Tottenham Hotspur have, as everyone expected, announced a mutual parting of ways between themselves and interim manager Igor Tudor. Spurs were sliding further in the Premier League relegation battle after a 3-0 blowout defeat to Nottingham Forest in a relegation six pointer last weekend, meanwhile Tudor had just learned of the passing of his father shortly after the game.
Anybody taking on the unenviable task of turning around a Spurs side run into the ground by ego, incompetence, Thomas Farnk (sic), Johan Lange Time No Top Four, and Gooner in Chief Vinai Venkatesham is bound for a one way ticket to Burnout City. And so it is entirely unimaginable for someone going through a major personal loss to have to shoulder this Sisyphean task.
Spurs need to survive, though, and they need someone who can come in and right the ship. The problem is that their pickings are beyond slim, teetering into starvation mode. Roberto De Zerbi is, for some odd reason, Lange's and Vinai's top pick, and he's not touching this job with a ten foot pole until this summer when he knows Spurs are safe from relegation. Mauricio Pochettino is currenlty tied up with the United States national team before the World Cup. And Sean Dyche would rather crush pints than crush some sense into Micky van de Ven and Cristian Romero.
Tim Sherwood? Glen Hoddle?
So according to the Daily Telegraph's Matt Law, the five options for Tottenham Hotspur (aside from Adi Hutter, who may not be interested) to replace Igor Tudor as their manager are Tim Sherwood, Harry Redknapp, Glenn Hoddle, Chris Hughton, and Ben Davies.
A list of options cannot possibly get more random than that, and it says something that the most appealing name to the average fan would be Davies, who is currently on the team but out for the season with a fractured left ankle he suffered a couple of months ago.
The rest of the field is washed and out of football or all of those things plus busy exposing their lack of ball knowledge on assorted B level programming (here's to you, Mr. Sherwood). Spurs are teetering on the brink of disaster so, in one sense, nobody can make it worse, though perhaps someone like Sherwood may challenge that belief.
In any case, Tottenham's leadership duo of Vinai and Lange have brought the club to yet another low point, and unless if Adi Hutter, the only well known manager whom Spurs have actually talked to, is willing to take on this sinking ship for his first ever Premier League foray, then Spurs are going to end up with someone potentially worse than Tudor. But hey, at least it won't be Thomas Frank. Because nobody can be as bad as Thomas "We Will Lose Games" Frank was for Spurs.