Two large banners were on display at the London Stadium yesterday afternoon, both demanding that Tottenham Hotspur owners ENIC cease their involvement in the club.
Both banners carried the legend “ENIC OUT” and referenced money.
This blog has long been of the view that ENIC has not been a force for good at Spurs, based upon the investment in the playing personnel over a sustained period and trophies won.
THFC is after all a football club and football teams need to introduce fresh players in order to be successful, this is a non-negotiable pillar of being a top tier football club.
Under Mauricio Pochettino’s reign for two back to back transfer windows, Spurs were to the only side in any of Europe’s top 5 leagues not to buy a player.
More generally, THFC’s net spend has been miserable or magnificent, dependent upon one’s outlook.
Jamie Carragher described it as “unacceptable“.
This is a continuously challenging environment and one cannot simply ‘opt out for a bit’ in order to focus upon bricks and mortar based projects, no matter how noble the intent might be.
Obviously the banners would have been ordered either in response to Mauricio Pochettino’s dismissal. Tottenham had been playing poorly all season, plus it’s a reach to suggest that Jose Mourinho’s appointment midweek would have given any printer enough of lead-time to get the work done for Saturday morning.
The grounds for demanding Levy & Co. pack up and give someone else a go are extremely well documented in the archive of this blog, which in a nutshell can be summed up in the following sentence: One piece of silverware in just under 20 years.
Finally, ENIC do something good for the football team, something indisputably exciting for the club, and it is met with disenchantment.
The time to protest was long before this weekend.
Remind me to never buy a football club.