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Tottenham Hotspur fans have not heard from Daniel Levy much since his mutually agreed dismissal as the Chairman of the club, ending an era of almosts and a priority on profit rather than winning. The goals have not changed at all since Levy's departure, and, if anything, with Spurs mired in the heat of a Premier League relegation battle, things are even worse without Levy due to the sheer incompetence of Vinai Venkatesham - and those above him.

Levy made plenty of mistakes, though, too, and Spurs fans are not about to have any revisionist history on him, as bad as things have gotten since his exit at the beginning of the 2025/26 Premier League season.

One of those huge mistakes was firing Ange Postecoglou and replacing him with Thomas Frank last summer. Although Postecoglou had his problems and proved them by quickly getting fired at his next job with Nottingham Forest, he was still a lot better than Frank, who was both a poor manager in terms of results and had the team playing like cowards while giving some of the worst press conferences Spurs supporters have ever seen.

Daniel Levy did Ange Postecoglou dirty

Maybe Daniel Levy would not have kept Frank around as long as Venkatesham did, but he was still part of the crew that hired Frank. So hearing him tell Sky Sports News about how grateful he is to Ange Postecoglou for winning the Europa League feels like a massive slap in the face at the fans and at Big Ange.

Levy said, “He’ll be in the history of Tottenham for allowing us to win a European trophy, and it was an amazing night.”

Nothing he said is wrong, and it is the bare minimum Levy could have said about the beloved Postecoglou. But Tottenham Hotspur fans will be mad no matter what, both because actions speak louder than words and because those words themselves were insufficient.

Levy didn't just fire Big Ange. He treated him like rubbish on the way out, keeping him in a holding pattern for weeks before firing him unceremoniously while he was on holiday with his family. Yeah, that is some way to treat someone you are indebted to as a club who brought the first major European trophy to Spurs in 41 years.

Maybe Postecoglou needed to be fired, but not only did Levy sack him for the wrong guy, but he also sacked him like a bag of flour, booting him out the door without a care. There is no love lost for Levy from Spurs fans, regardless of how terrible his successors have been.

Tottenham Hotspur missed out on a great opportunity to place some distance between themselves and West Ham United in the Premier League relegation battle, as squandered chances and rash decisions marred a game they should have won against Leeds United on Monday Night Football.

Instead, Spurs drew 1-1 behind a grand performance in goal from breakout star Antonin Kinsky, so now they are only two points above West Ham for survival. And their final two games of the 2025/26 season are going to be very difficult, as Spurs must battle a Chelsea team with a lot to play for on Tuesday night next week before closing out the Premier League campaign on Sunday, May 24 with a battle against Richarlison's former employers Everton.

Meanwhile, the team Spurs are stuck against, West Ham, have an easier path. Newcastle on Sunday is not necessarily an easy game for the Hammers, but they are a worse team than Chelsea. The real worry for Tottenham Hotspur, though, is the May 24 fixture to close the season when the Hammers, at the same hour, take on that very same Leeds United.

Leeds may not do Tottenham any favors vs. West Ham

Leeds have already, like Nottingham Forest, secured their safety in the Premier League for the 2026/27 season, which has left it entirely between Tottenham and West Ham in the fight for survival. They may talk about how they are playing for pride and want to get every point possible, but it is only natural for the Peacocks to have less motivation on Matchday 38 against West Ham than they did on Monday against Tottenham.

Spurs fans are then looking towards the season's last day with real trepidation. Whereas Everton, like Chelsea, still have an outside shot at qualifying for European football if they pitch two perfect three point results to end the campaign, Newcastle are further behind and Leeds have literally nothing but pride to play for - and pride counts for very little as an extra motivator, since it is the baseline for all footballers to play for pride anyway.

Tottenham have seen teams roll over and die when it comes time for them to give the Lilywhites a result that benefits them, and Leeds smell like a team that is going to get its neck torn off at the jugular point by West Ham.

Spurs have done so well lately under Roberto De Zerbi, but Spurs fans just wonder if those mistakes against Leeds will come back to haunt them on May 24 if the Peacocks get smacked down by the Hammers.

Dermot Gallagher thinks Leeds United were 'lucky' during a key moment during Monday night's clash with Tottenham in North London.

Spurs could only take a point from their clash with already safe Leeds United, failing to take a big opportunity after West Ham lost to Arsenal on Sunday. Tottenham could have gone more than a game clear of the Hammers with two remaining, but they remain within two points after allowing what could have been a big win to slip.

