Sunday’s Premier League home match against Everton is Tottenham’s biggest game in recent history.It is not just about 11 players on the pitch. This is a club and business with hundreds of employees who are worried about their jobs and their futures.
Only one scenario can send Spurs into the Championship on Sunday, and that is if Roberto De Zerbi’s side lose at home to Everton and West Ham beat Leeds at the London Stadium.
Sunday 24th May 3:00pm
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Should Tottenham avoid relegation, the home fans will be celebrating – but it will be relief rather than euphoria.Whatever the result on Sunday, fans will be angry because this has been a disastrous campaign.
A year ago, Spurs were celebrating Europa League glory with more than 220,000 fans at the trophy parade. But ending the club’s 17-year trophy drought was not enough for Ange Postecoglou to keep his job after the club fell to its lowest Premier League finish of 17th.
The message then was that the club needed to compete on all fronts, not just one. Well, it has been only one front this season with the aim on the final day to keep the club in the top flight.
It is clear Tottenham desperately needs a reset – but it needs a reset with the club being in the Premier League.It is incomprehensible that Spurs should fall into the Championship. This is the ninth richest club in the world, after all.So, how have we got here this season?Wrong managers, poor recruitment and a losing cultureWell, this all started in the summer. Postecoglou’s successor, Thomas Frank, was not the right fit for the club. Some players liked him, but others did not take to the Dane.Ultimately, he outstayed his welcome, and he should have been sacked earlier. The West Ham loss in January was the time for him to go.
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Thomas Frank presided over a disastrous eight-month reign as Spurs boss
Then the injury malaise has deepened with this season’s crisis proving even more catastrophic than the last campaign.Losing key players such as Dejan Kulusevski, James Maddison and Mohammed Kudus to injury, combined with the summer loss of club legend and captain Heung-Min Son, was always going to make this season challenging.Losing regularly…
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