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There is not one single individual solely responsible for the malaise that ails Tottenham Hotspur right now, because there are certain players, plenty of members of the ownership group, just about everyone in the front office, and manager Thomas Frank all in the circle of blame at this point.

As Spurs continue to drop points in the Premier League table, the threat of relegation is not one this club is above, as last season's 17th placed side in the league are arguably even worse under Thomas Frank in 2025/26 despite a few very succesful summer signings like Xavi Simons and the now injured Mohammed Kudus.

Spurs are coming off a disastrous January transfer window in which they lost key players to injury, director of football Fabio Paratici, and more trust from their fan base after signing precisely zero players in any of their key positions of need.

Tottenham are not fooled

Sporting director Johan Lange is now the main man making the decisions at the club after Paratici rather quickly bolted for Serie A disappointments Fiorentina, leaving Tottenham Hotspur supporters pretty scared for the future.

Lange's poor January transfer window has been akin to a vote of no confidence from the Tottenham faithful, who were already very sour on the failed Aston Villa executive. While Lange's eye for young talents, such as Lucas Bergvall, is worth praising, everything else he has done at Spurs has been well below par.

It looks like Tottenham, as an entire enterprise, are not in disagreement with their fans about not wanting to fully trust Johan Lange to be the one to call the shots in the board room. According to a report from the Daily Telegraphs's Matt Law, Tottenham are actually actively searching for a Fabio Paratici replacement in 2026.

Per Law, Spurs want to have two co sporting directors in charge of the club, rather than entrusting everything into one man. Right now, that is the case, as Spurs have yet to replace Paratici, so Lange is the one main sporting director running the show. But Tottenham do not want that to be the case, as they would like someone else to share recruitment duties.

It is a wise strategy, because while two heads can lead to conflict, when looking at Lange's track record and how badly things ended up in January without Paratici, perhaps Lange needs someone to conflict with him. And Lange can then focus on young talents with someone else making the veteran signings - or, as Paratici tried in the summer, attempt to talk Lange out of a bad coaching hire.

No fan base in the Premier League has been sold more blatantly false hopes and promises than Tottenham Hotspur, and that was illustrated quite plainly in the January transfer window. Spurs told their fans for months since firing Daniel Levy that more investment and big signings would be coming their way.

With Tottenham in dire need of a deep lying midfield playmaker and multiple attacking weapons, there was an expectation and even a narrative fed to the fans by the club that Spurs would be major players in the January transfer window.

Instead, the only proven player Spurs signed was Conor Gallagher after the injury to Rodrigo Bentancur, and as a box to box center midfielder, Gallagher was not even a substantial upgrade nor a new player at a key position of need.

Tottenham are worse than they were

So Spurs head into the second half of the 2025/26 Premier League season no better than they were before the January transfer window opened, and with even more key injuries mounting like those to Mohammed Kudus and Lucas Bergvall, the argument can be made that Spurs are actually even worse right now.

Yet that has not stopped sporting director Johan Lange from telling Tottenham Hotspur supporters that big things are still on the horizon for the club in the upcoming summer 2026 transfer window. On the rare occasion that he made himself available for public interview, Lange told fans upon the closure of the January 2026 transfer market, via Fabrizio Romano, “We will go into the summer with big ambitions, the plans are already drawn up and we have a clear picture of what positions and which profiles we need”.

As fed up as Tottenham fans are with manager Thomas Frank for all that he has done to waste great talents in the squad and turn Spurs into one of the most cowardly and inept sides in European football this season, there is much more ire directed by the fans towards the front office for the role they have played in the mess at the N17 currently, particularly after how woeful the January transfer window ended up being for the Lilywhites.

And no singular individual has absorbed more of the brunt of that criticism than Johan Lange, who was already deemed a failure in Premier League circles at Aston Villa - a club that is far better without him than with him. Lange and Spurs can yammer on about "big ambitions", but no matter how much they are promised change, Spurs fans are yet to see it. And none of them are buying.

