Unfortunately, the idea of Tottenham being relegated is very possible. Nottingham Forest and West Ham are currently performing better than Tottenham, and even Wolverhampton are better. It would certainly be a huge shock.
No matter how much some people try to mock the club or belittle it, Tottenham in recent years has been part of English and European football, and an influential part of it.
But unfortunately, the decisions of Levy, who left this season, and his accumulated poor decisions have put the team in this situation.
You had a distinguished coach like Pochettino who spoke several times with Levy about the team’s shortcomings and the need to refresh the squad, yet he was betrayed.
Then Mourinho tried to build a team and was about to play the League Cup final, but he was sacked six days before the final. Mourinho had repeatedly asked Levy for top center backs like Škriniar and Rúben Dias, but Levy ignored his requests.
Conte was asking for Bastoni, Traoré, a top left back, and Luis Díaz, but none of them were signed. Instead, they brought him Spence, and Conte later said publicly that this was the club’s signing, not his. In the end, he was also sacked.
At one point, Tottenham had several star players who had reached a certain level and could no longer offer more to the team. Instead of selling them and recycling their value in the transfer market, Levy stubbornly held onto stars like Eriksen, Alderweireld, Dele Alli, and Danny Rose.
Tottenham lost these players almost for free, when they could have been sold for huge fees that might have totaled around €250 million.
There was also Levy’s failure to replace Dembélé, who had been the engine of the midfield. After the Ndombele experience, he seemed afraid of the European market and focused heavily on the English market, at a time when Newcastle, Aston Villa, Arsenal, and Liverpool were searching for talent across Europe.
Even some talents in England, like Grealish during his Aston Villa days, Levy stubbornly refused to meet the asking price over a relatively small amount. In the end, the player stayed at Villa. Why? Because Levy wanted to exploit Aston Villa’s poor financial situation, but after new owners arrived, Grealish remained.
And we shouldn’t forget missing out on Eze and Gibbs White.
When Paratici arrived, he held the decision making power alongside Levy, yet he wasn’t someone with a clear long term vision for Tottenham.
Imagine that he wanted Flick. When Flick rejected the offer, he turned to Ten Hag. Then he tried to bring Pochettino back. Then he appointed Conte.
Is there any rational person who tries to choose between four coaches with completely different philosophies and approaches without understanding the identity of the team?
And we cannot forget the comical saga of appointing Nuno Espírito Santo. Why was it comical?
Because first they negotiated with Fonseca, then changed their mind at the last moment. Then they negotiated with Gattuso but the fans rejected him. Then a call from Jorge Mendes suddenly made them switch to Nuno Espírito Santo.
The club continued its administrative mistakes and never planned for the post Harry Kane and Son era.
The idea that you had Pochettino, then Mourinho, then Nuno, then Conte, then Ange, then Thomas Frank, and now Tudor is absurd.
Look at the names again and you will realize that every appointment was simply a reaction to the previous one, continuing an endless cycle.
Even when Ange arrived, the team was not good. Tottenham under Ange was in 17th place, 17th, imagine that. They suffered 22 defeats and conceded more goals than they scored.
As we know, in the end Thomas Frank arrived and Levy left this season. But the team that was once ahead of almost everyone now looks up at Aston Villa and Newcastle from below, and the gap between them has widened, without anyone thinking about how to close it.
Tottenham did not collapse in one season or two.
The decline took years.
Every season they went down one step, while others went up one step.
They were afraid.
Afraid to sell at the right time, afraid to renew the squad, afraid to take risks in Europe, and afraid to admit to their fans that their outlook was wrong.
Fear does not destroy a team directly, but it makes you slow, while everyone else becomes faster than you.
Tottenham is a lesson.
A lesson that says if you do not renew while you are strong, you will be forced to rebuild when you are weak.
And rebuilding when you are weak is much harder.
No matter how much some people try to mock the club or belittle it, Tottenham in recent years has been part of English and European football, and an influential part of it.
But unfortunately, the decisions of Levy, who left this season, and his accumulated poor decisions have put the team in this situation.
You had a distinguished coach like Pochettino who spoke several times with Levy about the team’s shortcomings and the need to refresh the squad, yet he was betrayed.
Then Mourinho tried to build a team and was about to play the League Cup final, but he was sacked six days before the final. Mourinho had repeatedly asked Levy for top center backs like Škriniar and Rúben Dias, but Levy ignored his requests.
Conte was asking for Bastoni, Traoré, a top left back, and Luis Díaz, but none of them were signed. Instead, they brought him Spence, and Conte later said publicly that this was the club’s signing, not his. In the end, he was also sacked.
At one point, Tottenham had several star players who had reached a certain level and could no longer offer more to the team. Instead of selling them and recycling their value in the transfer market, Levy stubbornly held onto stars like Eriksen, Alderweireld, Dele Alli, and Danny Rose.
Tottenham lost these players almost for free, when they could have been sold for huge fees that might have totaled around €250 million.
There was also Levy’s failure to replace Dembélé, who had been the engine of the midfield. After the Ndombele experience, he seemed afraid of the European market and focused heavily on the English market, at a time when Newcastle, Aston Villa, Arsenal, and Liverpool were searching for talent across Europe.
Even some talents in England, like Grealish during his Aston Villa days, Levy stubbornly refused to meet the asking price over a relatively small amount. In the end, the player stayed at Villa. Why? Because Levy wanted to exploit Aston Villa’s poor financial situation, but after new owners arrived, Grealish remained.
And we shouldn’t forget missing out on Eze and Gibbs White.
When Paratici arrived, he held the decision making power alongside Levy, yet he wasn’t someone with a clear long term vision for Tottenham.
Imagine that he wanted Flick. When Flick rejected the offer, he turned to Ten Hag. Then he tried to bring Pochettino back. Then he appointed Conte.
Is there any rational person who tries to choose between four coaches with completely different philosophies and approaches without understanding the identity of the team?
And we cannot forget the comical saga of appointing Nuno Espírito Santo. Why was it comical?
Because first they negotiated with Fonseca, then changed their mind at the last moment. Then they negotiated with Gattuso but the fans rejected him. Then a call from Jorge Mendes suddenly made them switch to Nuno Espírito Santo.
The club continued its administrative mistakes and never planned for the post Harry Kane and Son era.
The idea that you had Pochettino, then Mourinho, then Nuno, then Conte, then Ange, then Thomas Frank, and now Tudor is absurd.
Look at the names again and you will realize that every appointment was simply a reaction to the previous one, continuing an endless cycle.
Even when Ange arrived, the team was not good. Tottenham under Ange was in 17th place, 17th, imagine that. They suffered 22 defeats and conceded more goals than they scored.
As we know, in the end Thomas Frank arrived and Levy left this season. But the team that was once ahead of almost everyone now looks up at Aston Villa and Newcastle from below, and the gap between them has widened, without anyone thinking about how to close it.
Tottenham did not collapse in one season or two.
The decline took years.
Every season they went down one step, while others went up one step.
They were afraid.
Afraid to sell at the right time, afraid to renew the squad, afraid to take risks in Europe, and afraid to admit to their fans that their outlook was wrong.
Fear does not destroy a team directly, but it makes you slow, while everyone else becomes faster than you.
Tottenham is a lesson.
A lesson that says if you do not renew while you are strong, you will be forced to rebuild when you are weak.
And rebuilding when you are weak is much harder.
