Every mistake Tottenham & Daniel Levy have made since 2019

For much of Daniel Levy’s tenure as Tottenham chairman, he oversaw a lot of undeniable and tangible progress.

Spurs were mid-table fodder when ENIC took control of the club in 2001. Since then, they’ve elevated the club to consistent European contenders (despite a lack of silverware) and have invested in state-of-the-art facilities.

But when they viewed the time had come to turn from nearly-men to winners, they took the club backwards again. And again. And again.

Here are Levy and the Spurs board’s greatest blunders since their peak of reaching the 2019 UEFA Champions League final.

This one’s a bit of a prelude to this whole debacle, but it still runs true.

From 2018 to 2019, Tottenham went nearly 18 months without making a signing. Not one. Zilch. Nada. The board bemoaned that conducting transfer activity was hard.

Spurs spent the 2018/19 season running on fumes. Mauricio Pochettino’s magic saw the club reach their first ever Champions League final in dramatic fashion, but a rebuild was clearly needed.

Tottenham signed two new star players in Tanguy Ndombele and Giovani Lo Celso – both proved to be hugely underwhelming – while the additions of youngsters Ryan Sessegnon and Jack Clarke did little to help the immediate cause.

Sacking Pochettino was totally understandable. Results were poor – not awful, but poor nonetheless. The squad looked depleted and out of ideas.

What was not understandable was Levy – on record in the club’s Amazon Prime documentary – claiming that 2019 Jose Mourinho was ‘one of the two best managers in the world’.

The chairman clearly thought the squad was closer to challenging for major honours than was actually the case.

A football club that would be sold for billions if it were put on the market furloughing the everyman club staff during an unprecedented global pandemic was a horrendous look. It was only saved and minimised in hindsight by a swift reversal, but this would not be the only tone-deaf action undertaken by Levy and co.

A lot of people claim that Levy didn’t back Mourinho, but Spurs’ summer 2020 window was considered pretty good at the time – they were even named our winners of the transfer window.

Tottenham were top in December, though rapidly fell off a cliff throughout the rest of the winter. Levy can’t take too much blame for…