Igor Tudor has admitted that the problems at Tottenham are bigger than at any other club he has previously managed.
Tudor has garnered a reputation for taking charge of teams mid-season and turning around their fortunes.
He guided Lazio to a seventh-place finish in Serie A and Europa League qualification before securing Champions League football for Juventus in the second half of last season.
However, after just two games at the helm, Tudor is already under pressure to deliver results for Spurs, with the club only four points above the relegation zone with ten games to play.
The pressure of keeping Spurs in the Premier League is clearly weighing on Tudor, who admitted his side needs to improve every aspect of their game in the wake of their limp 2-1 defeat to Fulham last weekend.
The issues Tudor is encountering at Spurs are unlike any other he has faced in his managerial career, and the Croat says it is impossible to compare the work he has done at Lazio and Juventus to his first three weeks at Spurs.
"It’s impossible to compare because every situation is very different. Impossible," Tudor said in his pre-match press conference on Wednesday.
"The problems are totally different. At Juventus, there were 20 players for all these positions. Here, you come, you have 12 players," he continued, alluding to Spurs' injury list, which is showing no signs of improvement.
"There you fight for the Champions League. Here, you fight for relegation. That’s for the start. Then you go player by player, and there are big differences everywhere.
"It’s not like you go and do the job in the same way and have the same results. It’s impossible because the level of difficulty is always different.
"There is no copy in anything, it’s a different team, different league, different position, different players."
There you fight for the Champions League. Here, you fight for relegation
While Tudor may find it hard to draw comparisons between his time in Italy and his brief stay in England, it is clear he is finding it harder to come to terms with the size of the job ahead of him.
The issues he inherited predate even his predecessor, Thomas Frank, and with only ten games until the end of the season, he is looking for short-term fixes to long-term problems.
"It’s impossible to compare. You can only compare the levels of difficulty. Where are the biggest problems? For me, this problem of Tottenham is bigger.
"How big is challenge? How big is the problem in the clubs? I can tell you. There are no mathematics, but what I feel, what I can see, this problem is bigger."
