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Roberto De Zerbi begins bid to save Spurs from relegation
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Tyson Fury is in confident mood ahead of facing Arslanbek Makhmudov
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Tyson Fury returns to the boxing ring tonight to take on Arslanbek Makhmudov in a huge London fight.
The former two-time world heavyweight champion, 37, is back in the ring for the first time since the second of his successive points defeats by Oleksandr Usyk in Riyadh in December 2024, after which he retired once again lamenting what he felt was an unjust result as he failed to win the unified titles having lost his WBC belt in an initial undisputed showdown seven months earlier.
However, it was always expected that Fury would return, likely for a huge money-spinning showdown with long-time rival Anthony Joshua, and he repeatedly hinted as much before officially announcing his comeback in January, with an April date against Makhmudov confirmed.
Makhmudov, 36, is a Russian heavyweight based in Canada who has a professional record of 21-2 with 19 knockouts. He last fought in Sheffield in October, when he beat David Allen by unanimous decision.
Both of those defeats have come in his last five bouts, with Makhmudov stopped by now interim WBC champion Agit Kabayel in the fourth round in Riyadh in 2023 on the ‘Day of Reckoning’ card ahead of Deontay Wilder vs Joseph Parker and Joshua vs Otto Wallin, losing his WBC-NABF and WBA Inter-Continental titles.
Arslanbek Makhmudov picked Tyson Fury up at their final press conference
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After bouncing back with an early knockout of Miljan Rovcanin, he was then upset by Italy’s Guido Vianello in the summer of 2024 in a rematch of their World Series of Boxing clash after gruesome swelling around his left eye forced the ringside doctor to wave off the bout at the start of round eight.
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Makhmudov responded with a first-round knockout of Jamaican Ricardo Brown in Quebec City, before travelling to the UK to defeat Allen.
Fury’s comeback comes amid yet more speculation that a fight with Joshua has been agreed, with renewed suggestions that it could take place in Dublin in the autumn.
Joshua last fought by knocking out Jake Paul in Miami in December, though his boxing future looked uncertain after he subsequently sustained minor injuries in a car accident in Nigeria in which two of his close friends and team members died.
Eddie Hearn has said that they have been “very focused” on making the Fury fight, but also did not rule out Joshua - who was in attendance at the O2 Arena - potentially facing another long-time rival in Deontay Wilder, who called him out in person after defeating Derek Chisora in a thrilling contest by split decision last weekend.
Joshua is also expected to be ringside for Fury vs Makhmudov.
Fury vs Makhmudov fight date and venue
Fury vs Makhmudov takes place today, Saturday April 11, 2026 at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, England.
Fury vs Makhmudov fight time and ring walks
Saturday night’s main card is due to begin at 7pm BST, which is 2pm ET and 11am PT in the United States.
Fury and Makhmudov are expected to make their ring walks after 10pm BST, 5pm ET and 2pm PT. The fight should be underway at approximately 10:30pm BST (5:30pm ET, 2:30pm PT), but those timings are subject to change.
How to watch Fury vs Makhmudov
TV channel and live stream: Fury vs Makhmudov is being shown live and exclusive around the world on Netflix, included in regular subscriptions at no extra cost. A subscription to Netflix currently costs from £5.99 a month in the UK.
Live blog: You won’t miss anything on fight night with Standard Sport’s live blog.
Fury vs Makhmudov undercard
Having made a shock exit from Matchroom, Conor Benn fights under the Zuffa Boxing banner in the co-main event as he takes on former super-lightweight world champion Regis Prograis - his first fight since that rematch win over arch-rival Chris Eubank Jr in November.
Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva defends the British heavyweight title won against Frazer Clarke for the first time as he battles Richard Riakporhe, while Clarke is on the comeback trail against Justis Huni.
Former British and Commonwealth middleweight champion Felix Cash is also on the bill, taking on Liam O'Hare.
