The one word Igor Tudor deliberately avoided while speaking about Tottenham and it’s not relegation

The Tottenham Hotspur interim head coach has been talking in regards to the membership and one phrase was notable by its absence

Igor Tudor appeared to make a concerted effort to keep away from one key phrase throughout his first interview as Tottenham’s interim head coach.

The Croatian delivered a powerful first deal with to the Spurs followers in his five-minute membership interview on Tuesday and can converse to the media at his first press convention at Hotspur Means on Friday afternoon forward of his debut within the dugout for the North London Derby on Sunday on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Tudor has changed Thomas Frank after the Dane was sacked simply seven months into the job with Tottenham sitting sixteenth within the Premier League desk and simply 5 factors above the drop zone. The membership’s followers by no means actually took to the previous Brentford boss and plenty of pointed again to his first press convention when he got here out with a phrase that might in the end outline his tenure.

“I promise you one factor, one factor is 100% certain, we’ll lose soccer matches,” stated the 52-year-old and Spurs did, many occasions.

It was noticeable that Tudor didn’t point out shedding or defeats even as soon as throughout his first interview and the 47-year-old is more likely to steer away from any such related phrases on Friday at his Premier League press convention debut.

“Large problem for me, massive honour to be right here, I am very comfortable. In the identical manner, I do not assume an excessive amount of about myself, as a result of I am centered on work to do. Wherever you go, it is all the time about your relationship with the place, with the staff, with the city,” stated the previous Juventus boss.

“There are a whole lot of similarities, even when that is just like the NBA of European soccer, that is the very best of the very best, so it is a privilege to be right here. First precedence is to offer the whole lot the staff wants in these moments. The staff wants, I imagine, to start with to get some confidence, to get some braveness, but in addition in the identical manner, the concrete issues within the pitch.

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“After all, I am coming right here figuring out the scenario isn’t straightforward, there isn’t any time to search out excuses. What I stated from the primary day right here, every of us, every of the gamers, want to offer one thing, one thing extra, one thing additional, as a result of the place of the membership at this second isn’t that anyone can settle for. Each fan of Tottenham can not settle for the scenario.

“We’re conscious of that, nevertheless it’s not sufficient to only pay attention to that. I prefer to be optimistic, I prefer to play offensive soccer. After all, that is my first purpose I’ve, that I like to attain the purpose, however in the identical manner, for certain, I would like to offer organisation in defence, give the clear construction of what you wish to play.”

He added: “I imagine that in soccer, in 2026, it is modified quite a bit. It is altering yr by yr, so extra bodily gamers, for instance, it is essential. When you can run 115 kilometres as a staff, it is higher than 105. Which means that you’ve one participant additional, so there may be nothing unusual to decide on that route, in fact. It is all the time about motivated gamers that perceive this factor about operating, in regards to the bodily side of soccer, which is typically not straightforward.

“However that with out high quality, you can not do nothing. So, technical abilities, intelligence to see, to recognise the scenario, speech is all the time above the whole lot. So, you have to discover a combine about each issues. And about profitable or drawing, that is true. I by no means noticed the coach who stated that he can play for draw. It is not doable. So, offensive soccer, sure, however good. So, that is the important thing.”

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