Mathys Tel went from hero to zero, scoring a superb goal to put his side only to attempt a silly overhead kick inside his own box and catching Ethan Ampadu, leading to a penalty that was dispatched.

Dermot Gallagher thinks Lukas Nmecha was lucky

Spurs could have had the chance to win it late on when James Maddison went down in the box, leading to a VAR review, but cameras spotted Lukas Nmecha just tipping the ball as he reached his leg around Maddison in what was an extremely risky tackle.

And former Premier League referee Gallagher believes it was luck more than judgement for Nmecha, whose touch of the ball meant he got away with what could have been a crushing late defeat.

“My first thought when I saw it was ‘blimey, they’ve got a penalty’,” former referee Gallagher told talkSPORT. “You were 13 minutes into stoppage time. When you see the replay, he does just catch the ball, there’s no doubt about that. But it’s one of them, he gets a bit lucky, because if he doesn’t get the ball it’s clearly a penalty.”

With Nmecha touching the ball, that did not prove to be a controversial moment, but the actual penalty was debated by some, with Ampadu appearing to lean into the contact, be that clever play or gaming the rules.

But Gallagher does think it was a legitimate spot kick. “I was surprised [Gillett needed VAR to intervene]. I often talk about clues, and the clue for me was the fact that the Leeds player, Ampadu, was actually jumping."

“That will show you how high the player’s foot was. It hasn’t just caught him on the face. He caught him on the face from a jump. That’s a really high boot.”

Ultimately, it was a silly thing for Tel to do in trying to blindly overhead kick the ball away in his own box. In many ways, it was a typical attacking player move, with a defender likely to have assessed his surroundings and attempted to clear the ball with his head.

But Spurs may not have scored had it not been for Tel's classy strike, and so it can only go down as a lesson learned for the young winger.

For years, Daniel Levy was Enemy No. 1 for Tottenham Hotspur supporters. The Chairman of the club under the direction of ENIC, Levy was honestly probably doing what he was told based on their edict to the best of his abilities, but he became a symbol of the sort of greed and emphasis on the profit over the sporting that has now pretty much gripped most of the clubs in European football.

Year after year, Levy would avoid getting into scrambles for the sort of transfer targets, like Desire Doue, that could help take Spurs to another level. Instead, Spurs would settle for complacency and remain complacent, hovering around fourth in the table and only once every truly competing for titles under Mauricio Pochettino - the manager he and ENIC unceremoniously deposed and have never recovered from in the six years since.

Since officially leaving the club before the 2025/26 Premier League season started, the jubilation from Tottenham fans has turned into something else entirely, and there's a realization that Vinai Venkatesham has taken the club even further back as a CEO. And since he came from Arsenal, some Spurs fans are even worried he is really just an Arsenal fan sabotaging the club; that's how poor of a job he has done, including holding onto Thomas Frank for way, way too long.

Daniel Levy comments publicly

Sky Sports recently caught up with Daniel Levy and interviewed him about his thoughts in this Premier League relegation fight, and his comments have made Tottenham Hotspur supporters even angrier at Venkatesham for being so silent and for showing no real love for the club amidst all of this.

Levy said, "I could never have envisaged this at the beginning of the season," in reference to Spurs facing relegation, though Spurs supporters may point out that he at least did have the foresight to include contractual clauses reducing salaries in the case of relegation.

But the quote that really got Tottenham fans feeling, almost in spite of themselves, a bit wistful at Levy and perhaps even angrier at the current club leadership was this one about the chances of Spurs staying up, "It's been very, very difficult. But Spurs is in my blood and I'm hopeful we will be ok in the end."

Daniel Levy was a part of the problem, but the way Tottenham are run as a club intent on maximizing profits was the biggest issue of them all. Levy was probably just the one executing the orders. And at least he was competent at that job. Spurs are now still maximizing profit over the sporting, but they are now run by incompetent leadership who care even less about the club and are far less competent at reaching their end goal.

Tottenham may avoid Premier League relegation, but they're not going to do it the easy way. Monday night's 1-1 draw with Leeds United means Roberto De Zerbi's team are only two points above the drop zone with just two matches still to play. If West Ham manage to beat Newcastle on Tyneside on Sunday evening, the Lilywhites will be back in the bottom three by the time they face Chelsea at Stamford Bridge next Tuesday.

