Igor Tudor: 13 players training but Tottenham won't get relegated

"This is not important. To be more clear, fighting for every position - relegation, first position, UEFA [European qualification] - it is for me, how can I explain, it is all about you achieving what you do during the week. You achieve your position [based on] how you do things on Sunday. So it is always a consequence of that. This brings you nothing if you start to think about relegation or 'I'm fighting for this.'"

"All these goals, they are far away. I never give them importance. I never speak about results. I never speak about what we need to achieve at the end of the season. I don't believe in this. I believe in today's training. This is all I want the players to think about. I go strong on things we need to do on training, after we speak, I go man to man to give concrete advices,"

Tottenham sit 16th in the Premier League, five points above the relegation zone after Thomas Frank was sacked last week following eight months in charge. Igor Tudor takes interim charge with his first match the north London derby against league leaders Arsenal. Tudor says he is not thinking about relegation and focuses players on daily training, individual coaching and concrete advice rather than results or end-of-season goals. He describes league position as a consequence of training performance and behavioural consistency. Tudor expressed being "100 per cent" confident Spurs will remain in the Premier League. Dominic Solanke is expected to be fit, but Tudor reported only 13 players training.

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