{"id":510661,"date":"2026-03-31T14:33:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=510661"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:33:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T18:33:06","slug":"tottenham-announces-de-zerbi-as-the-new-head-coach","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/tottenham-announces-de-zerbi-as-the-new-head-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"Tottenham announces De Zerbi as the new head coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham have hired Roberto de Zerbi as their new boss after the Italian inked a 5-year deal with the team.<\/p>\n<p>The ex-Seagulls manager has 7 matches to save the side from relegation.<\/p>\n<p>If Roberto failed to save them and they got relegated to the Championship, he would remain at the helm, as he doesn\u2019t have a relegation clause that would allow him to leave.<\/p>\n<p>In 2 months\u2019 time, Tottenham\u2019s 3<sup>rd<\/sup> head coach of the campaign will have either secured his place as a hero in North London or be forever connected to 1 of the worst seasons in their history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy to become the head coach of such a fantastic football team, such as Tottenham, which is 1 of the biggest in the world,\u201d De Zerbi shared.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll my talks with the chiefs of Spurs and their aims for the future have been clear \u2013 to build a side that can compete for all the trophies and to do that while we play attractive football that makes our fans happy. I\u2019m here because I want to do that and have inked a long-term deal to give everything to achieve it.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We are pleased to announce the appointment of Roberto De Zerbi as our new Men\u2019s Head Coach on a long-term contract, subject to work permit.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udd17 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DtXe0YJSlr\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/DtXe0YJSlr<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/64tybrOhmr\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/64tybrOhmr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpursOfficial\/status\/2039006393848435189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 31, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tottenham have hired Roberto de Zerbi as their new boss after the Italian inked a 5-year deal with the team. The ex-Seagulls manager [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":510662,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[21542,18466],"news_category":[136,14235],"gn_keywords":[21543,18467],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The Italian manager will have 7 games to save Spurs\u2019 campaign.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510661"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510661"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":510663,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/510661\/revisions\/510663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510661"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=510661"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=510661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}