BBC Sport senior football correspondent Sami Mokbel discusses how Tottenham have convinced Roberto de Zerbi to take charge immediately rather than waiting until the end of the season.
"Tottenham don't want to make another interim appointment," he told BBC Radio 5 Live's Monday Night Club
"With this appointment they want this manager for the next five years, that's why they are offering him a long-term contract. It could be financial, it could be that he backs himself to keep them up and to hit the ground running next season.
"The prospect of De Zerbi managing in the Championship seems strange to me. There would have to be conversations at the end of the season if they go down."
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