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Tottenham Should Not Even Be Considering a Lack of Champions League Football

By Barrett Rouen

LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal has his penalty saved by Hugo Lloris of Tottenham during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal FC at Wembley Stadium on March 02, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images)
LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Arsenal has his penalty saved by Hugo Lloris of Tottenham during the Premier League match between Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal FC at Wembley Stadium on March 02, 2019 in London, United Kingdom. (Photo by Julian Finney/Getty Images) /
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Tottenham Hotspur are now looking over their shoulder in the race for the top four in the Premier League when there was a point in which they were perhaps going to even win the title. Why?

The fact that the top of the Premier League is so tight is one of the things that makes it the most competitive and entertaining division in the world.  It is hard to predict and about as up and down as a teenagers moods. That though is for the observer. For a club on the interior and those executives who run them and the managers who do the same and the players who represent them they must strive to reduce that chaos to a boring routine.

What is the best run football club in world football? Juventus.  They have won the league 6 times in a row and appear to be on a footing to make it a 7th.  Every club should be like this in terms of what it is that they’re striving for.  I have said it time and time again that if I was the executive at the head of a football club it would be simple.  I would seek to make our winning so decisive, so unmistakable and so truly without question time and time again that other clubs would rather disband and take up netball, table tennis or cricket than play another season against us.

In order to do that you need to win and win again until you’re bored of winning and then top it off with more winnings.  The level of ruthlessness that it takes to succeed at the very pinnacle of the sport is hard to find.  There are many players who simply don’t have the desire and discipline for it and frankly there are just as many executives who are too worried about anything other than football to do so.

Daniel Levy could very well be one of those.  Despite the fact that he must be lauded up and down for his turning Tottenham around and his steady growth of the club on the field and from an economic perspective at times he can be too cautious.  Yes, it is true that the stadium has been more expensive than calculated due to the delays.  Of course that needs to be taken into account.  But should the club not have made some moves in the summer before they knew about the length of the delays?  Should the club not have done anything in January?

According to Financial Fair Play rules every club has up to three years to balance the books and pay off their net spending.  When it looked like the league was up for grabs was that not a good time to pounce?  Manchester City were slipping and Liverpool were beginning to show their belly.  It was time for Levy to step in and make the sort of purchases that would leave Tottenham not only at the top of the division but winning it for the next 3-5 years. That then in turn would have helped the club make enough money to pay for what they needed.

Big clubs don’t even think about anything other than winning.  They don’t think about what if they don’t make the Champions League, they don’t think about struggling with their finances.  Tottenham have now gotten to that level.  They’ve been in the Champions League for several years now and have a phenomenal team.  They need to start thinking like a big team though and let their success build on itself rather than limiting it.

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