Stability the key at Spurs

Article by Dino Gallina

It is with some regret that I submit this observation to all Spurs supporters. Last Saturday’s loss to Arsenal has highlighted the issues surrounding Tottenham since Arsene Wenger began his successful reign at Arsenal. He commenced in 1996, and in the period of his current employment Tottenham have used 15 full and part-time Managers with various degrees of success. The real issue is that the Spurs managerial position is fast becoming a poison chalice, almost un-tenable. Whilst Wenger chooses wisely in recruiting players, players who adapt to his style and format of playing, we seem ad-hoc in this department. We seem to forget with each new Manager we develop a new style of play.

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The club, and rightly so, is criticised from pillar to post for being too tight, too loose, too attacking and under Villas-Boas too defensive. I track a majority of issues back to Daniel Levy. Ruthless in business seems the norm for success, but in business you may affect a “couple of hundred, maybe a thousand people”. In football you affect millions of dedicated and passionate supporters from all over the planet. In Australia there are literally thousands of Spurs supporters and supporter clubs. We maybe thousands of kilometres away from the action but results and decisions affect us all come Sunday/Monday mornings.

I mentioned earlier about the managerial role being a “poison chalice”, well it’s finally arrived. I, along with many have had enough of the garbage supplied year in year out from Levy and his cohorts. He’s making me and others who follow this club sick to the stomach. We never seem to employ the “right” fit for the club. He wants to achieve success no matter how he does it and who he destroys on the way there. The appointment of Sherwood is no doubt stop gap. My opinion is Louis Van Gaal will accept the role once the World Cup has been completed. In Van Gaal will we see a man who can reign as manager for more than 5 years? Remember this, Arsenal since inception has had 24 managers, Tottenham 40 odd. How can you create stability by chopping and changing at a drop of a hat?

Personally I would like to see the ENIC Group sell the club to financially stable players, ones who are willing to invest serious money and buy the quality of players required to compete with Manchester City and United, have the consistency of Arsenal and Chelsea and the passion of Liverpool. We buy and sell players to make profit, well the profit is made by the owners, not the club. It would have been interesting if Modric, Berbatov and Bale had been employed by Arsenal and tutored by Wenger as to whether they would have left the club? I doubt it. Sure you can say Van Persie and Fabregas have come and gone, but they have recruited well and will no doubt rule the league in the near future.

If Van Gaal is employed to run Spurs next season, let’s sincerely hope Levy is replaced with a CEO who really gives him the support he requires. Let’s also hope he is given the width to purchase the players he really requires, ie a forward in the class of Falcao or Suarez, a midfielder of the ilk of Modric or similar. This situation of Levy or Baldini buying whoever they feel is a detriment to the club. It’s like buying a red Porche and being delivered a blue Volvo, they both have a steering wheel and four wheels, but not what you ordered. Don’t get me wrong I don’t “hate” Levy, I just find him impulsive and “wrong” for the club. It is also interesting that Wenger made a very poignant assessment into the recruitment drive Spurs undertook at the beginning of the season. He quite rightly mention that its hard enough blending 2-3 players into the English game let alone 7. No truer words said.

Let’s sincerely hope Spurs achieve Champions League football, but I sincerely doubt it as there are problem areas on the pitch that still haven’t been resolved. Rose is suspect at LB, Dawson, love him, but he is a “capable” back-up CH to Chriches and Vertonghen. Kaboul, Defoe and Naughton are nearing their used by dates, Gomes is done and dusted, Holtby still hasn’t grasped the English game.

The jury is out on Lamela, Chadli and to a degree Eriksen. Lastly, Spurs lack of stability has created a majority of the on and off field problems. Levy has been at the heart of all of them and is accountable for the merry-go-round that is Tottenham Hotspur.

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