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Tottenham Hotspur will miss out on hundreds of millions of pounds if they're relegated from the Premier League and fail to qualify for the Champions League

Tottenham Hotspur could be dealt a significant financial blow at the end of the season. The Lilywhites have been sucked into a relegation battle, having failed to win any of their last eight Premier League games.

Spurs are just five points adrift of the bottom three, and they've got some difficult fixtures on the horizon. Determined to return to winning ways and climb the English top flight, Tottenham sacked Thomas Frank and appointed Igor Tudor as interim head coach.

The former Juventus boss will lock horns with Mikel Arteta in the North London Derby on Sunday afternoon. The Lilywhites will then face Fulham, Crystal Palace, and Liverpool before a relegation showdown against Nottingham Forest ahead of the March international break.

While Tudor has been tasked with keeping Tottenham in the division, higher-ups will have had their eyes on Champions League football at the start of the campaign. So, with that being said, football.london has looked at the cost relegation from the Premier League and failure to secure European football.

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How much would Premier League relegation cost Tottenham?

If Tottenham were to be relegated from the Premier League, they could be left with a '£100m black hole'. The Lilywhites would initially receive a series of parachute payments, which are deposited over a three-year period, but they would receive significantly less in television revenue.

In an interview with The Daily Mail, football finance expert Kieran Maguire said: "The costs of relegation to clubs of that stature are probably in the region of £100million. The club that finished bottom of the Premier League two years ago, the last set of data we have, got £111m.

"I think by the end of this season, we’ll be looking somewhere in the region of £120m from the television companies alone. That will drop to around £45m in the Championship. So that is already about £75m."

Meanwhile, matchday income would plummet, with Spurs likely unable to justify the same prices they charge in the English top flight. Maguire added: "You then look at gate receipts.

"I don’t think clubs will necessarily have to cut prices as far as season tickets are concerned because you’re offering more matches in the Championship than in the Premier League but for matchday tickets, if West Ham have Hull or Swansea on a Tuesday night, they’re not going to be able to charge prices to the level they have in the Premier League.

"Matchday revenues from hospitality will be substantially down because the commercial department really will have their work cut out to sell all those boxes."

Commercial revenue could also take a hit. Tottenham currently have an official kit provider deal with Nike, which runs until 2033, and, according to The Telegraph, it's worth about £30m a year.

As it stands, it remains unclear whether relegation to the Championship would impact the agreement, however, the report later pointed out that, under the terms of its agreement as kit manufacturer, Adidas could terminate its deal with Manchester United at one full season's notice or halve payments if they were to go down.

The Telegraph also reported that the Red Devils had to pay Adidas a penalty fee worth £10m for failing to qualify for the Champions League two years in a row. Tottenham also have a global principal and front-of-shirt deal with AIA, which is reportedly worth £40m a year.

In November 2025, the Lilywhites announced that the Hong Kong-based life insurance and financial services company will remain the club's front-of-shirt sponsor and global principal partner until the end of the 2026/2027 season, before becoming the training wear sponsor until 2032.

According to The Telegraph, the aforementioned AIA deal is thought to be worth between £10m and £15m a year. As per the latest set of accounts, Spurs earned £144.5m from sponsorship revenue, up from £141.3m in 2023.

Speaking to The Daily Mail, Maguire added: "In the Championship, [relegated clubs] are getting probably a fifth or a 10th of the money coming from your shirt sponsor deals compared to the Premier League because your matches are not going out to all those different countries.

"You won’t be able to charge for perimeter advertising to the same extent and so on. You add all those numbers together and they have a £100m black hole they will have to fill."

How much would no European football cost Tottenham?

If Tottenham were to fail to qualify for the Champions League, they could miss out on as much as £120m in prize money from UEFA – not to mention the eye-watering sum they'd be awarded if, this season, they either won the competition or placed in top four, potentially five, of the Premier League.

Last term, Paris Saint-Germain were the first team to benefit from the expanded new format, which paid out an extra £350m (€400m) in prize money, increasing the prize pool to a staggering £2.15bn (€2.47bn). The French giants pocketed £126m (€144m) for their efforts, humiliating Inter Milan in the final.

Last season, Aston Villa were the only quarterfinalist to bank less than £87.2m (€100m), taking home a UEFA payment of £73m (€83.7m). This term, Tottenham have already managed to get their hands on £43.94m in prize money after such an impressive group phase campaign.

Even if Spurs only managed to qualify for the Europa League or the Conference League, which pays out much less, they'd miss out on the chance to rake in a nine-figure sum...

Here's every word Igor Tudor said in his first interview since being named as the interim head coach of Tottenham Hotspur

Igor Tudor has explained what he wants to bring to Tottenham Hotspur in his first interview after being named interim head coach.

