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Interim boss Igor Tudor could be “sacked at any moment” by Tottenham after losing to Atletico Madrid, according to Fabrizio Romano.

Spurs have lost all four of their matches since Tudor took over from Thomas Frank until the end of the season and there have already been claims that the Croatian could be replaced.

Tudor was particularly heavily criticised for starting young Antonin Kinsky in their 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid in midweek before withdrawing him on 17 minutes with Tottenham 3-0 down.

He was accused by Peter Schmeichel of “killing” the young goalkeeper’s career and there were claims in the Telegraph yesterday that the players have ‘no faith’ in Tudor.

It has been revealed that Tottenham have put him on press conference duty ahead of their match against Liverpool in the Premier League at the weekend – but Romano has warned that he could still lose his job “at any moment”.

Romano said on his YouTube channel: “Tottenham are in a very difficult moment after the defeat against Atletico Madrid.

READ:Kinsky ‘storms’ down tunnel and Tudor doomed, but there is some good news for Spurs…

“It is four games under Igor Tudor and four defeats, which is the first time in Tottenham’s history with a new manager.

“It is also the first time Tottenham have lost six consecutive matches.

“At the moment Tottenham have confirmed that Tudor will take the press conference ahead of the Liverpool game, but he remains at serious risk of being sacked at any moment.

“The situation is very fluid in the short term.

“For the long term the plan has always been clear, because Tudor signed a short contract and in the summer Tottenham want a new manager.

“The two names still very high on the shortlist are Roberto De Zerbi and Mauricio Pochettino.”

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Tottenham are currently just one point above the relegation zone in the Premier League and now face the very real possibility of being in the Championship next season.

Relegation would lead to a mass exodus at Tottenham and players like Cristian Romero could leave regardless of how they finish the season.

Romano has revealed that there is a “serious possibility” that the World Cup winner will leave Tottenham in the summer transfer window.

Romano added: “Another important story at Tottenham is about Cristian Romero.

“There is a serious possibility that Romero could leave Tottenham in the summer transfer window.

“Top clubs in Europe and also abroad are calling and asking about the situation of the Argentine defender.

“So Romero is one to watch in the summer because there is strong interest.”

“The last time I interacted with the fans there was 200,000 on the streets of London,” said Ange Postecoglou, who’s a man in “pain” at seeing Tottenham go from bad to worse since he was dismissed in June.

Successor Thomas Frank was sacked a month ago and replaced by renowned ‘firefighter’ Igor Tudor, who’s doing a marvellous job of torching his own reputation and that of Tottenham Hotspur football club.

He’s lost all three of his Premier League games in charge to leave them just one point above the relegation zone, and led Spurs to a 5-2 defeat to Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 clash on Tuesday.

Tudor has been roundly criticised for dropping Guglielmo Vicario in favour of Antonin Kinsky, who made two errors leading to goals in 17 minutes before being hooked by the no-nonsense Croat.

But rather than revel in Tottenham’s demise since he was sacked after guiding them to Europa League glory last term, Postecoglou is really upset at having to see some of the 200,000 fans he last saw partying on the streets with him enduring a tough time. It’s more a ‘regret trip’ than a guilt trip, but he’s in “pain” too, guys.

Speaking on TNT Sports, Postecoglou was asked if he was the least surprised person to witness Tottenham’s struggles. He replied: “No, I wouldn’t say that.

“I am still invested in the club because I have an attachment to those players, I worked with them for two years. The last time I interacted with the fans there was 200,000 on the streets of London.

“It pains me to see it. It definitely looks like the players are fairly lost at the moment. There’s obvious pressure there. It’s a real difficult time.

“It all manifested itself with what happened last night. It’s almost the worst-case scenario: you playing a side away from home, Atletico, who never drop below a performance level of two. They’re always at a really strong level. It was a horror start for them.”

Postecoglou insists Tudor must “install some belief into the players” as the Atletico defeat illustrated the “desperation” of his former side.

“There is no way that anyone would say, objectively, these players are performing at the level they are capable of,” Postecoglou added. “You’ve just got to try and ease the pressure on them somehow.

“Even last night, I thought it was a tremendous opportunity for them because they’ve done really well in the Champions League, they’re on the good side of the draw. Atletico away is tough but you’ve still got to take them back to Tottenham but it just felt like the pressure was there.

