Inside Tottenham's world run by Daniel Levy and Ange Postecoglou: The ceiling of their wage structure, what the players think of the gung-ho football and the star who cried over a failed transfer
Inside Tottenham's world run by Daniel Levy and Ange Postecoglou: The ceiling of their wage structure, what the players think of the gung-ho football and the star who cried over a failed transfer
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Ten minutes before the end of their team’s home game against Chelsea in December, two Tottenham fans scuffled at the back of the South Stand. The disagreement was not over manager Ange Postecoglou or a player or a member of the opposition. No, they were fighting about the Tottenham chairman, Daniel Levy.
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Football supporters don’t normally fight about this stuff. But it’s different at Tottenham. Spurs — for all their steps forward off the field — remain a club and fanbase consumed by angst and identity confusion. Are Tottenham a big club? Spurs’ revenue now exceeds half a billion pounds a year, making them the eighth-richest club in the world. Their superb new stadium brings in more than £6million per game, second in England only to Manchester United. But they haven’t won a trophy since the 2008 League Cup and have not won the English title for more than 60 years.
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This season, Postecoglou’s endlessly entertaining side have beaten both Manchester teams twice. They have also lost to Ipswich, Bournemouth, Brighton, Crystal Palace, Everton and Leicester. Ahead of their 6-3 hammering by Liverpool, Spurs were only in the top half on goal difference. Their situation has worsened since then, with the side slumping to 15th in the table after their loss to the Foxes. Yet Spurs' goal difference — plus 9 — is only bettered by six of the top seven in the division, with Nottingham Forest being the exception. This is Tottenham in 2024-25 but to some degree it has always been Tottenham and, as it goes on, the need to find someone to blame endures.
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