It’s deja vu at Tottenham Hotspur. For the sixth time since 2019, the north London outfit are searching for a new manager. It’s the second time since May, with Spurs fans understandably frustrated.

Thomas Frank is the latest casualty who leaves the Dr Tottenham’s medical practice without finding a cure. The Dane will go down as the club’s worst-ever Premier League manager, at least from a winning percentage perspective. Across his eight-month stint, Frank won just 27 per cent of matches.

But, it would be unfair to place all of the blame on Frank specifically. For starters, his two chief creators, James Maddison and Dejan Kulusevski have been unavailable all season, while summer signing Mohammed Kudus also picked up a long-term injury towards the back end of 2025.

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Couple that with the other fitness problems that plagued the Tottenham ranks and it’s easy to see how things so easily derailed. That’s just the sad reality of Tottenham in 2026 though. Be that through bad luck, or mismanagement behind the scenes, the club has a tendency to pose as a circus, with clowns often the ones running it.

Having just about steadied the ship at Juventus as a caretaker last season, he was given the job on a permanent basis. Not so much because the Croatian had excelled, but more so because there weren’t that many alternatives to turn to instead! By October 2025 he’d been shown the door, having gone eight games without a win.

His play style doesn’t exactly scream a perfect fit for Spurs either. The 47-year-old tends to favour a three-at-the-back set-up, which could prove difficult for Spurs who have struggled to field two fit centre-backs, let alone three. He’s also a fan of high-intensity, front-foot football. Again, just ask Ange Postecoglou how that ended up.

There is a world where this all works out pretty nicely. Tudor comes in, drags Spurs away from a relegation scrap (the fact that’s the reality for Tottenham is alarming enough), while keeping the manager’s seat warm for Mauricio Pochettino or Roberto De Zerbi in the summer. The early indications are that this isn’t an interim appointment with a view to making it permanent, and given Tudor’s track record at holding down a position, that is probably for the better.