Daniel Levy is a monster for furloughing 550 of Tottenham’s non-playing staff this week while he continues to pocket a multi-million dollar salary.
He deserves every pelter being thrown his way – and there are plenty.
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But he could have been saved from this PR disaster by the other big earners at the club, namely the players among whom there is a leadership casm.
We know Levy is a thrifty scoundrel who would take any measure to protect the financial security of the club, and I’d be astounded if that didn’t include approaching the players to negotiate a wage suspension that may have allowed a more empathetic decision to be taken on non-playing staff.
He cannot enforce that. The leadership has to come from the players, as it has at Barcelona and Juventus where Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have pulled their pals in line to prop up the little guys, as BBC Sport details.
What this tells me is that there is nobody strong or respected enough within the Spurs dressing room to influence this movement among the players.
And that is more of a concern to me than Levy’s penny-pinching. Because when all this is over, that lack of leadership will be exposed on the pitch, again, as it was a bunch of times before the season came to a halt.