Tottenham Hotspur have a serious attacking problem these days, and they didn't make it any better in the January transfer window. Spurs watched as Antoine Semenyo rejected them for Manchester City, and as the Man City wingers who could have joined them were also uninterested in latching themselves onto what appears to be a sinking ship under the dual leadership of Thomas Frank and Johan Lange.

Spurs have two gems in Mathys Tel and Wilson Odobert, a budding superstar in Mohammed Kudus, and a seemingly resurgent Dominic Solanke now that he is healthy. But they have little else outside of them, no proven goal scorers, and very little depth in the front line.

They do, however, have a third gem currently out on loan with Rangers, Mikey Moore, who was one of the stories of the early part of the 2024/25 season, including shining off the bench in the Europa League.

Mikey Moore had his breakout game

Moore earned the opportunity to start regularly for Rangers, and after a managerial change, he has finally proven himself useful to one of the giants of Scottish football. And just this past Wednesday against Kilmarnock in the Scottish Premiership, Moore had arguably his best game to date with his new team as part of a 5-1 win.

It was a grand all around attacking performance from Mikey Moore, who turned in a true winger's display from every angle. The Rangers faithful were even chanting the young loanee's name at the end of the game, which is rare sight but was 100 percent deserved based on how unplayable he was for the Kilmarnock defense.

Moore had both a goal and an assist for the Rangers for the first time this season, having not assisted in a Scottish Premier League game since October. Better yet, the 18 year old future superstar racked up five key passes and four dribbles completed in the game, setting a season high for key passes and tying his recently made season high in dribbles completed.

To this point of the 2025/26 season, Moore had not been especially impressive for Rangers despite some flashes of his star quality, but this was a game in which Moore truly put it all together and dominated. He will need to do this more often and against bigger opponents than Kilmarnock, and that is a big reason why Tottenham supporters want to see the teenager getting a bigger loan next season before he moves to Spurs. But this great game was his biggest statement to Tottenham thus far of what he can be and his potential to be part of the solution on the wings.

It is nearly impossible to find anyone who watches Tottenham Hotspur every week who actually feels any bit sorry for Thomas Frank, though you can leave it up a club as ghoulishly incompetent as this one to give supporters an ounce of pity for the most badly underperforming manager in all of European football.

Frank bears a lot of the blame for Tottenham dropping points like it were some sort of a deadly contagion. Spurs play a cowardly bland of football that is as unappetizing to watch as it is ineffective, and Frank is the grand architect of this defensive style of play that even Brentford - who, by the way, are better without him - would shudder at. And yet after every defeat, Frank tries to lie through his teeth and tell reporters that Spurs are playing well, as if anyone, let alone himself, would believe such a delusional assertion.

Tottenham have been ravaged by injuries, which certainly does not help, and the club has not signed players at key areas of need. Now, Frank could still be doing a lot better with the players he has at his disposal, actively holding back highly impressive young stars like Mathys Tel and Pape Matar Sarr for absolutely no good reason.

Tottenham are a joke

Yet after watching the entirety of that embarrassing winter transfer market unfold, it is hard not to help but feel that Thomas Frank has been equally screwed over by an atrocious front office brass that is more interested in the idea of printing money from a football club than winning - not knowing that losing and relegation would undo their entire theoretical enterprise.

Tottenham Hotspur needed a forward. They signed not one single attacking player despite getting even thinner up front with the sale of Brennan Johnson and the serious injury to their best attacking player, winger Mohammed Kudus.

Tottenham needed a playmaking midfielder from deep. They signed Conor Gallagher after the Rodrigo Bentancur, watched Lucas Bergvall fall with another multi month injury, and then proceeded to do precisely nothing else.

It was a disaster class of a transfer window, and with Frank treading water and nearly getting sacked, Spurs did nothing to help the coach battle out of this. Frank was saying all throughout the last couple of months, as politely as the Dane could possibly pound the table, that Spurs needed new players. Tottenham management failed him, because they do not care if he survives or is fired. They do not care about anything. The greedy buffoons want one thing above all else and that is their pockets lined with grease.

