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Tottenham Hotspur have been told that West Ham United star Crysencio Summerville “could be the reason” they get relegated this season.

Tottenham‘s chances of suffering relegation from the Premier League are increasing by the day, with their situation worsening this week.

Following their damaging 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace on Thursday night, Igor Tudor‘s side are only one point clear of the relegation zone and are arguably the worst-performing team in the Premier League at the moment.

Injuries have ravaged the Spurs, but their available group of players is still capable of much more than they are currently producing, as they have been ineffective across all departments.

The north London side are also showing very little sign of fight as West Ham and Nottingham Forest have looked stronger than their relegation rival in recent weeks.

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For much of this season, the bottom three has looked set in stone as West Ham, Burnley and Wolves seemed doomed, but Nuno Espirito Santo’s side have significantly improved in recent months.

The Hammers have moved to the brink of exiting the relegation places after Wednesday night’s huge 1-0 win against Fulham, with the fine form of Summerville making a significant impact.

Summerville looked destined to be a flop following his move to West Ham from Leeds United, but his performances have dramatically improved of late. His winner against Fulham was his fifth goal in eight Premier League games.

Now, former Premier League striker Troy Deeney has named Summerville in his team of the week and speculated that he “could be the reason” Spurs get relegated.

“It feels like week after week we are talking about this guy. He has been fantastic for West Ham, cutting in on his right foot, and scoring goals,” Deeney said in his BBC Sport column.

“He might be one of West Ham’s better buys, which is interesting because people thought he was a waste of time earlier in the season.

“He has come in and is now doing really well – getting the winner at Fulham on Wednesday. Could he be the reason why Spurs go down?”

After the loss to Crystal Palace, Tudor strangely claimed that he now “believes more” that Spurs can survive in the Premier League this season.

“I will tell you now, maybe it will sound strange, but I believe more after this game than I believed before. I saw something,” said Tudor.

“I need to choose the right guys because the boat is going in the direction that I want to go, and needs to go, and who is in the boat can stay. Otherwise they can leave the boat.

“When players come back I’m sure we will have a good team and the victories will come. It’s not easy to accept the moment where we are now – but it is how it is.”

Igor Tudor “has to go” after suffering a third defeat in three as Tottenham boss as Jamie O’Hara let loose on six Spurs “jokes” and “an absolute disgrace” of a football club.

The 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace on Thursday leaves Tottenham just one point above the relegation zone as thousands of Spurs fans left the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in their droves long before the final whistle.

Spurs took the lead when Dominic Solanke smartly diverted Archie Gray’s cross past Dean Henderson, but th hosts capitulated in staggering style.

Micky van de Ven hauled Ismaila Sarr down in the box to conceded a penalty that the Palace winger converted and was show a red card for denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity.

Jorgen Strand Larsen put Palace ahead in first-half stoppage-time and there was still enough time before the break for Sarr to put the visitors 3-1 up and push Spurs and Tudor further into crisis.

Pedro Porro was seen “smashing everything” after being substituted in the second half and Tudor bristled when asked about the “pressure” of the job after the game.

O’Hara insists his former club are “an absolute disgrace” and is “actually hurting” as Spurs drift powerlessly towards relegation.

He shouted on talkSPORT: “The manager’s got to go. He’s got to go. Get rid of him.

“He’s lost three games on the bounce. We are the only team in the Premier League ever to bring in a new manager to get a new manager bounce and we get a worse bounce.

“Honestly, he’s a joke, this club is a joke, the owners are a joke, the players are a joke, the recruitment’s a joke, the staff are a joke, the manager’s a joke.

“Everything about the football club is an absolute disgrace. Honestly, I’m hurting, I’m actually hurting. It hurts.

“I didn’t think it would hurt, because I was like, we’ve had some good moments, won the Europa League last season.

“This is just awful. This is so bad. This is the worst I’ve ever felt as a Spurs fan, ever.”