Conor Benn and Regis Prograis have co-main event status in north London
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Main card
Tyson Fury vs Arslanbek Makhmudov
Conor Benn vs Regis Prograis
Jeamie 'TKV' Tshikeva vs Richard Riakporhe
Frazer Clarke vs Justis Huni
Prelim card
Felix Cash vs Liam O'Hare
Simon Zachenhuber vs Pawel August
Breyon Gorham vs Eduardo Costa
Mikie Tallon vs Leandro Blanc
Elliot Whale vs Tom Hill
Hector Lozano vs Sultan Almohammed
Francis Gorman vs Ryan Labourn
Fury vs Makhmudov prediction
There will no doubt be an awful lot of ring rust to shake off for Fury, who has not fought for 16 months and spent the entirety of 2025 outside the ring.
You would certainly not expect the self-proclaimed ‘Gypsy King’ to be at anywhere close to his best after such an extended absence, though as usual has promised a “brutal knockout” to announce his latest return and first fight in the UK since stopping Chisora at Tottenham in 2022.
Makhmudov is tough, aggressive and a hard-hitter who only gives up a couple of inches in height to Fury and who will view this as a massive opportunity to make a statement on the very biggest stage.
Tyson Fury will hope to inflict a third career defeat on Arslanbek Makhmudov
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However, defeats by Kabayel and Vianello have also exposed his vulnerabilities and he will have been disappointed not to have stopped Allen.
The far more dynamic Fury is a whole new level of challenge that he has never faced before and will surely not be able to handle.
Fury to win by stoppage.
Fury vs Makhmudov weigh-in results
Fury stepped on the scales on Friday lighter than he was for his most recent bout against Usyk, coming in at 267.9lbs, while Makhmudov weighed in at 264.9lbs.
Fury vs Makhmudov latest odds
Fury to win: 1/8
Makhmudov to win: 9/2
Draw: 20/1
Fury to win on points or by decision: 11/4
Fury to win by knockout, technical knockout or disqualification: 8/15
Makhmudov to win on points or by decision: 14/1
Makhmudov to win by knockout, technical knockout or disqualification: 13/2
Odds via Betfair (subject to change).
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Roberto De Zerbi has said that his long-term ambition is to guide Tottenham to the top of the Premier League table despite having just seven games to save them from relegation.
The Italian head coach’s immediate priority is to prevent Tottenham slipping into the second division for the first time in nearly 50 years, but in signing a five-year deal, he appears to have underlined his commitment to the club and said he would stay “no matter what” next season in his first interview since his appointment.
The length of De Zerbi’s contract, which does not have a relegation clause, was considered surprising, given his longest managerial stint came at Sassuolo between 2018 and 2021.
But asked whether he was committed to the challenge at Spurs, De Zerbi said he planned to stay for a long time and wanted to help the club challenge for the Premier League title in the future.
“I stayed three years in Sassuolo and then I left from Ukraine when the war started. In Brighton I left for different problems and in Marseille maybe the same,” De Zerbi said in his first pre-match press conference as Spurs boss.
“I would like to stay four or five, for a long time. I don't know how many years but in Marseille like this because in Marseille my idea was to stay for a long time,
“Then you have to speak with the club and when you have a different view of football or other things you have to leave money and you have to leave.
“But in my plan for sure there is the idea to stay for a long time, to try to put Tottenham, I'm not speaking about the titles because it's not the right moment now, but to put Tottenham to stay in the first position in the Premier League because there are all parts to reach that level.”
For now, De Zerbi’s only aim is to steer a Spurs side yet to win a league game this calendar year away from the relegation zone.
The brief is simple, and De Zerbi says his messaging since taking his first training session this week has been not to overcomplicate things.
A revered tactician, De Zerbi admits the intricacies of his style will take a backseat as he seeks to get his team playing with courage and character again after a brutal run of results.
“Listen, my style is one part, about the style of play and one part about the character, the personality. I have no time enough to work in the principle or in build-up so much, or in the last 20 metres” De Zerbi continued.
“I want to give organisation with the ball and without the ball. Two principles without the ball, three principles, four more. Something more in possession, in offensive phase and that's it,
“What I want to do, what I want to achieve immediately is the character, is the right spirit, the right courage to play, to attack. Because the DNA of this club, of this squad is to find the goal, to score.