“I’m sure they would have trained on the pitch the night before but the amount of times they were slipping over, I think that’s still pressure. There’s just a real desperation in everything they do.

“Mentally, you’re desperate and that manifests itself in a physical way. You’re lunging for things, you’re rushing things.

“It’s hard for me to comment from the outside. For me it’s just about instilling some belief into the players. Show them the kind of players that they are, not that they can be.”

Asked if he would consider returning to Tottenham to save them from their current predicament, Postecoglou chuckled and replied: “No comment.”

He sure smiles a lot for a man in “pain”.

Spurs have reportedly decided to stick with Igor Tudor for now and a ‘decisive’ factor will determine whether they sack him.

Tudor was recently appointed to replace Thomas Frank at Spurs, having been tasked with guiding the struggling Premier League to safety.

However, Tudor has arguably made Spurs worse and they are only one point clear of the relegation zone following defeats to Arsenal, Fulham and Crystal Palace.

Their situation worsened on Tuesday night as they were hammered 5-2 by Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League round of 16 tie.

There has been a clamour for Spurs to part company with Tudor following this match, but the club have indicated that he will remain in charge for at least one more game, having confirmed that he will have his pre-Liverpool press conference on Friday.

Journalist Nicolo Schira, meanwhile, claims a ‘decisive’ factor will determine Tudor’s future.

READ: Doomed Igor Tudor is ‘absolute tool’ but was Kinsky sub the right move?

Schira said on X: ‘Igor #Tudor’s future at #Tottenham is already in doubt: the games before the international break against Liverpool, Atletico Madrid and Nottingham Forest will be decisive for the Croatian coach, who has the worst start as #Spurs’ manager in #THFC History.’

Tottenham’s players have been given a day off on Wednesday before preparations start for Sunday’s match against Liverpool, though Sky Sports reporter Gary Cotterill has revealed that CEO Vinai Vankatesham was at the training ground on Wednesday morning.

“Things seem very quiet out here. But I think there’s things going on inside [the training ground],” Cotterill said on Sky Sports.

“At about 8.50am today Vinai Venkatesham, who would announce any decision that Igor Tudor is to be relieved of his duties, arrived at the training ground.

“Tudor arrived early this morning in the lodge after returning from Spain, the players got into their cars and went home but the head coach and a couple of his staff stayed.

“He will have already been in the training ground. There probably is something afoot which many pundits, fans, ex-players and potentially current players would be in favour of with the body language we saw in Madrid last night.”

Former Spurs midfielder Jamie O’Hara thinks Tudor has made Spurs “10 times worse”.

“It’s been a disaster all season. The mentality’s not been there, the players haven’t been good enough,” O’Hara said on Sky Sports.

“They underperformed under Thomas Frank, and his style of football was so pragmatic the players weren’t in tune with it.

“But they sacked him and brought in this guy and it’s got 10 times worse. You’re meant to get a bounce, but he comes in all guns blazing, digs out the players, says there’s problems, this and that.

“He hasn’t built any confidence in the squad, you can see it in the players’ body language. It’s one of the worst appointments I’ve seen at Tottenham.”

Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky has reportedly made a transfer decision after Igor Tudor’s ‘disgraceful’ treatment of him.

The 22-year-old joined Spurs from Slavia Prague during the 2025 winter transfer window for around £12.5m.

Kinsky has only been used sparingly over the past year as he has been behind Guglielmo Vicario in the pecking order at Spurs.

He was handed his Champions League debut for Spurs in Tuesday’s Champions League round of 16 first leg against Atletico Madrid, but this quickly proved a disastrous outing.

With Vicario’s performances declining this season, Tudor opted to give Kinsky an opportunity against Atletico Madrid, but this backfired and the inexperienced goalkeeper was hooked after 17 minutes.

Kinsky was at fault for two goals as Atletico were gifted a 3-0 lead inside 15 minutes before ultimately winning the first leg 5-2.

READ: Kinsky ‘storms’ down tunnel and Tudor doomed, but there is some good news for Spurs…

Speaking post-match, Tudor admitted he made the “wrong decision” with Kinsky.

He said: “After seeing what happened, for sure it was the wrong decision.

“But it was, for me, the right decision to do, thinking before, because the team changed competition and it was, in the moment, right to do.

“Unfortunately, what happened happened. I’ve never changed my goalkeeper after 14 minutes. It’s not easy, it happened.”

