This season is crawling agonisingly towards a depressing conclusion for Tottenham and if there is one thing that most of us can agree on, it is that massive changes will take place at the club in the summer.
Daniel Levy cannot hide his head in the sand and carry on as normal, he knows that and so does the fans.
The club chairman has at least three huge decisions to make once this season concludes, if not sooner.
The future of Harry Kane
This is very real and cannot be ignored, will Levy do a Barcelona/Messi and force the England captain to remain or will he cash in and maximise the transfer fee which is likely to be significant.
Jose Mourinho
For whatever reason, the Jose Mourinho experiment has not really worked out, no point in apportioning blame because that solves nothing, it is solutions that are required and Levy has to decide if Mourinho is the man to take Spurs forward and provide the solution.
Backing the manager
Whoever the manager is in the summer he has to be backed but Levy does not really have a track record of doing that and therein lies a big part of the issue at Spurs. If Levy does not back the manager in the transfer market, whoever that manager is, then it is highly likely that we will continue to decline as a club.
So, there you have it, sell Kane or force him to stay, sack or keep Mourinho, back the manager in the transfer market or continue to underinvest in the team.
If Levy gets any of these wrong then do not expect anything to really change.
What was that famous quote?
“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
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Mourinho signed NINE players. Lo Celso’s loan was made permanent under his watch and Tanganga was promoted to the first team. That’s basically an entire side.
I can’t recall Pochettino being backed to that extent.
The Mourinho loyalists still insist he needs “his” players and that we’re apparently the only club in the Premiership where the manager gets no say in who is signed .. until a signing actually works out and then it’s absolutely definitely “his” signing.
The core problem here is that Mourinho’s time in the sun has been and gone, but Levy has coveted him for years and threw an obscene amount of money at him because he thought he was getting “the best coach in the world”.
It would very likely have been much cheaper to back Pochettino properly and give him the rebuild he asked for. I’d imagine we’d be in a much better position now if that had happened.