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Tottenham Hotspur are not just looking for a new manager to succeed Igor Tudor with the interim coach's days at the N17 most likely numbered over this March international break, but they are also actively looking for a new sporting director.

Johan Lange has been holding that role by default ever since Fabio Paratici was briefly reappointed and then jetted off to Fiorentina, probably realizing that Lange, Vinai Venkatesham, and the continued reign of Thomas Frank were indeed a sinking ship. And as Spurs sink closer to relegation following a 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest, you can't help but think that Paratici was right for doing what he did.

But the search must go and someone must be hired, though how Spurs match up a long term sporting director and manager appointment while juggling a short term manager hire during an active relegation battle is a conundrum most fans should not expect the club to be able to handle competently.

Look who is leading the charge

What will give Spurs supporters even less faith is this bit of news. According to Sam Wallace and Matt Law of the Daily Telegraph, Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham are still the ones leading the search for the next Tottenham Hotspur sporting director. Obviously, all decisions that are final will require approval from the Lewis Family itself, though the Daily Telegraph report that things are being run through a liason of the ownership group in Florida, which implies that Vinai and Lange have quite a bit of reign here.

It is a bit puzzling that Vinai and Lange are involved so heavily in this and leading the search with what seems like quite little oversight, because neither of their positions should be safe. Vinai has been a miserable CEO, with sponsors and other stakeholders telling that very same newspaper that they have noticed a drop off in quality and are considering pulling out because of Vinai, who is doing an even worse job than Daniel Levy.

Tottenham Hotspur sit at the March international break in dire trouble after a 3-0 demolition job at the hands of fellow relegation candidates Nottingham Forest last Sunday. Spurs are reeling like never before, with Igor Tudor potentially on the way out this coming week while the club have no real alternative to the interim manager currently.

Despite most of the news around Tottenham being grim, loaned center back Luka Vuskovic continues to shine and make a name for himself. It seems like every week, he's dropping a monster class or even scoring a great goal, having just smacked one in from long range in a friendly against Colombia.

And now, for his exploits in the Bundesliga and continued excellence in his first season as a senior player, Vuskovic has officially been named the Bundesliga Player of the Month for March. It is the whopping fourth time he has won the award in the 2025/26 season, and you would not put it past the Croatian international to make it five before the season ends.

Luka Vuskovic has tied the record

Vuskovic easily beat out Heidenheim's Hennes Behrens and RB Leipzig left winger Yan Diomande - yet another brilliant player who certainly won't be considering Tottenham Hotspur this summer - in order to win the prestigious award for a fourth time.

With four total Rookie of the Month award wins, Vuskovic is now tied with Victor Boniface for the most ever honors in a single season. Boniface actually won four in a row in the 2023/24 season when Die Werkself legendarily went undefeated, so the fact that Luka Vuskovic has tied him for a mid table club that just made it back to the 2. Bundesliga is quite massive - let alone the fact that it is harder for center backs to get recognized than strikers.

Vuskovic is such a special player, and Tottenham fans can only hope that he makes his way back to them in the 2026/27 season. So far, Vuskovic has seemed more inclined to stay in Hamburg on loan so he can play with his brother, but Barcelona and Bayern Munich are already nipping at his heels with serious transfer interest in this generational defender.

On the precipice of breaking another Bundesliga record now that he has four Rookie of the Month awards, Vuskovic is a budding superstar and a ray of hope in 2026 whom Spurs simply cannot afford to let walk away.

We're now a few days into the international break, and Igor Tudor remains at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.

There's a growing expectation that an inept hierarchy will part ways with the interim manager, who has earned just one point from his five Premier League games in charge.

Tudor did oversee back-to-back positive results against Liverpool and Atlético Madrid, but that good work was undone when Nottingham Forest claimed a 3-0 win in N17 last Sunday, leapfrogging the Lilywhites in the process.

Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham, the two stooges supposedly running the show in north London, took a punt on Serie A firefighter Tudor and it hasn't come off. Now, they're scrambling around again. The next manager remains unknown, and desperation is creeping in.

