To say Daniel Levy is a divisive figure at Tottenham is an understatement.
Levy does have his backers, some believe that Levy has worked wonders at Tottenham in building a new stadium and a new training ground while raising the commercial profile of the club to unprecedented heights.
However, fans mostly just care about the football on the pitch, and it’s fair to say things aren’t going well for Tottenham this season.
Spurs sit in the bottom-half of the Premier League table, and Ange Postecoglou could be sacked soon.
Postecoglou is under pressure, but there have also been prostests against Levy.
However, the Spurs leadership structure is set to change soon as Vinai Venkatesham is set to join as the club’s new CEO.
Venkatesham is set to join Spurs, but according to Dan Kilpatrick, speaking on The Lab Podcast, Levy’s role won’t change too much.
However, intriguingly, Kilpatrick did note that there’s something about Levy’s role at Tottenham that has changed recently.
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Kilpatrick spoke about Venkatesham’s arrival at Spurs, and how that may affect Levy.
The journalist says that Levy’s role won’t change, but, interestingly, he did note that in recet years, Levy has been seen less and less at the training ground, particularly after the sacking of Mauricio Pochettino.
“I just don’t see this as something that’s going to somehow dilute Levy’s stranglehold on the club. If anything, everything we hear points to the fact that even if he was to sell a stake in the club, or even if he was to sell the controlling stake in the club, Levy still wants to stay on and be in control and be involved.
“So it doesn’t seem to me like he’s preparing to somehow step away from it and hand over control and take a back seat. It seems to me that he is as engaged as ever. He’s less visible at the training ground than perhaps he was in the Pochettino era, but I don’t get the impression that any of the big decisions are being handed over to someone else.”
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Levy is at the training ground less and less these days, and that may be a role that Venkatesham takes a bit more of a hand-on approach in when he arrives at Spurs.
Interestingly, Kilpatrick spoke about Venkatesham earlier this week on The Tottenham Way Podcast, claiming that he’s been told that the former Arsenal chief is a very savvy operator.
“From what I know about Vinai, you know, he is a very competent football executive. He obviously oversaw, you know, a period of really positive growth for Arsenal when he was the chief executive, you know, I think he got that job in 2020, perhaps. I think he was football something or other,” Kilpatrick said.
“So Vinai was a part of that. You know, he’s joining in the summer. You know, I don’t know what it means for kind of the broader politics of Spurs.”
Tottenham have had a few background shake-ups in recent years.
Fabio Paratici was banned from football, and that led to the arrival of Johan Lange.
However, Paratici has still been involved at Tottenham on a consultancy basis.
while Scott Munn also plays some sort of role behind the scenes alongside Levy, and soon, Venkatesham.
Tottenham are a bit of a mess on the pitch at the moment, and it would appear that there’s also a bit of a ‘too many cooks’ situation brewing behind the scenes too.
It will be interesting to see how Spurs’ structure changes this summer, especially if a new manager is hired.