Club and a return to La Liga coaching, where he once managed Rayo Vallecano, is on the cards, but so is another Premier League option now.
According to a report from Mike McGrath and Matt Law of the Daily Telegraph, Crystal Palace could actually swoop in and replace one potential Tottenham Hotspur managerial target, Oliver Glasner, with another. They are eyeing Andoni Iraola as an option to replace a disgruntled Glasner, who has been hokey pokeying himself in and out the door all season long with various press conference tirades, especially after high profile transfer sales out of Palace like Marc Guehi.
Glasner and Iraola have both been linked to Tottenham in the past, though the links have cooled in recent months with fans focusing on Pochettino and the transfer rumor mill itself seemingly circling increasingly around the unpopular De Zerbi.
Like De Zerbi, Glasner is a volatile coach with a temper and quick falling outs, but he is actually more successful despite a lesser reputation. He recently won the FA Cup with Crystal Palace and is a former Europa League winner with Eintracht Frankfurt.
Iraola going to Palace would take a very interesting, more grounded manager off the Tottenham list but then make Glasner a wide open candidate. Spurs would probably prefer Iraola to Glasner, but if Glasner is available and both De Zerbi and Pochettino reject them, Glasner would then be first on the list almost by default.