Tottenham Hotspur fans are growing increasingly frustrated with chairman Daniel Levy, as tensions reach new heights.
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00:00Daniel Levy, the situation, I mean, some of the shirts behind you there sort of signify
00:07how close Spurs were to fantastic success. Obviously, you know, so much has happened
00:12over the last sort of 10, 15 years at the club. It looked like they were going in such
00:17a great direction. You know, you stem as far back as sort of Gareth Bale, not replacing
00:23him properly with that transfer fee, that incredible window they had with five or six
00:28players who went on to barely achieve much for the club. Then you obviously have the
00:33Dele Alli period and Kane's son and Pochettino took them to that Champions League final.
00:40And then, you know, the stadium moved and the new situation with that, then Harry Kane
00:44ends up leaving. I mean, it's just sort of, did you feel Daniel Levy sort of got too comfortable
00:49at the top and didn't really, you know, reinvest and put some time into, you know, really making
00:55the future bright for Spurs? It's, you know, how long has this stemmed back, this problem
01:00with Levy and the fans now finally turning on him?
01:04Well, it's years and years of mismanagement. I mean, you know, to be fair to Daniel Levy,
01:09you've got a lot to thank him for, you know, new training ground, fantastic new stadium,
01:13but it's actually maybe been one of the worst things to happen to Tottenham because we've
01:16got this shiny new stadium, we've got the revenue pouring in and we've become a commercial
01:21cash cow and we've taken our eyes off the ball on the pitch. I think Pochettino once
01:25famously said, you know, we've got a shiny new house, but there's no furniture to go
01:29in it. And we've just taken our eye off the ball on the pitch, you know, and we've been
01:33bailed out time after time, as you say, by the likes of Kane, Son, and we're really paying
01:38the price for it now. You know, I actually thought the recruitment strategy was sort
01:42of working in the last sort of two years. We've signed some really, really good players.
01:46We've proved that you don't have to go out and spend hundreds of millions of pounds on
01:49players, you know, the likes of Vicario, van der Ven, Solanke, you know, decent money,
01:54but not, you know, a huge top bracket. But we just don't do enough.
01:59You know, we act, as I say, for a rich club, like we're completely desperate and we're
02:03rubbing two pennies together, you know, and that's just an absolute disgrace.
02:07Daniel Levy should have been lining up three new players for us come January the first
02:11to sort this injury crisis out, you know, whatever it takes. If you have to spend three
02:15or four million pounds extra on a player now, you do it to help the team, help the
02:19players, help the fans, you know, the fans that are paying hundreds and hundreds of
02:22pounds, you know, to watch that absolute rubbish that we're being served up with, you know,
02:28because of the players that are on the knees and having to go to the well.
02:31I mean, you saw after the Europa League game, you know, three or four players absolutely
02:35on the knees and the same players are turning out two days later in the Premier League.
02:39And, you know, it was always going to be a case against Leicester that if you don't,
02:43if we weren't out of sight by half time, the second half was always going to be a struggle.
02:46And that's just absolutely how it proved.
02:48But, you know, the tides turning, I think, against Daniel Levy now, which is, you know,
02:53even the mainstream media starting to pick up stories against him.
02:56There's a lot of movement, you know, to get him out.
02:59It isn't going to happen.
03:00But, you know, what we need to do now is almost Daniel Levy turn to protect his investment.
03:05You know, he runs the club like a business.
03:08The business is failing and that is the football team.
03:11So, you know, now he really does need to act and get his hand in his pocket and sort this
03:15mess out as quickly as possible.
03:18And just finally, on the transfer situation, obviously, you know,
03:23you really stressed that names do need to come through the door.
03:26What's the sort of type of player that they're going to be after if they are to make some January additions?
03:32Well, I think now it's all about leadership.
03:34You know, we need some experience.
03:35We need some leadership to help some of these younger players through.
03:38You know, I mean, you know, the young players have been the positives and the shining lights this season.
03:42You know, they've been absolutely, absolutely terrific.
03:44But we need some help now in terms of, you know, leadership and experience.
03:49Lots of talk about Evan Ferguson at Brighton.
03:51And, you know, he's been likened in the past to Harry Kane, the way he moves and finishes.
03:55And I know he's got an injury problem and he's been struggling for his fitness.
04:00But I tell you what, I'd take a fit Evan Ferguson in the team.
04:03You know, it could be a real steal for us if we were to get that one over the line.
04:07So that could be an option, short term loan.
04:09But, you know, again, we're going to be looking at stopgaps now.
04:11The strategy's been absolutely abysmal through January.
04:15You know, three quarters of the way through January, there's less than a week left in the window.
04:18And we're still scratching around looking at, you know, players.
04:21And it'll be stopgap loans now.
04:22And, you know, what good's that really?
04:24But we're in a desperate situation.
04:26So desperate times calls for desperate measures.