Failing to beat Leeds this week continues Tottenham's horrendous form at home. Spurs have won only four of their last 32 Premier League fixtures in N17, only managing to beat Manchester United, Southampton, Burnley and Brentford in front of their own supporters since 3 November 2024. Just looking at this season, they have the joint-worst home record in the entire division.

Premier League's bottom 6 home table

Note: Statistics are courtesy of Transfermarkt.

Only goal difference is keeping Tottenham from being sat rock-bottom of the Premier League's home table this season. Both they and Burnley have collected just 12 points at home, out of a possible 54, and the Clarets could overtake them, considering they host Wolves on the final day. Spurs' tally of 31 goals conceded at home is also second only to Wolves' 33.

Of course, in 2026, they are still yet to win at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, drawing four times and losing on five occasions since New Year's Day. So, how many other teams across Europe are still yet to claim a victory in front of their own supporters this calendar year? It is not many.

Clubs from Europe's top-15 ranks leagues winless at home in 2026

Note: Statistics partly courtesy of Statmuse.

Not including Norway's Eliteserien, because the season has only just started, there are 238 clubs who compete in UEFA's top-15 ranked leagues. Of these, only seven have failed to win a single home league match in 2026. Metz, Burnley, Hellas Verona and Livingston have all had their respective relegations confirmed, while Nice occupy the Ligue 1 relegation play-off place. Espanyol meantime were fifth in La Liga at Christmas but, currently winless in 18, are hovering just above the drop zone.

Thus, only the Blanquiazules, les Grenats in France and the Gialloblù in Italy have collected more points in front of their own supporters in 2026 than Spurs. By the end of May, all seven teams on this list could be relegated.

Tottenham Hotspur supporters learned some more grim news about Dejan Kulusevski, as just days after Roberto De Zerbi stated that he would be very surprised if Kulu made the Swedish squad for the 2026 World Cup in North America, the Swedish national team did indeed leave him off their official preliminary squad for the tournament this summer.

Kuluseveski has not played since a year ago when he suffered a knee injury that initially seemed innocuous enough to only be an absence of a few weeks, with Kulu then expected to be ready for the 2025/26 season. But Kulu never was ready, and he never became ready during the season either. The months have rolled by with only a few smattering of updates, no real diagnosis on the extent of the injury, and fears from Tottenham supporters that Kulu may never play for them again.

After the announcement of Kulusevski missing the official World Cup squad, Swedish national team manager Graham Potter spoke about the star right winger and midfielder's injury, mentioning that the new goal is for the player to return to Tottenham Hotspur by the time the 2026/27 Premier League season begins.

Dejan Kulusevski has been missed

The former Chelsea and Brighton manager said, via Chris Cowlin, "With Dejan, again just a very difficult decision. We have to think about what is right for the team, that’s important but also Dejan is in a place where he has had a long fight and he is making progress. It’s important now that this time he can really focus on getting himself ready for the start of the season. Dejan is at a stage where his rehab is so important and he has made some progress. The aim for him would be to start the next season with Tottenham, hit the ground running and to get back on the pitch and do the thing he loves. We have to be careful about that and ultimately that is the priority for him. Once those games start [World Cup], you’re not in an area where you can do big 11 v 11 work, so it would be very difficult for him to get up to where we need him to be. Sometimes you have to take a decision of what does this look like. What is the impact for the player? What is the impact for the team? And it just felt in my stomach it was the right thing for us and for him, but of course now it’s tough to see that, because he wants to be there and he wants to play, I understand. He is a professional person and he accepts it, of course but it is also very difficult as it is with all the guys. These things don’t come along very often, it’s a dream and you’re ending a dream which is not a nice thing believe me.”

It has been quite bitter to see Dejan Kulusevski not in the World Cup squad, but it is, as Roberto De Zerbi said, impossible for someone who has never played to be fit enough and sharp enough for matches to be in the squad for a tournament as prestigious as a World Cup. And again, there is no physical indication that Kulusvski is ready to play games at all.

Tottenham fans just have to hope that Kulu can meet this next milestone of playing for them when the next season starts, because as this nightmare of a campaign has revealed, the Lilywhites really do need Kulu back in tow.

Cast your mind back to a simpler, more prosperous time, folks.

It's mid-May 2022, and Tottenham Hotspur have just brutalised their north London rivals in the derby. Suddenly, they're in the ascendancy in a race for Champions League football they had no business being a part of.

