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There’s no denying it’s been another hugely disappointing season for Tottenham Hotspur.

The north Londoners are currently languishing in the relegation zone with just four matches still to play. While many Premier League fans are basking in the schadenfreude, Tottenham Hotspur fans are facing up to the very realistic possibility that they could be playing Championship football next campaign. This, just one season after staying up by the skin of their teeth - a Europa League victory barely masking their shortfalls.

While the next four games will determine their fate, former Tottenham gaffer Harry Redknapp believes serious change is required regardless of the outcome of the survival race.

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‘Roberto De Zerbi is a good coach but he doesn't have a magic wand’ ex Tottenham boss Redknapp wants Spurs to stick by the manager no matter what happens

“If Tottenham stay up, they need to hope they do a lot better with injuries, as that hasn't helped them this season,” Redknapop tells FourFourTwo on behalf of iD Mobile.

“Maddison needs to get fit, Dejan Kulusevski needs to get fit, and they need some good recruitment.

“They’ve bought good players but never the big targets, like Arsenal getting Declan Rice. Spurs can’t compete with that.

“When Antoine Semenyo moved to Manchester City, everyone could see that was a good signing. That’s the sort of player Spurs might have got if they’d moved earlier. He had a buyout clause.

“But Spurs are never in the conversation, always shopping just below the top level.”

Tottenham have been through four managers in the past year, after sacking Europa League winner Ange Postecoglou last summer, his successor Thomas Frank in February and interim replacement Igor Tudor after only 44 days.

Redknapp wants to see new man Roberto De Zerbi given time, no matter what happens in the relegation battle.

“De Zerbi will do well but it’ll take time,” says Redknapp. “He’s a top coach and he’ll do well if he gets that. He doesn't have a magic wand. They can still stay up because their rivals have tough games left as well, especially Nottingham Forest.

“The gap is small, just a couple of points. But if they do survive this cannot happen again. They need to make sure of that.”

A key West Ham player could play at the World Cup 2026 this summer after an untimely injury has granted him the possibility of a call-up.

West Ham are fighting tooth and nail to ensure Premier League survival in the race to avoid 18th place against a withering Tottenham Hotspur side, and a key attacker’s prospects of playing World Cup 2026 football could end up the difference.

The Hammers secured a vital win during last weekend’s clash against Everton, with Callum Wilson striking in injury time to secure a 2-1 victory at the London Stadium.

Crysencio Summerville could be called up to the Netherlands World Cup 2026 squad

In a cruel twist of fate, Crysencio Summerville could find himself called up to the Netherlands World Cup 2026 squad - with Ronald Koeman's March selection showing a now vacant place for him.

That is due to West Ham’s direct relegation run-in rivals, Tottenham Hotspur, suffering a season-ending injury to Dutch international Xavi Simons.

The Spurs man will not just miss the World Cup 2026, but also the remainder of the year, meaning he will play no further part in Tottenham’s fight for Premier League survival.

Ironically, it is West Ham who will benefit from this untimely event, with Crysencio Summerville surely now being considered for a call-up to the Netherlands World Cup squad in Simons’ place.

In March, ESPN reported that Netherlands boss Ronald Koeman was considering a call-up for Summerville prior to Simons’ ACL tear, and a further decrease in attacking competition surely places the West Ham man in good stead.

Koeman said: ‘Of course, [Summerville] is a player on our radar. Offensively, the competition is somewhat less intense, and he is a player who plays in the Premier League, is important at West Ham, and can play on both the right and the left.’

If Summerville didn’t already have enough incentive to etch his name into West Ham history by keeping the Hammers up, it’s almost certain he will now with the prospect of playing World Cup football at his doorstep, knowing Ronald Koeman will be closely watching.

The Dutch winger has six goal involvements and two penalties won in 27 Premier League games for West Ham this season, including a crucial strike in the Hammers’ 1-0 victory against Fulham in early March.

With just four games left to play, and the World Cup 2026 looming, Summerville will know that his performances could come under intense scrutiny if they’re not up to standard, perhaps influencing Koeman’s squad selection as a result.

Tottenham Hotspur have faced an injury crisis this season, with Randal Kolo Muani the latest of many scares during a relegation-battling campaign.

Tottenham Hotspur, currently 18th in the Premier League table with four games left to play, claimed their first domestic victory of 2026 last weekend against Wolves, but suffered key injuries to Xavi Simons and potentially Randal Kolo Muani in the process.

