As if Tottenham Hotspur supporters didn't already have sufficient reason to loathe chairman Daniel Levy for all that he's done to undermine the club since his iron-fisted rule began in 2001, they received one of the most compelling reasons possible on Friday night with the not-so-swift decision to dispose of manager Ange Postecoglou.
The move has come as a crushing blow to Tottenham supporters and the players, who had been publicly supporting Postecoglou quite loudly amidst the uncertainty surrounding the coach's future.
Although there are valid sporting reasons for not keeping Postecoglou, as highlighted by a rival manager, if tactical concerns were the case and were still not dispelled by the Europa League title, then Tottenham and Levy could have made their decision a lot sooner than they did.
Instead, Levy undermined the club from every angle. He undermined their professionalism and public perception by treating Postecoglou poorly from a human level. Here they had their Europa League winning coach - someone who should have at least went out as a hero for the club - waiting through a holiday with his family with uncertainty about his own future direction and strung him along for weeks.
Daniel Levy hurt Tottenham at multiple levels
They could have just as easily given him clarity sooner, but they instead waited until a Friday night to drop the news without any sort of a public quote or comment attributed to Mr. Levy himself in the official release. It was a callous dismissal typically reserved for a miscreant or nuisance, not a manager who led a club to a major title win on a club that rarely experiences that pinnacle of success (for reasons almost entirely of their management's doing).
Levy also harmed the club internally. Because Tottenham had waited so long to make a decisoin on Postecoglou, many of the players, who had developed a close bond to the coach, had, like the fans, gotten their hopes up that Big Ange would be staying. Everyone was emotionally prepared for Postecoglou to stay and optimistic that the future would be bright as a result of the Europa League triumph. There was a lot of celebration and positive momentum, which Levy has almost entirely squashed.
Finally, Levy injured Tottenham from a sporting perspective. Because they had to wait this long for clarity on the manager front, the club could not negotiate with top transfer targets. Unique opportunities to sign world-class players like Rayan Cherki and Bryan Mbeumo before their true primes have now been discarded, with Cherki close to Man City and Mbeumo already rejecting Spurs for a Manchester United move.
These are the exact kinds of players Tottenham need, and they are the players Tottenham will not be getting for the 2025/26 season. Whereas the team they beat in the Europa League Final, Manchester United, already have the excellent Matheus Cunha sewn up and are on the cusp of another game-changer in Mbeumo, Tottenham don't have a single concrete link.
On top of all that, the pickings are slim when it comes to actually replacing Postecoglou, because Spurs waited long enough that the biggest names on the market, Italian coaches Simone Inzaghi and Gian Piero Gasperini, have already moved in the musical chairs. That leaves Brentford's Thomas Frank as the lone manager available who has a realistic shot of both joining Tottenham and being in any way better than Postecoglou.
Levy has always been viewed poorly by Tottenham supporters for an utter lack of investment in resources in the squad, spending nearly nothing in wages, showing no ambition when given the opportunity to sign potential world-class talent (like Desire Doue), and undermining the team when they do land on great players and managers.
The Postecoglou firing isn't the worst thing to happen to Tottenham Hotspur in the last 25 years, but the way it went down was so unnecessarily cruel at a time when Tottenham supporters finally had a sliver of real joy in their footballing lives that it is truly a rock bottom point for Levy's image and the supporters' faith in the club's leadership.