Now, a report from The Telegraph claims Kinsky ‘will look to rebuild his career with another club’ after the ‘humiliation’ by Tudor.

Tudor did not embrace Kinsky when the goalkeeper exited the pitch on Tuesday, and ‘one former Tottenham employee described Tudor’s reaction as disgraceful’.

It is claimed that the goalkeeper is ‘expected’ to push for a loan move after missing out on an exit in recent windows.

The report explains:

‘Telegraph Sport understands that Kinsky had hoped to leave Spurs on loan in each of the last two transfer windows in search of regular first-team football.

‘The Czech was blocked on both occasions, last summer and in January, but the expectation is Kinsky will seek a loan move again at the end of the season with Spurs unlikely to stand in his way.’

Tudor’s poor treatment of Kinsky and Tottenham’s dire form has him at risk of losing his job, and former Spurs player Jamie O’Hara has named two possible replacements.

“Two names for me – Harry Redknapp, he’s been out of the game but he knows the club, he knows what it is to win and he’s a great man manager who will give the boys confidence,” O’Hara said on Sky Sports.

“Or there is Sean Dyche. I thought he was doing alright at Forest, but they’ve sacked him. He’s been involved in the Premier League this season, he knows the tactics of every team, he’s a man manager, I think he’ll get a tune out of the lads and I think he’ll make them feel good.”

If Antonin Kinsky is looking for inspiration for how to rebuild his Tottenham career, he won’t find it here. These keepers were finished after f**- ups…

As hard as many might have laughed at Spurs in Madrid on Tuesday night, you would have to have a heart of stone to feel no empathy for Kinsky.

The Tottenham keeper was given his Champions League debut by Igor Tudor only to be hooked after a nightmare 17 minutes, replaced by the Spurs stopper already dropped by the interim manager.

Bouncing back from such ignominy will be tough for Kinsky. Not impossible, especially when Spurs bin Tudor, but for some goalkeepers, big errors have been impossible to recover from without a change of scene.

Here are six who paid heavy prices for their mistakes…

Loris Karius

We start with the most obvious one, the OG of condemned keepers…

Liverpool ignored the warning signs that Karius might not be the top-class stopper their ambitions required around 2017/18. The German was signed at the start of the season before, after which he eventually won the battle for the gloves ahead of Simon Mignolet, more as the least-worst option rather than because Jurgen Klopp or anyone else at Liverpool truly believed he would be the No.1 for years to come.

A number of mistakes – some that were costly and others that went unpunished – sent Karius to Kiev for the 2018 Champions League final in less-than-impenetrable mood. Liverpool had already lost their best player at the top end of the field before their goalkeeper gifted Real the opener early in the second half, his roll-out read and intercepted by Karim Benzema.

Liverpool levelled quickly – then Gareth Bale took over. Four Kariuses won’t have stopped the Welshman’s brilliant overhead kick, but a cardboard cut-out of Bruce Grobbelaar might have kept out his second, Real’s third, that killed the game for the Reds.

Upon the final whistle, Karius was in tears, his apologies falling largely on deaf ears. Klopp offered an explanation that his compatriot was actually playing most of the second half concussed but that didn’t stop him from going straight into the market to break the world transfer record for a goalkeeper.

Karius never again played for Liverpool, seeing out the remainder of his contract largely on loan at Besiktas and Union Berlin.

MORE: Reappraising Loris Karius’ 2018 Champions League final catastrof*ck: was it really *that* bad?

Jim Leighton

Many might expect Massimo Taibi to be Manchester United’s representative here, but the Italian was given a chance for atonement after his most famous mistake: letting Matt Le Tissier’s pea-roller trough his legs at Old Trafford. Sir Alex Ferguson fielded Taibi the following week at Chelsea, where he conceded five goals.

Leighton never got another go. Had he been offered it, he might have told Fergie to f*** off anyway.

Their relationship never recovered after Ferguson ruthlessly dropped Leighton for the 1990 FA Cup final replay. The United boss pinned the blame for two of Palace’s three goals in the first final on Leighton, bringing Les Sealey in from nowhere. Ferguson later explained his thinking: “Was he a better keeper than Jim? No, but he thought he was, and that can sometimes be important in a cup final.”

Indeed it was. Sealey was solid while keeping a clean sheet in United’s victory. He became a cult hero and Ferguson was finally off and running at United, but his bridges with Leighton were burned forever.