The win came in the form of a tight 1-0, finished in the 82nd minute by Joao Palhinha and assisted by Richarlison.

Relegation threatened Spurs remain at panic stations despite Kolo Muani truth

To dampen the mood ahead of what could be Tottenham Hotspur’s most vital win of the 2025/26 season, Randal Kolo Muani exited the pitch at Wolves at half-time.

Suggestions of a hamstring injury emerged after the French international’s early exit, whose role in Spurs' race for Premier League survival could be instrumental.

According to Tottenham Hotspur expert Alasdair Gold, rumours of an injury to Kolo Muani are ‘wide of the mark’ and the attacker is expected to be available this weekend.

The Frenchman’s supposed injury, now confirmed to be a false alarm, would have been one of many absences at Spurs heading into their final Premier League fixtures.

Roberto De Zerbi, tasked with leading Spurs back from the brink of relegation, suffered blows with a setback in Mohammed Kudus’ recovery from injury and Cristian Romero’s potentially season-ending knee issue.

England international Dominic Solanke was also forced to leave the pitch before half-time during Tottenham’s eventual victory over Wolves, however, his return is expected to come before the season’s conclusion.

Perhaps the largest of all concerns, Xavi Simons has been ruled out of action for the World Cup 2026 and the rest of the year after suffering an ACL injury during the Wolves clash.

Tottenham Hotspur, despite being unaffected in regard to the health of Kolo Muani, will remain alert heading into what could be their final Premier League games for the foreseeable future.

Despite a crucial win on the road, Spurs’ injury woes paint a gloomy picture as they battle relegation, and it remains to be seen at what cost Premier League survival will come for the North London club.

The battle to avoid the Premier League drop looks set to go to the wire this season.

With Wolves and Burnley already having their relegation to the Championship confirmed, there is one more spot to fill, with four teams nervously looking over their shoulders.

Leeds United and Nottingham Forest will be hoping they have just about done enough to keep their collective heads above water, with the pair sitting on 40 and 39 points respectively with just four games to play.

If the two sides finish level on points, who gets relegated from the Premier League?

That leaves London rivals West Ham and Tottenham seemingly in a scrap to avoid dropping down, with the Hammers on 36 points, two clear of Spurs, who currently occupy the final relegation spot. Roberto De Zerbi’s side have the edge in goal difference, but it’s close, with Spurs on -10 and West Ham on -16.

With a nerve-shredding finish on the cards, this is a relegation battle that could be settled by the thinnest of margins, so should Spurs and West Ham be level on points and goal difference, how will relegation be decided?

As with the rest of the division, points scored is the first criterion to decide these matters, followed by goal difference.

It’s then onto goals scored, with Spurs having netted 43 times and West Ham 42, making this another wafer-thin differential between the two relegation-haunted London teams.

Should the two sides find themselves locked on points, goal difference and also goal scored, their place in the table - and likely relegation, unless Leeds or Forest are dragged back into it - would be settled by the two teams’ head-to-head record.

Specifically, Premier League rules dictate that the team who collected the most points in the two sides’ head-to-head matches settles the tie breaker, followed by the team who scored the most away goals in these head-to-head matches.

So, it’s back to this season’s two matches between Spurs and the Irons.

Way back in September, Tottenham claimed a 3-0 win at the London Stadium against the ten-man Hammers, before the Hammers got their revenge with a 2-1 win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

With the two teams claiming three points apiece in their head-to-head, it would then go down to the away goals scored rule.

Despite ending their 118-day wait for a Premier League victory when they edged past relegated Wolverhampton Wanderers on Saturday, Tottenham Hotspur’s woes continue to add up.

Joao Palhinha struck with eight minutes remaining at Molineux to hand Roberto De Zerbi his first win as Spurs boss and snap a winless run which had stretched back to December.

However, a late Callum Wilson winner for West Ham against Everton means that Spurs remain in the bottom three, two points off safety with just four games of the Premier League season remaining.

Spurs suffer major injury blow

Tottenham head to Aston Villa on Sunday, before matches against Leeds, Chelsea and Everton as they look to battle to retain their top-flight status, but suffered a double injury blow at Wolves - one of which could have a hugely damaging impact on the club next season.

Striker Dominic Solanke limped off with a hamstring injury before the break and is now a doubt to face Villa, but there was far worse news concerning summer signing Xavi Simons.

The Dutch winger - who is valued at €50 million by Transfermarkt - jarred his knee on the pitch and needed lengthy treatment before attempting and failing to walk and then being taken off on a stretcher.