Tottenham Hotspur fans have more reasons to dislike their club than any other group of fans in world football right now. Their team is dropping points left and right, the threat of relegation is actually real, their winter transfer window was an objective disaster, and both their manager and the personnel in their front office are among the worst in the entire Premier League.

All the positives at Tottenham, such as talents like Xavi Simons, are being sapped out by a combination of injuries and outright incompetence, and Spurs supporters have not seen light at the end of the tunnel in years.

It looks like things are only going to get worse for Tottenham. After yet another public statement by Cristian Romero against the club that sold him a false bill of goods this past summer when they re-signed him despite having transfer interest from La Liga giants Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid, the club captain has seemingly felt that he pulled the last straw.

Tottenham are so screwed

According to a report from respected Argentinian footballing journalist Gaston Edul, Romero will be leaving Tottenham Hotspur in the summer 2026 transfer window. Edul says that Romero has interest from a club in La Liga as well as another club in another league. He also reminds fans that Romero was close to receiving a formal transfer offer this past summer.

Tottenham managed to keep Romero against all odds last year, even though they fired his favorite coach in Ange Postecoglou. But now, Romero has seen how Tottenham are totally unserious and have even lied to their fans by promising big signings and ambition after firing Daniel Levy, only to somehow behave like an even smaller club throughout the course of the season.

Romero is obviously very frustrated with the idiocy of the board and of characters like Johan Lange, who have no legs to stand on. These are people who have failed time and time again and are the kinds of retread hires ENIC love to pretend to show their fans that they care about winning.

But Tottenham do not, and Edul is pretty blunt in his report, leaving no room for interpretation that Cristian Romero has already made up his mind and wants to leave Tottenham. If Romero does indeed exit and everyone knows it, Tottenham will lose their outspoken leader and best player, the hero of their Europa League triumph, for what will be pennies on the dollar. Great work.

Both Chelsea and Atletico Madrid gave up on Conor Gallagher. At Chelsea, Gallagher had bright moments and put up solid numbers, favored by Mauricio Pochettino but not by his fan base. And Chelsea's decision to sell their future Tottenham Hotspur rival midfielder to Atletico Madrid was then justified by Enzo Fernandez stepping up in his place as the perfect anchor partner for Moises Caicedo behind another world class baller in Cole Palmer.

Gallagher then went on to Atleti and was poor, shuttled out of the starting lineup and placed pretty quickly on the transfer list with lukewarm interest. That is, of course, until this winter transfer window when Aston Villa pushed hard to sign the former Crystal Palace star, only for Tottenham to then swoop in at the last second and overpay for a bit to ensure they would sign a warm body in midfield for 40 million euros after Rodrigo Bentancur's multi month injury.

To start his Tottenham career, Gallagher was poor, but that was predictable. He had been in the Premier League before and played very well for Palace, but even he needed an adjustment period, especially with not playing as much for the Rojiblancos.

Conor Gallagher showed up

Given the concerns about his ability to be creative and progress the ball for Spurs, the early rough patch was a cause for concern, but in the 2-2 draw with Manchester City, the only big Tottenham Hotspur signing of January 2026 showed why both Ange Postecoglou and Thomas Frank were so dead set on signing him.

He helped turn the narrative with a much better performance against one of the biggest clubs in European football. Conor Gallagher delivered a crucial assist in the draw while playing excellently on the ball as a dribbler to progress play and draw fouls.

And as advertised, the midfield leader was a real asset as a ball winner, recording two tackles and three interceptions for the Lilywhites in a full 90 minutes of action as one of the big catalysts for a comeback in midfield.

Tottenham supporters came away very impressed with Gallagher's work rate, attitude, and desire to win. He would not give up on Spurs, and he, Xavi Simons, Pape Matar Sarr, Destiny Udogie, and Dominic Solanke were brilliant in that half. Four of those players have been the core of the good results for Spurs so Gallagher joining that group is an early sign of what could be a great stint.