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Mohammed Kudus could miss the rest of the season in a major blow to new Tottenham boss Roberto De Zerbi.
Kudus has been out since the start of January with a quad injury, but had begun to ease his way back into training before the international break.
It was hoped he would be in contention to face Sunderland this weekend in De Zerbi’s first game in charge.
However, Spurs have confirmed that Kudus could be set to undergo surgery, ruling him out of Spurs’ final seven games of the season and casting his World Cup hopes with Ghana into doubt.
Kudus still has the most Premier League assists of any Spurs player this season, and his prolonged absence would come as a huge blow as the club look to stave off the threat of relegation.
Meanwhile, De Zerbi has confirmed that goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who underwent surgery on a hernia injury over the international break, will not face Sunderland.
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“No, Vicario is not ready for this game, I hope he can come back earlier next week, but I don't know yet,” the Italian revealed in the pre-match press conference.
Vicario’s injury means that Antonin Kinsky is likely to start for the first time since his nightmare performance away at Atletico Madrid last month under Igor Tudor.
The Czech ‘keeper gifted Atletico two goals in nine minutes before being replaced just 17 minutes into his Champions League debut.
It is telling that while De Zerbi has only added two new members to his coaching staff, he has elected to bring in long-time fitness coach Marcattilio Marcattilii.
Debut: Roberto De Zerbi takes charge of Spurs for the first time against Sunderland
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De Zerbi has inherited a squad riddled with injuries, and one of his major priorities will be to ensure as many players as possible return to fitness before the end of the season.
That said, the Italian will be boosted by the returns of Lucas Bergvall and Mathys Tel, who both featured heavily in footage of De Zerbi’s first training session last week.
Bergvall came off the bench during Spurs’ 3-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest before the international break, while Tel had to be withdrawn midway through the second half with a groin issue and pulled out of the France Under-21 squad.
Both players, though, look set to be available for selection on Wearside despite remaining at Hotspur Way over the international break.
Pape Matar Sarr is a doubt after suffering a shoulder injury while playing for Senegal, while Rodrigo Bentancur is edging closer to returning from a serious hamstring injury.
James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski are long-term absentees, but there is optimism that both could play before the end of the season.
Spurs could find themselves in the relegation zone before they play Sunderland, with just one point currently separating them from 18th-place West Ham, who host bottom club Wolves on Friday night.
De Zerbi needs to make an immediate impact, but it remains to be seen whether he will opt for a three or a four-man defence, having switched between both systems during his managerial career so far.
One thing we do know is that De Zerbi favours a ball-dominant style, and so his selections will likely reflect his desire to maintain possession and bait his opponents into pressuring his team.
De Zerbi has already admitted that results are more important than style heading into the final seven games of the season, and a fast start is imperative, with Spurs yet to win a league game this calendar year.
Predicted Tottenham XI (4-2-3-1): Kinsky; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Gray, Bergvall; Kolo Muani, Simons, Tel; Solanke
Doubts: Sarr
Injured: Maddison, Davies, Kulusevski, Odobert, Bissouma, Kudus, Bentancur, Vicario
Time and date: 2pm BST on Sunday April 12, 2026
Venue: Stadium of Light, Sunderland
How to watch: Sky Sports
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Roberto De Zerbi has delivered an update on Mohammed Kudus after he suffered a setback in his return from injury.
Kudus has been out since January with a serious quad injury, but had returned to full team training and was expected to provide a major boost for De Zerbi ahead of the Premier League run-in.
Spurs then announced on Thursday that the Ghanaian had suffered a setback in his recovery and will now require further specialist review and, potentially, surgery.
Kudus looks set to miss Spurs’ final seven games of the season, while his World Cup hopes have also been thrown into doubt.
News of Kudus’ injury comes on the eve of De Zerbi’s first game in charge away to Sunderland this weekend, and the new Spurs boss said: “Kudus was in my head a crucial player, especially for the position, but we have to look forward anyway.