It has now been confirmed that the £51 million signing has ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament and will miss the next eight months. Not only does that rule him out of Spurs’ run-in, plus this summer’s World Cup, but it will see him sidelined for the start of the 2026/27 season.

“They say life can be cruel and today it feels that way,” the 23-year-old posted on his Instagram. “My season has come to an abrupt end and I’m just trying to process it. Honestly, I’m heartbroken.

“None of it makes sense. All I’ve wanted to do is fight for my team and now the ability to do that has been snatched away from me, along with the World Cup.”

Should Spurs come up short in their battle against the drop over the next four weeks, Simons’ injury will also hand the club a major headache in their attempts to stabilise.

As per Capology, Simons earns a weekly wage of around £195,000 on the five-year contract he signed in the summer, which made him one of the club’s highest-paid players.

Relegation and the subsequent drop in revenue would mean Spurs would have serious work to do in reducing their wage bill, even after taking into account any relegation wage reduction clauses that are built into their key players’ contracts.

Mauricio Pochettino may well have inadvertently put his finger on where things have gone wrong at Tottenham - by discussing what the club got right during his time there.

The Argentine oversaw Tottenham's best spell in a generation or two during his five and a half years in charge from 2014 to 2019.

Spurs finished in the top five in each of Pochettino's seasons in charge, including coming second once and third twice - as well as reaching the 2019 Champions League final.

Mauricio Pochettino: 'Tottenham had talented players, but no real balance'

Pochettino had taken the step up from Southampton soon after the end of the 2013/14 season, largely thanks to the greater opportunity for success he and his staff saw at Spurs.

He told FourFourTwo: "[Spurs] was a club that offered a chance to compete for bigger objectives. It meant stepping up another level. When [Daniel] Levy’s call came, we didn’t have many doubts."

Although his spell at Spurs ended without a trophy, Pochettino had the side competing at a level they would now be desperate to reach again.

The now-United States manager believes chairman Daniel Levy was a key part of that, saying: "Levy is a genius when it comes to man management, business and negotiation – someone we learned a great deal from.

"Over 25 years, you only have to look at where he found Spurs and where he took them. It became a model club, with an incredible stadium and facilities.

"He didn’t get the reward in terms of trophies, but Levy’s legacy is admired all over the world for his management ability and long-term vision. You can have good ideas, but he made them happen.

"The main thing was having the backing of the club and Daniel Levy, who believed in a sporting rebuild that also included the manager.

"When we arrived, there was an excess of players – many of them talented, but there was no real balance. It was hard to build a competitive team. Reconstructing with a medium-term vision was fundamental.

"Pep Guardiola was given that opportunity, Jurgen Klopp had it, and so did we. There are many very good coaches, but you have to be at the right club, with the right people supporting you to develop what you want to achieve.

"It’s a complex puzzle, because in football there’s always the temptation for people to interfere in areas that aren’t their responsibility. At Tottenham, we were allowed to work."

Watch Wolverhampton Wanderers vs Tottenham Hotspur today as Roberto De Zerbi looks for his first win, with FourFourTwo bringing you all the details on free live streams and TV channels, wherever you are in the world.

Wolves were relegated to the EFL Championship on Monday thanks to West Ham's draw with Crystal Palace, but Rob Edwards will be determined to drag Tottenham down with them.

For Spurs, three points are essential — they’re still searching for their first Premier League win of 2026 and trail the Hammers by two points heading into matchday 34.

Can De Zerbi captivate his team and pick up a crucial win?

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Wolves vs Tottenham: Premier League preview

Tottenham's 2025–26 season has been a shambles. More than that, it’s been the culmination of a multifaceted implosion that now threatens their place in the top division.

Spurs, whose manager this week is Roberto De Zerbi, are in freefall. They haven’t won a game since the end of 2025 and remain in the drop zone, thanks to Georginio Rutter’s stoppage-time equaliser for Brighton, De Zerbi’s former club, at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium last Saturday.

Their run-in sees them take on Aston Villa, Leeds United, Chelsea and Everton, with two at home and two away, and one relegation place still yawning menacingly above the doomed bottom two.

If Spurs are going to find a win, the obvious place on paper is at Molineux, where the first of their five remaining games takes place this afternoon. Wolves’ relegation was confirmed in midweek, and Burnley soon followed.