Although Brennan Johnson will always be remembered by the Tottenham Hotspur faithful for being the answer to a most beautiful trivia question by scoring the game winning goal in Bilbao to boost Tottenham to a Europa League title over Manchester United, the consensus this January was that now was the best time to sell the Welsh international.

Johnson had been doing nothing all season long for Spurs despite the club's attacking woes, as the right wing position had just been filled by summer signing Mohammed Kudus - the new best player on the team not playing the center back position.

Thomas Frank had previously battled Tottenham on the transfer market while at Brentford for Johnson's signature but was outgunned by the bigger club with more money. Therefore, now with Johnson at Tottenham, there was a feeling among the Spurs fans that if anyone could get the most out of the mercurial goal poacher on the wings, then it would be the (not so) great Dane.

Tottenham made the right move but still screwed it up

Instead, Frank realized pretty quickly that Johnson did not have the all around skill set, athleticism, speed, creativity, or dribbling ability to be a Premier League winner in spite of his finishing chops and goal scoring instincts.

So Spurs rightfully sold him for 35 million pounds to Crystal Palace this January transfer window, striking at perhaps the only time Johnson would have retained meaningful transfer value. And they were vindicated by how poorly Johnson has been playing for Palace, with many Eagles supporters already calling the young right winger a flop of a signing.

Yet despite all logic pointing towards the Brennan Johnson sale being the right move made by Tottenham Hotspur, including the player's own ineffective displays with his new team, you can leave it up to the Lilywhites to somehow spin a negative in all this.

Because somehow, Spurs have brought a negative angle out of the Johnson transfer. 35 million pounds for a bad player is a great deal, except now Spurs have no right wingers besides Wilson Odobert, who made a successful conversion to the position. But Tottenham signed no wingers this January window to replace Johnson when they already needed a winger coming into the window - and now need one doubly so with superstar Mohammed Kudus injured and Dejan Kulusevski still not back.

Tottenham are somehow worse off without Johnson because they failed to reinvest that money or show any legitimate transfer interest in a player besides Antoine Semenyo - a man who had already rejected Spurs before the winter window even began.

There is no question that Tottenham Hotspur are one of the most perennially poorly run clubs in not just the Premier League, European football, or world football. They are one of the most consistently disappointing organizations in all of professional sports, and while the fans have been fed up with spending money on a losing product for years, it is only about time that the player themselves began turning inwards - instead of outwards - on the real problem.

Far more fiery and less diplomatic than his beloved and legendary predecessor Son Heung-min, new Tottenham captain Cristian Romero has brought fire and brimstone both on the pitch and off it at the center back position.

The new Tottenham leader has pulled no punches when talking about the powers that be at the club, and he relayed yet another scathing message for the incompetent board, who let everyone down with a disastrous transfer window at a time when the squad is paper thin and reeling with the threat of relegation hanging over their heads.

Tottenham sold false goods

Tottenham signed almost nobody this transfer window despite having a laundry list of needs running longer than any other European power. And out of everyone in the side, nobody has more to be upset about than Cristian Romero.

Recall that Romero was thinking about signing elsewhere this summer with Atletico Madrid and Real Madrid squarely on his mind and in hot pursuit of the reigning Europa League MVP. Romero was with one foot out the door and perhaps even nearly two feet after Tottenham so callously fired his beloved manager Ange Postecoglou.

But Tottenham and new manager Thomas Frank managed to convince Romero stay, possibly against the odds. Sure, Tottenham are paying him a good amount of money, but more importantly than the cash, they sold the former Copa America and World Cup winner on a sporting project and a dream. They sold him on competing and ambition, which are the languages a serial winner for Argentina would speak.

So you can see why Romero is so profoundly frustrated and even disgusted with what he is seeing transpire at the club. Tottenham's standards have fallen to the ground, and watching Spurs do absolutely nothing in the transfer window has to feel like a broken promise to what Romero had initially signed on for instead of playing for a Champions League contender like Real Madrid. And the fans should be with Romero, too, because they have been lied to by Spurs, if not even more than Romero has over the years.

