Tottenham Hotspur have now handed 17 years with out profitable a serious trophy, and chairman Daniel Levy has borne the brunt of followers’ criticism in current occasions.
Levy has been in place on the membership since 2001, however their solely trophy throughout that interval was the 2008 League Cup , after they beat Chelsea 2-1 within the last at Wembley.
This season underneath Ange Postecoglou , they sit a vastly disappointing thirteenth within the Premier League desk this season, resulting in elevated criticism of Levy.
Tim Sherwood
Tim Sherwood labored underneath Levy because the membership’s supervisor through the 2013-14 season, having beforehand performed for Spurs between 1999 and 2003, and insists that the criticism of Levy is unfair.
“Everybody seems on the widespread denominator they usually suppose ‘Effectively, the managers have all come and gone they usually’re nonetheless lifting no trophies, however the one remaining issue is Daniel Levy’,” Sherwood instructed FourFourTwo.
Daniel Levy
“However I used to be there with the previous regime as a participant, and I cherished Alan Sugar as a result of he was his personal individual, he was very straight, and I favored Daniel Levy, too, it’s simply the truth that Daniel does it another way.
“It’s not his fault that the membership haven’t received something, I consider. I believe they’ve had the alternatives to, and I believe he’s spent cash.
“The recruitment hasn’t been prime drawer, that has been an space the place if you need to level the finger, you’d must level the finger at that.
“However then that’s a fantastic steadiness as nicely, as a result of the recruitment workforce will probably be saying ‘Effectively, the supervisor’s not working with them correctly’ and the supervisor will say ‘Effectively, the gamers should not adequate’.
“It’s not Levy’s fault that that’s occurring. His job is to place his hand in his pocket and spend the cash, and I believe he has achieved that. You look total, he’s spent the cash.
“It’s a head-scratcher why they have not received, I believe they’ve been unfortunate numerous occasions down the years.
“They only want to interrupt that duck, recover from the road and win, and I do suppose they will win with Levy.”
Spurs have Europa League hope
Tim Sherwood
Tottenham are out of each home cup competitions, however they continue to be within the Europa League – though they misplaced 1-0 within the first leg of their final 16 tie at Dutch membership AZ.
Sherwood, although, believes they will flip the tie round and might nonetheless problem to win that competitors.
“I believe they will win a trophy underneath Levy, and I believe they will win one this 12 months, I’ve to be trustworthy,” he mentioned, talking in affiliation with Foot Italia .
Protests in opposition to Daniel Levy
“I believe they will win the Europa League. I believe they’ll beat AZ. I watched the sport final week and I don’t see something to hurt them, the one factor that may hurt them is themselves, not enjoying to the power that they’ve round that squad.
“They’ve acquired gamers again match, there’s no excuse on that now. Alright, a few of them is perhaps a bit rusty, however they’ve acquired the gamers again.
“They’ve acquired a one-goal deficit entering into, but when they will get by way of this, there’s no-one left within the competitors to be terrified of, there actually isn’t.”
