has been named as the brand new boss on a five-year contract, tasked with saving them from an unthinkable relegation regardless of quite a lot of supporters’ teams having
with “by mutual consent” on Sunday after a disastrous seven-game spell and left the north London membership in dire straits, just one level and one place above West Ham within the Premier League relegation zone and of the highest flight since 1977.
Roberto De Zerbi would be the new Tottenham supervisor (Getty Photographs)
They’re winless of their final 13 Premier League video games, their longest run with no top-flight success in 91 years and endured within the first leg of their Champions League last-16 conflict earlier than a futile second-leg success served as their solely win beneath Tudor, who was when he changed Thomas Frank in February.
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However the membership has opted for, who left the Ligue 1 facet in February. It was initially thought that the 46-year-old was solely completely happy to affix Spurs on the finish of the season, as soon as he knew their league standing, however has had a change of coronary heart and can turn into head coach instantly to attempt to steer them away from the drop. He has signed.
A Tottenham assertion mentioned: “We’re happy to announce the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi as our new males’s head coach on a long-term contract, topic to work allow.”
In an announcement accompanying Tottenham’s announcement, De Zerbi insisted he’s dedicated to the membership’s “ambition for the long run”. The Italian lasted lower than two seasons in his earlier two spells at Brighton and Marseille, and he has been instantly thrown right into a relegation battle.
“I’m delighted to be becoming a member of this unbelievable soccer membership, which is likely one of the greatest and most prestigious on the planet,” mentioned De Zerbi. “In all my discussions with the membership’s management, their ambition for the long run has been clear – to construct a staff able to reaching nice achievements, and to do this taking part in a method of soccer that excites and conjures up our supporters. I’m right here as a result of I imagine in that ambition and have signed a long-term contract to provide every part to ship it.
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“Our short-term precedence is to climb the Premier League desk, which would be the full focus till the ultimate whistle of the final sport of the season. I’m wanting ahead to getting out on the coaching pitch and dealing with these gamers to realize that.”
De Zerbi developed a status for possession-based, attacking soccer whereas accountable for Benevento and Sassuolo in his homeland earlier than a spell Shakhtar Donetsk was lower quick by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. He joined Brighton and secured European soccer for the primary time within the Seagulls’ historical past throughout his first season in cost – finally reaching the final 16 of the Europa League throughout the next marketing campaign.
That success noticed him linked with managerial vacancies at giants reminiscent of Barcelona, Manchester United, Liverpool and Bayern Munich however his relationship with Brighton hierarchy fully broke down, resulting in a mutual parting of the way on the finish of the 2023-24 season.
He then joined Marseille, ending second in Ligue 1 in 2024-25 however leaving by mutual settlement in February 2026 after a Champions League exit within the league section and a 5-0 loss to PSG domestically.
De Zerbi left Marseille in February (Getty Photographs)
When he was linked with the Spurs job, three Tottenham fan teams urged the membership to not make the appointment, because of the Italian having backed controversial Marseille ahead throughout his time in cost.
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Ex-Manchester United attacker Greenwood was charged in October 2022 with one rely of tried rape, one rely of controlling and coercive behaviour and one rely of assault occasioning precise bodily hurt over allegations referring to a younger girls after photos and movies had been posted on-line.
The Crown Prosecution Service owing to a “mixture of the withdrawal of key witnesses” and attributable to “no real looking prospect of conviction”. Greenwood has since resumed his profession and joined Marseille in 2024.
In November, De Zerbi described Greenwood as a “good man” that had paid a “heavy value” and added: “It saddens me what occurred in his life, as a result of I do know a very completely different particular person than the one who was described.”
Mason Greenwood was defended by De Zerbi throughout his time accountable for Marseille (Getty Photographs)
Tottenham fan teams Proud Lilywhites, Spurs Attain and Girls of the Lane all began a ‘No to De Zerbi’ marketing campaign because of the Greenwood affiliation.
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Proud Lilywhites mentioned on the time: “We’ve seen the experiences linking Roberto De Zerbi with the Tottenham job and truthfully, it doesn’t sit proper. As Proud Lilywhites, we care deeply about this membership, not simply what occurs on the pitch, however what Tottenham stands for off it. This isn’t nearly outcomes or model of soccer. It’s about values, id, and the type of folks we select to characterize us.”
In an announcement following De Zerbi’s appointment, Proud Lilywhites mentioned: “While we disagree with the managerial alternative, when it comes to tradition and competence, we’ll proceed to help the gamers with out pretending to be snug with the appointment.
“Staying silent will not be the reply. However selecting when and the place to be vocal issues. Managers come and go. Executives come and go. Gamers come and go. Followers stay. We’re the fixed on this membership. We are going to proceed to characterize the views of our members to the membership, alongside the opposite supporter associations. This isn’t noise or response. It’s a thought of place, and it isn’t going away.”