There are moments in football that feel surreal, and Tottenham Hotspur sitting in genuine danger of relegation from the Premier League is one of them. As the March international break arrives, Spurs have not won a single domestic match in 2026. Not one. Their points tally of 30 from 31 matches tells a story of steady accumulation punctuated by an utter inability to close out wins or beat the teams around them.
The most recent humiliation was a 3-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest in a direct six-pointer, with Forest’s goals coming from Igor Jesus, Morgan Gibbs-White and Taiwo Awoniyi. The result handed incoming manager Vitor Pereira his first Premier League victory and simultaneously pushed Spurs below Forest in the table. The margin between survival and the Championship is now desperately thin.
Igor Tudor, who took over from the sacked Thomas Frank in February, has been unable to arrest the slide. The injury list is enormous — Wilson Odobert, James Maddison, Dejan Kulusevski, Rodrigo Bentancur, Mohammed Kudus, Ben Davies, Lucas Bergvall, Destiny Udogie, Kevin Danso and Pedro Porro are all currently sidelined. It is, by any measure, an extraordinary casualty list for a club of Spurs’ resources. At one point earlier in the season, Opta gave them only a 4.5% chance of going down, largely on the basis that the clubs around them were simply more likely to fail first.
That logic is being tested. West Ham, Forest and Leeds United have all found ways to accumulate points during a period when Spurs have been collecting only blanks. Tudor himself acknowledged the reality after a creditable draw at Anfield earlier in the season: “It’s a long way to our goal, which is to stay in the Premier League, but today was important to show what they showed.” That draw, snatching parity through Richarlison in the 90th minute, was briefly cause for optimism. It has not been followed up.
The statistical picture is alarming even beyond the results. Spurs have conceded 50 goals — the worst defensive record of any team currently outside the relegation zone. Their xG figures suggest a team that is not simply unlucky, but structurally broken at both ends of the pitch. Players who have operated in European competition for years now look unable to produce the basics required for a survival fight.
The transfer implications of relegation have already begun to percolate. Manchester United, Borussia Dortmund, Chelsea and Aston Villa are all understood to be monitoring Archie Gray, the 20-year-old who has been one of the few bright spots in an otherwise dismal campaign. Spurs would want around £50-55 million for the versatile midfielder, whose contract runs until 2030, but clubs are circling — and the player’s value would make him almost impossible to retain if the club drops down. Sixteen games in, the unthinkable remains possible.