According to reports, Spurs have ‘two’ top targets in mind as potential replacements for Igor Tudor, while a ‘dark horse’ is in the frame.

The north London outfit are in a dire situation as they are without a Premier League win in 2026 and sit only one point clear of the relegation zone.

West Ham piled pressure on Spurs by beating Fulham on Wednesday night, but Tudor‘s side failed to respond on Thursday as they were deservedly beaten 3-1 at home by Crystal Palace.

Spurs hit the self-destruct button after taking the lead through Dominic Solanke. In the space of seven minutes before the interval, Micky van de Ven got sent off and Palace scored three goals to turn the game on its head.

The game was done at this point and the mood inside The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium turned toxic as Spurs’ relegation fears increased.

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This was only Tudor’s third game in charge since replacing Thomas Frank and is yet to inspire an upturn in form/performances, with it already being suggested that his job is at risk.

Tudor has only penned a contract until the summer, and it’s currently hard to see him lasting beyond the end of this season.

A report from GiveMeSport claims Mauricio Pochettino and Roberto De Zerbi are currently the ‘two main candidates’ to replace Tudor, though club legend Robbie Keane is a ‘dark horse’.

As per the report, Keane is especially ‘one to watch’ if Spurs suffer relegation, with competition from elsewhere and a reduced budget to limit their chances of landing Pochettino and De Zerbi if they go down.

If Spurs do land Keane, he could link up with fellow club legend Glenn Hoddle, who has expressed his interest in returning to Spurs.

When asked whether he would be open to returning to Spurs during an appearance on the It Could be Magic podcast, Hoddle said: “I think it would actually. Particularly with Tottenham, as that’s my club.

“I’ve supported them since I was eight years of age. So they were a massive part of my life.”

Hoddle also insisted that he could be lured back if he was offered a supporting role under Keane.

“Robbie’s doing great as a young manager. So to have a steady springboard and someone experienced like myself that would be a good formula, in many ways,” Hoddle added.

“I think it’d be a shrewd move to have somebody, whether it was me or somebody experienced with him. Because the question would be: Is Rob ready to go into that sort of job now?

“Although in saying that, I went into my first management job at 30. What was I, 34? Yeah, 34. So I was very, very young.

“So you have to take that leap at some stage and you sort of learn on the job. But if you can learn on the job and have some experience around you, looking back, I could have done with that a hell of a lot.”

Pedro Porro was seen “smashing everything” on the bench after being substituted in Tottenham’s 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace on Thursday but did he ‘berate Igor Tudor’? No, no he didn’t.

Tudor has now lost all three of his games in charge with the defeat to Palace leaving them just one point above the relegation zone.

Spurs took the lead when Dominic Solanke smartly diverted Archie Gray’s cross past Dean Henderson, but th hosts capitulated in staggering style.

Micky van de Ven hauled Ismaila Sarr down in the box to conceded a penalty that the Palace winger converted and was show a red card for denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity.

Jorgen Strand Larsen put Palace ahead in first-half stoppage-time and there was still enough time before the break for Sarr to put the visitors 3-1 up and push Spurs and Tudor further into crisis.

Tottenham at least avoided embarrassment in the second half but Porro failed to hide his frustration when Tudor brought him off in the 74th minute.

“He’s smashed everything as he’s gone onto the bench and gave the fourth official a real earful. It’s a real headloss,” Joe Hart said on co-commentary.

“He’s obviously an emotional character; there’s fire that runs through him. It’s maybe how he gets the best out of himself. But he also needs to control that because he’s such an important player for Tottenham now.”

He did not, as talkSPORT claim, even ‘appear to berate Igor Tudor’, as the publication admits after clicking that juicy, bullsh*t headline.

The report states:

‘As Porro left the field, though, he turned back in his manager’s direction to berate the fourth official.

‘He could be seen shouting back at Ruebyn Ricardo as the official pointed towards the bench in an attempt to calm the Spanish defender down.’