Tottenham Hotspur came into the January transfer window with more needs to address than any other top club in the Premier League, and while dropping points left and right during the month, you would have thought that the decision makers at N17 would have had more urgency to make big moves seeing the club inching closer and closer to a possible relegation fight.

But outside of unproven prospect Souza and Conor Gallagher, Tottenham did not make any truly meaningful moves in the winter. The rest of the transfer targets Spurs had at the top of their wish list were, like Antoine Semenyo and Omar Marmoush, either unwilling to join the team or, like Maghnes Akliouche, not really even pursued all that hard by Spurs to begin with.

Tottenham fans were already fed up with the club's leadership, and after being told that Daniel Levy was the real problem and that the club's ambitions would skyrocket this winter after firing Levy in the summer, Spurs supporters are seeing just how deeply rooted the rot is at the club.

The problem goes above Thomas Frank

Because as terrible as Thomas Frank is and as badly as Spurs want this cowardly, unambitious manager canned, the reality is that the people keeping him employed are far more at fault than the former Brentford manager.

And if there is one individual, above all the others, whom Tottenham Hotspur supporters cannot stand right now, then it is Johan Lange, the club's Sporting DIrector. Lange already came to Tottenham with a shaky track record after Aston Villa jettisoned him and immediately became better with former La Liga legend Monchi taking over and turning them into a Champions League club.

Well, Aston Villa have now usurped Tottenham in the Premier League table these last couple of seasons, and the gulf in class between the two teams has been further highlighted in the 2025/26 campaign.

Spurs fans have drawn nearly the full extent of their seemingly boundless ire on Lange, whose lack of leadership and ambition are even more jarring than Frank's deficiencies. Tottenham had massive holes in the attack and still more needs in midfield beyond Gallagher, yet they signed absolutely no forwards and were not even meaningfully linked to one besides Semenyo, whom they had already been rejected by before the winter transfer window ever even officially began.

Johan Lange is as much on the "out" in the mind of Tottenham fans as Thomas Frank, and the longer the Tottenham slide continues, the more vitriol will be fired in the direction of one of the men behind the curtain.

Dominic Solanke missed the first half of the Tottenham Hotspur season with a nagging foot injury that required surgery but still was slow to heal. His return in January 2026 has proven to be an even bigger boon to the side than initially expected, as Solanke has been directly responsible for points in big games against Borussia Dortmund and Manchester City.

If the Dortmund game was Solanke announcing his presence, then the recent 2-2 draw with Man City was Solanke reaffirming his importance to the side 18 months after making a record breaking 65 million pound move from Bournemouth that was widely controversial at the time.

The Europa League winner, though, showed his true value to Tottenham supporters on Sunday against Pep Guardiola's defense, scoring both goals to tie the game in the second half, including an outrageous Scorpion Kick finish that made Olivier Giroud eat his heart out.

Tottenham are getting more benefits

Solanke's goals have been one big part of the equation for sure, but Tottenham, in large part, signed him for the benefits he would provide the rest of the squad. The talented former Chelsea and Liverpool prospect is one of the most well rounded strikers not just in the English Premier League but in the world.

The man he replaced as the starting No. 9 - the currently injured Richarlison - was the opposite. Richarlison was slow, lethargic, and unable to run the channels or create for his teammates. He was a one dimensional poacher lapping up easy goals from his teammates - and he was a fairly mediocre one at that.

Dominic Solanke, meanwhile, is already on pace to blow Richy out of the water as a goal scorer while being infinitely better as an all around striker. He is more explosive, significantly stronger, more consistent at trying to win back possession, and far superior from a passing and technical perspective.

Young winger Wilson Odobert has blossomed on the right side to a whole new level at the same time as Solanke has returned to health and form, and you can only imagine what Mathys Tel would then do on the left playing alongside Big Dom once Thomas Frank finally gives up on the farce of starting Randal Kolo Muani next to the England international.

With all due respect to Richarlison, Solanke has totally opened up the offense in comparison to the Brazilian. And the gulf between Kolo Muani, who barely seems to care about Spurs at this point, and Solanke is too vast to even begin to describe.