Sean Dyche does not want Tottenham job for seven games

Many supporters are holding out for Mauricio Pochettino after the World Cup, but Tottenham's dire situation means the club have considered bringing their next long-term appointment forward. That, of course, wouldn't be Poch, but rather Roberto De Zerbi.

The out-of-work Italian was brilliant for Sassuolo, Brighton & Hove Albion and, to a lesser extent, Marseille, but he's a borderline lunatic who's almost guaranteed to walk out of the job within two years.

Why he's seemingly the undisputed No. 1 choice to solve all our ailments, I do not know, but those in charge of this football club are making things up as they go along.

Because if De Zerbi doesn't take the job on now, which he's reluctant to do, Tottenham will turn to the ideologically aligned Sean Dyche. Oh, that's right, Dyche couldn't be more different from De Zerbi. Good process, fellas.

The Telegraph reports that if De Zerbi's mind can't be changed, a desperate Spurs will turn to Dyche, who may best be described as this generation's Sam Allardyce. Yes, I know Big Sam did some quirky things with Bolton back in the day, but he evolved into a scrapper in his twilight.

Dyche has garnered a similar reputation, primarily because he helped Everton survive the drop in 2022/23. The rest of his tenure was rather indifferent, and his time in charge of Nottingham Forest only lasted 114 days. Not bad given Evangelos Marinakis' tendencies.

Pairing Dyche with this brittle Spurs squad seems like a terrible idea, and he's even reluctant to take the job on for such a short period of time (just seven games). While any other club would be wise to move for a manager like Dyche in the spot Tottenham are in, you just get the sense that the hierarchy hasn't considered the distinct drawbacks of appointing the 54-year-old.

This squad needs empowerment from somewhere. Hiring a low-blocking supremo is not the move.

Time is winding down for Igor Tudor at Tottenham Hotspur, and after personal tragedy and a 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest in a relegation six pointer, it feels like the Italian manager's days at the N17 are numbered.

Spurs are being increasingly linked with immediate options to replace Tudor, but they are finding it difficult to hire the most well known names available. Roberto De Zerbi appears to be the No. 1 target for Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham, but he is unsurprisingly thoroughly uninterested in taking on the risk of being Spurs manager right now.

As Tottenham talk to Adi Hutter and feel out any possible replacements with Premier League ties - while fans smoke a pipe, dreaming of Mauricio Pochettino saving the day - they will have to make a decision on Tudor soon during this March international break.

Igor Tudor may not last past Monday

According to new information from Sam Wallace and Matt Law of the Daily Telegraph, Tottenham Hotspur are expected to decide on Tudor's future at the club this coming Monday, leaving potentially just a few days until Spurs fans hear word of a new manager coming in.

Tudor hasn't done a good or a bad job as Tottenham manager, in truth. He has basically inherited an impossible task with the team in shambles mentally and physically, owing to so many injuries accruing this season that nobody - not even Tudor, who just took the job - can wrap their head around this horrendous luck.

But notably, Tottenham are just one point above relegation and certainly did themselves no favors by being hopelessly outplayed by Nottingham Forest last weekend. That has made Tudor's position, in the eyes of many, untenable at this point with Tottenham facing true emergency and a threat to their very future as a Premier League club.

The most interesting thing about the report that Tottenham are set to decide Tudor's future in a matter of days after the weekend ends is the fact that there is no real favorite right now to take on the job. If De Zerbi is not going to coach any clubs before the season ends, the only name concretely linked to Spurs who is in active talks with Tottenham is Adi Hutter, and while he was a good coach in the Bundesliga and pretty decent in Ligue 1 for Monaco, he's never managed in the Premier League - let alone in a relegation fight of any sort.

If Mohammed Kudus has been the best player on Tottenham Hotspur this season, then Luka Vuskovic is hands down the club's best overall performer of the 2025/26 season. Vuskovic has been even better than advertised during the preseason, when some Spurs fans were being chided over calling the Croatian standout a potential Sergio Ramos regen.