Porro hit out at Tottenham’s shallow squad as he reflected on the “disaster” that is Tottenham’s Premier League season before the game.

He said: “Obviously, when you don’t have a squad capable of competing in four competitions, it’s difficult.

“You see the injuries and it’s a starting eleven that makes you think, ‘Wow.’ Last year was exactly the same; we had that momentum in the Europa League to win the competition, and the same thing happened in the Premier League.

“You have to build a project to compete in everything and be focused on everything.”

The Tottenham defender added: “Our situation in the Premier League is a disaster. But then you see how we’ve competed in the Champions League and barely conceded at home. It’s going to be two very intense matches, and we’ll see what happens.”

Tottenham Hotspur are ‘in total disarray’, a source inside the north London club has told BBC Sport commentator Jonathan Pearce, as Spurs suffered a damaging defeat to Crystal Palace at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on Thursday evening.

Spurs went down 3-1 to Palace at home in the Premier League to enhance their chances of getting relegated to the Championship.

Tottenham played most of the London derby with 10 players after Micky van de Ven was sent off in the 38th minute.

Spurs fans left Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in droves at half-time, when Palace were leading 3-1.

The defeat to Palace means that Tottenham are now just one point above the relegation zone.

Eminent journalist Jonathan Pearce was on BBC Radio 5 Live commentary duty for the London derby at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

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At half-time, Pearce revealed what a senior source at Tottenham has told him about the club, and it’s deeply worrying for the fans.

Peace said on BBC Radio 5 Live: “I spoke to someone who I can’t name, but he is close to Tottenham Hotspur behind the scenes, and he said the club has been broken for seven years. This club is in total disarray.”

The defeat to Palace was Igor Tudor’s third in a row as manager of Spurs.

Tudor began his reign as the Tottenham interim manager with a 4-1 defeat to Arsenal in the North London derby.

Then came a 2-1 loss to Fulham at Craven Cottage in a London derby, and now a 3-1 defeat to Palace at home.

Many Tottenham fans were perplexed at the club’s decision to appoint Tudor as the interim manager following the sacking of Thomas Frank.

Ramon Vega has taken a swipe at the board for all the problems of Tottenham, with the former Spurs centre-back urging the club’s owners, ENIC, to ‘sell now’.

Vega wrote on X on Thursday evening: “Lewis family please sell now! Enough damage has been done over the years!!”

The pundit added: “The mismanagement of the board and owners is unacceptable!”

Vega futher noted: “For the sports football business school students I sometimes speak and teach at, I would definitely recommend Spurs as a great case study of how not to run a club from a sporting and recruitment perspective.

“The gap is way too big between revenue-driven focus without football success and neglecting the core part of the club on the success on the football pitch it’s way too risky and unsustainable.”

Igor Tudor wouldn’t be drawn into a discussion on one particular buzzword – and no, not even that one – after he lost his third game in three as Tottenham boss on Thursday.

Swathes of Tottenham fans are indeed calling for the Croat to be sacked just three games into his Spurs reign after a 3-1 defeat to Crystal Palace at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium leaves them just one point above the relegation zone.

Spurs took the lead when Dominic Solanke smartly diverted Archie Gray’s cross past Dean Henderson, but th hosts capitulated in staggering style.

Micky van de Ven hauled Ismaila Sarr down in the box to conceded a penalty that the Palace winger converted and was show a red card for denial of a clear goalscoring opportunity.

Jorgen Strand Larsen put Palace ahead in first-half stoppage-time and there was still enough time before the break for Sarr to put the visitors 3-1 up and push Spurs and Tudor further into crisis.

Tudor tried to be upbeat in his post-match interview, insisting he “saw something” from his team “even in the dressing room after the game”.

Tudor said: “After this game I believe in [them] more than before, maybe it sounds strange but this is it. I saw something in the team, I saw that there is something, even now in the dressing room after the game.

“When we will be complete and I choose the right guys, it will be good I believe. I saw something, some good energy, some wish to do, some passion. The fight, I saw it was there.

