Spurs now in ‘survival mode’ after their latest home defeat
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00:00So, James, Spurs latest, obviously, real disappointment in the Leicester City game at home. You thought
00:07maybe that could have been a bit of a changing point. I mean, it just sort of highlights
00:11the deep-rooted issues that we've discussed before, come straight from the top, and Ange
00:17Postekoglu has had a really difficult last four, five, six months in charge. In terms
00:24of the situation, where does this leave Spurs at the moment? I mean, it's not pretty losing
00:30to a clear relegation candidate, especially at home. It just ramps up the sort of atmosphere
00:36surrounding the opinion that Levy needs to go and, you know, Ange Postekoglu is probably
00:42on his last legs. But, you know, you do have to sort of feel sorry for him in a way. What's
00:45your sort of take and how do you sort of bounce back after such a huge home defeat?
00:52Yeah, I mean, it's just absolutely disgraceful. We're limping from one crisis to another and
00:59we're almost watching the sort of demise of the club in front of our eyes every week.
01:03You know, it's just getting no better. Just when you think we've turned a corner, good
01:07Europa League victory in midweek, you know, we come back and produce that. And, you know,
01:12you look at the injuries, there's huge mitigating factors with the squad on its knees at the
01:16moment, many players running on fumes. But the fact remains, you know, the eighth richest
01:21club in the world and we haven't been able to name a full quarter of substitutes in the
01:26last two games and that is just absolutely disgraceful. I've kind of gone from anger
01:31to despair, to depression, to disappointment and you just almost feel sort of numb with
01:37it now. We're almost in this spiral where we've got problems with the manager, you know,
01:42regardless of the hand he's been dealt. You know, he's been properly hung out to dry by
01:46the club with the failures in the transfer market. But, you know, is he tactically inept?
01:52Is he good enough for the Premier League? I think there's huge question marks regardless
01:55of the injuries. The fans are, you know, everything's turning toxic at the club. You know, they want
02:00the chairman out. You know, they've never heard the sort of chance for Levy out as loud
02:04as they were in the stadium. And we're kind of just in this sort of almost watershed moment,
02:11where do we genuinely go from here? We either sack the manager and start the merry-go-round
02:17again, bring in a manager and bring in two or three players that he wants straight off
02:20the bat in the last week of the window. Is that realistic in January? Probably not.
02:24Levy's not going to go. So, you know, we're not going to be able to get the chairman out
02:27on the board and completely start again. So, we're in pretty much survival mode now,
02:33save the season. Yeah, the league form's absolutely atrocious and we've lost to,
02:38you know, a fellow relegation rival. I mean, you know, I don't think it's that desperate just yet.
02:42You know, we've got an eight-point cushion with another point-worth goal difference,
02:46so nine points. But, you know, we're just spiralling out of control and, you know,
02:52it's just so sad to watch it happen. So, where we go from here, you know, who only knows.