Over the last couple of months, Spurs fans have become increasingly frustrated with the way that the club is being run, and pressure on Daniel Levy and ENIC has never been so high before compared to right now.
After watching pursuits for the likes of Bruno Fernandes, Paulo Dybala, Milan Skriniar and Ruben Dias all collapse at the final hurdles in recent seasons, many feel that the team will never get the improvements that it desperately needs to keep ahold of players like Harry Kane and propel the club back towards title races and trophies.
📺 An update from Chairman Daniel Levy.
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It isn’t just fans that are critical of the way the club is being run right now, as former Spurs midfielder and now pundit Jermaine Jenas launched an attack on the ownership’s ‘half-hearted’ approach to the football side of things.
“Maybe there needs to be a mindset shift in the club now,” said Jenas. “I have always felt that as owners of the football club they have done a great job up until this point where it is, the stadium, the training ground, the visualisation of what Tottenham are.
“They are at a bit of a crossroads. I have always said you are going to have to make a decision at some point.”
While the arrival of Fabio Paratici is a sign that Levy is beginning to accept that there is so much more work to be done particularly on the football side of things and not just the business element of running a club, now is the perfect time for him to put up and shut up.
“I am so happy. New experiences always give energy, power and motivation. I hope to give Spurs my passion, my work, my time and to build something better.”
👔 The first interview with Fabio Paratici, our new Managing Director, Football.
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“Do you want to be part of the big boys that spend the money, pay the big wages and compete at the top level like Chelsea do, like Man City do, like Man United do, like Liverpool do? Do you want to be part of that?” Jenas continued.
“Or are you going to half-heart it again for the next 10 years? Half-hearting it is showing you what you are right now.
“Financially there will be a really good model when that stadium kicks in but if they want to be part of the elite I would like to see them be part of the elite to the fans and go and compete at the top level for the best players.
“They let Bruno Fernandes go to Manchester United, he could have been a Spurs player if they had gone a bit deeper. There are loads of situations like that.”