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There are so many Tottenham Hotspur fans clamoring for a reunion with iconic manager Mauricio Pochettino, and if it were up to them, Spurs would convince him as soon as possible to leave the United States men's national team and rescue them from Premier League relegation.

Obviously, that is a pipe dream, because with the World Cup just months away and Pochettino set to lead one of the host nations in a politically charged tournament, there is no way in the universe Poch abandons the United States team right now. There is no Fernando Hierro twist here.

However, even if Spurs have to sit through more Igor Tudor or roll the dice on Adi Hutter, the fans want to see Pochettino back on the bench for the Lilywhites in the 2026/27 season, and Poch has already made it clear that he would be loyal to Spurs and consider joining them even if they were relegated this season. And that's exactly the kind of character Spurs need.

Mauricio Pochettino got it handed to him

The thing is, Tottenham Hotspur supporters lost in the illusion of nostalgia and all that Mauricio Pochettino accomplished about a decade ago have to get a reality check. Poch may not be as effective now as he was then.

Over this international break with his A team in a key tune up match before the World Cup, the United States were blown to pieces 5-2 by Dodi Lukebakio and Belgium in a rematch of a World Cup knockout match from 12 years ago.

Pochettino is obviously not to blame for a malaise in United States soccer that has existed for years and years where overrated players are hyped up and then mocked when they inevitably fail, youth coaches are rewarded for incompetence, and player development is summed up in a bunch of failed Bundesliga stints.

At the same time, Pochettino hasn't exactly turned things around for the United States, and if he can't get a squad of unperforming, ego inflated players in a dysfunctional organization to win, then, boy oh boy, is he going to love what is in store for him at the 2026 version of Tottenham.

That being said, even if Pochettino is as lousy as he was for PSG or Chelsea, he is still going to be ten times the coach that Thomas Frank was, he is going to have a much better pedgiree than Igor Tudor, and he is going to have a much higher character than Roberto De Zerbi. He's still the best option. But Spurs fans have to avoid making that very same mistake of overhyping someone just to relish in their failure and realize that Pochettino is more flawed than savior nowadays.

It may only be a matter of days until Tottenham Hotspur make an official decision on interim manager Igor Tudor, who recently lost his father and may be preparing to step away from the club. As conversations settle down between the two parties, Spurs supporters are left wondering who exactly - if not Tudor - will be leading the team in the final games of this tense relegation fight, which only got more desperate after the club's 3-0 implosion against Nottingham Forest.

One of the managers Tottenham were banking on to help them in an emergency was actually one of the managers who helped sink Forest into the relegation battle earlier this season, long time relegation specialist Sean Dyche.

But Dyche is clearly not interested in the job. Most reputable sources in the United Kingdom made that pretty much unequivocal throughout the week, but before the weekend hit, a few of the lower tier outlets indicated that Spurs were set to engage in talks with Dyche.

Sean Dyche has no interest in Tottenham

Well, the big man had a very on brand response to those rumors, dispelling them in the most Sean Dyche way possible. He told talkSPORT on Saturday morning, “I was in the pub just up the road and this guy goes ‘you’re meant to be in talks with Spurs tonight’ and I said ‘well I’m standing next to you having a pint of Guinness, so it’s unlikely!”

So, uh, yeah, it's safe to say that Dyche is going to have nothing to do with the Tottenham Hotspur job. He, Roberto De Zerbi, and Adi Hutter were the only managers linked to Spurs in reports, so with RDZ not fielding job offers until after the season ends, the only known Igor Tudor replacement for the Masters of Incompetence (the unofficial wrestling tag team name for Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham) is Hutter, who has never managed in the Premier League before.

As Tudor seems more likely out than in with everything going on at the club and the sheer desperation of the situation that Spurs find themselves in with survival on the line, Dyche outright having no interest in the Spurs job makes things very awkward for Tottenham.

It is fair to say that if Dyche is giving anecdotes about being at the bar on a Friday night and isn't exactly offering himself up to Lange and Vinai, he has less than zero interest in this job, which, well, who could blame him? Tottenham are up against it now, and Dyche has made that patently obvious (in case it were not before).

If there is one thing you can never a veteran supporter of Tottenham Hotspur of, then it is being overly optimstic. A deep rooted sense of cynicism and a natural proclivity towards unabridged pessimism will do any lifelong Spurs fan well, and it has certainly been the coping mechanism of choice this season with the club teetering on the brink of relegation.

Interim manager Igor Tudor has done precious little to stop the bleeding, which is entirely unsurprising - and anyone who though Tudor would be able to turn things around was severely underestimating the rot at the club.

It is eminently unclear if anyone can save Spurs in the short term, but the operative word now is survival. The top options, Roberto De Zerbi and Sean Dyche, are not interested in the Tottenham Hotspur job, which may actually be a relief for Spurs fans since RDZ is not the guy the fans want on board after the sorts of characters he brought in to Marseille.

Mauricio Pochettino can't double-dip

No, the clear fan's choice candidate is Mauricio Pochettino, but the hopes of the USMNT coach coming in before the World Cup this summer in North America and coaching Spurs to safety is beyond a pipe dream.

And here is Give Me Sport reporter Lee Wilmot to dump a giant Gatorade cooler on the Pochettino to Spurs rumors as far as the American national team manager being an immediate hire before the 2025/26 Premier League season ends. Per Wilmot, the USMNT understandably are not interested in having Poch share duties with Tottenham ahead of the World Cup, specifically because they ponied up for a world-class hire like Pochettino so that he would have his full focus on the World Cup.

