Alan Brazil gobsmacked Tottenham Hotspur have not asked former manager to come back

Alan Brazil can’t believe the Tottenham Hotspur board have not asked Mauricio Pochettino back to help them fight relegation.

Spurs currently sit four points clear of the relegation zone with concern growing they will drop to the Championship.

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Thomas Frank was sacked as the head coach with a 26.9 per cent Premier League win rate, their lowest win rate percentage since 2008.

His departure came after 38 matches in charge across all competitions, of which he won just 13.

The Lilywhites appointed ex-Juventus boss Igor Tudor as the club’s interim boss until the end of the season to try and desperately steer them away from relegation.

His first game in charge was the north London derby where his team lost 4-1 to rivals Arsenal.

Pochettino is understood to be in contention to return to Spurs this summer.

First, the Argentinian is committed to leading the USA at the World Cup in their home tournament this summer.

On talkSPORT Breakfast Wednesday morning, Alan Brazil revealed that Spurs have not even spoke to him about the possibility of returning.

He said: “The latest is, they haven’t even spoken to him.

“I don’t know what they are doing and I don’t think they know what they are doing.”

Despite Postecoglou winning a trophy, Pochettino was a fan favourite leading the club to title races and a Champions League final.

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The Argentine was known to have created ‘the greatest team to win nothing’ during his time at White Hart Lane.

He took charge of more Premier League matches than any other Spurs manager and prior to his final season, he had the best points-per-game ratio in the club’s league history.

Another former manager of the club, Harry Redknapp, also featured on the show with Brazil and Ally McCoist to discuss the club’s chances in a relegation battle.

Redknapp said: “There are three runners when you look at it, and that’s if Burnley go, but they are still having a go.

“But that other spot is wide open, with Tottenham, West Ham and Nottingham Forest.

“West Ham have had a little run and showed a bit of form, so they are having a go, but it’s going to be tight, it looks like one from three is going to go.

“They’ve made a managerial decision, and the guy they’ve brought in wasn’t a manager that anybody saw coming.

“But he’s got a hard job to turn it around, and when you are in that kind of form, it’s not easy to switch it on – they are bang in trouble.

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“They go to Fulham this week, and that’s never easy. It’s going to be difficult, and they could go down.”

The Lilywhites have reached the knockout stage of the Champions League but in echoes of last season, where they won the Europa League, that has not translated to the league.

Their new manager is no stranger to fighting relegation as he saved Udinese from relegation to Serie B in the 2017/18 season; however, it is his first season in the Premier League.

Some Spurs fans are getting more worried by the situation and believe they could be seeing their team in the Championship next season and pundits on talkSPORT’s Inside Spurs panel believe it’s likely.

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When debating the threat of potential relegation from the top division, talkSPORT’s Sonny Snelling said: “I don’t believe this ‘too big to go down’ thing.

 “A lot of people were saying that in the media who have not watched us this season at all.

“They think we’ll just win a couple of games. We have been so dire the whole season, it’s going to take something monumental from the players and from Igor Tudor… and luck.

“The only positives you have to say is we have those extra four points we’ve got on the board, which does help us massively.

“You could then argue that West Ham and Forest’s fixtures are trickier, but the problem is we gave West Ham a shot in the arm by beating us the other week, and Forest against Liverpool looked quite good.

“I’m very worried. I’m actually accepting it now. I’m accepting that next year we’ll be in the EFL, we’ll be back in the gantry at Stoke.”

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The Lilywhites are the only team in the entire league to not have a win under their belt in 2026.

In their final 11 games of the season, the team will be facing their relegation rivals and big six pointers, which could hugely benefit them or place them in serious danger if they are unable to take all three points.

However, on Inside Spurs, Tottenham fan Majestic believes that their run of games is easier than West Ham’s and Forest’s which will be the main reason they stay up.

He said: “We’re not going down, it’s really that simple. I’ll tell you my reasoning.

“Four teams are realistically in that relegation slot, but these guys are four or five points behind us. Forest are only a couple of points behind us, but their run-in is a lot trickier.

“We’ve got Crystal Palace at home, we’ve beaten them already this season away… Just about. So if you can reverse that, you get those points.

“The fact that we’ve got Palace, Leeds and Forest at home, we are just lucky that there’s Burnley and Wolves and there’s only one other space going down.”