“Unfortunately the red card changed the game but there are still nine games to play.”

But the 47-year-old weirdly bristled when asked whether “pressure” – of the game, relegation, playing for Tottenham, whatever – was the cause of Van de Ven’s mistake in the 40th minute.

“We need to stop speaking about pressure,” he insisted. “This is not a topic I speak about.”

As he was asked whether there is pressure given Spurs are now just a point above the relegation zone and in horrible form compared to West Ham and Nottingham Forest – the teams they’re vying with to avoid the drop – Tudor tried to speak over the TNT Sports reporter.

When given the chance to respond, Tudor said bluntly: “I will not speak anymore about pressure.”

‘We need you tonight more than ever’ was the desperate pre-match plea from Tottenham Hotspur‘s stadium announcer to supporters, but they cannot be blamed for leaving in droves halfway through another utterly shambolic performance from a group of players who look increasingly likely to get relegated.

Failing head coach Igor Tudor has also pleaded with supporters to drive his team on to overcome their unrelenting plight, though fans have to be given something to get behind, and there was little evidence of their detached players acknowledging how serious their predicament is against Crystal Palace.

Fellow strugglers Palace were on top of an opening half an hour that sorely lacked quality, but Spurs were given an incredibly fortunate reprieve as Ismaila Sarr was denied a goal after VAR adjudged him to be offside with his nose.

The automated offside system is accurate to a fault, but the PGMOL’s insistence on trying to make Premier League games flawless through VAR is to the detriment of the product; Sarr’s nose gained him no advantage and giving more leeway to forwards with offsides should be a must for next season.

This lucky escape sparked an ever-so-brief Spurs upturn. They went up the other end of the pitch to score what should have been the game’s second perfectly good goal; Archie Gray orchestrated it with a great turn and assist to Dominic Solanke, and the striker diverted the ball into the net past Dean Henderson from close range.

BBC Sport’s Steve Sutcliffe on their live blog said this was Tottenham’s ‘best two minutes of the season’, but it came as no surprise that they instantly capitulated.

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Spurs have had few players of whom they could hang their hat this season, but one let them down massively only four minutes after Solanke’s opener when Micky van de Ven pulled down Sarr as the last man to concede a penalty and get sent off.

It was careless of Van de Ven to let Sarr steal a march on him, and his dismissal means Spurs will be without one of their best defenders (after Cristian Romero’s four-match ban) due to suspension for seven straight games.

This self-destruction has been a major hallmark of Tottenham’s season, and they wilted further after Sarr nonchalantly converted his penalty past Guglielmo Vicario.

Adam Wharton was always likely to have a hand in breaking Spurs down and completing Palace’s comeback, but he would not have expected his mission to be so simple.

After Mathys Tel, as a makeshift left wing-back, gave away possession with a hospital ball in his own half, Wharton set up Jorgen Strand Larsen for Palace’s second, and he had acres of space to deliver a precise lofted ball to Sarr to score his second and his side’s third shortly before the break.

Tottenham’s ‘best’ two minutes of the season preceded their worst seven minutes, with this damaging sequence of events making relegation seem ever more inevitable.

Sitting only one point clear of 18th-placed West Ham after their priceless win over Fulham, Spurs are the worst-performing team in the Premier League.

Tudor laid down the gauntlet for his players to bite back after saying they are “lacking” in attack, midfield, defence and brain, but these same issues remained at the fore against Palace and the appointment of the supposed firefighter is proving the latest poor mistake from their inept board.

Co-commentator Joe Hart suspected there was a half-time “headloss” from Tudor as Tottenham’s players were back on the pitch a good few minutes before their opponents, but this hairdryer treatment and lambasting of his squad to the press has been equally ineffective.

Spurs are only going in one way under Tudor, who is already ‘at risk of being fired’, and could do worse than to turn to another manager as a Hail Mary. Some even want Tim Sherwood back.

