Former Spurs boss calls for calm and backs De Zerbi to turn things around
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Former Tottenham defender and manager Chris Hughton has backed Roberto De Zerbi to turn Spurs’ fortunes around despite their difficult start to the season.
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Hughton, who was a coach at Spurs from 1993 until 2007 and twice took caretaker charge of the club, believes Tottenham have the right ingredients in place after a busy summer, pointing to both De Zerbi’s qualities as a coach and the players brought in by the club.
“I think at any stage of a season there’s always concerns when the results are not going as you would want,” Hughton said at a ceremony in which he was inducted into the Tottenham Hall of Fame.
“What I’m very confident of is that he’s a good manager. I think De Zerbi is a good manager that enjoys working with the players.
“If I look at the acquisitions in the summer, and I know a lot of them were done over a short period of time, I think the club have brought in good players.”
Hughton admitted things are not clicking yet but the former Newcastle, Brighton and Norwich City boss stressed that integrating a large number of new signings can take time.
“You can bring in a group of players that gel together and all of a sudden you’re getting these results, or it doesn’t,” he said.
“So I think it is very early.”
He also believes the international break comes at a useful time, even though De Zerbi will lose a number of players to their national teams.
“He would have loved this period of time to better work with the players,” Hughton added.
“But I think when you’ve got the players that have come in, which I think are good players, and a good coach, there’ll be nobody working harder than what the head coach will be.
“For where the club have been, there needs to be that little bit of calm, there needs to be that little bit of time.
“I’m very confident that the head coach and the club will get it right.”
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Hughton, who spent 19 years as a player at the club having first joined in 1971 as a 13-year-old, also paid tribute to the support of his family after becoming one of the latest inductees to the club’s Hall of Fame.
“My period here wasn’t just as a player, it was as an assistant coach, so, over a 27-year period, there are a lot of sacrifices that have to be made. You drag your family along with you,” he said.
“Even though I’m not a local lad, if anything, I’m an East Londoner, but my family are all Tottenham supporters, come to the games, follow the team and everything and that’s because of the pathway that I took.
“So, I think it means everything to me, particularly as you get older, and I came away from the club for a good period of time, managing other clubs, but Tottenham was always there.”
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