Tottenham have lost by a margin of three or more goals for two Premier League games in a row for the first time in ten years.
Nuno Espirito Santo made such a strong start to life as Spurs manager, but the last two league games have sent the side crashing back down to earth, with 3-0 losses against both Crystal Palace and Chelsea.
It’s not often Tottenham are beaten this badly in consecutive matches, and in fact, Opta have revealed it’s the first time it’s happened to the north Londoners since all the way back in 2011/12, when they were beaten 3-0 by Manchester United and then 5-1 by Manchester City in the next game…
This is a worrying stat, but there were plenty of positives from earlier on in the campaign that suggest Nuno can turn things around.
One thing that would be useful is Harry Kane scoring goals again, with the England international drawing a blank in four games played so far this term…
It’s not too surprising that Kane isn’t quite at his best after an eventful summer for England and then the transfer speculation that followed, but that loss of form from such a top player is always going to hurt a manager.
Nuno undoubtedly needs to improve this team in other areas, but like his predecessors he will surely have built around Kane to an extent, and at the moment he’s far from his best.
No one is expecting Spurs to go out and spend huge amounts of money. However the club has never even competed with moderate spenders in the premiership era let alone the moneyed clubs in spite of turning in record profits. To add insult to injury they then have the audacity to charge the highest ticket prices despite their transfer spend of 5% against turnover.
I think the atmosphere at the club is going to turn very toxic in the coming weeks
no worries cali..nothing wrong with a bit of passion now and then…if the players showed a bit of passion occasionally we wouldnt be in as big a mess…
fair enough I apologise and I’m sorry for calling you Levy lover is just I couldn’t believe that you saying the guy who put us £1bill in debt and this mess that he will invest £2 bill in players I think that made me lose my nerves sincerely never meant to offend you or for that matter anyone else I’m sorry again peace.
indeed! pride courage and belief seem to be dirty words in the football world right now, money has killed the game,even with the millions/billions chanelled into greedy players,greedy chairmans and investors pockets, standards have dropped,on the field and off the field.it sounds corny to say players once played for the love of the game -but they did..and the game as a spectacle,as entertainment and excitement and skill levels were miles better for it.having said that,to the players its just a job ,they view the football industry in a different way to us gormless fans. we care-they dont.
thanks cali…youve called me a levy lover,which i most certainly am not, perhaps you could now call me a racist-then id have the full set.you my friend are typical of the unthinking minority(in all walks of life,not just football) ,devoid of any rational argument ,you then start sticking labels on folk who dont agree with you. i can see both sides of the argument,but as ive said ive no way of knowing what is going on behind the scenes./management mind sets/motives .and neither does anyone else here,all we have is opinions, one thing ive learnt in life,if nothing else, is that one can be 100% convinced of something and STILL be wrong….ill now let you be so you can continue seeking another bandwagon to jump on
This.
I think so. There no creativity at work, it’s all done on balance sheets. Sport generally and.football especially has an emotional element within the mentality of the supporters.
If you can’t operate in a way that projects a shared passion for trying everything to complete (relative to the club’s ambition), then it won’t work. It’s not working at Arsenal and it won’t work with us either. Both are massive clubs that have won things in the past (them more recently), you can’t turn them into cynical, corporate, mediocre, mid-table money making machines s d get away with it.
Modern football and half the businesses that have bought into it have yet to go through their period of enlightenment. Levy is the prime example of this, and he gets a job running the direction of travel as well? It’s bonkers, fans will walk away eventually….
We had Mitchell who had done a great job at Saints. He wanted a vibrant churn of a transfer policy, that’s the way he works. Clearly Levy didn’t want that and showed him the door.
We have a narrow eyed accountant making key calls on how to run the team rather than someone who knows the game. That’s our problem, Levy is the problem.
That is a poor excuse I believe now you are a Levy Lover because you talking about the impossible Levy Spending £2 billion on a players and Spurs will be relegated what a combination of poor excuse coming from a Levy lover Mr you are busted and we have plenty of those in here.