“I think we have a lot of very good attackers and we have to help them, to put them in the best condition to show their qualities, because Kolo Muani, I know he's not playing a great season, but he's a good player.
“I know, like Mathys Tel I wanted him in Marseille, Xavi Simons is a big talent, Richarlison and Solanke you know maybe better than me, and so we have to put them in the best condition we can."
Spurs announced that Vicario’s surgery had been timed to minimise the amount of time he would miss, but the Italian shot-stopper will not travel to the Stadium of Light.
On Vicario, De Zerbi added: “No, Vicario is not ready for this game, I hope he can come back earlier next week, but I don't know yet.”
The midfielder was pictured in training on Friday, but could be seen wearing what appeared to be a shoulder support on his left shoulder.
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Mohammed Kudus could potentially miss the rest of the season in a major blow to new Tottenham boss Roberto De Zerbi.
Kudus has been out since the start of January with a quad injury, but had begun to ease his way back into training before the international break.
It was hoped he would be in contention to face Sunderland this weekend in De Zerbi’s first game in charge.
However, reports have now surfaced suggesting that Kudus could be set to undergo surgery, ruling him out of Spurs’ final seven games of the season and casting his World Cup hopes with Ghana into doubt.
Kudus still has the most Premier League assists of any Spurs player this season, and his prolonged absence would come as a huge blow as the club look to stave off the threat of relegation.
Goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario, who underwent surgery on a hernia injury over the international break, is also a doubt to face Sunderland.
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Spurs said in a statement that the surgery had been timed to minimise the amount of time Vicario would miss, but regardless, it looks doubtful that he will be fit enough to play on Sunday.
Vicario’s injury means that Antonin Kinsky is likely to start for the first time since his nightmare performance away at Atletico Madrid last month under Igor Tudor.
The Czech ‘keeper gifted Atletico two goals in nine minutes before being replaced just 17 minutes into his Champions League debut.
It is telling that while De Zerbi has only added two new members to his coaching staff, he has elected to bring in long-time fitness coach Marcattilio Marcattilii.
Debut: Roberto De Zerbi takes charge of Spurs for the first time against Sunderland
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De Zerbi has inherited a squad riddled with injuries, and one of his major priorities will be to ensure as many players as possible return to fitness before the end of the season.
That said, the Italian will be boosted by the returns of Lucas Bergvall and Mathys Tel, who both featured heavily in footage of De Zerbi’s first training session last week.
Bergvall came off the bench during Spurs’ 3-0 defeat by Nottingham Forest before the international break, while Tel had to be withdrawn midway through the second half with a groin issue and pulled out of the France Under-21 squad.
Both players, though, look set to be available for selection on Wearside despite remaining at Hotspur Way over the international break.
Pape Matar Sarr is a doubt after suffering a shoulder injury while playing for Senegal, while Rodrigo Bentancur is edging closer to returning from a serious hamstring injury.
James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski are long-term absentees, but there is optimism that both could play before the end of the season.
Spurs could find themselves in the relegation zone before they play Sunderland, with just one point currently separating them from 18th-place West Ham, who host bottom club Wolves on Friday night.
De Zerbi needs to make an immediate impact, but it remains to be seen whether he will opt for a three or a four-man defence, having switched between both systems during his managerial career so far.
One thing we do know is that De Zerbi favours a ball-dominant style, and so his selections will likely reflect his desire to maintain possession and bait his opponents into pressuring his team.
De Zerbi has already admitted that results are more important than style heading into the final seven games of the season, and a fast start is imperative, with Spurs yet to win a league game this calendar year.
Predicted Tottenham XI (4-2-3-1): Kinsky; Porro, Romero, Van de Ven, Udogie; Gray, Bergvall; Kolo Muani, Simons, Tel; Solanke
Doubts: Bentancur, Sarr, Vicario
Injured: Maddison, Davies, Kulusevski, Odobert, Bissouma, Kudus
Time and date: 2pm BST on Sunday April 12, 2026
Venue: Stadium of Light, Sunderland
How to watch: Sky Sports
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Pep Guardiola calls him one of the best coaches of the past 20 years, but Italian only has seven games to save Spurs
Run the numbers, consider the circumstances, and it becomes apparent that Tottenham hiring Roberto De Zerbi is just about the riskiest managerial appointment in the history of the Premier League.
