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Tottenham Hotspur are to name erstwhile Juventus brag Igor Tudor arsenic interim manager until the end of the season, according to British media reports, aft they sacked Thomas Frank with the nine 5 points supra the relegation zone.
Tudor, who has managed respective clubs crossed Europe, including Galatasaray and Olympique de Marseille, past led Serie A broadside Juventus, and reports said connected Friday (February 13, 2026) helium has agreed a short-term woody to negociate the North London club.
The 47-year-old guided Juve to a fourth-place decorativeness successful Serie A past season but the Croatian was sacked successful October — seven months aft his assignment — pursuing an eight-match winless tally crossed each competitions.
Tudor volition person a baptism of occurrence erstwhile helium takes complaint of his archetypal lucifer against Premier League leaders and bitter rivals Arsenal successful the North London derby connected February 22.
Tottenham are presently 16th successful the Premier League standings.
A erstwhile centre backmost who spent the bulk of his vocation astatine Juventus, Tudor won back-to-back Serie A titles arsenic a subordinate betwixt 2001 to 2003 and also reached the 2003 Champions League final.
He began his managerial travel with Hajduk Split successful 2013, portion helium is familiar with Spurs players Dejan Kulusevski and Rodrigo Bentancur having been an adjunct to Andrea Pirlo astatine Juventus successful 2020-21 erstwhile the duo were astatine the Italian club.
The erstwhile Croatia planetary espouses an assertive benignant of play built connected pressing precocious up the pitch, with his teams besides relying connected speedy transitions.
Spurs had appointed Frank anterior to the play aft his palmy spell astatine Brentford but the Danish manager was incapable to make the measurement up from palmy mid-table absorption to a club that had conscionable won the Europa League.
Apart from climbing up the standings, Tudor volition besides be charged with their advancement successful the Champions League wherever Spurs person qualified for the past 16.
