We're now a few days into the international break, and Igor Tudor remains at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club.
There's a growing expectation that an inept hierarchy will part ways with the interim manager, who has earned just one point from his five Premier League games in charge.
Tudor did oversee back-to-back positive results against Liverpool and Atlético Madrid, but that good work was undone when Nottingham Forest claimed a 3-0 win in N17 last Sunday, leapfrogging the Lilywhites in the process.
Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham, the two stooges supposedly running the show in north London, took a punt on Serie A firefighter Tudor and it hasn't come off. Now, they're scrambling around again. The next manager remains unknown, and desperation is creeping in.
Sean Dyche does not want Tottenham job for seven games
Many supporters are holding out for Mauricio Pochettino after the World Cup, but Tottenham's dire situation means the club have considered bringing their next long-term appointment forward. That, of course, wouldn't be Poch, but rather Roberto De Zerbi.
The out-of-work Italian was brilliant for Sassuolo, Brighton & Hove Albion and, to a lesser extent, Marseille, but he's a borderline lunatic who's almost guaranteed to walk out of the job within two years.
Why he's seemingly the undisputed No. 1 choice to solve all our ailments, I do not know, but those in charge of this football club are making things up as they go along.
Because if De Zerbi doesn't take the job on now, which he's reluctant to do, Tottenham will turn to the ideologically aligned Sean Dyche. Oh, that's right, Dyche couldn't be more different from De Zerbi. Good process, fellas.
The Telegraph reports that if De Zerbi's mind can't be changed, a desperate Spurs will turn to Dyche, who may best be described as this generation's Sam Allardyce. Yes, I know Big Sam did some quirky things with Bolton back in the day, but he evolved into a scrapper in his twilight.
Dyche has garnered a similar reputation, primarily because he helped Everton survive the drop in 2022/23. The rest of his tenure was rather indifferent, and his time in charge of Nottingham Forest only lasted 114 days. Not bad given Evangelos Marinakis' tendencies.
Pairing Dyche with this brittle Spurs squad seems like a terrible idea, and he's even reluctant to take the job on for such a short period of time (just seven games). While any other club would be wise to move for a manager like Dyche in the spot Tottenham are in, you just get the sense that the hierarchy hasn't considered the distinct drawbacks of appointing the 54-year-old.
This squad needs empowerment from somewhere. Hiring a low-blocking supremo is not the move.