Ten wins in 38 games with 41 points. 44 points behind Premier League winner Arsenal. This is Tottenham in 2025/26. A disaster for the proud club, but the biggest disaster was avoided with a 1-0 win against Everton on Sunday. Survival in the Premier League was saved, a few hours after Robert de Zerbi had done the first part of the job as Spurs manager, he told about the second phase.

“Next season we will build a top, top, top team. We don’t need to change too many players in the squad, but we do need to bring in some players from the very top shelf,” De Zerbi begins to the BBC.

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He emphasizes that many of the current players showed a high level in the fateful game against Everton.

“We worked well, but I’m lucky because we have a lot of great players. You could see from the game today that under a lot of pressure they played great with the ball. Maybe it was the best performance of my time here,” says De Zerbi, ready for the next phase of the mission – to climb and establish himself at the top of the Premier League table.

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