Barring the odd exception, Tottenham’s squad “biggest” problem is that they do not have the “stomach” for the relegation fight, while West Ham and Nottingham Forest have shown far more survival instinct.

Without most of their best players due to injury and/or suspension, they will also not drag themselves to safety on quality alone, so it is looking really, really bleak and it’s hard to see them recovering.

Tottenham defender Pedro Porro has hit out at their “disaster” of a Premier League campaign and points to issues with the “project” at Spurs.

Spurs have had another terrible season in the Premier League after finishing 17th and winning the Europa League under Ange Postecoglou last term.

Tottenham ended up sacking Postecoglou in the summer and replaced him with Thomas Frank, who had enjoyed lots of relative success at Brentford.

However, with Tottenham in 17th place, Frank was sacked by Spurs last month as they look to interim head coach Igor Tudor to guide them away from relegation.

And sh*t got real on Wednesday night as a West Ham win saw Tottenham sucked to within a single point of the relegation zone ahead of their match against Crystal Palace on Thursday.

Tudor has lost both of his opening two matches in charge of Tottenham against Arsenal and Fulham and will be desperate to get something from their home clash versus the Eagles.

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Tottenham avoided the play-offs in the Champions League to qualify for the last 16 but Porro insists they don’t have the squad to compete in more than one competition.

Porro told Cadena SER: “Obviously, when you don’t have a squad capable of competing in four competitions, it’s difficult.

“You see the injuries and it’s a starting eleven that makes you think, ‘Wow.’ Last year was exactly the same; we had that momentum in the Europa League to win the competition, and the same thing happened in the Premier League.

“You have to build a project to compete in everything and be focused on everything.”

The Tottenham defender added: “Our situation in the Premier League is a disaster.

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“But then you see how we’ve competed in the Champions League and barely conceded at home. It’s going to be two very intense matches, and we’ll see what happens.”

Tudor’s assignment at Tottenham has been likened to his quest to save Udinese from relegation twice and return Juventus to the Champions League but the interim Spurs boss has rejected that.

Tudor told reporters on Wednesday: “The problems are totally different. At Juventus, there were 20 players for all these positions. Here, you come, you have 12 players. There you fight for the Champions League. Here, you fight for relegation.

“You go player by player and there are big differences everywhere. It’s not like you go and do the job in the same way and have the same results. It’s impossible because the level of difficulty is always different. There is no copying in anything, it’s a different team, different league, different position, different players.”

Tottenham interim boss Igor Tudor could already face being replaced before the end of the season after his horror start, according to reports.

Spurs sacked Thomas Frank at the beginning of February after an awful run of results in the Premier League that has seen them languishing towards the foot of the table.

And it hasn’t got any better under new interim boss Tudor, who has rarely stayed at one club more than a year or two, with Tottenham losing both their matches under the Croatian so far against Arsenal and Fulham.

Tottenham, who face Crystal Palace at home on Thursday night, are now just one point outside the relegation zone after West Ham beat Fulham at Craven Cottage on Wednesday.

It seems extremely unlikely that Tottenham would choose to find another manager before the end of the season but the potential of relegation could make them act.

And Italian publication Calciomercato has claimed that Tudor is ‘already at risk of being sacked’ ahead of their clash with Palace on Thursday.

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Tudor ‘was supposed to halt the London club’s free fall. Instead, just ten days after taking office, the Croatian manager is already facing possible dismissal.’

Another loss ‘could push the management to intervene quickly’ with West Ham and Nottingham Forest closing in and the report adds: ‘The manager’s message is clear: patience is running out, responsibility is shared, and the margin for error is rapidly diminishing. This hard line, however, risks further undermining the balance within the dressing room.’

Former Tottenham midfielder Jamie O’Hara reckons Tudor could be sacked if Spurs lose against Palace and labelled the whole club a “farce”.

O’Hara said on Sky Sports Fan Club: “I haven’t seen any evidence they have got better.