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Their brief burst of life might be over and done with, but Rob Edwards has been able to get Wolves fired up for a handful of home matches in spite of the inevitability of their situation.

Spurs will not be relishing the prospect of Molineux, and with good reason. Wolves are winless in four again, but the reality is they are no more relegated now than they were when they beat Villa, Liverpool and West Ham United.

All three of those teams are better than Spurs and were all defeated in the Black Country.

If Spurs think Wolves’ purple patch at home is over, they would be well advised to think again. Take away the away games, the international break and the FA Cup loss against the Reds, and the nub of the Edwards revival reappears: Wolves took seven points from Arsenal, Villa and Liverpool in their last three home league games.

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Backing either of these teams to win would appear to be a foolish choice.

From 2003/04 to 2008/09, we lived firmly in the Big Four era. Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United and Liverpool had a near-monopoly on the four Champions League places, with just one exception: Everton beat Liverpool into fourth place in 2004/05.

Manchester City and Tottenham joined the party to make it a Big Six from 2009/10 onwards. In the 13 seasons between then and 2021/22, those six teams made up the top six on six occasions.

Five of them were in the top six a further five times. Liverpool finished outside the top six three times from 2010 to 2013. Manchester United finished seventh under David Moyes in 2013/14. Liverpool (eighth) and Chelsea (tenth) both had bad years in 2015/16 to help open the door for Leicester’s title triumph. Arsenal finished eighth in 2019/20 and 2020/21, with Spurs one place ahead of them in the latter season.

Then came Saudi-owned Newcastle United and Aston Villa, who seemingly pushed us into the Big Eight era, as we here at FourFourTwo claimed in summer 2023. That was seemingly confirmed the following season: the top eight places were all filled by those eight teams.

Only it’s not quite worked out that way.

The Big Four era and - to only a slightly lesser extent - the Big Six era were both extremely entrenched.

Even those aberrations in the 2010s were down to the elite clubs having a transitional period – especially Liverpool’s wilderness years in the latter days of the Hicks and Gillett regime, when they were certainly not behaving or spending like an enormous club.

Let’s not get this wrong: Big Eight clubs have eaten up every top five place for what now looks like being five seasons in a row, with Manchester City, Arsenal and Liverpool joined on a rotating basis by Aston Villa, Chelsea, Manchester United, Newcastle and Tottenham.

But at the same time, those clubs have lost the aura of invincibility that was enjoyed by the financially-backed elite over the past two decades. Simply put, you still need bags of money to succeed, but it is no longer a guarantee against failure to anything like the degree it once was.

No Big Four or Big Six club ever finished far from their ‘place’ in their respective eras. To repeat: Liverpool were the only Big Four club to ever finish as low as fifth. Chelsea were the only Big Six club to ever finish outside the top eight, coming tenth in 2015/16.

But if the table stays as it is now, at least one Big Eight club will have finished in the bottom half of the table in three of the past four seasons. Chelsea came 12th in 2022/23. Manchester United and Tottenham came 15th and 17th respectively last season. Newcastle are now 14th – and most remarkably, Spurs are on course for relegation.

That has come in spite of the tighter PSR regulations that coincided with what is meant to be the Big Eight era. Those rules, which limit the losses clubs are able to make, should in theory have entrenched the richer clubs even further. Leicester’s dramatic decline after years of recklessly overspending on wages shows the perils of trying to keep up with the Joneses.

So what is happening? Why is it that money talked so loudly in the Big Four and Big Six eras that those clubs were virtually completely insulated against serious failure – but now it is possible for some of the richest clubs in the country to find themselves battling it out in the lower reaches of the Premier League table?

The answer, we think, is twofold. One is that the TV rights for the Premier League took a massive, massive hike in from 2016/17 onwards. That meant that the rich got richer – and have continued to do so by having Champions League money on top – but so did the rest of the division.

That’s important, because when it comes to player recruitment in a global market, Premier League clubs are not only competing with each other: they’re up against big teams from other countries, too.

Suddenly, even a fairly middling Premier League side could afford to pay more than almost any club in Italy, Germany or Spain bar the absolute powerhouses like Bayern Munich, Real Madrid and Barcelona.

Wolves are the best early example of the effect that had. They finished seventh in 2018/19 and 2019/20, largely thanks to their ties to Jorge Mendes allowing them to sign some of Portugal’s hottest young stars even when they were still a Championship club gambling on getting promoted to the top tier.

Even still, there was an upper limit. But what we have seen over the past few years is less about pure financial might: it’s been about the Premier League’s middle-class clubs spending the last decade getting much smarter about how they spend their money.