The Scotland keeper played once more for United, in a League Cup tie at Halifax, and after two years in the doldrums as fourth-choice at Old Trafford, he returned north of the border and rebuilt his career. But the resentment between him and Fergie runs deep. “We’ve never spoken since and never will do again,” said Leighton in 2018.

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Scott Carson and Rob Green

The England keepers are lumped together here because their tales are almost identical.

Carson profited from Paul Robinson’s ropey form to get ahead of the England no.1 at the very end of the Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. All England had to do was avoid defeat against Croatia at Wembley in November 2007, and Steve McClaren would be taking them to Austria and Switzerland the following summer.

Eight minutes into his second cap – the first came in a friendly the weekend before – Carson let Niko Kranjcar’s speculative 30-yarder through his grasp and he was beaten again six minutes later. England rallied back for 2-2 but then suffered the defeat their performance deserved, costing them a place at the Euros finals and McClaren his job.

Carson never started for England again, his two subsequent caps coming as a sub in friendlies.

Green suffered a similar fate after a similar error against USA at the 2010 World Cup. He was immediately dropped by Fabio Capello and made to wait almost two years for his next and final cap in a friendly before the 2012 European Championships.

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Jack Bonham

If there is anything to be said for Bonham’s nightmare debut in 2013, without it, we would never have had the ‘Now here come Watford… DEEEEEEEENEEYYYYYY!’ moment from the Championship play-off semi-finals.

The Hornets, though, would doubtless have preferred to swerve the play-offs – they lost the final – and gone straight to the Premier League via automatic promotion, which they had within their grasp on the final day of the season.

Watford were at home to Leeds, before which Bonham was going through his usual third-keeper jobs. Warm up the starter and sub, then shower and slip out of sight. But Manuel Almunia did not make it through the warm-up and was replaced in the XI by Jonathan Bond, meaning Bonham – without a set of long studs or match gloves – was bumped up to the bench.

He was only there for 24 minutes before Bond was injured too. Bonham was on for his senior debut – which could not have gone much worse.

The 19-year-old academy product was at fault for both goals as Watford lost 2-1, blowing the chance to go up automatically. It was Bonham’s only appearance for Watford, who cut the teenager loose at the end of the season.

He joined Brentford and endured a similarly nightmare-ish debut for the Bees too, coming off the bench to blunder in a 4-0 defeat. A loan to Southern League Premier Division club Arlesey Town gave Bonham the chance to reset before he forged a decent career in the Football League, where he currently plays at Bolton.

Cieran Slicker

We must wait to see if Slicker recovers from his nightmare Scotland debut last summer to ever play for the national team again. But the signs don’t look good.

The Manchester City academy graduate wasn’t ready for the one cap he now has; Slicker, by then at Ipswich Town, was yet to make his senior league debut when he first represented his country as an early substitute in a friendly against Iceland.

He was beaten within two minutes and twice more in a 3-1 defeat. Slicker, arguably Scotland’s seventh choice, was culpable to varying degrees in all three goals and was later ironically cheered by the Hampden crowd when he caught one.

“It’s difficult for Cieran, I really feel for him,” Steve Clarke said after the game. “He got thrown into a situation that he wasn’t quite ready for but Craig Gordon’s injured, Liam Kelly’s injured, Zander Clark is injured.

“The only good thing is it came in a friendly match. I’d imagine Angus Gunn won’t play the next game.

“I’ve had young Callan McKenna in the squad so he’ll travel then we’ll have a look and see if we can find another goalkeeper in Scotland who’s not on holiday.”

Slicker has not been in a Scotland squad since but he is making progress at club level, gaining experience in League Two as Barnet’s No.1 while on loan from Ipswich.

No surprise about where the majority of today’s media attention lands, with Spurs going beyond Full Spurs to previously undiscovered new levels under a manager plumbing previously undiscovered new depths.

Annoyingly for Mediawatch, the sheer nightmarish ridiculousness of Spurs’ reality means even some of what on the surface seems absurd coverage is actually, well, kind of fair enough.

But not all of it. Never all of it.

X rated

A rare day indeed when the biggest story of the day really is almost impossible to sensationalise. Pretty much every outlet has a TUDOR MUST GO story, and yet not one of these unequivocal assessments of a four-game managerial reign can possibly be considered hyperbolic or sensationalised.

