With a 3-1 loss to Crystal Palace and an implosion at the stroke of half time after psuedo captain Micky van de Ven's abhorrent sending off, Tottenham Hotspur truly are on the brink of relegation like never before. And though the relegation would come without Daniel Levy as the club's CEO, the notion purported by many fans that Levy would have saved them from relegation could not be further from the truth.
Because as much as the ills of Tottenham right now are owed to the incompetent duo of Vinai Venkatesham and Johan Lange, this relegation would very much have Levy's paw prints all over it. Just because Levy is not in charge right now at this moment of crisis does not mean his actions of the past several years that led up to this point are all of a sudden erased or attributed to someone else.
The current malaise of Tottenham Hotspur can very much be attributed to the culture and the actions of Levy that have been built up over the years, and while some level of evil shrewdness may have been holding the tatters of Spurs together they were 17th last season - only kept alive by the historic ineptitude of the trio of newcomers from the EFL Championship.
Daniel Levy is as responsible as anyone for this
And now, as evidenced by their latest losses in the London derbies, Tottenham themselves are as incompetent as any club in European football. The mentality of this team is weak, the underperformance is historic, and the way Levy has set them up to fail is almost a middle finger on the way out of his exit at the start of the 2025/26 campaign.
Levy should not be praised by the Tottenham faithful or remembered fondly, because while even Mr. Levy had his positive traits, keeping Spurs competitive was not necessarily one of them. That credit is owed to the players who came before, especially titans of the sport like Son Heung-min and Harry Kane.
With these characters gone, Tottenham are a shell of their former selves, and now all the ills of the past have come together to roost. Levy is no tragic hero and certainly not a man wronged, and although it is fair to say that his dismissal proves that the rot at Tottenham extended far beyong him, he is just as much to blame for this mess as Vinai, Lange, the players, and the managers.