Spurs appointed the 47-year-old Croatian until the end of the season after Thomas Frank was sacked just seven months into his tenure at the north London club. Now Tudor must pick up the pieces and get the 16th-placed Lilywhites back on track as they currently sit perilously just five points above West Ham in 18th place in the Premier League.

The Croatian's first match is a North London Derby on Sunday afternoon, with Mikel Arteta's title hopefuls making the short trip across the capital.

Here's what Tudor, who has been parachuted in to improve clubs like Juventus, Lazio and Udinese in the past, said in his first interview with the club.

"Big challenge for me, big honour to be here, I'm very happy. In the same way, I don't think too much about myself, because I'm focused on work to do. Wherever you go, it's always about your relationship with the place, with the team, with the town," he said.

"There are a lot of similarities, even if this is like the NBA of European football, this is the best of the best, so it's a privilege to be here. First priority is to give everything the team needs in these moments. The team needs, I believe, first of all to get some confidence, to get some courage, but also in the same way, the concrete things in the pitch.

"Of course, I'm coming here knowing the situation is not easy, there's no time to find excuses. What I said from the first day here, each of us, each of the players, need to give something, something more, something extra, because the position of the club at this moment is not that anybody can accept. Every fan of Tottenham cannot accept the situation.

"We are aware of that, but it's not enough to just be aware of that. I like to be positive, I like to play offensive football. Of course, that's my first goal I have, that I like to score the goal, but in the same way, for sure, I need to give organisation in defence, give the clear structure of what you want to play."

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He added: "The situation is not easy, because, as you know better than me, we have a lot of injured players, so we need first to find the best system, the suit for the players that are available in this moment. So, a very particular moment, maybe this can sound strange, but I believe that the thing that we need to be focused on is the training. So, the training from today, that's the key, because, as I always like to say, Sunday and the game is a consequence of the training.

"So, that needs to be focused. The coach needs to show the path, where is the way we want to go, how we want to go, and the players need to accept this, and together, in this way, preparing during the week is the best thing for Sunday."

Tudor is looking forward to reuniting with some old acquaintances as well from his Juventus days.

"Yeah, I know some players, I've also coached Dejan [Kulusevski] and Rodrigo [Bentancur]. Unfortunately, they are not now available to play immediately, but they are here in the dressing room, for sure. But I find all players very available to react, let's say like this. I believe in style, and style is more important than the system, of course," he said.

"As I said, a very particular moment, so every club has its particularity. Yeah, can I say this word? That is first as a culture of the club, which kind of football they like, so it's always important to think about that. But in the same way, not forget who I am, what I want the team to achieve, but thinking, this player can do this.

"So, I need to be with my staff, very intelligent, to find the best possible way to get out in a very, very short time. It was a good first session, we started to know each other. It was one hour, because we had five days free, so first training is not too much, and tomorrow we start to work serious.

"Big week, yes, big week, important games. Important game, we know everybody. This derby is a fantastic game to play. We want to play this game in a way that our fans will like.

"So, going and give everything what we have, in the right way, brave, but in the same way intelligent and smart, to achieve what we want, and that's the victory."

Tudor is looking for his team to be a powerful, physical one in the remaining weeks of the season in order to get back on track.

"I believe that in football, in 2026, it's changed a lot. It's changing year by year, so more physical players, let's say, it's crucial," said the Croatian.

"If you can run 115 kilometres as a team, it's better than 105. That means that you have one player extra, so there is nothing strange to choose that direction, of course. It's always about motivated players that understand this thing about running, about the physical aspect of football, which is sometimes not easy.

"But that without quality, you cannot do nothing. So, technical skills, intelligence to see, to recognise the situation, speech is always above everything. So, you need to find a mix about both things. And about winning or drawing, that's true. I never saw the coach who said that he can play for draw. It's not possible. So, offensive football, yes, but smart. So, that's the key."

Igor Tudor has conducted his first interview Tottenham head coach. During the five-minute clip uploaded to social media, the 47-year-old discussed his style of play, non-negotiables he expects from Spurs stars and also revealed the similarities in his methods to that of former head coach Thomas Frank.

On the latter topic, he said: "Style is more important than the system." He also hinted at being flexible with his decisions and will develop a system that suits the players available.

Ahead of his stint at Tottenham, it was stated that Frank is more focused on playing principles and tactical flexibility than on adhering to a fixed formation. That was evidenced by his pivot a back three, a shape that Tudor also deploys.

On demands of players, Tudor also stated: "I'm coming here knowing the situation is not easy. There is no time to find excuses, that is what I said from the first day, each of us, each of the players needs to give something because the position of the club because the position of the club at this moment is [not] what anyone can expect.