Sure, his esteemed reputation makes him better-equipped to succeed than many before him, but what matters is not whether he could succeed. It’s whether he will.
Igor Tudor is consigned to history after trying and failing miserably at an easier gig. He took charge as interim head coach when Spurs were 16th in the table, five points above the relegation zone, still in the Champions League knockout stages, and with 12 Premier League games with which to mastermind safety.
For De Zerbi, those numbers read 17th in the table, a single point above the drop, wounds still fresh from being booted out of Europe by Atlético Madrid, and with just seven games left to save themselves.
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Oh, and De Zerbi has signed a five-year contract with no relegation clause. Here to stay.
They tried to convince him through the door when they got Tudor, yet the higher the risk, the higher the potential reward. Now the job is even less appealing than it was, it appeals. And so here is the highest-stakes managerial appointment since the top-flight’s reformation in 1992, De Zerbi tasked with saving the Europa League holders from the same division as Lincoln City.
The appointment is a coup for under-pressure chief executive Vinai Venkatesham and sporting director Johan Lange but will be judged on these next seven games.
Confidence-shot Spurs need saving from the unimaginable. That’s the brief.
Tactical approach
“I have a big responsibility,” the new head coach accepts. This is not - and cannot afford to be - chiefly about his career or strengthening his CV.
To that end, safer jobs were out there or certainly would have been this summer. At its core, the remit stapled to De Zerbi’s desk is to be the someone the Spurs players are panging to believe in.
Following the Thomas Frank and Tudor disasters, even from the outset, he appears the sort of head coach a group of rough diamonds might place full faith in.
Players will have taken his declaration that he “will be the coach of Tottenham next season, no matter what” as a therapeutic first step.
It will all boil down to extracting as much as possible from seven football matches, so the approach is crucial.
De Zerbi does not have a relegation clause that would allow him to walk away if Spurs go down
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His almighty success at Brighton, a new-age club, will have contributed hugely to De Zerbi’s reputation in English football, and after his May 2024 exit he told friends in Italy of his belief that his reputation on these shores as a football philosopher allergic to pragmatism is a mischaracterisation.
If his team are winning 1-0 with 10 minutes to go, he’d throw on a defender, shut up shop. He is no rebel, he insists.
“It’s not the right moment to speak about my philosophy of football,” he said last weekend.
Principles and healthy habits are the currency between now and that final game against Everton on May 24; time is against Tottenham.
He cannot simply copy and paste what worked for him at Sassuolo or Shakhtar Donetsk or Brighton or Marseille - there isn’t the time to instil it - but people don’t change overnight.
A 4-2-3-1 formation with forwards interchanging swiftly in fluid attacks can be expected.
If he feels he can trust the players in the centre of the pitch, the 46-year-old will look to deploy the De Zerbian “S”.
A pattern of build-up play that involves a passing sequence often plotting out the shape of a letter “S”, it starts with the centre-backs waiting patiently, passing between themselves, baiting the press, then pouncing when the time is right with a slipped pass into midfield, and progressing up the pitch, the opposition team always a pass behind, chasing shadows as De Zerbi’s side manoeuvre the ball forward.
Sure enough, he could be heard shouting “keep the ball, attract the pressure” at his players at Hotspur Way on Friday, on his first day taking training.
Carlo Ancelotti, then of Real Madrid, beat De Zerbi’s Shakhtar 5-0 in 2021 and had warned his players beforehand: “If you press, they will pass the ball around you. Don’t press, and they will give you the ball.”
Tudor’s back-three, long-ball was an eyesore; De Zerbi’s style has worked wherever he’s been. Spurs fans will know possession dominance is not their side’s forte but will keep faith. Risk. Reward.
