Tim Sherwood has made a big claim about how Tottenham Hotspur would have decided to appoint Igor Tudor and what the club would now be thinking about their decision.
The hope at Spurs would have been that Tudor would have had an immediate galvanising impact on their squad, but that has not transpired.
The Lilywhites have lost three in three under the Croatian and have looked distinctly unimpressive in all three matches.
Some are even calling for Spurs to sack Tudor just three weeks after he replaced Thomas Frank at the helm, and one former Tottenham interim boss has now suggested what the feeling inside N17 would be.
Tim Sherwood is not a fan of Igor Tudor
Reports indicate that Spurs are considering their options on Tudor’s future, although the 47-year-old is expected to take charge of the side against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League this week.
Sherwood has now questioned who at Tottenham made the decision to turn to the former Juventus boss, claiming that the club’s hierarchy would already be regretting their decision.
The pundit said on Sky Sports Soccer Saturday: “I’d like to know who makes the decisions to give him [Igor Tudor] the job in the first place. I mean, they’ve taken the lead off someone. There’s no one at that football club who would know anything about Igor Tudor, absolutely no.
“There’s not anyone would know anything about his career, but they would have spoke to Fabio Paratici, he is the only one who would have come across him. I know that Damian Comolli has a good relationship with Tottenham going back a lot of years. He’s the one who sacked him at Juve.
“If Daniel Levy was there, he would surely have spoken to Damien Comolli. He’s not there anymore, and I don’t know who’s making the footballing decisions, because whoever it is, he’s not doing a very good job of it, is he? I think, secretly, I think they wish they never made this change. I think they would have hoped that they would have kept hold of Thomas Frank, or rolled the dice in a different direction. I know it’s easy in hindsight, but did we really believe this guy [Tudor] was going to come in and hit the floor running?
“I mean, he’s never had this situation before, and everyone points to the fact that he has. He’s a firefighter, but he takes clubs from European positions, Europa League to Champions League, like he did at Juve. The only relegation battle he’s ever been in is at Udinese, and he said he was in there for four games, and they weren’t in a relegation battle when he went in there, and they finished outside of it, this a tiny football club.
“We’re talking about Tottenham Hotspur, the equivalent if he would have gone in at Juve when they were struggling for relegation and kept them safe. This is the job, this is the replica of what he’s come into here.”
Sherwood claims Tudor has been ‘slapped in the face’ at Spurs
The North Londoners sit just one point off the drop zone, and the interim Tottenham boss may already be regretting confidently announcing that the club will stay up in his first press conference in the job.
Sherwood believes that Tudor has been surprised by what he has encountered in his early weeks in the Premier League.
The former Tottenham midfielder added: “I keep saying it, this club cannot get relegated, well, it certainly can. “The pressure of it, and I think he’s been slapped straight in the face by the competition in the Premier League, it ain’t easy, this is a tough competition. He knew nothing about it, and you keep chopping and changing [the team], and I understand why you chop and change when you can’t get the result, you chop and change.
“You try and find the solutions but he’s gone from ‘I 100% guarantee we spend next season in the Premier League’ to ‘the players not fitting us’, that ‘we’re not good in attack’, ‘we’re not good in the middle’, ‘we’re not good at the back’, ‘we need back our injured players, back to fitness’. You got to get on with what you’ve got, forget all that nonsense and concentrate on the players who are fit at the moment and try and give them a lift.
“We you talk about the manager bounce, when managers go into clubs, you don’t get that bounce by having a stick and whacking them with it, not if the if the downside looks like relegation. You have to give them a cuddle and you have to find the best solution. You have to give them an easy solution to how we’re going to play. This is how we play, this is how we’re going to stick to and you play every single day.
“You know, when I went into Tottenham, you go and you say, this is our formation, and everyone gets used to it. Why are you asking players who are not accustomed to playing in that position to go play in those positions? It’s mind-boggling. The way this club is run at the moment is an absolute shambles.”