"Every fan of Tottenham cannot accept the situation. We are aware of that but it is not enough to just be aware. We can't use excuses."

The former Juventus head coach had kicked off the interview by making his feelings clear on his appointment. He began: "Big challenge for me, big honour to be here and I'm very happy. In the same way I don't think too much about myself because I'm focused on work to do."

"Wherever you go it is always about your relationship with the players, with the team, with the town. There are lots of similarities. So it is a real privilege to be here.

"The first priority is to give everything the team needs in these moments. The team needs, first of all, to get some confidence, to get some courage but also in the same way, the concrete things on the pitch.

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Cristian Romero will be on the sidelines while Igor Tudor tries to guide Tottenham Hotspur back to winning ways

Sam Allardyce believes Igor Tudor should strip Cristian Romero of captaincy. The new Tottenham Hotspur boss will be without his skipper for the North London Derby on Sunday afternoon, having received a four-match ban earlier this month.

Romero was given his marching orders during the first half of the 2-0 defeat to Manchester United at Old Trafford after diving into a reckless tackle on Casemiro. The Argentina international arrived late, planting his studs just above the opposition midfielder's ankle.

Having already been shown a red card once before in the Premier League this season, Romero incurred a further one-match suspension. He served the first of his four-game ban last week as Spurs lost 2-1 to Newcastle United.

Not only will Romero be unavailable for the North London Derby this weekend, but he'll also miss two important clashes against Fulham and Crystal Palace in March. With the Argentine set for a spell on the sidelines, Allardyce has urged Tudor to put his foot down.

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In an interview on the BOYLE Sports and Footy Accumulators’ podcast, No Tippy Tappy Football, the former Premier League manager suggested that the new Tottenham boss draws a line in the sand. Allardyce said: “Cristian Romero is one of those typical players who just doesn’t learn.

"He’s got so much talent, but so many flaws which he hasn’t eradicated. He’s still making the same mistakes as when he first signed for Tottenham.

"Either he gets stripped of the captaincy, or someone says to him, ‘Stay on your feet, I don’t want you to go to ground when you tackle anymore,’ and if he continues to do it, then take him out of the side.

"He’s giving his managers a bad reputation for not being able to control him," added Allardyce. "If you’re a centre-half, your first priority is being a defender, not how good you are with the ball – that’s only an added bonus.

"Romero is just so irrational, which is alright when you first join a club, but he should have been nailed by Thomas Frank for it, and he wasn’t."

Frank leapt to the Argentine's defence on more than one occasion, and he paid the price. The Dane was sacked last week, leaving Tottenham at the heart of a relegation battle.

While Spurs are five points adrift of the drop zone, Allardyce insisted that the north Londoners are, in fact, fighting for survival. He said: "I’d consider Spurs to be in a relegation battle now, and it is partly because you’ll need more points to stay up this year than you have done for the past few seasons.

"It will be in the mid to high thirties this season and sometimes you wonder where those points are going to come from. You have to make sure your best performances come against the teams you’re capable of beating.

"If they do get relegated, I don’t even think they’d be the best team to go down. The West Ham team with Jermain. Defoe, Paulo Di Canio, Glen Johnson and David James were better!"

One coach who has come through the system at Tottenham is hoping to make waves in his first managerial role across the Atlantic

It's very early days but former Tottenham coach Matt Wells is already starting to get noticed for his work in transforming struggling MLS side Colorado Rapids.

The 37-year-old made the switch in December to leave Thomas Frank's side and take on his first managerial role across the Atlantic ahead of the new MLS season which kicks off this weekend. Wells is Spurs through and through, having come through the north London club's academy as a player before injuries forced him into coaching and he swiftly rose through the ranks within the club's youth set-up.

Wells is a grandson of Tottenham double-winning legend Cliff Jones and after cutting his teeth alongside the late Ugo Ehiogu in the academy, he followed Scott Parker as one of his coaches at Fulham, then as his assistant at Bournemouth and Club Brugge.

After returning to north London to assist Ryan Mason in his second caretaker spell at Spurs, Ange Postecoglou asked Wells to stay on as part of his staff before making him his assistant head coach in his second season. Frank then also looked to keep Wells on his staff before the offer to kick off his managerial career in Colorado came along.

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There is of course the irony that with Frank being sacked last week, Wells would have been a strong contender to take over as interim head coach due to how highly he is rated within the club. Instead, with the young coach now on the other side of the world, former Juventus boss Igor Tudor has taken the reins until the end of the season.

