Tottenham Hotspur CEO Vinai Venkatesham and de facto sporting director Johan Lange are under more fire than anyone else at the club right now, and even Spurs saving themselves from relegation with a narrow victory over Everton on Matchday 38 has not quelled the calls for their dismissals.
Spurs fans feel that the club have somehow taken an even bigger step backward after the departure of Chairman Daniel Levy, whose exit, for years, was called up on as THE key change needed for Spurs to finally become a powerhouse in English football. And yet, somehow, the bar has sunk below those days in 2025/26 with relegation agonizingly close to a reality.
Many Tottenham fans feel the key decision that nearly doomed Tottenham to relegation, before Roberto De Zerbi saved them in a rare move gone right, was the decision to stick with manager Thomas Frank even when it was abundantly obvious to everyone that he needed to go. Many feel that Daniel Levy would have not let Frank continue for as long as he did and would have been more ruthless.
Thomas Frank was on them
According to a report from Tom Allnutt of The Times, as had been reported consistently in the past, then executive Fabio Paratici had serious doubts about Thomas Frank as the manager of Tottenham Hotspur. In fact, there was a lot of friction between Paratici, who would later escape to Fiorentina as a result of this issue, and Johan Lange and Vinai Venkatesham on the Frank issue. Allnutt reports that Venkatesham and Lange were very supportive of Frank as manager and during the November international break, they actually flew out to the Bahamas to tell the Lewis Familiy that Frank needed more time.
Well, with more time, Frank ended up starting a winless streak of games for Tottenham, finally getting sacked in mid February about three months after that apparent meeting with the Lewis Family - and for many Spurs supporters, three months too late. And again, between that November meeting and Frank's February sacking, Paratici went to Fiorentina to save Serie A's biggest disappointment from relegation (long before Spurs had saved themselves, too).
Tottenham fans have to be looking at this report and thinking to themselves just how poor of a leadership duo Vinai Venkatesham and Johan Lange have been. The signs were clearly there that Frank was not working, and had they made the decision to fire him sooner, they could have fired him sooner and still ended up with De Zerbi, perhaps even as soon as February when he was fired at around the same time as Frank.
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