Antonio Conte has worked his magic, with the devastating relationship of Harry Kane and Son Heung-min making up for talent deficiencies elsewhere, even if the Italian's outfit was greatly improved by the January additions of Juventus outcasts Rodrigo Bentancur and Dejan Kulusevski.

Our 3-0 beatdown of Arsenal ensured we had all the momentum, but the Gunners still boasted a point advantage with just two games left. Assuming Conte's train would continue to roll, we required a favour from elsewhere.

Step forward, Eddie Howe's Newcastle United.

Spurs need Newcastle to run it back to May 2022 vs. West Ham

Howe's Magpies were merely at the start of their exciting Saudi-led project, and Arsenal wilted at St. James' Park on a raucous Tyneside Monday night six days before the 2021/22 season's conclusion.

Newcastle's 2-0 victory helped us return to Europe's premier club competition, and although we criminally weren't able to capitalise on having one of the great league managers at our disposal, the Magpies' favour hasn't been forgotten in N17.

And now, we need their help again.

The situation is a little bit different in the North East this time around, with Howe's reign no longer in its burgeoning infancy. They've threatened stagnation and decline with their English manager at the helm, but are nonetheless committing to the same ideas for 2026/27.

Occupying 13th in the table, Newcastle aren't playing for much, and West Ham United are visiting for the Magpies' final home outing of a disappointing season. They've grown accustomed to losing in front of their fans this season, having previously turned SJP into a fortress, and Spurs require something more vintage from the hosts this weekend.

Should West Ham rock up on Tyneside and escape with three points, as they did last season, then the Lilywhites will be in serious relegation bother. That'd leave the Hammers a point ahead and likely leave Spurs needing four points from their remaining two games to stay up. One of those fixtures is at Stamford Bridge, where we've won once since the Premier League's inception, and the other will be at home, where we've won twice in the league all season.

Roberto De Zerbi is continuing to eke out as much as he can from his depleted squad bereft of reliance in attack, but James Maddison's cameo on Monday night should serve as great encouragement. There was plenty of doom and gloom after our 1-1 draw with Leeds, but survival is still in our hands, and Newcastle have helped us out at a similarly critical juncture before.

Have faith.

Tottenham Hotspur forward Randal Kolo Muani had one bright moment against Leeds United with a pass to Richarlison that the Brazilian striker then completely scuffed. That was the only thing he did of note in that game, though, and in the preceding months.

There have been an innumerable number of sluggish performers this season and disappointing players in the Premier League relegation fight, but even with the upturn in form under new manager Roberto De Zerbi, Kolo Muani has remained a clear negative for the Tottenham attack, which has been anemic, to put it mildly.

Despite a big reputation and a number of World Cup caps with the absolutely loaded French national team squad under Didier Deschamps, Kolo Muani has done very little to help Spurs or to show that he merits the big transfer fees, wages, and accolades given to his name - not necessarily earned.

Randal Kolo Muani is the king of flops

A few years ago, Tottenham Hotspur acquired a player on loan with a big reputation from the Bundesliga and hopes of bouncing back in Timo Werner. He proved to be a massive flop, missing chance after chance despite once being one of Germany's most prolific goal scorers and a Champions League winner for Chelsea.

But looking back on Werner's failed tenure at Tottenham, it looks a lot better in comparison to Kolo Muani. Werner had just two goals and three assists in ten starts in his first season with Spurs, but those are still way better numbers than what Kolo Muani has done in the Premier League this season.

The Frenchman has only one goal and one assist in 20 starts and more than double the total number of appearances that Timo Werner registered in his 2023/24 campaign in North London. Those are really pathetic numbers for someone who has played the minutes he has had.

Werner was a flop for Tottenham, unmistakably, but Spurs fans don't hate him at all because he always put in the effort. He would run so much for the team, so even though he was barely scoring any goals, he did pose some sort of a threat to the team and did his best under Ange Postecoglou to harry other players.

Randal Kolo Muani walks around like he's been mummified. It's like watching the corpse of a player who was once decent, strolling about the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium with no urgency despite Spurs facing a threat to their existence. And when you compare his even worse output and his lack of effort to Werner at least trying his socks off - or even Richarlison these days - you really have to say that Spurs fans have been cheated by this deadline day transfer acquisition. Werner looks like a top forward in comparison to whatever Kolo Muani is pretending to do out there.

Soon this will be all over, folks. The unbearable tension is unlikely to cease until the very last moment, with a 1-1 draw against Leeds United allowing Doomsayers to re-emerge from their pits and prophesise Tottenham's impending demotion.

