“bizarre decision”, “ridiculous decision” former Tottenham star rips into the club

Tottenham reached the final of the Champions League last season. They lost narrowly to Liverpool.

The Reds have built on that success, and they are the newest Premier League champions.

Spurs, on the other hand, have struggled this season and they are looking to earn a Europa League spot at the end of their final match of the season.

They started the season with Mauricio Pochettino at the helm, but the Argentinean was fired last year and replaced with Jose Mourinho.

He was one of several changes that have happened at the club between June 1st 2019 and now.

Following their run to the final of the Champions League in Madrid, the Lilywhites were predicted to end this season third on the league table and to win the Europa League after crashing out of the Champions League.

This prediction was from a statistical document with analysis from Opta and Squawka that was commissioned by BT Sport, as reported by Football London.

Spurs will end this season nowhere near the predictions, and Jermaine Jenas has now slammed his former club for some bad decisions that they have made since that time.

“I’m really surprised that the Unscripted document had Spurs to finish in and around third, purely and simply because it works off data and I don’t believe the data for Spurs last year was that good,” Jenas told Football London in an exclusive interview.

“They were conceding loads of goals, they lost the best part of 13 games and struggled away from home. It wasn’t great.

“Obviously they got to the Champions League final but the whole journey to get there was a miracle and something you definitely couldn’t have scripted.

“It was strange to me that was where they were scripted as finishing.

“The thing with Tottenham is that they spent money but they were one of the teams I felt they spent it in the wrong areas to an extent.

“The sale of Kieran Trippier was just a very strange one and the dynamic they’ve lost down the right side from losing Trippier and Kyle Walker over a three-year period was a ridiculous decision in my opinion.

“On the back of last year they weren’t playing well already and I could see that it was going to be a tough year for them.

“They were linked with Paulo Dybala and Philippe Coutinho and they would have been game-changers for Tottenham if they could have got them over the line.

“Bruno Fernandes was linked with Tottenham for a period of time and it just shows you if you go the extra mile you will get it back if you do find the quality out there you are looking for.

“Spurs decided to play it a bit safer, but they spent money bringing in Giovani Lo Celso and Tanguy Ndombele, which has not worked out, Ryan Sessegnon, which also hasn’t worked out, and Jack Clarke.

“They’ve still spent and off the top of my head that’s £150million. It’s not like Daniel Levy has not put his hands in his pockets, you’ve got to spend it in the right place.

“It was a shocking season I think personally everywhere. There weren’t many great performances, they lost Mauricio Pochettino, who in my opinion was the one who deserved that money to spend and rebuild what he created but he wasn’t given it which I felt was a bizarre decision, but it was something they decided to do.

“They are paying for it now and possibly going to pay for it for the next five years by the looks of it.”