Like Tudor, Wells' task also involves rejuvenating a side that has become far too used to losing and the early signs are that he is starting to leave his mark on the team ahead of Sunday's tough MLS opener against the Seattle Sounders.

Rapids finished 21st in the overall table last season with just 11 wins from their 34 matches, missing out on the play-offs, and there would have been some wariness among a disgruntled fanbase about the team taking on a first-time coach in the Tottenham man to turn around their fortunes.

After spending much of pre-season getting his players fit enough for his high energy brand of attacking football, Colorado's final warm-up game against fellow MLS side Orlando City brought a first real glimpse at the movement Wells wants his team to play with and they ran out 4-1 winners with two goals in either half. It was the football on display though that started to get people talking.

Former MLS player and now pundit Dax McCarty was watching the match and posted on X: "Attended the Rapids-Orlando City game. I’m willing to admit it’s still preseason and this might be a slight overreaction BUT if tonight is any indication, Colorado is going to look like prime Brighton under De Zerbi. Orlando need Ojeda healthy and some fullbacks. Bring on week 1!"

Braidon Nourse, who covers the Rapids for the Denver Post, said: "The Colorado Rapids posted highlights from the final preseason game against Orlando tonight on YouTube. Just the goals but we’ll take it, recommend watching. Wells ball looking good."

One fan, @isaac_ce41, replied to those highlights: "The goals we scored were beautiful, I can’t wait to see how we play on Sunday!" Another said: "Not used to winning. What is this feeling?"

Local journalists have cautiously tipped Colorado to become a play-off team again under Wells even if it is very early days in his tenure as he looks to get his methods across to his players.

Seattle will pose a very tough opening day test for Rapids after they finished fifth in the Western Conference last season and 10th in the overall table, qualifying for the CONCACAF Champions Cup.

For those looking for a Tottenham reunion, mark April 23 in your diaries, as a week after hosting Lionel Messi and David Beckham's Inter Miami, Colorado and Wells travel to Los Angeles where they will take on an LAFC team featuring Son Heung-min and Hugo Lloris meaning a big Spurs meet-up in the city of angels.

For now though Wells will be focusing on what lies immediately ahead and a big task in turning around Colorado's fortunes while showing everyone the kind of football he wants to be associated with.

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.

The Spurs fan group met with the club's hierarchy but were left frustrated by what they were able to say after the meeting

Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust were left frustrated by what they were unable to publish from their meeting with the club's hierarchy earlier this month so have released their version of events.

Dissatisfaction with the club is bubbling over among the fanbase with Spurs sitting 16th in the Premier League, just five points off the drop zone, and having sacked Thomas Frank after just seven months at the helm. The Dane was brought in amid much fanfare about competing in all competitions after Ange Postecoglou was himself sacked, having won the club's first trophy in 17 years.

The north London club have not competed in all competitions and have now appointed Igor Tudor as interim head coach until the end of the season with the Croatian taking his first training session on Monday afternoon.

Trust chair Michael Green headed up a four-strong group of fans that presented the findings of the trust's most recent Five Principles of Ownership survey, with approximately 4,500 supporters participating, to Tottenham CEO Vinai Venkatesham, chief communications officer Kate Miller and other members of staff at the meeting.

However, the trust released a statement on Monday expressing their dissatisfaction at the eventual agreed minutes of the meeting which took place on February 3 at the club's Lilywhite House headquarters alongside the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. They released some commentary of the passages that were left out of the meeting minutes.

"There were a number of specific points raised during the meeting which the club did not agree to include in the final published version, despite our request," read the trust statement. "As a democratic supporters’ organisation elected to represent fans’ views, we believe it is vital that supporters can see what issues are being raised with the club, how those issues are being discussed and what responses are being given.

"Publishing a full record of the points raised helps ensure accountability and allows members, and the wider fan base, to understand how the Trust is fulfilling its role on their behalf. Transparency is integral to our role and in our dealings with the club. For that reason, we are also publishing below the paragraphs which THST asked to be included in the Minutes but which were not accepted by the Club for inclusion in the final version.

"Points omitted from the Minutes - Under THSTs Five Principles of Ownership survey. Lines not included – The Club declined to include the descriptions of our Five Principles of Ownership.

"Paragraph not included – Fans are concerned at the current position and the direction of the club. The team is not winning, and change is not visible. Having watched just four home league wins in a year, this anxiety and pessimism is not surprising. Fans are genuinely concerned at the risk of relegation. The belief generated by the Europa League win has now been lost. Fans are concerned at a perceived lack of ambition and at results, performances and the failure to strengthen the team despite injuries to key first team players.

"Paragraph not included – The club had not filed financial statements demonstrating that it was able to generate profit since 2018 and needed the cash generated by the share issue for cashflow purposes (this point was discussed later in the meeting under the heading “Finance”).