It’s just… true. The only two possible quibbles are to wonder where this energy was from the press pack when their hero Thomas Frank was getting Spurs into this mess in the first place, and to wonder whether it really might be for the best to keep Tudor on until the annual Anfield humiliation is out of the way at the weekend before giving literally anyone else on earth a clear run at the free-hit second leg against Atleti and the monumental pre-interlull six-pointer against Nottingham Forest.

But yes, astonishing as it might be, the sight of the press pack in unanimous agreement that a manager must be sacked after just four games is neither surprising nor scandalous. It really is that bad. Spurs really are that club.

But the UK tabloid press are still the UK tabloid press, and almost impossible isn’t entirely impossible. Even now, housery must occur when there is clearly no need for it at all.

You’d think, really, that the sight of a team subbing off their goalkeeper for tactical reasons 16 minutes into a Champions League game would be wild enough, wouldn’t you? That this was a story already absurd and ridiculous enough to need no lily-gilding or garnish.

You would, obviously, be wrong.

Because why settle for that when you can suggest it was in fact Cristian Romero’s decision to replace Antonin Kinsky rather than Beleaguered Igor Tudor (to give him his now mandatory full name) calling the shots?

Now the one slightly awkward thing here is that this idea was put to Tudor in the post-match presser, and he dismissed the idea out of hand: “My decision, of course.”

So you can’t really flat out claim that Romero did it in the presence of that quote and absence of compelling evidence to the contrary. So what to do?

If you’re The Sun, simply spend less time than a Kinsky Champions League appearance on X-formerly-Twitter to find some randoms saying it and just make the story ‘Spurs fans claim’ instead.

Tottenham fans claim Cristian Romero ordered Igor Tudor to sub Kinsky off as touchline video surfaces

You’ve got all the usual stuff in here. A grand total of four random X-formerly-Twitter users quoted, three of whom were ‘eagle-eyed’ enough to watch the ‘viral video’ and jump to a reasonable yet unprovable conclusion, and one who said simply ‘WHAT IS THIS CLUB’ which is a valid and entirely unanswerable question.

Does The Sun bother to carry the only quote we have on the subject from one of the two people actually in a position to know the truth?

Like Spurs fans as a game kicks off, you already know the answer.

Storm warning

Crucial point of order for this Daily Express headline. These things matter.

Tottenham goalkeeper Antonin Kinsky humiliated by Igor Tudor as flop storms down tunnel

That was no storm. That was a trudge if ever we saw one.

Jungle is massive

Let it not be said that it’s all doom and gloom at Spurs. There is always some good news if you’re willing to search hard enough.

Take, for instance, this magnificent sentence from The Sun’s inevitably eclectic round-up of possible Tudor replacements (Mason, Poch, Keane… Amorim) about ‘Arry, clearly the only man for this particular crisis.

The former king of the jungle, 79, is set to appear in the upcoming series of I’m a Celebrity All Stars – but the series was pre-recorded in South Africa last September, meaning he is available.

Surely not until after Cheltenham wraps up on Friday, though?

History boys

The Express’ version of the ubiquitous TUDOR OUT missives this morning is broadly identical to all the other TUDOR OUT missives. There’s stuff about being on the brink. Reasonable assertions that subbing your keeper after 16 minutes and then blanking him might be sub-optimal. Fair observations that while Spurs were bad under Frank they are now somehow even worse.

But also, because it’s the Express and they can’t help themselves, just a really weird line snuck in among it all.

The history Spurs are making right now is the kind schools would be too ashamed to teach the future generations about.

Schools that spend valuable time teaching the history of comically inept football clubs? Sounds like utter woke nonsense to us. Probably on the curriculum at the same definitely real schools that exist where they put out litter trays for the students who identify as cats.

Gunned down

A fun game here based on this Daily Star headline.

Tottenham star makes feelings clear on Arsenal tactics with brutal ‘boring’ dig

How many times does Mathys Tel, for it is he, mention Arsenal in the subsequent quotes?

HINT: it’s the same number as Tottenham wins under Igor Tudor.

Me, Myself & I

Much like with watching Tottenham, Mediawatch often assumes we’ve seen everything the press are capable of, only to frequently find ourselves astonished anew.

Take this new wheeze from the Mirror, for instance.

Arne Slot points the blame at one person after Liverpool’s loss to Galatasaray

Sounds very harsh, doesn’t it? Singling out one person after a collective disappointment? What kind of manager would ever do that, perhaps after, say, 16 minutes of a Champions League game? Certainly not Arne Slot, surely?