While some of the big eight have wasted their wealth on incoherent recruitment and inappropriate managerial appointments, there is a clutch of clubs who have excelled at getting the absolute most out of their squads.

Mauricio Pochettino is still held in high regard by supporters of Tottenham Hotspur; of that there is no doubt.

The Argentine enjoyed a successful spell with the club between 2014 and 2019 before his acrimonious departure months on from the team's appearance in the UEFA Champions League Final.

Pochettino has taken charge of Paris Saint-Germain, Chelsea and the United States since then, the latter being his current post, but still feels strongly towards Spurs.

Pochettino: 'Tottenham still feels like home'

Naturally, Pochettino and Tottenham fans the world over have fond memories of club's run to the 2019 Champions League Final, which feels a far-cry from their current situation.

But, there were several other moments, including the majority of the 2016/17 campaign, under Pochettino that Spurs supporters continue to hark back to.

Before Pochettino, Tottenham had only qualified for the Champions League once in the Premier League era, in 2010. Under his management, the team qualified four seasons in a row, culminating in that 2019 final defeat, but in doing so, Pochettino had helped establish the club as a mainstay among Europe’s elite.

The pinnacle of the 'Poch era' came in 2016/17 when the club challenged for the title and secured their highest Premier League finish, ending the campaign in second place with a record 86 points.

It was the year in which Spurs bid farewell to White Hart Lane, too, going unbeaten there in the league, recording 17 wins and two draws. In the process, Tottenham conceded only 26 goals across the entire Premier League campaign, fewer than every other side.

And it was at that time Pochettino helped bring through the likes of Harry Kane, Dele Alli and Son Heung-min, facilitating their ascent to becoming modern-day Spurs icons.

"Yes, why not [go back]?" Pochettino told FourFourTwo in an exclusive interview. "If the right conditions are there, of course. Tottenham feels like home to us. We identify with the club’s idiosyncrasies, values and supporters.

"Right now it’s about enjoying the World Cup," he added. "After that, I’ve always said I came so close to winning the Premier League and Champions League, and want to try again. I’d like to be part of a project with the ambition of winning both."

Which division Tottenham are playing in next season remains to be decided, with the club teetering on the brink of relegation from the top flight for the first time since the 1970s.

Recently, the club have signed head coach Roberto De Zerbi to a long-term contract at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, meaning there is every chance there will not be a Spurs vacancy for some time.

Arne Slot’s men could see a struggling Tottenham Hotspur forward join their ranks next season, with the Reds preparing to ‘accelerate’ their interest.

Liverpool are reportedly lining up a shock move for the Spurs man, who is looking to extend his Premier League stay in the event of a Tottenham Hotspur relegation.

The Reds are currently well-placed for Champions League qualification, clear by five points in fifth position of closest competitors Brighton, with a game in hand also yet to play.

Liverpool ‘willing’ to help Spurs flop extend his Premier League stay

Randal Kolo Muani, currently on loan at Tottenham Hotspur from PSG, is looking to extend his Premier League stay ahead of both his return to France and a potential Spurs relegation.

The Frenchman, whose hopes of playing World Cup football were recently boosted significantly by Hugo Ekitike’s injury, has struggled for the North London club this season.

Kolo Muani has registered just two Premier League goal involvements, one goal and one assist, in 17 starts and 25 games during the 2025-26 campaign.

The forward’s first Premier League assist came against Liverpool during March’s 1-1 Anfield draw — the singular domestic point gained by Igor Tudor during his short tenure.

According to a report from Calcio Mercato, Liverpool have joined the race for Kolo Muani’s signature, which is also highly sought after by Juventus who the Frenchman spent the second half of the 2024-25 season on loan with.

In the event of Liverpool making an offer for the Spurs forward, it is expected that PSG would have no objections in selling and Juventus would likely be pipped by the Reds’ pull.

Kolo Muani’s contract with PSG expires in 2028 and his valuation has plummeted in the years since his arrival in France for over £80 million from Frankfurt in 2023.

According to a report from Gazzetta dello Sport, the Frenchman's entourage are no longer interested in loan moves, meaning any Liverpool advances would likely have to be for the permanent signing of Kolo Muani.

The Spurs attacker now has more motivation than ever to end the season strongly - to appear alluring to potential suitor clubs, to secure World Cup football with France, and to prevent a historic Tottenham Hotspur relegation.