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by Emillia Hawkins

February 21, 2026

As Manchester City prepared for a huge Premier League meeting with Newcastle at the Etihad, Mikel Arteta insisted that Arsenal are not ‘bottlers’ ahead of the North London Derby Johan Lange, the Tottenham sporting director, has explained the rationale behind Igor Tudor’s hire as head coach until the end of the season. Lange said: “it’s very important to go into a shorter process than you do if you are changing a head coach over the summer. We interviewed a few candidates. Igor impressed us very, very much in the interview. “He comes in with very big experience at the highest level in football. As a player, playing for a very, very big club, one of the biggest clubs in the world in Juve. Of course he was part of this very good generation of Croatia national team in the late 90s. He has shown the capabilities of coming into clubs around this time, February, March, and also big clubs, and made an immediate performance impact. That was of course a very big reason.” Continue reading...

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Originally published on Guardian Sport on 2/21/2026