No denying it grabs the attention. Who could possibly resist clicking that to see which poor sod is in the manager’s crosshairs. Certainly not Mediawatch, that’s for sure. So who’s he blamed, then, the big meanie?

Tuesday marked the 12th time this season that Slot’s side have lost a game after conceding first and the manager admitted it was up to him to improve in those situations.

Technically correct will always be the best kind of correct for sh*thouse headlines, and this looks sure to become a new staple of the genre – 10/10, no notes.

It has been claimed that Spurs boss Igor Tudor “killed” Antonin Kinsky against Atletico Madrid, but the head coach apparently did the goalkeeper “a favour”.

Kinsky endured a nightmare Spurs debut on Tuesday night as he was hooked after only 17 minutes in his side’s Champions League round of 16 first leg against Atletico Madrid.

The inexperienced goalkeeper slipped twice in the opening moments of the game as Spurs went 3-0 down in 15 minutes. Tudor then brought on Guglielmo Vicario to replace Kinsky.

Since this incident, Tudor has been accused of “killing” and “destroying” Kinsky, with it widely deemed that this moment will be difficult to come back from.

However, former Premier League forward Troy Deeney has sided with Tudor, with the pundit angered by the goalkeeper’s reaction to going off.

“We’ve all been subbed when a player gets sent off. You sit next to your team, you ride it out together,” Deeney said on CBS Sports.

READ: Tudor ‘kills’ another Spurs career besides his own as Kinsky becomes humiliated collateral damage

“He’s having a poor time, you get dragged… by the way, he made the mistakes, not the manager, no one else. Manager makes the change, you have to sit with your team.”

When asked if Kinsky was right to hide his emotions from the cameras, Deeney doubled down: “No because we’re in a situation where as a team and a group we’re in the trenches now.

“You don’t have time to feel sorry for yourself, you don’t have time to go and gather your thoughts, we’re all in this.”

Paul Merson also sided with Tudor. He said on Sky Sports: “The manager, to his credit, has done that tonight with the goalkeeper and thought ‘do you know what, I’ve got to bring him off’; he’s done him a favour, the lad was like a rabbit in the headlights.”

Spurs standout Micky van de Ven does have sympathy for Kinsky, though he has also spoken on the “doomsday scenario” at the club.

“It’s terrible for him too, he’s making his debut. You wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” Van de Ven said.

Speaking generally on the manner of Tottenham’s loss, Van de Ven explained: “Terrible, to be honest: a doomsday scenario.

“Everything that could go wrong in the first twenty minutes went wrong. Everyone slips, including me. Those are moments you simply can’t do anything about. I can’t just stand here and start blaming the pitch.”

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Van de Ven added: “I could, of course, give the standard talk that we all have to stick together and work hard, but we’re just being dealt a blow after a blow. It’s just really difficult.

“We have an important match this weekend that I can’t be at, because I’m suspended, of course. But it’s a truly terrible time. How am I feeling mentally? It’s tough, I can tell you. Really tough.

“I have to keep going; this is life. I’m not on my phone anymore; I’m completely done with it. Only family and stuff.”

Tottenham will wave goodbye to almost every star of note if they’re relegated and Fabrizio Romano has revealed there’s already ‘movement’ on one of the biggest departures.

A recent report from The Athletic listed 15 stars Spurs fans can expect to leave their club if they fail to beat the drop.

The full list of players read: Guglielmo Vicario, Pedro Porro, Djed Spence, Destiny Udogie, Micky van de Ven, Cristian Romero. Kevin Danso, Conor Gallagher, Rodrigo Bentancur, James Maddison, Xavi Simons, Mohammed Kudus, Dejan Kulusevski, Richarlison and Dominic Solanke.

Some will leave on loan, while others will be sold and naturally, some exits will be more damaging than others.

One of the most crippling would involve captain Cristian Romero, and according to transfer guru Romano, the wheels for his exit are already in motion.

“Keep an eye on Romero in the summer transfer window, “declared Romano on his YouTube channel.

“He signed a new contract at Tottenham last summer, but my understanding is that some clubs also considering the Tottenham situation – which is really complicated in the Premier League – but several important clubs in Europe and not only are calling to ask about the situation of Romero.

