It may only be a matter of days until Tottenham Hotspur make an official decision on interim manager Igor Tudor, who recently lost his father and may be preparing to step away from the club. As conversations settle down between the two parties, Spurs supporters are left wondering who exactly - if not Tudor - will be leading the team in the final games of this tense relegation fight, which only got more desperate after the club's 3-0 implosion against Nottingham Forest.
One of the managers Tottenham were banking on to help them in an emergency was actually one of the managers who helped sink Forest into the relegation battle earlier this season, long time relegation specialist Sean Dyche.
But Dyche is clearly not interested in the job. Most reputable sources in the United Kingdom made that pretty much unequivocal throughout the week, but before the weekend hit, a few of the lower tier outlets indicated that Spurs were set to engage in talks with Dyche.
Sean Dyche has no interest in Tottenham
Well, the big man had a very on brand response to those rumors, dispelling them in the most Sean Dyche way possible. He told talkSPORT on Saturday morning, “I was in the pub just up the road and this guy goes ‘you’re meant to be in talks with Spurs tonight’ and I said ‘well I’m standing next to you having a pint of Guinness, so it’s unlikely!”
So, uh, yeah, it's safe to say that Dyche is going to have nothing to do with the Tottenham Hotspur job. He, Roberto De Zerbi, and Adi Hutter were the only managers linked to Spurs in reports, so with RDZ not fielding job offers until after the season ends, the only known Igor Tudor replacement for the Masters of Incompetence (the unofficial wrestling tag team name for Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham) is Hutter, who has never managed in the Premier League before.
As Tudor seems more likely out than in with everything going on at the club and the sheer desperation of the situation that Spurs find themselves in with survival on the line, Dyche outright having no interest in the Spurs job makes things very awkward for Tottenham.
It is fair to say that if Dyche is giving anecdotes about being at the bar on a Friday night and isn't exactly offering himself up to Lange and Vinai, he has less than zero interest in this job, which, well, who could blame him? Tottenham are up against it now, and Dyche has made that patently obvious (in case it were not before).