The existential crisis we've found ourselves in means little thought has been preserved for the upcoming World Cup, which, despite our dire campaign, plenty of the club's personnel are set to be involved in.

The tournament gets underway in just under a month with a repeat of the 2010 opener, and before that, we'll be alerted by a trickling of 48 squad announcements. FIFA's deadline is June 1, and Spurs' first official participant was confirmed on Tuesday.

Lucas Bergvall named in Sweden's World Cup squad

While some nations, including Argentina, Qatar and Uzbekistan, have announced preliminary World Cup squads, Sweden have joined Bosnia & Herzegovina in confirming their final rosters.

Both teams, perhaps coincidentally, qualified for the tournament via the playoffs in March, with Sweden fortuante to be in a position to progress at all. They finished bottom of their qualifying group, but were kept alive by their standing in the most recent UEFA Nations League.

Victories over Ukraine and Poland means they're heading to the World Cup after missing out in 2018.

And Graham Potter has selected Tottenham's Lucas Bergvall in his 26-man squad, which also doesn't feature Dejan Kulusevski. The injured playmaker has been out for just over a year with a complicated knee issue, and had promised his availability this summer after Sweden eventually qualified.

"A very, very difficult decision in terms of where he [Kulusevski] has been, what he's done over the last year, where he's at in terms of his rehab with four and a half weeks to go to that first game," Potter said regarding the omission.

"Once those games start, you're not really in a place where you can start playing in big areas, spaces and then be able to work. So it's very, very difficult to get up to where we need them to be, and so you have to make a very tough decision."

Spurs recently welcomed back James Maddison from an ACL tear, but Potter's update suggests we won't be seeing Kulusevski in action for a little while yet. Who knows if he'll be ready for the start of next season?

Anyway, back to Bergvall. The kid's had a stop-start season and has ultimately failed to build on the promise of his debut campaign, which sparkled during the second half. Injuries and managers haven't helped, but we can still exit the 2025/26 campaign disappointed with what Bergvall was able to produce.

Antonin Kinsky has been excellent in the Tottenham Hotspur goal ever since recovering a spot in the lineup after Guglielmo Vicario's hernia surgery, and he saved the best game of his young career for Monday night's narrow 1-1 draw with Leeds United.

The Czech shot stopper made a number of brilliant saves in sparing 1.35 xG for the Lilywhites, but the pick of the litter was an amazing second half stop to deny Sean Longstaff with the sort of reflexes that maybe even Vicario would have struggled to measure up to.

VIcario made his name off reflex saves, but increasingly, he became a liability for Tottenham because of his woeful work on the ball and penchant for making terrible errors. And whlie Kinsky had his fair share of slips on that nightmarish evening against Atletico Madrid in the Champions League, he has not repeated those fluke mistakes and has been picture perfect in goal with much, much better distribution skills than what Spurs fans have seen in goal from a Tottenham keeper in ages.

Antonin Kinsky has the whole world buzzing

Even pundit Jamie Carragher, who can often be one of the most critical former players on television, could not help but wax poetic both about the saves Antonin Kinsky made against Leeds United, but on his overall play as the Tottenham starting goalkeeper in recent weeks.

Carragher said, via Chris Cowlin, "The save from Kinsky onto the bar from Longstaff is one of the saves of the season. The two saves he made, one in the first half, one in the second half, have made sure his team has got what could be a vital point. The only save that I can think that made me go 'Wow' was Jordan Pickford at Newcastle. That is certainly up there. He's got a presence about him that is better and looks more confident than Vicario. It must be the greatest save he's made in his career. To get your arm up that quick. Longstaff couldn't believe it. It makes his save in the first half look like a walk in the park. Who would have ever thought that he would probably ever play for Tottenham again, off the back of what happened at Atletico Madrid. You'd have to have a heart of stone if you didn't feel delighted for him. Everyone thought his Spurs career was over a couple of months ago. That could be the save that keeps them in the Premier League."

Every single Tottenham Hotspur supporter listening to Jamie Carragher speak about their young goalkeeper has to agree with what he is saying, both about the quality and importance of the save, as well as his status as the new No. 1 for Guglielmo Vicario.

Any questions about the best goalkeeper for Spurs going forward was answered by Kinsky emphatically against Leeds, and if that point is all that separates them from West Ham United at the end of the season, people will look back on Kinsky as an even bigger hero.