Spurs’ ownership could certainly be held accountable for the club’s consistent mismanagement over the last decade, as key decisions on player recruitment, managerial changes, and long-term strategy have often appeared disjointed.
While the club has had moments of success, including reaching the Champions League final, their inability to consistently build on those achievements, alongside questionable transfers and managerial instability, has hindered their progress.
We spoke to James Trembath of LondonWorld to get his take on the situation.
While the club has had moments of success, including reaching the Champions League final, their inability to consistently build on those achievements, alongside questionable transfers and managerial instability, has hindered their progress.
We spoke to James Trembath of LondonWorld to get his take on the situation.
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00:00Spurs' ownership could certainly be held accountable for the club's consistent mismanagement
00:09over the last decade or so, as key decisions on player recruitment, managerial changes
00:14and long-term strategy had often appeared disjointed. While the club has had its moments
00:21of success, including reaching the Champions League final, their inability to consistently
00:26build on those achievements alongside questionable transfers and managerial instability has hindered
00:32their progress. I spoke to James Trenbath of London World to get his take on the situation.
00:56Who would you like to see in the Spurs dugout?
01:15I think for Spurs, the football is the type of football we want to play. Instead of it
01:21being 100mph, we maybe need to just ratchet it down to 90mph, have a little bit more
01:26pragmatism, learn from mistakes, stop making the same mistakes time and time again. The
01:33Bournemouth game was a classic example, one of the best pressing teams in the league,
01:36and we just don't change. None of the players take responsibility and just try and go long,
01:40beat the press for five minutes. So, more adaptability I think is what we need. The
01:45blueprints there for the good football is a nucleus of really, really talented young
01:50players. You look at the likes of Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray, he's going to be an absolute
01:54class act. Jed Spence, Sudogi van de Ven, Dom Solanke, there's a nucleus there of a
02:02really, really good side. And if you're looking at potential replacements, Arreola, you've
02:08got to look at him. I think at Bournemouth, he's done an absolutely fantastic job, very
02:12limited budget, but the way they play, again, very Tottenham-esque, but with a little bit
02:17more control. Thomas Frank, a lot of people highly rate Thomas Frank within football.
02:23I know Johan Lange is a big fan of him, so maybe we go down the Thomas Frank route. Is
02:28it time for him to have a crack at a so-called bigger club? No disrespect to Brentford. And
02:34then do we rekindle the love affair with Mischio Pochettino? He's been flirting again with
02:38Spurs to come back. I mean, if you think back two or three years, Champions League final,
02:44the way he had us playing on such a huge budget, not signing a single player for one
02:49summer. We were still banging on the door for the top four. We came so close to winning
02:53the league a couple of times. And then the failures off the pitch that were well-documented.
02:58We didn't build again and we didn't back the manager. But do you go back almost like a
03:05bad girlfriend? I guess I'm not sure. The Chelsea appointment there with Pochettino did
03:12quell it for me a little bit. But then again, is this Daniel Levy's last roll of the dice
03:17in terms of his ownership, his tenure? Does he do that to get the fans back on side? I
03:20know a lot of fans would love Pochettino back in the dugout. With the nucleus of the young
03:26team that we have, maybe he's the perfect appointment. But whether he'd leave America,
03:32I'm not so sure. More of the fan base want the chairman out. And then this all translates back
03:36onto the pitch. The atmosphere in the stadium on the Bournemouth game was just so flat. It
03:43was so flat. And you could tell the anxiety was translating onto the pitch as well with some of
03:50the noises that were coming out. So the whole thing has just been disconnected. And I think
03:57I was watching the Jim Radcliffe interview with Gary Neville. And he was a very frank interview,
04:02lots of mistakes. Obviously, he's under a lot of pressure as well at Manchester United. But
04:05actually an owner coming out and just facing up and talking about the problems and the mistakes
04:10that they're making, the best stadium in the league. And it's outstanding. And the work that
04:14he's done should be praised on that basis. But on the pitch is where it really matters. And on the
04:19pitch is where we're failing. And for the last three or four years, things have been getting
04:24worse and getting worse and slowly been going backwards. So we want to now hear from him.
04:29What's the plan to address that? And what are we going to do in the summer? What's the transfer
04:32budget? What business are we going to try and do? Because we need a bit of reuniting, I think,
04:38now is the key to all of this. But the radio silence is just not good for anyone.