Crazy enough, they may have been underselling Vuskovic, because the teenage center back has been so good on loan at Hamburg and even for the Croatian national team that he is outperforming even how good Sergio Ramos was for Sevilla at about the same age - and Ramos was obviously quite good, having been sold shortly afterwards to mighty Real Madrid for a record fee for a defender.

Now, Vuskovic should be going for even more than that if he were to leave, and Tottenham Hotspur fans are increasingly worried that these kinds of elite clubs like Bayern Munich, Barcelona, and Madrid are only going to come knocking harder this summer.

Luka Vuskovic scored another great goal

Vuskovic added another highlight reel feather to his cap this week, scoring a goal from outside the box to open the scoring in the sixth minute of a friendly match between Croatia and Colombia. Though hopefully more the scouts at the elite clubs were watching France vs. Brazil or one of the many World Cup qualifying matches, Luka Vuskovic is so popular by now that nothing he does will slip under the radar.

Harry Kane is the odds on favorite to win Bundesliga Player of the Season, but Vuskovic has been so brilliant that you will find diehard Bundesliga fans who are backing the Hamburg man as a candidate, too. He has been mature beyond his years, drawing rave reviews from a very interested Bayern, as well as many Bundesliga legends like Lothar Matthaus who are simply blown away by his reading of the game, athleticism, and maturity.

With goals like this one against Colombia and Vuskovic's ability to be able to do seemingly everything at a high level, holding onto the Croatian star is becoming an even taller order than Tottenham had imagined. Now, Vuskovic himself has maintained he wants to stay one more year in northern Germany to play with his brother, and, astoundingly, Hamburg and not Tottenham are the ones who have already guaranteed top flight safety in 2026. Vuskovic is in high demand, and Spurs have to keep watching their backs.

Tottenham Hotspur supporters have not seen star right winger and box to box center midfielder Dejan Kulusevski since the end of the 2024/25 season. Kulusevksi suffered a right knee injury that initially seemed like it wasn't going to be a big deal, then it was a season ender, then it bled into missed time in the 2025/26 season, and then Spurs fans started to worry if Kulu would ever be back.

Recent footage captured by Swedish press of him still limping while hanging out with teammates in Spain ahead of their World Cup qualifying matches had Tottenham fans understandably fearing the worst, especially since Spurs themselves have never even bothered to give anyone a concrete injury update on their long absent star player for the duration of this entire season.

The only thing Tottenham fans had to go off of were tiny updates from Swedish national team manager Graham Potter, as well as speculation. And obviously, fan speculation when it is a time that is in a disastrous moment is never going to be rosy or optimstic, and thus Spurs fans have been worried in their back of their minds that the club have been so quiet on Kulusevski because his career could be in jeopardy.

Dejan Kulusevski addressed his injury

That does not appear to be the case. Dejan Kulusevski has finally spoken about his injury to the press, and with Sweden one step closer to qualifying for the World Cup after a Viktor Gyokeres hat trick fueled victory, he made it clear that his goal is to play at the World Cup this summer.

Kulusevski said, via Sportbladet, “One hundred percent. Yes. That is the driving force I have. To have that opportunity is completely fantastic. It is a challenge that I so far have not been able to overcome considering getting healthy, but it is not over yet. It is now the second match begins.”

He also said, "I understand that people became worried. But it was really for the wrong reason. It was really positive that I did this small procedure and that we could find the problem. Now everything should be solved. Now it is just to slowly and surely come back. I can see the light. It feels better now. I really have a positive feeling with these two important matches and a World Cup in two–three months. That is how the book and the chapter will end. That I am convinced of."

The Tottenham Hotspur winger also assured fans that while he understood they were worried about watching him limping around, he simply had a small procedure to clean up his right knee and that the procedure is actually a good thing that can increase his chances of coming back sooner.

An important thing to note is that Tottenham fans should not take his quotes out of context. Kulusevski would definitely want to help Tottenham avoid relegation if he can, but, one, it may not be safe for him to come back before the season ends, and, two, he was specifically being asked by the Swedish press about his potential involvement with the national team at the World Cup.

Tottenham fans should still expect Kulu to be out for the entire 2025/26 season, but the great news is that he is in play for a return this summer and his career clearly is not in jeopardy at this point. Straight from the man himself, this is the best injury update Spurs have had yet.

