Time and time again, the Tottenham Hotspur attack has tamely offered nothing and been shut out completely from games. So while Saturday's horrible 1-0 loss to rivals Chelsea was certainly not the first such occurrence of the season, it was perhaps the last straw for many fans: an international showcase of incompetence to the masses that was merely the feather in the fecally-stained cap of this denture-less attack.
Spurs don't have a legitimate striker, their left wingers are far too raw to be ready to start for a Champions League club, and hyped up attacking midfielder Xavi Simons has fallen so far below expectations that he is legitimately one of the team's worst performers in the 2025/26 campaign.
Tottenham came into the season with an attack so bad that they were 17th in the Premier League, and Thomas Frank is rapidly realizing how low the quality standard is at Spurs. He surely misses Bryan Mbeumo, Mikel Damsgaard, Yoane Wissa, and the rest of his crew from Brentford, because they were light years better than the incompetent group (sans Mohammed Kudus) he has before him at Tottenham.
Tottenham were historically poor
On Saturday, Spurs put up a historically bad 0.05 xG against Chelsea, meaning their attack was so useless they may as well have played with only defenders and would have fared better as a team. Frank addressed this without mincing words at the post-game press conference, absolutely slamming his attacking players in the process: "I would say [Tottenham's lack of attacking threat and xG] hurt massively. I've never been in charge of a team that created that little in one game. That, of course, I will look into what we can do to make it better."
Now that is a heck of a statement from Frank, and it's one that Tottenham fans won't take lightly. That's because it is an admission of what Spurs supporters have been clamoring about for months, back when they were begging the club to sign an actual superstar player in the summer transfer window or provide them with a star on the left wing to replace Son Heung-min.
Tottenham did bring in Xavi Simons and Mohammed Kudus, as well as Randal Kolo Muani on loan, but as everyone can see, it is far too little. Compare Tottenham's attack to the personnel the other Champions League clubs in England have, and Spurs are so far behind them that their players are more comparable to those in the mid-table.