Next season is going to be a pivotal one for both Daniel Levy and Jose Mourinho. Both know that success on the field of play is imperative if they want to avoid an almost guaranteed fan backlash.
The current Tottenham squad is not good enough to challenge for the Premier League title and will struggle to be competitive for a top-four spot.
New signings are necessary simply because there are too many weak spots in the current squad, Mourinho knows this and you have to believe that Levy knows it too.
Football London’s Tottenham correspondent Alasdair Gold has been speaking about the possibility of summer transfer and he tweeted this.
Those words ” Jose Mourinho putting the ball in Daniel Levy’s court ” could not be any clearer. It says to me that Mourinho has made it very clear to Levy what he needs to make Spurs competitive once again and that it is now up to Levy to deliver the players that the Portuguese wants.
Mourinho has already been assured that no player will be sold that he does not want to be sold (TalkSport) and so this is all about new signings.
Mourinho has also accepted that there is not an abundance of cash to throw around (The Guardian) and so you have to think that whoever he has told Levy that he wants would be reasonable and not silly money transfers.
The former Real Madrid manager will not escape the wrath of the fans if it goes wrong next season but it seems that he has made sure that Levy will feel the brunt of the fans anger if next season is no better than this one.
The pressure is on Levy to deliver now, there is no hiding place left for the ENIC man.
Poch put the ball in his court too, all he got was fired not a player in sight.
And the semi’s.
I agree that you do not have to spend silly money to achieve success. The list of players that Levy could have bought for reasonable money is endless and well documented. Dybala was relatively cheap and might have saved Poch’s job. Poch wanted Mane who toured our training ground and then signed for Liverpool because we wouldn’t pay the wages .Poch wanted Wijnaldum, Levy bought Sissoko on the last day of the transfer window. Where a club gets into a mess is when they overpay for a player and his salary. Ozil is a good example . Did anyone ask why Real Madrid wanted to sell him after a very successful season? If Arsenal had checked , they would have found out his brain was in his pants and he spent every available moment in night clubs. RM were happy to see the back of him and now he has another year sitting on the bench for £350,000 a week. Alexis Sanchez was an awful acquisition for Utd, even if it was in p/x. Hmm, didn’t Maureen sanction that deal for Utd?
Look at any League money dominates, PSG in France, Bayern in Germany, Juventus in Italy, Barcelona and Real Madrid in Spain, Celtic in Scotland, and the usual suspects in the Premier League. The odd outlier wins, Leicester, Borussia Dortmund, Atletico but they didn’t do it on the cheap either.
Compared to today we were winning cups but not the League, and when teams like Aston Villa and Nottingham Fores won Leagues and European Cups it’s obvious Spurs have been been a poorly run club for thirty years or more.
They were the days, the 80’s weren’t bad either.
That said despite the endless drought nothing destroys our illustrious history of the past and golden era of the 60s!!
Yes whilst throwing money at the team obviously helps it does not guarantee success when ultimately it’s about making astute signings capable of taking the side to the next level which for us long suffering Spurs fans is clearly unlikely to happen under the current regime. Yes we came close to winning the PL title in 2016. Yes we got to the CL final, only to fluff our lines on both occasions. Hence dubbed the “nearly side”.
“To Dare Is Too Dear”
If he does support Jose in the transfer market it will be a first. “The game is about money”. “To dare costs too much”. “Better not spend in case we do a Leeds”. These are the slogans Levy has plastered all over the wall of his office.
Raise your dare 😆 To dare is to deliver.