“So there is movement around Romero. I think it’s absolutely normal for one of the best centre-backs in the world, a World Cup winner, crucial for Tottenham to win the Europa League last summer, always top performances for Argentina and Tottenham apart from the recent red cards.

“So at the moment his situation is one to watch because there are several clubs calling, and there is movement.”

Shedding light on one club we should keep an eye on, the reporter added: “One year ago, Atletico Madrid wanted him but it was not possible to proceed.”

Real Madrid and Barcelona have also been linked, with Romero seemingly on course for a switch to Spain if leaving Spurs.

He’s not the only high profile Tottenham star the transfer vultures are circling over either.

The Daily Mail recently revealed Newcastle are already lining up a summer swoop for Dominic Solanke if Spurs are relegated.

Newcastle have struggled to adequately replace Alexander Isak, with Nick Woltemade labouring after a bright start and Yoane Wissa’s impact negligible.

Eddie Howe managed Solanke during their Bournemouth days and the frontman has proven himself a capable striker at Premier League level in the past few years.

Despite wrestling with frequent injury issues, Solanke has scored 31 league goals in his last 75 appearances for a ratio of roughly one goal every two-and-a-half games.

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Former Premier League star Paolo Di Canio has hit out at Tottenham Hotspur head coach Igor Tudor for “destroying” Antonin Kinsky.

Tudor is proving a disastrous appointment for Spurs. The former Juventus boss has lost all four of his games in charge and has arguably made the north London club worse than under former head coach Thomas Frank.

Tottenham are only one point adrift of the relegation zone in the Premier League, so Tuesday night’s Champions League round of 16 first leg against Atletico Madrid could have been a welcome distraction for Tudor’s side, but this was not the case.

Atletico Madrid hammered Spurs 5-2 on home turf to take a major step towards the quarter-finals, while debutant goalkeeper Kinsky was hooked after 17 minutes.

Kinsky twice slipped as Atletico went 3-0 ahead in 15 minutes, with Tudor admitting post-match that it was the “wrong decision” to start him ahead of Guglielmo Vicario.

“After seeing what happened, for sure it was the wrong decision,” Tudor admitted.

READ: Tudor ‘kills’ another Spurs career besides his own as Kinsky becomes humiliated collateral damage

“But it was, for me, the right decision to do, thinking before, because the team changed competition and it was, in the moment, right to do.

“Unfortunately, what happened happened. I’ve never changed my goalkeeper after 14 minutes. It’s not easy, it happened.”

Di Canio has hit out at Tudor over the Kinsky situation, while L’Equipe have given the Spurs boss a 1/10 rating for his performance against Atletico, which feels rather kind.

“I feel sorry for [Kinsky], perhaps [Tudor is] letting it all slide and doesn’t realise what the tabloids will write tomorrow,” Di Canio said.

“They’re [the media] mean, they’ll destroy him because when decisions like that are made, they’re incomprehensible.”

Di Canio also thinks Tudor was wrong to drop Vicario, while he has “destroyed” Kinsky.

“I don’t know if there was any problem with Vicario, and there were probably some clashes in the dressing room, but certainly not because the recent defeats are Vicario’s fault,” Di Canio continued.

“He made some mistakes, but with a ragtag army up front that’s leaking from all sides.”

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On Kinsky, Di Caio added: “If you put a guy who’s made 17 appearances for Slavia Prague into such a delicate match and say he’s a good player with only six appearances, you asked for it and you destroyed him, even though it’s true that he could have done worse afterwards.”

There are already reports suggesting Tudor is on borrowed time at Spurs, and Di Canio reckons he will soon be replaced by an English manager.

“I often understand that Tudor is very tough, and I don’t know if he’ll pay for it in his career at the highest level. I really don’t think he’ll stay at Tottenham; they’ll go and get an English manager.”

Igor Tudor and Spurs get an expected kicking but Liverpool and Arne Slot do not escape censure.

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Fewer English clubs please

Can somebody tell me why English teams are allotted 5-6 places in Champions League every year? After last night’s s***-show, I suggest UCL limit English teams to max 3 slots per season.

It would save us English football fans lots of embarrassment.

Alex Pang, Singapore Gunner

At least you’re not Spurs…

On behalf of MUFC fans (and maybe some Liverpool fans too), thank you Spurs for being the most Spursiest Spurs in my decades of following football!

