""His style is intense," George Boxall, a football journalist based in Marseille, where Tudor managed between 2022 and 2023, tells BBC Sport. "The players do a hell of a lot of running. There's lots of intensity, lots of pressing. "He is a really strong personality and he could be a good appointment for Tottenham if they feel they need an electroshock.""
""He asks his players to run a lot. In a previous interview he said 'If you don't run, you don't play'," says L'Equipe journalist Pierre-Etienne Minonzio. "In his one season in Marseille it was always the same way of playing - 3-5-2 - and it was great to watch. "It was not easy because Marseille's best player was Dimitri Payet, a very gifted player but not well-known for running, and he didn't play.""
Igor Tudor has been appointed interim head coach of Tottenham for the remainder of the season and will face Arsenal on 22 February. He demands high physical output from players, emphasizing intensity, pressing and extensive running. Tudor typically deploys a 3-5-2 formation and has a strong, no-nonsense personality. He has managed across Italy, France, Turkey, Croatia and Greece and was sacked by Juventus in October 2025. Tudor earned a reputation as a tough defender with 55 Croatia caps and over 150 Juventus appearances. The immediate objective is to arrest Tottenham's slide and ease relegation fears quickly.
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