Tottenham Hotspur’s season is rapidly unraveling, with Thursday night’s 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace pushing the club into a full-blown crisis.

Currently, Spurs find themselves precariously perched just a single point above the relegation zone. The temporary leadership of Igor Tudor has proven ineffective, and with only nine matches remaining, the specter of relegation looms large.

As Nottingham Forest and West Ham gather momentum in their campaigns, Tottenham must urgently halt their downward spiral to avoid facing the prospect of playing in the Championship next season.

Our panel of experts weighs in on strategies to stabilize the club and secure its Premier League status.

Igor Tudor’s Tottenham are plummeting towards relegation and are in full crisis mode

Swallow pride and give Ange a call – Oliver Holt 

It’s a significant risk to entrust an interim manager with the critical task of averting relegation, a situation that could determine the club’s future.

Why hold out for Mauricio Pochettino’s return next season if he’s to inherit a team battling in the Championship?

It’s already clear the gamble on Tudor has failed. There doesn’t seem to be much more to Tudor than an authoritarian who wants the players to run a lot and that’s showing in performance. There has been no new-manager bounce. This has been a dead-cat bounce.

Spurs are in a relegation death-spiral. West Ham and Forest both have signs of some momentum and if Spurs don’t act, they will go down. 

Desperate times require desperate measures and the club has to accept that, even though he has been hamstrung by injuries and terrible decisions by senior players, they have made a mistake with Tudor. It is time to abandon that experiment now.

The hierarchy have made such a mess of everything, there’s a limited field to pick from for their last throw of the dice but they need to swallow their pride and bring back Ange Postecoglou for the rest of the season. 

I know they finished 17th in the league with him last season but he knows the players, he has the charisma to be a quick fix and he’s a legend with the fans after the Europa League triumph. It’s left-field but it’s the best chance Spurs have got.

Spurs were downed 3-1 by Crystal Palace on Thursday in another abject defeat 

Mason/ Hoddle double act? – Craig Hope 

Forget giving a new manager time, because Spurs don’t have that. They have to ask themselves – is Igor Tudor taking them down? If, like most of us, they think yes, then a change has to be made. 

He does not have the personality, it seems, to unite the club for this final charge towards safety. He seems resigned to their relegation, which is both staggering and alarming. 

Who do they bring in? A Ryan Mason and Glenn Hoddle double act? I suspect that would be better than Tudor.

No viable alternatives to Tudor – Jack Gaughan 

It’s not something I’d usually advocate but from afar, it looks like Tudor just hasn’t worked and Spurs have somehow regressed further. 

The mood appears to be exacerbated by some of his answers in press conferences and while it’s ludicrous to suggest a manager (interim or otherwise) should lose his job after three matches, what other option is available to them? 

One slight issue, I couldn’t name a credible manager to come in who’d definitely make sure they keep their heads above water. 

Players should look at themselves – Kieran Gill

I wouldn’t be surprised if Spurs went full Crystal Palace and Frank de Boer by sacking Igor Tudor, but would it change much?

Who’s around as an alternative? Harry Redknapp? Tim Sherwood? Ryan Mason? Would Sean Dyche have the time to get this Tottenham team in shape?

Nah. My suspicion is Spurs are stuck with Tudor in their fight for survival. The players should be showing more themselves because they have been pathetic.

Micky van de Ven gave away a penalty and was sent off as Spurs capitulated on Thursday

Would boardroom change lift mood? – Tom Collomosse 

The suggestion overnight was that sporting director Johan Lange and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham were in serious danger of being removed, possibly even as early as Friday, though Tottenham are currently distancing themselves from this idea.

On the one hand, removing an executive will not make the players perform better. But as Wolves saw when chairman Jeff Shi departed, the mood among the fans was lifted and this in turn helped the players and boss Rob Edwards.

Venkatesham was targeted mercilessly by Spurs fans on Thursday night, who do not love his Arsenal connections. That is why the club leaders may decide to move Venkatesham on. It may just calm the waters a little ahead of a defining period for the club.

Sack the manager and change keeper – Ian Ladyman

I have never seen a coach as ill suited to the job as Igor Tudor.

I was horrified by what I saw and then heard him say around the Fulham game and last night against Palace only served to harden my view that Tudor must go before it’s too late.

Losing at half-time last night, his only solution was to send his players out early to stew ahead of the second period. I am sorry, you are paid to do more than that.

If Tudor stays, Spurs will go down. His appointment was a terrible mistake and Spurs must own it now or live to regret it.

As for the goalkeeper, Guglielmo Vicario isn’t good enough and never has been. His nerves run through that Spurs team like a virus.

Time to look at Sherwood and Co again – Matt Barlow

What a mess. The Igor Tudor gamble has failed. There seems to me no reason why it benefits anyone for him to carry on. 

He appears to have arrived with no knowledge of the club or the Premier League or the culture of English football and been unable to halt the slide. If there is one reason it is that there is no obvious replacement. 

And if Spurs identify someone they will only face the same problems of depleted squad devoid of confidence, maturity or leadership and desperately waiting for injured players to return. It’s probably worth a go before the Liverpool game on Sunday week. One last throw of the dice. 

I’d try to bring back the Sherwood-Ramsey-Ferdinand gang… and see what they make of it all. They were the unsung catalyst for the Pochettino era.