Tottenham are currently in the worst spell of their recent Premier League history as the possibility of relegation increases with each passing game.
Roberto De Zerbi’s arrival was seen as a boost, but his first game in charge of the club ended in a bitter 1-0 defeat to Sunderland at the Stadium of Light.
The Lilywhites are 18th in the Premier League table, two points behind 17th-placed West Ham and three behind Nottingham Forest in 16th.
They need at least three wins from their remaining six games to remain in the Premier League, which looks like an uphill task for a team that hasn’t won a game in the competition in 2026.
And now, Eden Hazard has rubbed salt into the wounds of the Tottenham faithful with a brutal comment about the club.
Samir Nasri and Eden Hazard discuss Tottenham’s struggles
Hazard played for Tottenham’s arch-rivals, Chelsea, and knows a thing or two about the club’s history.
The same could be said about Samir Nasri, who represented Arsenal and contested in a handful of North London derbies back in the day.
While Nasri claimed he didn’t want Tottenham to be relegated as it would remove the North London derby from the Premier League calendar, Hazard’s response was a little bit more scathing.
“Even though I played for Arsenal, I wouldn’t want Tottenham to be relegated. It’s too big a club. We’d lose the derbies,” said the former Arsenal player, now a pundit for French television via GFFN.
To Hazard replied ironically: “Don’t say Tottenham is a big club; it’s a mid-table club.”
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Whatever can go wrong has gone wrong at Hotspur Way, with players dropping like flies due to injuries and managers being discarded like nobody’s business.
To make matters worse, players involved with rival clubs like Nasri and Hazard are taking the mickey out of the club.
While none of it will matter if Tottenham avoid the drop, it goes without saying that a club that won the UEFA Europa League just a few months ago should never be in this position.
De Zerbi has only been here for just over a week but is already under immense pressure to deliver. And while it won’t be his fault completely if Tottenham get relegated, he wouldn’t want to be the manager who was at the helm during such a dark phase in the club’s history, as that would be quite difficult to shake off.
