Tottenham legend Glenn Hoddle has called for massive action from the club’s owners after the Lilywhites came dangerously close to relegation.
Spurs avoided relegation on the final day of the season, with Tottenham fans getting to experience the kind of pressure and anxiety that they have not for a long time in the final day of the season.
While there was jubilation at the final whistle at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, there is already an inquest underway into how things got so bad.
Roberto De Zerbi has called for a rebuild of the squad this summer to ensure that Spurs never suffer again like they did this season.
Glenn Hoddle hoping relegation fight sparks Tottenham into tough decisions
Hoddle believes that the poor decisions Spurs have been making for a while came home to roost this season, suggesting that last year’s Europa League win papered over the cracks.
He is hoping that the team’s scare jolts the Tottenham hierarchy into action and that there is a full inquest into the mistakes that have been made at the club.
Hoddle told The Metro: “The Europa League triumph really papered over the cracks. There’s been a crack there for quite some time. The system is clearly not working at the moment, and needs to be revised. If this were any business, that’s what they’d be doing. They’d be stripping it down and saying, this ain’t working, let’s get a new CEO or new board and go from there.
“What I’m hoping is that the fear of going down, the fear of actually thinking about it and getting so close to dropping, actually ignites something in the club from above the playing staff, above the coaching staff, that this can’t happen again. That’s got to be a crossroads, which is the lowest crossroads. That’s got to be the lowest one.”
Hoddle says Spurs owners need to greenlight a big summer spend
Tottenham’s non-executive chairman, Peter Charrington, has promised that De Zerbi will be backed this summer and that the club’s decisions will revolve around achieving footballing success.
Hoddle says that it is high time that the Lewis family start investing in the first-team to match the infrastructure that they have built.
The Spurs legend added: “I think the owners have got to look at it as a football club first and foremost. Everything’s got to revolve around that and aimed at that, rather than being an asset.
“We have a great stadium, and it’s bringing in great income, but if the income comes in, spend it on the club, spend it on the football club. The history of Tottenham is a football club. It’s not anything else and never will be.
“Rather than looking at it negatively, I think you’ve got to see it as a challenge. You’ve got to look at the positives out of it and take on the challenge. That comes from the staff, the players, the staff. When I say staff, it means the recruitment, it means everything. The money that’s going to be made available to go and build a squad.”