"Under Future-proof success & Young player development - Paragraph not included – THST observed that young players were not coming through from the Academy to the first team. Players are on loan repeatedly. Despite injuries and the current shortage of players, Luka Vuskovic had not been recalled from loan and nor had other players.

"Paragraph not included – THST said fans want to see authenticity to stick to Spurs’ DNA and a style of play that transcended as a ‘golden thread’ from the youth system right through to the men’s first team.

"Paragraph not included – THST noted a slightly higher sentiment from supporters towards sustainability, which may reflect the underlying infrastructure possessed by the club. However, this alone will not make the club successful which explains why the score remains low overall.

"Fans First and relationship between the club and supporters. Line not included – The club welcomed the input of THST.

"Paragraph not included – THST asked to see the underlying KPIs behind each of the strategic principles – these had not yet been agreed by the club internally. THST stated that the detail of these KPIs were important. If the strategic objectives were geared towards winning trophies, this should be directly referenced in the KPIs.

"If, however, the KPIs referenced “European qualification” (a stated desire of the previous leadership), this could suggest that the club was prioritising financial performance over football performance."

The new interim Tottenham head coach has set his staff for the remaining months of the season and football.london has taken a closer look at them

There's a new-look coaching staff at Tottenham Hotspur under the stewardship of Igor Tudor and they are going to have to hit the ground running.

With Spurs 16th in the table and facing a big Champions League last 16 tie next month, the 47-year-old Croatian has brought in some trusted allies that he knows can get his ideas across quickly to the players as they look to steer Tottenham away from the relegation mix.

Leaving Spurs with Thomas Frank are the Dane's assistant coaches Justin Cochrane and John Heitinga along with head of performance Chris Haslam, as well as first team coach analyst Joe Newton. Heitinga was only appointed last month as Frank's new assistant to take over from Matt Wells, who left for his first managerial role at MLS side Colorado Rapids.

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Here's a closer look at Tudor's new coaching staff, who will quickly get out on the training pitches of Hotspur Way, subject to them all getting work permits. The new boss took charge of his first training session on Monday afternoon at the Enfield complex.

Ivan Javorcic

Ivan Javorcic, Tudor's assistant manager, is another 47-year-old Croatian and he and Tudor know each other well. Javorcic, who was also born in Split, was his assistant manager at both Juventus and Lazio and played his part in both clubs having an immediate surge in form just when they needed it the most.

Tudor and Javorcic stabilized Lazio after Maurizio Sarri quit in March 2024 and they led the team to an unbeaten run in the league for his first two months after they joined. Then in March last year the duo arrived at Juventus and took them up the table to fourth place and Champions League qualification.

In both jobs, the duo recorded exactly the same set of results in the remainder of the season with nine games, five wins, three draws and one defeat. Tottenham would likely be delighted with a similar outcome.

Before linking up with Tudor, Javorcic was a manager himself at lower levels in Italian football, taking on newly-relegated Serie B side Venezia in 2022, and had worked within the youth set-up at Brescia before enjoying a caretaker stint for that club's senior team. In his playing days, Brescia was where he made his name as a defensive midfielder, playing in Serie A but mainly in Serie B and C.

Now he will look to bring his coaching attributes to the Premier League and a third stint by Tudor's side.

Riccardo Ragnacci

Tottenham's new physical coach Riccardo Ragnacci does not look like someone you or the players would want to cross. The 49-year-old Italian has been getting players into top physical shape for decades across the game in his home country.

He has worked at two different clubs with Tudor, at both Juventus after joining him last summer from Empoli and previously during the head coach's successful stint at Hellas Verona. Ragnacci was at Verona for half a decade before moving to Lecce in 2023 ahead of those spells at Empoli and Juventus.

Now he will bring his fitness conditioning to Spurs to ensure the players are able to handle Tudor's all-action high-pressing style, while having to be mindful of the club's dreadful injury record.

Tomislav Rogic

Tomislav Rogic makes it a hat-trick of Croatians on the coaching team as the 50-year-old comes in as a goalkeeping coach at Tottenham.

Rogic is another who has followed Tudor in recent jobs, having worked with him at both Lazio and Juventus, but he's a very experienced coach in his own right with his career having taken him around the world to clubs like Club Brugge, Zenit, Shakhtar and even coaching India's national team goalkeepers.

Now the former Zadar goalkeeper will be working with Guglielmo Vicario, Antonin Kinsky and Brandon Austin. He will not however be doing it alone.

Fabian Otte

That's because goalkeeping coach Fabian Otte will remain with Spurs despite Rogic's arrival. The ex-Liverpool and USA goalkeeping coach arrived last summer to add some winning experience to Frank's staff and the decision has been made for him to continue to work with Rogic for the remainder of the season.