“They’ve got Crystal Palace at home on Thursday. If they lose that game, I can see them getting rid of him. He’s come in all guns blazing. You’ve been here five minutes. What you don’t need right now is a manager coming in and digging everyone out.

“You need someone coming in to breed some confidence and life out of these players. You’ve come in to get results. At the moment, you’re doing all these interviews…it’s risky business.

“I’d get rid of him [if he loses to Palace]. He’s an interim manager, and he’s lost the first three games. It’s a farce, but Tottenham is a farce.”

Speaking ahead of their match against Palace on Thursday, Tudor told reporters: “Coaches always feel the pressure. It’s a seven [out of ten]. It’s always a part of the job to feel the pressure, but also to enjoy in this job as much as you can enjoy.

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“Good moments you enjoy, bad moments you don’t enjoy, but the pressure is always there. When I was 10, trying to be a football player, there was pressure. Start to play with the first team, I always feel the pressure.

“It’s a part of my life, and all the coaches, they live with that; it’s a normal part of that. But you need to find in that job some beauty, otherwise you don’t do this job. The beauty sometimes is difficult, challenges are very difficult, but you need to find beauty in that.”

The Tottenham interim boss added: “Everyone understands the situation. There is something wrong if you don’t understand. My job is to put the pressure away, but their job is to accept that the pressure is there.

“So the pressure is everywhere, but you need to love this job. There’s real pressure out there. People need to make money for their families or are working in jobs like doctors who are doing operations and they decide about life and death. That’s the real pressure.

“You need to be ready to accept this and stand up. Take responsibility. Have the courage to confront these things. This is the best way to do it, the only way to do it.

“I hope we have, and I’m sure because I saw in the training, the players to step up, take responsibility and make us start putting in, first of all, good performances, and after also win points.”

According to reports, Tottenham Hotspur’s ‘top’ target to be their next manager would “not be put off” if they are relegated this season.

Spurs are at risk of disaster as they face a real threat of relegation from the Premier League, sitting only four points clear of the bottom three.

Thomas Frank proved to be an awful appointment as he was a poor fit for the club, with their results and performances even worse than they were under former boss Ange Postecoglou.

Frank lasted longer than he should, but the north London outfit felt forced to act as their relegation fears increased and former Juventus boss Igor Tudor has been tasked with guiding them to safety.

However, Tudor has had a poor start at Spurs, losing his first two games against Arsenal and Fulham. His side are now winless in ten Premier League games and will look for their first league victory of 2026 when they face Crystal Palace on Thursday night.

It feels unlikely that Tudor will land the Spurs manager’s job permanently, even if he guides them to safety, especially as a report from our pals at TEAMtalk recently claimed former boss Mauricio Pochettino is their ‘top’ target ahead of the summer.

And in a boost for Spurs, journalist Ben Jacobs claims Pochettino would not be put off by the job “even if” they got relegation to the Championship.

“The good news for Tottenham fans is that, I’m told, Pochettino is open to returning, and would not necessarily be put off even if Spurs got relegated to the Championship,” Jacobs said on GiveMeSport’s YouTube channel.

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“But if they were a Championship club, they’ve obviously got to be able to still afford Maurizio Pochettino’s wage, which wouldn’t necessarily drop significantly.”

For now, a report from Football Insider claims Spurs ‘could sack’ Tudor if their losing run continues, with former Premier League chief scout Mick Brown explaining why there will be “major concerns” at the club.

“I was surprised when they brought Tudor in,” Brown told Football Insider.

“He’s got experience in Europe, but he’s never managed in the Premier League and never managed a club like Tottenham, it’s a different ball game entirely.

“I don’t think there’s any chance he stays on beyond the end of the season, with the results he’s had and the way he’s been speaking to the media. There’s even a possibility he could go before the end of the season if they keep losing games.

“Relegation is obviously a major concern and it changes the way they have to think about everything, it’s going to change which managers they can bring in as well.

“It’s difficult to see how they’re going to get out of this situation, especially with the manager in charge who hasn’t exactly given people hope.”