We asked for your views on whether the international break has come at a good time for Spurs, who are battling against relegation from the Premier League.
Here are some of your comments:
Wayne: I’m been a Spurs fan all my life and this is the worst squad I’ve seen. Simply I don’t think we’re good enough to win any of our remaining games. The international break may help, but most of the remaining fit players will be playing for their countries, so there won’t be any rest. I still believe we can maybe survive hopefully.
JP: The break certainly won’t hurt them.
Michael: The situation is dire but not unique, some of us remember the previous relegation with a decent squad. Replacing Tudor is paramount, obviously he has personal issues but has failed to lift or seemingly connect with the squad. He hasn’t managed to change any problems that occurred under Frank. Injuries have played a great part and the failure of the hierarchy to deal with this calls them into doubt too.
Wally: I think the break will be invaluable, giving some of the injuries time to heal and get back closer to a stronger team. It needs a new manager to implement some basic common-sense football. Will it happen? Who knows.
Martin: Can’t see Tudor wanting to stay under the circumstances. Players now ought to step up but, starting with the shameful sacking of Ange, they have been badly mismanaged and I don’t think they have much left to give now. It’s as if the club doesn’t understand human motivation and thinks of players solely in terms of return on investment. So we need a great motivator, wish we could have Poch right now!
Stuart; They need to get an ex-player in until the end of the season. Someone who knows the club. Then get Poch back after the World Cup.
Paul: Don’t think it would a blind bit of difference if they had two months off. They have no heart and stomach for a relegation battle.
Stuart: I cannot see that sticking with Igor Tudor is a viable strategy at all. He has failed to inspire, relate or deliver, seemingly tactically not astute. The difficulty is who instead? Harry Redknapp is out of practice but a good man-manager, Glenn Hoddle was somewhat divisive in his spell with the players and Ryan Mason never convinced in his results in previous spells when our plight was not as perilous. The others (Sherwood, Keane etc) are also unproven and De Zerbi may be the best bet if interested but if it was me, I would want a relegation exit clause.