The 35-year-old has plenty of Premier League experience, having worked with Tottenham, Liverpool's title-winning side last season and Burnley as well as spending three years at Borussia Monchengladbach.

It remains to be seen which of the two men will be the more senior as while Rogic is 15 years older both have plenty of high level experience.

Andreas Georgson

Tottenham fans will be happy to see Andreas Georgson sticking around because he has been one of the few bright spots of the campaign so far with his set piece coaching.

That is definitely one area, perhaps the only area, in which Spurs have improved this season and the 43-year-old Swede can often be seen on the touchline with his cap on, shouting instructions to the team at both attacking and defensive set pieces.

With experience at Manchester United, Arsenal, Brentford and Southampton, Georgson will continue to provide vital help to Tudor as both a set piece coach but also able to handle general coaching as he's a bit of an all-rounder.

Cameron Campbell

Another piece of the coaching puzzle is individual development coach Cameron Campbell, who will be sticking around after joining last summer. You can often see the 34-year-old Scot working on players' skills but he is also able to take more general sessions when required.

Campbell was specifically brought in by Frank and sporting director Johan Lange to fill a role they felt was missing within the club's coaching set-up.

"We have added Cameron Campbell, that is an individual coach, big on how we develop the players,” said Frank last summer. "And that was a big wish from both Johan and I, and it is something we talked about, that we thought was crucial. I think not many clubs have actually nailed that. We tried in the past, so hopefully we can take it to the next level."

The Scot has clearly done enough to convince the Spurs hierarchy and Tudor to continue his work at Hotspur Way.

Stuart Lewis

Highly-rated within Spurs, Stuart Lewis will continue in his role as first team academy transition coach and the 38-year-old will no doubt be hoping for Tudor to actually give some more of young players minutes in the months ahead than Frank did during his seven-month tenure.

"I think it's important for us to have specialists. We are very fortunate as a club that we are able to attract some of the best specialist coaches in the world. And we made a couple of internal promotions," Lange said last summer. "Stuart Lewis will come into a new role as transition coach between the first team and the academy.

"We want players of all ages to have that development mindset. But of course to strengthen even more the bond between the first team and the academy is something that we have worked hard on for a number of years and with this new hire of Stuart coming into this new role we believe that it will be even even stronger in the years to come because we have some very, very exciting young players that will come through, push in the upcoming years and they need maybe a little bit of special attention as well to bridge that big gap that it is to go from academy football to the Premier League."

Dean Brill

Along with Lewis, Dean Brill had stepped up from head of academy goalkeeper coaching last summer to a role of assistant goalkeeper coach with Otte and could often be seen up in the press box taking his place among the analysts to get a better view from above of what was going on in the box.

The 40-year-old former Luton Town and Leyton Orient stopper will continue his role in working with the young goalkeepers who step up to work with the first team such as Luca Gunter, Aaron Maguire and Samuel Archer.

Igor Tudor has finalised his coaching staff after becoming Tottenham's interim head coach until the end of the season

Igor Tudor has decided on his Tottenham coaching staff for the coming months.

The 47-year-old former Juventus boss has taken over on a short-term contract until the end of the season after Thomas Frank was sacked after just seven months in charge.

Tudor takes over with Spurs 16th in the Premier League table and in the last 16 of the Champions League.

Now football.london understands Tudor's coaching staff will include, subject to work permits, Ivan Javorcic as assistant coach, Riccardo Ragnacci as physical coach and Tomislav Rogic as goalkeeping coach.

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Leaving Spurs along with Frank are assistant coaches Justin Cochrane and John Heitinga along with head of performance Chris Haslam, as well as first team coach analyst Joe Newton. Heitinga was only appointed last month as Frank's new assistant to take over from Matt Wells, who left for his first managerial role at MLS side Colorado Rapids.

Goalkeeping coach Fabian Otte will remain with Spurs despite Rogic's arrival. Set-piece coach Andreas Georgson has been one of the bright spots of Tottenham's campaign so far and he has also kept his job, as has individual development coach Cameron Campbell.

Frank departed after only seven months, following a run of two wins in 17 league fixtures, and his sacking was confirmed last Wednesday.

Spurs have moved quickly to replace the Dane in their bid to move away from the bottom three and Tudor's appointment was confirmed on Saturday.

Tudor said: “It is an honour to join this Club at an important moment. I understand the responsibility I have been handed and my focus is clear. To bring greater consistency to our performances and compete with conviction in every match.

“There is strong quality in this playing squad, and my job is to organise it, energise it and improve our results quickly.”

