Former Tottenham Hotspur goalkeeper Brad Friedel, talking to BBC Radio 5 Live’s Football Daily podcast about Igor Tudor’s departure: “After the Nottingham Forest sport [which Spurs lost 3-0 on 22 March] – though I hate seeing this merry-go-spherical of managers – I believed it was inevitable.”
On what ought to occur subsequent with the supervisor’s place: “The most important thing is staying in the league. The long-term solution and building can’t take place until you know whether you’re building from the Championship or the Premier League.
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“There aren’t numerous prime-high quality, lengthy-time period, visionary head coaches who would leap into this job proper now, until that they had a break clause in the event that they’re relegated in the summertime. And then is that good for the membership, to herald one other supervisor after which need to launch them after seven video games?
“You’re almost stuck in a position where you have to bring in a short-term replacement.”
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