A message to Levy and ENIC: time’s up. Sell the club or invest into Conte’s vision. It’s simple.
Let’s cast our eyes back to the 2016-17 season as Tottenham finished in their highest Premier league position in 54 years. The days of Mauricio Pochettino. The days of Rose and Walker. The days of White Hart Lane.
The memories of a Spurs team that played with no fear, attacking with such conviction that it struck terror in the hearts of any defender. The partnership of Eriksen and Dele Alli, complemented so well with Kane up front.
But those days are long gone, replaced with a mediocre team that is underperforming and on a downward trajectory. A lack of investment has cost Spurs the chance to catch up with the rest of the Premier League’s best performing teams, signing players who are not fit to play in the best league in the world. Employing managers and then not supporting them is a pattern that has occurred ever since the sacking of Pochettino and has cost them dearly.
Now with rumours of Conte and Kane departing at the end of the season, it’s looking dire for all Spurs fans, who have stuck with this club through all the hard times and continued to love this great club.
What have Levy and ENIC got to show for their efforts since buying Spurs in 2001? Over 20 years of failure and neglect. Apart from the 2008 League Cup victory, Levy has been slowly ruining Tottenham. No strong investment and now poisoning the managerial role, the club needs significant change.
Pochettino transformed Spurs, buying astutely and playing an attractive brand of football. He bought players that fitted into his system of football perfectly. Kieran Trippier was an excellent replacement for Walker and Wanyama provided solid backup from the bench, even performing well when called into the starting lineup. Yet this has not happened since 2019.
Mourinho brought in Doherty and Reguilon, who on paper could have the potential to perform extremely well. Yet this did not happen and Reguilon has been on loan to Atletico Madrid since the start of the season and Doherty has never been able to emulate his goalscoring form from his time at Wolves.
The quick sackings of Mourinho and then age-long hunt for a new manager finished with a brash decision to sign Nuno, before settling on Conte after a disastrous three months. Conte’s reign has been undermined consistently by Levy, shown explicitly by the signing of Djed Spence. One of the most exciting young English players in the game who has been banished to the bench and reserves all because Levy signed him and not Conte. The chairman of a football club needs to conform to the manager’s demands and that is the only way that teams will succeed.
Now, Spurs are seeing the effects of Levy being chairman of the club. A number of high profile failed transfers, such as Bruno Fernandes and Luis Diaz, and signing many panic buys to desperately try and fill a hole in the squad.
It has reached the tipping point now. Antonio Conte is looking to be on his way out taking Kane, arguably Tottenham’s greatest player of all time, with him out of the departure door.
Kane has been the best player that the Spurs academy has ever produced and is just about to be Tottenham’s all time goal scorer, all while chasing down Alan Shearer’s Premier League goal-scoring record. But it now seems that Kane has had enough. With one year left on his contract and a failed transfer to Manchester City in 2021, Kane will be looking to push through a move so he can finally challenge for silverware.
Conte has been rumoured to have already decided his future, as he will leave at the expiry of his contract at the end of the season and there is only one man to blame for it: Daniel Levy. Conte has been the latest victim of the chairman and will only continue if the club listens to him and runs the club how he wants it to be run. Levy has rid Spurs of all glory and has caused this club to collapse.
Tottenham cannot keep recycling world class managers and players must be able to believe that trophies and legacies are possible. But with Levy at the helm, this belief will never be able to flourish.
Daniel Levy. ENIC. Do the right thing. Leave
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