Tottenham consider relegation a real threat as Liverpool trip looms | OneFootball

Tottenham’s decision to push back the season-ticket renewal deadline was not a public admission that the possibility of relegation is now serious enough to affect the club’s business decisions.

By extending renewals until June 7, after the final day of the season, Tottenham have effectively told supporters they are waiting to see which division they will be in next term.

Tottenham are 16th in the Premier League table, only one point above both Nottingham Forest and West Ham United.

They head to Liverpool this weekend after 11 league games without a win and six straight defeats in all competitions, four under Igor Tudor.

The timing of the decision matters because this is no longer about abstract fear or media exaggeration.

Spurs travel to Anfield next, where the pressure is immense, the form is rotten and the margin for error is almost gone. If they lose there, the table could look even uglier by Sunday night.

West Ham host Manchester City and Forest play Fulham this weekend, so a win for either could send Tottenham even closer to the bottom three.

Former Manchester United star Wayne Rooney did not dance around that reality when he said the Tottenham players had been an ‘absolute disgrace’.

He attacked their ‘performances, the attitude, the lack of desire, the lack of fight’.

That is brutal language, but it reflects what many supporters now see with their own eyes.

The team looked broken in Madrid, where Atletico tore them apart 5-2 in the first leg of the Champions League last 16.

Tottenham’s defending turned the night into a humiliation long before the tie was effectively lost.The game in Madrid was supposed to be a distraction from the league, but it deepened the feeling that the club is sliding without resistance.

The most alarming part is that Tudor has not provided even the short-term shock Spurs wanted.

Gary Neville says that if Spurs are going to change manager again, it should be done ‘today or tomorrow’, which is extraordinary language for a coach who only arrived last month.

That is what happens when the emergency starts to outrun the plan.

Tottenham can still save themselves, and their remaining fixtures do offer opportunities, especially once this Liverpool trip is out of the way.

But the season-ticket deadline extension matters because it strips away the last bit of denial.

Spurs are no longer a big club merely enduring embarrassment.

They are a big club staring at consequences, and another defeat at Liverpool would make that threat feel less like a warning and more like a countdown.