00:00Spurs' ownership could certainly be held accountable for the club's consistent mismanagement
00:09over the last decade or so, as key decisions on player recruitment, managerial changes
00:14and long-term strategy had often appeared disjointed. While the club has had its moments
00:21of success, including reaching the Champions League final, their inability to consistently
00:26build on those achievements alongside questionable transfers and managerial instability has hindered
00:32their progress. I spoke to James Trenbath of London World to get his take on the situation.
00:56Who would you like to see in the Spurs dugout?
01:15I think for Spurs, the football is the type of football we want to play. Instead of it
01:21being 100mph, we maybe need to just ratchet it down to 90mph, have a little bit more
01:26pragmatism, learn from mistakes, stop making the same mistakes time and time again. The
01:33Bournemouth game was a classic example, one of the best pressing teams in the league,
01:36and we just don't change. None of the players take responsibility and just try and go long,
01:40beat the press for five minutes. So, more adaptability I think is what we need. The
01:45blueprints there for the good football is a nucleus of really, really talented young
01:50players. You look at the likes of Lucas Bergvall, Archie Gray, he's going to be an absolute
01:54class act. Jed Spence, Sudogi van de Ven, Dom Solanke, there's a nucleus there of a
02:02really, really good side. And if you're looking at potential replacements, Arreola, you've
02:08got to look at him. I think at Bournemouth, he's done an absolutely fantastic job, very
02:12limited budget, but the way they play, again, very Tottenham-esque, but with a little bit
02:17more control. Thomas Frank, a lot of people highly rate Thomas Frank within football.
02:23I know Johan Lange is a big fan of him, so maybe we go down the Thomas Frank route. Is
02:28it time for him to have a crack at a so-called bigger club? No disrespect to Brentford. And
02:34then do we rekindle the love affair with Mischio Pochettino? He's been flirting again with
02:38Spurs to come back. I mean, if you think back two or three years, Champions League final,
02:44the way he had us playing on such a huge budget, not signing a single player for one
02:49summer. We were still banging on the door for the top four. We came so close to winning
02:53the league a couple of times. And then the failures off the pitch that were well-documented.
02:58We didn't build again and we didn't back the manager. But do you go back almost like a
03:05bad girlfriend? I guess I'm not sure. The Chelsea appointment there with Pochettino did
03:12quell it for me a little bit. But then again, is this Daniel Levy's last roll of the dice
03:17in terms of his ownership, his tenure? Does he do that to get the fans back on side? I
03:20know a lot of fans would love Pochettino back in the dugout. With the nucleus of the young
03:26team that we have, maybe he's the perfect appointment. But whether he'd leave America,
03:32I'm not so sure. More of the fan base want the chairman out. And then this all translates back
03:36onto the pitch. The atmosphere in the stadium on the Bournemouth game was just so flat. It
03:43was so flat. And you could tell the anxiety was translating onto the pitch as well with some of
03:50the noises that were coming out. So the whole thing has just been disconnected. And I think
03:57I was watching the Jim Radcliffe interview with Gary Neville. And he was a very frank interview,
04:02lots of mistakes. Obviously, he's under a lot of pressure as well at Manchester United. But
04:05actually an owner coming out and just facing up and talking about the problems and the mistakes
04:10that they're making, the best stadium in the league. And it's outstanding. And the work that
04:14he's done should be praised on that basis. But on the pitch is where it really matters. And on the
04:19pitch is where we're failing. And for the last three or four years, things have been getting
04:24worse and getting worse and slowly been going backwards. So we want to now hear from him.
04:29What's the plan to address that? And what are we going to do in the summer? What's the transfer
04:32budget? What business are we going to try and do? Because we need a bit of reuniting, I think,
04:38now is the key to all of this. But the radio silence is just not good for anyone.
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