Players left training on Friday and gave rave reviews to family members and their agents about his first session.
Tottenham are 17th in the Premier League, just one point outside of the relegation zone
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“Roberto is one of the most influential managers in the last 20 years,” Pep Guardiola insisted in 2023 after a sixth-place finish in his first season delivered European football, a first in Brighton’s 122-year history. “There’s no team playing the way they play — it’s unique. I had the feeling when he arrived the impact he would have in the Premier League would be great. I didn’t expect him to do it this [quickly].”
If he is to turn Tottenham’s fortunes around even more rapidly, which is his task, you sense it will stem from playing players in their best positions and building from there.
Tudor arrived and neglected to do so. De Zerbi will not look on the Croat’s body of work from an interim reign shorter than Liz Truss’s premiership and decide to follow suit.
Power of personality
Even after accounting for Tottenham’s youth and inexperience, senior players have shirked individual responsibility for too long.
The Spurs hierarchy believe the demanding De Zerbi, his aura and reputation, should remedy that once and for all.
“I think we have to remember who we are, and who the players are,” he said in his first club interview. “They have to show what they are.”
Yes, the squad he inherits lacks players with the prestige of Harry Kane, Son Heung-min, Toby Alderweireld and Hugo Lloris, but it is without doubt a group of more talented footballers than Leeds, Nottingham Forest and West Ham, the teams in and around them, can call on.
While guarding against complacency - you’d imagine there’s not much of that flying around in N17 - once they believe they are too good to go down, that’s half the battle. Self-belief is vital. Then deliver.
At Brighton, De Zerbi had no choice but to develop and engender experience and maturity from within.
Should Spurs fail to beat the drop, it would go down as one of the Premier League's most remarkable relegations
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The next transfer window opens only after Tottenham’s fate is sealed one way or the other, so he faces the same challenge. He must develop a battle-hardened squad, while collecting enough points along the way.
An unprecedented injury crisis is beginning to ease, though reports claim Mohammed Kudus could be out for the season with a fresh injury.
When his team have bypassed the press and a frantic attack is in flight, De Zerbi will be emotional and expressive in his technical area, kicking every ball.
Medhi Benatia, the Marseille sporting director, would stay up until 2am on long video calls with De Zerbi, whose tactical obsession is “stimulating” and whose “passion is overflowing”.
It did not end well at Brighton or Marseille, where he fell out with the board, yet Spurs have bigger worries right now.
Most important to this particular chapter is that it has a strong start. The 10-day lead-in before Sunderland on Sunday in his first game in charge helps.
Up for the fight
De Zerbi has succeeded at all of his past four clubs, yet his brand of football means results can be erratic.
The disillusionment within the fanbase is intense and the expectation levels are as low as they have ever been. The last Premier League win came 102 days ago.
No wonder De Zerbi deems this “the most important challenge in my career”. He wouldn’t admit that - wouldn’t take the job - if he didn’t feel up to it.
In the throes of a campaign that delivered 22 league defeats, Ange Postecoglou admitted: “Every time I’ve seen the light at the end of the tunnel, it’s been an oncoming train.” Fourteen months and three head-coach sackings later, the first stop for De Zerbi: the Stadium of Light.
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De Zerbi is preparing for his first game in charge of Spurs away at Sunderland on Sunday after his appointment on a five-year contract.
Spurs have announced the arrival of Marcattilio Marcattilii as first team fitness coach and Marcello Quinto as senior professional development phase coach.
Marcattilio started working with De Zerbi in 2015 at Italian side Foggia and has been a part of his backroom staff since.
Marcello has worked closely with De Zerbi over the past three years during his time at Brighton and Marseille.
Spurs have confirmed they will join assistant coaches Bruno Saltor and Andreas Georgson, individual development coach Cameron Campbell and goalkeeping coach Fabian Otte on the coaching staff.
They will continue to be supported by Stuart Lewis and Dean Brill.
De Zerbi has seven games to save Spurs from relegation to the Championship. Spurs are 17th in the Premier League, just one point outside of the relegation zone and without a top-flight win in 2026.