Sporting Director Johan Lange added: “Igor brings clarity, intensity and experience of stepping into challenging moments and producing impact.

“Our objective is straightforward – to stabilise performances, maximise the quality within the squad and compete strongly in the Premier League and Champions League.”

The Igor Tudor era at Tottenham Hotspur begins this week with the Croatian tasked with turning the club away from the Premier League danger and carrying on their Champions League adventure next month.

Spurs have appointed the 47-year-old on a short-term deal until the end of the season to come in and fix the mess at the club which saw Thomas Frank sacked just seven months after being heralded as the man to transform things in a very different way. Tudor must pick up the pieces with the players, fans and club as disconnected as they have ever been and the 16th-placed Lilywhites sit perilously just five points above West Ham in 18th place in the Premier League.

The Croatian's first match is as big as they come in N17 with a north London derby on Sunday afternoon, as Mikel Arteta's title hopefuls make the short trip across the capital.

Tudor has plenty of challenges ahead and when he sat in his new office at Hotspur Way on Monday, after setting the names in his coaching staff, he will have found an in-tray spilling over across the desk. Here are just seven things that will be in amongst them on his to-do list.

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Get the confidence flowing

The Spurs players' confidence was on the floor under Frank. The Dane was a positive person but none of that seemed to transfer to the players, who just didn't look to have any inspiration towards the end of his tenure with just two wins in 17 Premier League matches.

However, when they return after a short break to training on Monday they will find a football firefighter in Tudor. This is certainly not new territory for him and he has gone into numerous clubs and quickly got a reaction from underperforming squads. The Croatian is able to manage big players and egos and make an immediate impact.

For instance, Tudor went into Udinese late in the season and helped them avoid relegation. They had been on a 10-game losing streak and he stopped them getting relegated for what would have been the first time in a quarter of a century. While it didn't get him the permanent job, Udinese came back cap in hand a year later to ask him to save them once more when they were a point off the drop zone and he duly kept them up again.

Those who have seen him operate say Tudor is very good at quickly working out how to maximise what he has at his disposal.

He also turned around Hellas Verona's season and took them to ninth place and his one campaign in France saw Marseille finish third behind PSG and Lens, although it's worth noting that Marseille got more points under him than they did in the previous season when they finished second. He improved them.

The list continues back in Italy in recent years. Tudor stabilized Lazio after Maurizio Sarri quit in March 2024 and his team were unbeaten in the league for his first two months after he joined. He won five of his nine games, losing just once, to secure a seventh-placed finish and Europa League qualification.

Then he went in at Juventus in March last year and his objective was to get them up the table and into the Champions League for the following season. He did just that as he led them to fourth place and Champions League qualification, losing just one of his 11 games in charge, and got himself a contract extension.

In fact both of those recent mid-season appointments at Lazio and Juventus brought exactly the same set of results - 9 games, 5 wins, three draws and one defeat. If he does that for Tottenham then all will be well in the world.

There can certainly be question marks about what happens for Tudor in the long-term at clubs but for this three-and-a-half month spell, he's got all the required tools to kick Spurs up the backside. Some will point to the lack of Premier League experience, but Thomas Frank had plenty of that and it did him no favours. Being an unknown quantity may favour the new man at the helm as opposition managers must figure out his style.

Entertain and get fans onside

It's fair to say that Tudor can't have a worse relationship with the Tottenham supporters than Frank did. For a variety of reasons, the Spurs faithful just never took to the Dane and by the end were booing his every move.

Tudor will not fear public opinion. Life managing Juventus with their passionate supporters and the media hysteria around them probably puts taking on the Tottenham job into context.

One weapon the new man will have is that his brand of football will be a bit more in keeping with Spurs' motto than his predecessor's safety-first, just don't lose mentality which ironically brought defeats aplenty. The Croatian will want to play aggressive, organised football on the front foot with plenty of physicality, with the wing-backs pressing high.

When Tudor joined Marseille four years ago he explained his football like this: "I want courageous and intensive football. Not solely based on the defence. I want people who come to the stadium to be entertained and not disappointed."

Some Italian football experts have said Tudor's football is more like basketball with the transitional play than normal Serie A football and it should get the Spurs fans out of their seats to get a better look rather than leaving them entirely to go home.

Frank also had plenty of missteps in his press conferences and that's something Tudor will need to avoid in the coming weeks and months. His English is very good and you would not imagine a former Juventus boss promising that the team will lose matches. Steer away from that and he should have the backing of the fans.

Fix the defence

For all the talk that Frank was going to fix Ange Postecoglou's leaky defence, the Dane didn't and he had Cristian Romero and Micky van de Ven available for much of his tenure, unlike his predecessor.

