Tudor promises Spurs will avoid relegation but accepts club are in ‘emergency situation’

Tudor promises Spurs will avoid relegation but accepts club are in ‘emergency situation’ New coach starts tenure against Arsenal on Sunday Tudor insists ‘we have enormous quality in the squad’ Igor Tudor has said Tottenham are in “an emergency situation” but issued a guarantee that his new team would escape relegation. Tudor is a veteran of short-term appointments and has performed rescue jobs at Udinese, Verona and Juventus. He offered a curt “100%” in response to questions on his confidence in Spurs’s survival. The Croat’s tenure begins on Sunday with a north London derby at home to the wobbling Premier League leaders, though a lengthy injury list leaves him with only 13 fit senior players. “What I saw this week was the quality of the players,” said Tudor, contracted until the end of the season after replacing the sacked Thomas Frank last weekend. “We have enormous quality in the squad.” A coach presiding over 12 remaining league matches, the Champions League being a lower priority with Spurs five points off the relegation zone, made no promises of living up to the club’s attacking traditions. “When you start pre-season and then you have 50 days in pre-season and you have 20 players, of course then we see the style,” Tudor said. “This is an emergency, an emergency situation, when you need to find fast what suits the 10 plus three players and it’s totally different.” Tudor tries his best to avoid league tables. “When I coach I never watch the classification. Maybe it sounds strange. I don’t watch where we are. It’s a process. If you ask me what we are going to see on Sunday, I believe that we are going to see something concrete, something good that the people will like.” Arsenal have won three from eight league matches in 2026 so Sunday offers Spurs opportunity to sabotage their bitter rivals and forge a path towards safety. Tudor said he had “big respect for Arteta who made an amazing team, one of the best in the world with the style of play and amazing mentality ...