Igor Tudor knows a number of his Tottenham Hotspur players from his Juventus days(Image: GLYN KIRK/AFP via Getty Images)

There is a new man at the helm of Tottenham Hotspur and Igor Tudor will have found some familiar faces when he walked through the doors of the north London club.

The 47-year-old has been called upon to do a similar firefighting job to the one he had previously managed at Juventus, Lazio and Udinese in recent years in order to pull Spurs out of their current mess. Those woes had brought the end of the Thomas Frank era after just seven months and now Tudor must navigate a way forward for an injury-ravaged squad low on confidence.

The Croatian will at least know some of the squad after working with them at Juventus. Although they are both currently out with a hamstring and knee injuries respectively, Tudor worked with both Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski during his season as Andrea Pirlo's assistant head coach.

There was also a young Romanian centre-back at Juventus named Radu Dragusin who was called up in that 2020/21 season from the U23s squad to train with the...