Adidasmufc

(It’s almost at a point where you have to start feeling sorry for Spurs fans)

…That’s one of the most self-serving and utterly cowardly bits of man management I’ve seen from Tudor. It isn’t the kid’s fault your team is useless. It’s yours. Back him FFS!

Gary AVFC, Oxford (unusually irked by something that doesn’t really affect me)

…Has a manager ever been dismissed during halftime of a football match? This is embarrassing, even by Spurs’ standards. Igor Tudor is at the center of this situation. As I mentioned last week, the less said about the manager, the better…

Azeez Yusuf

…This is aimed at all the United fans reading this. Let’s all join hands and once again be greatful for our lord & savior David De Gea who kept some of the worst Manchester United teams ever seen, in respectable positions & never let us be where Tottenham currently are.

Cause looking at poor Kinsky, I cannot be thankful enough for all those times he kept some amount of respect even while getting trounced by City or Liverpool. It was never so bad.

That is a worse performance than Karius surely. Genuinely feel sorry for him & Spurs fans. Currently 4-0 down & keeper subbed 15 mins in. Tudor has no clue, and I could be a better manager than him.

Aman

Igor Tudor out

When Frank was fired, I agreed with the decision. I’m on record on this page saying that “Igor Tudor deserves an open mind” (see previous mailboxes)

But after four games and four defeats, things haven’t gotten better. They’ve gotten worse.

I’m also on record here saying Vicario is not good enough. He isn’t. It doesn’t follow that humiliating young, inexperienced Kinsky is better. When Kinsky was replaced in the Atletico game, senior players put arms around him, but Tudor just blanked him. No support. No attempt to inspire loyalty or to mentor a younger man.

I might agree with Tudor’s hard ass approach if we were winning. But we’re losing game after game.

We’re still not doomed. But can anyone make an argument that Igor Tudor is the man to save us?

Sam

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Levy in, please

I’ve not said much this season regarding my beloved (just about) Spurs. I’ve barely been down there and allowed others to enjoy my seat, and am calmly riding the wave to the championship. I’ve gotten angry at the two centre halves for their respective reds but on the whole, you reap what you so. I say all this to get across that I am off sound mind and body (just about) before I say the following.

#Levyin

Jon (he wouldn’t have allowed this to happen), Lincoln

Meanwhile at Liverpool…

Well that was utterly toilet!

Please please can we have Rio from the start.

Wirtz at 10 instead of MacA.

And yes.. Frimpong instead of Mo.

We have got to do something different…

Is it just me?

Al – LFC

…​Somewhere in my loft is my expired FA coaching certificate, (level 1) I had a quick look but couldn’t find it. I’m pretty sure it’s one more than anyone on the current LFC staff.

When I do I’m going to send a copy to Arne Slot and Richard Hughes and offer my services, I’ll work for free as all I am going to do is to scream at Arne that putting our 5ft 8in midfielder marking the oppositions best header of the ball at corners is not a particularly good idea. It’s failed in the past and continues to fail.

Howard (the new Nate the great) Jones

…This numpty referee might as well have been Turkish but Galatasaray deserved tonight’s result, full stop. Gift store wide open, vouchers galore, again we come away with absolutely nothing.

It used to be that opponents needed to match our intensity, now we look to match half theirs and still fail, over and over again. Meek and pathetic. In a huge bubbling cauldron we are an ice cube.

I’ll say it here: we will not overturn this tie at Anfield, it’s just not on the cards. We’ve looked patchy for an entire year, before last season had even finished we’d already downed tools.

I’ll say this too: no-brainer that City prevails in our FA Cup tie. Odds on we might even play Dr Liverpool at the weekend to the sickliest patient the league has ever seen. Disastrous stuff.

Eric, Los Angeles CA

Bayern for the Champions League?

Great result for the Jordis.. uh, ( Cruyff reference ) ooh , penalty. Never mind. A memorable night all the same.

Do we not agree that the professionalism of these Tottenham players has to be called out ? Not all Thomas’ fault but….

Liverpool used to have a keeper nick-named calamity and that disallowed goal was up there, blimey! When that mojo goes , it sure does go .

Still, those players won’t fancy Anfield under the lights. By the way, was that the same stadium where they beat Carlo’s Milan or has it been changed somehow, somewhere ?

Are Bayern now the favourites or is the Italian league just currently pants?

Peter (looking forward to a Real elimination) Andalucia

There’s always one…