"He asks his players to run a lot. In a previous interview he said 'If you don't run, you don't play'," says L'Equipe journalist Pierre-Etienne Minonzio. "In his one season in Marseille it was always the same way of playing - 3-5-2 - and it was great to watch. "It was not easy because Marseille's best player was Dimitri Payet, a very gifted player but not well-known for running, and he didn't play. "It was a joke in L'Equipe - if Igor Tudor had Lionel Messi in his squad, Messi would not play!"

Source: BBC February 13, 2026 20:07 UTC