Tottenham Hotspur fired Ange Postecoglou in the most unceremonious of ways after he had delivered them their first European trophy in more than 40 years. They made him wait for weeks without an answer when then CEO Daniel Levy knew he would be firing Postecoglou no matter what due to the poor results in the Premier League. And then he fired Postecoglou while on holiday, announcing the move on a random Friday night in the summer.

The reasoning behind firing Postecoglou was not necessarily the problem. Spurs were 17th in the Premier League, only ahead of three historically terrible newly promoted sides. And opposing managers were laughing in the media behind an anonymous veil about how easy it was to figure out Spurs and dismantle their poorly organized system in his second season.

But with all that Postecoglou did to bring the Europa League to Tottenham and with how beloved he was by the players as someone who brought entertaining football and a never say die attitude to the club, he 100 percent deserved better than the treatment he got from Levy and this shambles of the club as he walked out the door - treated as more goat than hero.

Ange Postecoglou still loves Tottenham

With time, the Ange Postecoglou firing has only looked worse. Thomas Frank was the polar opposite of Postecoglou in the worst possible way, turning Spurs into an even worse team in the Premier League with no European meddle to speak of. And his interim replacement, Igor Tudor, has been unable to turn the tide as another charisma vacuum himself in comparison to the jovial Big Ange.

With Tottenham in the pit of a relegation fight and coming off a dreadful 3-0 loss to Nottingham Forest, Postecoglou was asked about his feelings on Spurs at this darkest hour. And his response in an interview with Melbourne radio station SEN 1116 just might leave you in tears:

“It was two years and they were by no means easy years, but we invested a lot into them. Second last game we won a European trophy which was an incredible high. The connection there will be there forever. To watch them struggle has not been easy and it’s not the way I thought it would go. They’re in a hell of a fight, relegation is massive for any club but for Tottenham, it’s a pretty big deal. They have some fighting to do and they have the quality to get out. They need a circuit-breaker for sure.”

Say what you want, and he was never going to be the long term option for Tottenham, but, man, Ange is a true Spur through and through. What a guy to hold no bad blood to the club and to only want the best for the players, supporters, and the badge in this difficult time, even after the management treated him so badly on the way out. Class act.

Tottenham Hotspur are back on the recruiting trail for a new manager, though they had already known from the moment they hired Igor Tudor that he would be nothing more than a stop gap, interim manager, barring an unexpected twist. And with just one point in 15 possible in the Premier League as their coach, Tudor has not bucked the trend, with Spurs continuing to slide just as they were under Thomas Frank previously.

Although Spurs seem to be pursuing former Brighton manager Roberto De Zerbi with more zeal than the other options, which presumably includes the usual Premier League suspects like Andoni Iraola and Marco Silva, the dream option for Spurs fans is entirely obvious and consistent of only one choice: former coach Mauricio Pochettino.

If you were to poll the fan base, the vast majority would be of the belief that Tottenham Hotspur should have never fired Pochettino in the first place, and though the beloved Ange Postecoglou brought them the Europa League title, Spurs lack of Premier League success in that time span has only validated the feeling of the fans on Poch.

Mauricio Pochettino wants a Premier League return

Pochettino is not exactly quelling the rumor and speculation either. Ahead of the World Cup for the USMNT, Pochettino was asked about his future, and the former PSG manager told French outlet L'Equipe in an interview that his dream after the World Cup is over is to coach in the Premier League again.

The Argentinian manager waxed poetic about the biggest league in world football, "I love the country, its culture, the football culture. For anyone with a competitive spirit who wants to measure themselves against others and test their abilities, it's the ideal place. You have to constantly give your best."

While that quote is not explicably about coming back to coach Tottenham specifically, anyone - and not just optimistic Spurs supporters - can read between the lines and hear him talking about the N17. Pochettino achieved the best success of his coaching career with Tottenham, where he competed for both Premier League and Champions League titles, only to fall crushingly short.

