Tottenham’s Newfound Ambition Under Roberto De Zerbi
Written by The N17 Network
For years, especially under Daniel Levy, Tottenham Hotspur have been accused of thinking (and acting) like a business and only acting like a football club when convenient to them. This summer, however, the message from north London is VERY different, almost like nothing we’ve seen before.
Club executives, in particular Peter Charrington our non-executive chairman, have publicly acknowledged the failures in the past two seasons and have even promised the fans that there will be investment across multiple, yes multiple, transfers windows to remedy this. As we’ve seen so far this window with the signings of Andy Robertson, Marcos Senesi and Jan Paul Van Hecke, Spurs look to be backing Roberto De Zerbi and keeping their promises to us, the fans - so far so good!
One major problem with Spurs in the past which has differentiated us from other top teams is our wage structure. Previously, we haven’t been competing with the other big 6 teams and have in some cases lost out because of this. This has changed however since Vinai Venkatesham has come in as our CEO. Vinai and his executive team have acknowledged this problem and have wrote about it in letters published to the fans vowing to fix it, meaning moving forward we should have a good shot with competing with the bigger teams for players signatures, this could potentially be the case with Sandro Tonali (currently at Newcastle United) who Spurs have been heavily linked with in the past week. The links to Sandro Tonali, for me, really show the true ambition and somewhat change from Spurs this summer, in previous seasons £80-£90 million pounds for a player would be unheard of, never mind the wages he’ll likely be demanding etc, however Spurs look to be going BIG for Tonali which is lovely to see!
Various reports this summer have mentioned that we have a significant and ambitious summer ahead of us. The most surprising reports are that of Spurs supposedly having £300 million to spend and will be able to do so without PSR implications. This is due to a loophole from the Premier league changing from their old PSR rules to their new rules. This summer, Spurs can spend 85% of their revenue due to us having no European football, the owners can also inject capital too, which reports suggest they have already introduced £100 million to fund the transfers, with these facts together it means that Spurs can comfortably spend that £300 million.
As much as the fans have previously shown their hate towards Vinai, Lange and the Lewis family, they’ve certainly made some good choices so far this window and have definitely shown ambition. I think the only way we’ll know if they truly are serious is at the end of the summer and in the next transfer windows, to see if they keep their promises to us - The proof will be in the pudding as they say!
