No fan base in the Premier League has been sold more blatantly false hopes and promises than Tottenham Hotspur, and that was illustrated quite plainly in the January transfer window. Spurs told their fans for months since firing Daniel Levy that more investment and big signings would be coming their way.
With Tottenham in dire need of a deep lying midfield playmaker and multiple attacking weapons, there was an expectation and even a narrative fed to the fans by the club that Spurs would be major players in the January transfer window.
Instead, the only proven player Spurs signed was Conor Gallagher after the injury to Rodrigo Bentancur, and as a box to box center midfielder, Gallagher was not even a substantial upgrade nor a new player at a key position of need.
Tottenham are worse than they were
So Spurs head into the second half of the 2025/26 Premier League season no better than they were before the January transfer window opened, and with even more key injuries mounting like those to Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Bergvall, the argument can be made that Spurs are actually even worse right now.
Yet that has not stopped sporting director Johan Lange from telling Tottenham Hotspur supporters that big things are still on the horizon for the club in the upcoming summer 2026 transfer window. On the rare occasion that he made himself available for public interview, Lange told fans upon the closure of the January 2026 transfer market, via Fabrizio Romano, “We will go into the summer with big ambitions, the plans are already drawn up and we have a clear picture of what positions and which profiles we need”.
As fed up as Tottenham fans are with manager Thomas Frank for all that he has done to waste great talents in the squad and turn Spurs into one of the most cowardly and inept sides in European football this season, there is much more ire directed by the fans towards the front office for the role they have played in the mess at the N17 currently, particularly after how woeful the January transfer window ended up being for the Lilywhites.
And no singular individual has absorbed more of the brunt of that criticism than Johan Lange, who was already deemed a failure in Premier League circles at Aston Villa - a club that is far better without him than with him. Lange and Spurs can yammer on about "big ambitions", but no matter how much they are promised change, Spurs fans are yet to see it. And none of them are buying.