Spurs are in their darkest hour now, and they are calling out for their best manager to come back and rescue them and to bring them back to the heights they once were less than a decade ago when they were competing for the grandest prize in club football. Pochettino certainly sounds willing to return, almost speaking about the Premier League as if he were in a dream like state.

Tottenham Hotspur have to be more proactive in their managerial search than they were during the first half of the 2025/26 season when Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham were not even looking at contingency plans for Thomas Frank, who ended up keeping the coaching job months longer than he should have.

Reading the tea leaves, Igor Tudor's days as Spurs manager appear to be numbered, and if Spurs want to make a desperate move or if there is some combination of understandable burnout on Tudor's part, then Tottenham need to find a new coach. And obviously, even if Tudor does manage Spurs until the end of the 2025/26 Premier League campaign, Tottenham still 100 percent need a new manager over the long term when the 2026/27 season starts.

For some reason, Tottenham's No. 1 target for the summer appears to be Roberto De Zerbi, but the former Marseille and Brighton coach is uninterested in being an emergency option for any club during the ongoing season. So if Spurs hire a new coach to replace Tudor now, they will have to look elsewhere, but even if we are just talking about summer hires, De Zerbi is not necessarily a favorite for most fans.

Tottenham are thinking about Marco Silva

Mauricio Pochettino is, but the list can't just be Poch and RDZ. Andoni Iraola, Oliver Glasner, and Marco Silva were the trio of mid table Premier League managers who had piqued Spurs interest alongside Thomas Frank during summer 2025 in the aftermath of Ange Postecoglou's sacking.

According to a report from Fabrizio Romano, as Tottenham Hotspur continue to ponder their options and view Roberto De Zerbi as a favorite, they have also circled back to Silva from Fulham. Per Romano, Spurs have "discussed internally" the possibility of hiring Silva as their next permanent manager.

In all honesty, while Marco Silva is hardly the most exciting name, he may have the best Premier League track record of these coaches. He has done very well for Fulham, as the club rank in the top half of the table and have been decent in the league ever since his appointment. And head to head, he has outclassed Tottenham badly on two occasions.

Silva is at least worth keeping in mind as a contingency plan to Pochettino, who is the real dream option for Spurs. He may be a better coaching hire than De Zerbi, given he is a less volatile personality than the ex Sassuolo man.

Nobody knows when Dejan Kulusevsk is going to be able to play again. That is the common theme Tottenham Hotspur fans are getting from all the small injury updates and the other non updates thrown in, as Kulusevski still does not have a clear time table for a return with neither manager Igor Tudor nor Spurs as a club providing any clarity on the Swedish international's absence.

The only real nuggets Spurs fans have to go off of are coming from Swedish national team manager Graham Potter and outlets in the country. Kulusevski is not playing or practicing, but he is back in focus with Sweden set to do battle this March international break in World Cup qualifying matches. They are currently camped out in Spain, and Kulu has been meeting up with his teammates and at least socializing with them, providing an opportunity for the cameras to check in on the Tottenham star right winger.

The outlet Sportbladet observed him still limping around his teammates during training. Dejan Kulusevski obviously did not participate in the training sessions, but he was observed talking with them and briefly hugging them, sharing exchanges. Graham Potter spoke briefly about Kulu to the press, too, but all he said is that he still does not know when the star man will be able to train with the team again.

Dejan Kulusevski is still limping

At this point, it is almost 100 percent certain that Kulusevski will not play a single minute in the 2025/26 season for Tottenham, and the fears Spurs fans have of Kulu's career being over still have not been fully addressed or dismissed.

Potter did note that Kulusevski was making progress on the knee injury at a recent press conference before the break started, so that would go against Kulu suffering from a career threatening injury. But it does not completely rule out the worst, given how slow that progress has been.

Kulusevski initially suffered the injury towards the end of the 2024/25 season, and Tottenham have not made it known publicly what the extent or official diagnosis of the injury even is. The fact that fans are still kept in the dark is hugely concerning, and the fact that reporters from Sweden are still observing Kulusevski visibly limping around is doubly concerning. Tottenham are going to have to fight through relegation without Kulu as a stabilizing presence, and everyone can only pray he will be back next season.