It makes 100 percent sense, and any Spurs fan thinking Poch would be able to come in and coach both the United States and Spurs at the same time was being such a rosy optimist that you'd have to question if they are even a Spurs fan at all - especially since it's hardly like Spurs are accruing that many new fans who would not know any better.

Nevertheless, the dreams of a Mauricio Pochettino reunion will not be completely dead. There may be a few with the delusional hope that Poch would quit on the United States team before the World Cup, which is actually more possible than the whole time share deal (which is to say, the chances are less than one percent). But the most realistic scenario would be Poch joining on after the season, regardless of whether or not Spurs are relegated. He's by far the best option on the table at this point, but he's not on the table before then. So Spurs had better find a way.

After their 3-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest last Sunday, Tottenham Hotspur fans are seriously worried about the threat of relegation from the Premier League this season, and while that threat has been there for honestly months now, it is starting to feel more real with Spurs unablet to even compete on the same pitch as a team that was just below them on the table not but a week ago.

If Spurs were to go down, which stars would remain loyal to the Lilywhites? Cynically, Spurs supporters suspect very few of them, given the lack of effort from the likes of even captain Cristian Romero, but here are three guys to keep in mind. (By the way, players staying on loan don't count for this list.)

RW Dejan Kulusevski

Dejan Kulusevski is such an obvious answer that it is almost a cop out. He is still out with a right knee injury that is so serious we don't even know the nature of it or his time table for a return, but we finally heard words straight from him that he has a return date in mind. Kulu will try to make it to the World Cup for Sweden, assuming they qualify.

The Juventus signing has been COYS through and through since joining the project, and since his transfer value is super low anyway, it would make far more sense for these two to remain loyal to each other and get back to the Premier League together if relegated.

AM James Maddison

James Maddison is 100 percent going to be the next captain if he stays and Cristian Romero goes, and, honestly, with the way the 2025/26 season has gone, Spurs supporters would probably take Madders over Romero as the captain in a heartbeat even if the World Cup winner stuck around.

Like Kulu, Maddison is a veteran presence and a big name who suffered a severe knee injury last season. His game is based less on dribbling and carrying and more on playmaking - the sort of creativity Spurs are still desperately missing - and his value is much higher staying on and becoming a Spurs icon, rather than bolting for almost nothing.

RW Wilson Odobert

Mathsy Tel is worth considering here, but he is a candidate to leave on loan to the Bundesliga so he can keep developing in a top division. Luka Vuskovic and Archie Gray may want the same, while there is always the risk that Mohammed Kudus and Xavi Simons see themselves as being too good for the Championship after joining Tottenham Hotspur just one year ago.

So the answer is Wilson Odobert, who was in the Championship himself just a couple of years ago. Before an ACL tear of his own, Odobert was finally clicking, shining more as a right winger than even a left winger after Kudus went down. He still has a bright future ahead of him despite a huge injury of his own (tearing his ACL, like Maddison did), and Tottenham fans should be excited to see him next season. Coming off an injury, he holds way more value to Spurs than anyone else, especially in the Championship.

Most of the Tottenham Hotspur squad has rightfuly been under a microscope this season with Spurs just one point above the Premier League drop zone right now, but perhaps no player's stock has fallen further than goalkeeper Guglielmo Vicario.

Once regarded as one of the better keepers in the English top flight after having been a top, top keeper in Serie A before that, Vicario is now seen as one of the worst in the league. His save percentage fell to the worst mark among all current Premier League starters, and even that did not come close to fully reflecting how dismal he was in terms of all the basic errors he was making in goal when facing crosses or playing it out from the back.

Vicario was an untenable disaster at his worst, and he only has the Atletico Madrid's notoriously slippery pitch to thank for embarrassing Antonin Kinsky, who could have easily made Vic look even worse if he received a chance.

Guglielmo Vicario was suffering for a while

But when Tottenham fans learned that Guglielmo Vicario was playing through a hernia and severely limited, playing through the pain to help the team, they had to feel at least somewhat bad for all the Vicario criticism. Old clips of him grimacing in pain while being unable to properly launch kicks forward surfaced, and it is obvious, looking back, that at least part of Vic's poor performances - but probably not all, given the sheer magnitude of specifically mental errors - were due to the hernia.

According to Football.London's Alasdair Gold, one of Vicario's goalkeeping coaches revealed that the player had indeed been struggling for months with the hernia. And Tottenham Hotspur fans hearing about just how long Vicario has been struggling through this are wondering why on earth the club and the player just didn't get the surgery sooner.

Sure, Kinsky was slipping and sliding a lot against Atleti, but he was never that bad in the other games to make anyone think he could not be an upgrade on a clearly injured and hampered player. Again, Vicario was statistically speaking, THE worst goalkeeper in the Premier League and extremely error prone, with Spurs now in the relegation fight. Kinsky could not have been worse than an injured Vicario.

While what Vicario did was admirable, it was also foolish for Spurs to allow him to keep playing, especially if they knew he could have performed a lot better after getting surgery done sooner. It's a case of hubris and poor decision making, the kind that has plagued Spurs for years and may finally doom them to the Championship. Why didn't Spurs just shut him down sooner? Why didn't they encourage him to just have the surgery instead of performing poorly? It makes no sense to let him "play the hero" like that when he didn't need to.

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.