Tudor will be without Romero for the next three matches of his suspension but his past as a tough-tackling international centre-back at Juventus should serve him well to get a response out of the back line and respect from the likes of the skipper.

He prefers to play with a back three and it will be key how he manages that without the required numbers right now with Van de Ven and Radu Dragusin the only fit and available senior centre-backs at the club.

Arsenal will face a stern test in his first game with just six days to prepare the backline for what he wants them to do but the initial foundations will be laid in these coming days.

Fix the attack

Spurs going forward under Frank were a huge disappointment. His final match against Newcastle showed little in the way of attacking patterns of play or passing triangles after seven months of training sessions at Hotspur Way.

The bar was so low in recent weeks that even simply getting near the opposition goal felt like a positive rather than the bare minimum it should be. Tottenham have scored 14 fewer goals in the Premier League than they had at this stage last season and they have fewer points.

So Tudor must get Spurs' attack firing again and he must do it with a lack of players after Wilson Odobert's season was ended with his ACL injury against Newcastle. The new man has very few options to work with after the club failed to bring any new attacking help through the doors in the winter transfer window.

One currently available player who could be rejuvenated is Randal Kolo Muani, who netted five times and provided one assist in 11 appearances under Tudor at the end of that season at Juventus as he and the Croatian helped push the Old Lady into the top four.

Mathys Tel will need to become more important after being pretty much discarded by Frank for much of the season and Tudor can tap into the young Frenchman's hunger to impress.

Tudor prefers a 3-4-2-1 formation which should get the best out of Xavi Simons but it might take some adapting for Tel and Kolo Muani unless Conor Gallagher takes the other number 10 spot, allowing for options to change the attack from the bench. Richarlison was also due back around this time according to Frank's last update on the Brazilian.

Visit the treatment room

Tudor will have come into this job knowing full well how atrocious Tottenham's injury record is once again this season. They ended the match against Newcastle with 11 injured players out of action after Odobert went off and a 12th missing person in the suspended Romero.

For the new interim boss it will be key to forge a quick relationship with the medical and performance departments and understand when the next group of players will be returning to the training pitches.

Richarlison and Pedro Porro were meant to be the next cabs off the rank, to use Postecoglou's terminology, while Kevin Danso and Destiny Udogie were termed as weeks rather than months. All four can be key for Tudor with Spurs needing Porro's creativity in particular as a right wing-back.

April could be the busiest month for longer-term returnees such as Mohammed Kudus, Lucas Bergvall, Rodrigo Bentancur and at a push James Maddison, while Ben Davies' return date is currently unclear.

There is also the latest on Dejan Kulusevski to ascertain with Frank admitting to football.london last week that he could no longer be sure if the Swede would be back playing this season after his complicated knee injury.

For Tudor, being as transparent as he possibly can with injuries will be a quick way to win over the fans after Frank's often vague updates.

Sort the discipline

This season's toils are not all on the manager as the players must also bear a hefty portion of the responsibility for Spurs' current woes.

There seemed to be discipline issues both on and off the pitch and that comes down to the players as much as the staff. In the Premier League alone, Tottenham have more yellow cards than any other team with 64 of them and the joint third-highest number of red cards with three.

You had players ignoring Frank's requests at times, a captain who is approaching his fifth suspension of the season and players turning up late for training at times.

Tudor will not take any such nonsense from the players. He knows that continuing down that path of ill discipline will only lead to big trouble and he is a man who demands full respect for the cause.

Whether his background demands more respect from the players than Frank appeared to get will soon be shown. Spurs need a leader right now because they are lacking them on the pitch.

Tudor's discipline will be reflected in who he selects. There will be a lot of running and pressing required in his team and if you don't do that, he won't pick you in the starting line-up. Squad availability is not on his side but that leads us to the last thing in our own in-tray.

Trust the youth

One of the 10 key criteria that Frank was said to have ticked to get the job in the first place was putting faith in young academy players but in end he did no such thing at Spurs.

He would use the established senior teenagers like Archie Gray and Lucas Bergvall, although not as often when he had a fuller squad, but there has been no real pathway for the academy players to do much other than sit on the bench and watch. It was only out of desperation for numbers that Jun'ai Byfield got his debut and shone.

Tudor will need more centre-backs if he is to play with a back three and that means Byfield could get more minutes and the interim boss also needs more attacking options, which could finally see another two 17-year-olds get their opportunities in the Premier League in Luca Williams-Barnett and Tynan Thompson.

All three are very young but all of them are also very talented. It's not the ideal time to throw youngsters into the fray but sometimes that's when you find out who sinks or swims. For Tottenham, it could be a case of Tudor is to do.