Sums it all up well said cheers
Reality hitting home hard and still some fans are dancing to the tune of Enic/Levy. I keep on saying if you believe Nuno will achieve what Poch and Jose couldn’t achieve under Enic/Levy you live in la la land lose next game and we are the same points of Ars who were 2 weeks ago the bottom of the table and Enic/Levy series continues wait and see.
I’m not sure he even saw the game.
Agree entirely. I don’t believe we will finish above 10th this season and, quite possibly, in the bottom six. Things Paratici and Levy need to learn and should have learned from this game (and the rest of the season): Kane has to go – he simply doesn’t care, doesn’t want to be there; Ndombele is like a Harlem Globetrotter – he showboats; he has all the skills but doesn’t want to work, just showoff; Lo Celso isn’t a fit at Spurs and never has been and also should be traded (if not for this then his attitude to the club) at the first opportunity; the deadwood really does need to be cut adrift – Winks, Doherty, Sessignon, Dier, Davies, for starters – even if it is at cut price discount prices. Levy is perched on the edge of a precipice – unless he acts very soon Spurs will slide into semi-oblivion, the fans will stop coming, the stadium will be semi-empty, the club will start running at massive loss, there will be absolutely no reason why any decent player will want to come to Spurs (that is already happening), and the best players will leave. The end result is next season and the season after Spurs will struggle to avoid relegation and, ultimately, could slide back into the Championship. I’ve seen a lot of Spurs sides over my 65 years supporting the club but never one that cares less, that has so little pride in the badge and the club. There are no excuses. Yes, the coach doesn’t fit but, no matter, the basic requirements are pride, courage and belief. There is none of that at Spurs now. Truly sad.
just say..if levy had truly thought building the stadium would bring spurs into the elite group of clubs enabling them to buy the best and thus win trophies galore and so on and so forth..then disaster struck,the cost soared, covid appeared,player power took over (as i believe it has at present) buying players who he genuinely believed would become very very good instead turned out be not very good at all or came saddled with attitude issues. maybe it keeps him awake nights struggling to think how he can make spurs both a viable financial concern and a great trophy winning side. now im not saying thats the case ,ive no way of knowing ..he might just be a cool cunning nasty conman, but ive no way of knowing that either…either way hes undoubtedly made mistakes .but in my opinion the troubles at spurs go much deeper than just him. some say levy is the catalyst for EVERYTHING…i mean they dont KNOW he is ,they just parrot the lines somebody ,who didnt know for sure either, has told them,or have jumped on a bandwagon. im not convinced of either scenario…maybe spurs present demise is just a sign of the times,where money is all.. and where people in general know the price of everything ,but dont know the value of anything?
Saw one of them vlogs of someone who went to the match. What a number ENIC av done on that club. Atmosphere looked sh$te, plastic orrible , ground was empty before the 3rd went in and the icing on the cake , Chelsea fans taking the Mick to whoever was left while the surround screens hawked Levys shirts and other club shop(biggest in Europe) products. Summed it up really. At least Jimmy out lived Spurs….
It’s how you spend the money and the longer Levy has his mucky prints other every grubby deal Spurs do the longer we flounder
Think we know the answer to that already!
To think Levy wanted to put us in the Super League where we could have been on the receiving end of defeats like that every week! The man is living in a dream world of his own making where the Spurs of 3-4 years ago are still wiping teams off the park. Imbecile.
I agree, we are no better than when ENIC took over yet Tottenham Hotspur FC have made them 10’s if not 100’s millions in wages and assets worth probably 1b after debt all through fan money and loans, and for what, a few enjoyable nights in the CL and clean toilets – SHARKS..
Well at least Dele and Winks only cost £5m combined.
We’ve turned back into a hit and hope team. Yes, you can say we play counter attacking football but against decent teams with decent players it really doesn’t work. It hasn’t worked for at least 2 seasons now.
Its the same old story and I feel annoyed even writing it. Levy sacked Poch, he sacked Jose and he will sack Nuno. The cycle will continue and on we go. Poor player recruitment, awful PR and broken promises. It’s Spurs in a nutshell.
Well that’s a completely unrealistic scenario, however if the favs saw Levy actually trying to help the team remain as competitive as it should be, then most would accept that he’s done his best.
