‘A good clear out is needed’: Fans fume as Tottenham Hotspur flirts with relegation | OneFootball

Tottenham Hotspur fans are at their wits’ end after a disastrous run has left the club flirting with relegation.

Supporters described a squad lacking effort, spirit, and direction. They said they were frustrated by constant underperformance despite recent attempts to strengthen in the summer and January transfer windows.

Many argued the crisis runs far deeper than the players on the pitch. Fans pointed the finger at former chairman Daniel Levy, the Lewis Family Trust, and the board, criticising poor decisions on managers — from sacking Ange Postecoglou after he won the Europa League last season to replacing him with Thomas Frank, whose 34.2 per cent win rate is the lowest for a permanent manager in the club’s modern history.

Supporters also criticised the club for failing to replace Harry Kane and Son Heung-min with players of similar quality, adding that the squad now lacks the experience and depth needed to cope.

A good clear out is needed

While Levy was more interested in the money side of the club, he would certainly have sacked Frank well before he was finally given the heave-ho. Levy would almost certainly have brought in a better coach than Tudor, someone with more of a CV.

The chairman, down through the director of football, needs to look at themselves as much as the players. A good clear-out is needed, not just of the players.

A rudderless ship with mutiny afoot! They need a miracle to stay up, but it’s not deserved, and perhaps a stern lesson in the Championship might lead to a change of ownership for the better. Top-to-bottom restructuring is required.

As for the players, they should be ashamed for the lack of effort and attitudes/egos, which is all we’ve seen and not much else from most of them. Painful to watch week-in, week-out with no hope on the horizon.

As a lifetime Spurs supporter, I feel just gobsmacked at the moment. Even with a decimated squad through injuries, January came and went while all the other teams around them were doing business. Now, several weeks on, with the club on the verge of going down the toilet, wiping hundreds of millions in value, the owners Joe Lewis and the family of beach loafers announce they are willing to do a U-turn on their salary cap and make significant investments in new players.

Please, can someone else buy this club — someone who knows what it takes to run a billion-pound football business? But of course, no asset-stripping US private equity firms need apply.

Never have the words "You don’t know what you’re doing" been more appropriate. From the directors to the coaching staff and medics, and down to the players, a miasma of ineptitude and general uselessness exists everywhere. No chiefs, no Indians, no momentum, no spirit, no hope – just money and plenty of it. Sixty years a Spurs fan – the lowest point since the war, and maybe ever.

I remember some folk saying finishing 17th under Ange was unacceptable and his sacking was merited – that’s well documented. It was a calculated gamble on his part, and he backed himself and his players to win. He won Spurs a trophy – the first one in decades — and got them to the Champions League. He was also beset with a lot of injuries to key players.

Spurs are in an even worse position than last season with no trophy to show for it, so I wonder what the opinion on that is now?

Not sure Tottenham’s situation should be inevitable. Not sure there’s no single start date for this. The start date is simple: the transfer window of summer 2018 was the firing shot for where the club is now. Financially, they have not overextended themselves, that’s true. But they have done the opposite – constantly spending incrementally less money than ideal to attract substantially worse players than needed. They have saved themselves into a relegation fight, and ironically ended up overpaying, especially in salaries, for the quality of players they have.

Adding to that, only one club in the world could have a whole starting line-up injured and still be performing at an acceptable level. So the current situation is forged by repeating the same mistake for eight years, expecting future salvation.

Spurs continue to buy Championship-level squad players and pay them Premier League wages. Sadly, a youngster who runs a fantasy football league could do better at creating a competitive squad for Spurs. Not sure who is in charge of player acquisitions at Spurs – perhaps the feeling is sweeping the stands after each match?

If Spurs fans spent half as much energy supporting their team as they have griping about the various managers, players at the club, players no longer at the club, and the board, then I dare say they would be in a much better position than they are. At least two good managers have been forced out the door in the past year or so under fan pressure.