The fans don’t dislike Levy/ENIC for any other reason than what we’ve seen them do with the team over the last 22 years. I was a Levy fanboy for about the first 5-6 seasons. Then the penny dropped and it has remained firmly glued to the floor ever since…
True, but, sadly, most of us don’t go far enough back to have celebrated a league title and are unlikely to do so now (barring the Premiership being diminished by expanded European competition for our top clubs resulting in heavy fixture lists for them or even leaving the league)). I was alive in 1961 but only six and a half and three years away from being a football fan! And my friend from across the road, and regular contributor to this website, David Dillenberg, was only two and a half in April 1961.Yep, they did win the league in our lifetimes but, alas, too early for either of us to enjoy. I remember moaning on the way back (only to Solihull!) from Wolverhampton in November 1964 after we had lost 3-1 (we only got six points away that season) and my father telling me I couldn’t expect success all the time; I’d have had some fit, I imagine, if I had been told that Spurs wouldn’t win the league either that season, obviously, or in the next 56 years, absolutely unthinkable at the time.
Spurs TV inundating me with action from our win at Man City to clinch CL qualification for the first time. Bad night for City, but they got over it soon enough! Rather sobering thought that since that night they have won 5 League titles, 2 FA Cups and 6 League Cups; we have won precisely NOTHING!
just thinking aloud here(bearing in mind im neither a levy hater or a levy lover lol) if for arguments sake levy persuaded lewis to cough up 2 billion and went out and spent that on new expensive well known and well regarded players and we still ended up getting relegated would the levy haters still hate or would they alter their view of him?
At least the older fans have some fond memories of Spurs teams past, wasn’t always doom and gloom was it.
Sadly, true enough, I suppose. But we’re not really suggesting that they (the millenial idiots) could do something about it; we’re just cheesed off with their idea that Levy and Lewis are doing a good job! We’ve massively overspent on capital assets, at the expense of the playing side, and any new owners would need serious money to enable them to both wipe out the stadium debt and create a winning team. The future for we older Spurs fans seems to be one without hope that a massive turn around can ever occur for us to witness.
Yes, a mass clearout of some deadwood is an absolute prerequisite to improvement but, alas, unlikely to happen under Levy who prefers to just keep on sacking managers while retaining the services of such as Dele and Winks etc.
Even if these “millennial idiots” did want to do something about what a Boomer (Levy) and a post-war (Lewis) have done to this club, what exactly are you suggesting they do? Owners of football clubs act with impunity, usually with total disregard for the the club’s history and values and the good of its supporters be they Gen X, Z, Boomers, Millennials, golden etc etc etc.
I personally loathe our stadium, our fleeting chance for meaningful success having been buried by this white elephant. Plus playing in such a grandiose structure while being such perennial failures is utterly embarrassing. Yes, sadly, Spurs, it would appear, do punch above their weight when it comes to millennial idiots! Time they expanded their choral repertoire, too, which seems to consist of just the one song: When The Spurs Go Marching In.
spurs should invest in a top notch scouting system…pay off half a dozen or more players contracts,sell kane. bring the youngsters in and prepare for relegation this season..the relegation is going to happen anyway probabley and at least in that time we might develop a few youngsters for next season in the championship with hopefully a return to premiership season after..i firmly believe buying a few supposed top notchers with king sized egos to match and the issues those egos create will solve nothing….just replacing levy wont in of itself solve anything because the rot is too deeply entrenched in the dressing room /the coaching side/attitude and mentality side of things and the managerial side..a root and branch approach is necessary
We’re perhaps completing the circle; after just one league cup and some near misses under Poch, which ultimately resulted in no trophies actually being won, we are possibly returning to where we were pitchside when Enic took over. Perhaps on achieving a complete circle, they could, with their ill-gotten gains, disappear into the sunset.
Dan Levy has screwed this club so badly that we are looking at a top 10 finish at best. And there are still so many millennial idiots which support him because he “gave us the stadium”. He should have given us onfield success instead of lining his own pockets.
Mark Brus, how many Brews have you actually had on the house from ENIC FC this evening? 🤔 😂