‘Miss the days’ – Ex-Spurs player names position Levy needs to spend money on

Jamie O’Hara has said that Daniel Levy has to take responsibility for the fact that Antonio Conte has been left short of options in central midfield.

Tottenham have lost both Yves Bissouma and Rodrigo Bentancur to long-term injuries, with the former expected to miss eight weeks of action with an ankle injury while the latter is not expected to kick a ball again this season after rupturing his ACL.

To make matters worse, Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg was suspended for Spurs’ first leg against AC Milan, which meant that Conte was left with no choice but to start with an inexperienced midfield pairing of Pape Matar Sarr and Oliver Skipp at the San Siro.

The two youngsters certainly did not look out of place and delivered a mature display yesterday but were not able to stop Spurs from falling to a 1-0 loss.

While O’Hara praised Skipp and Sarr for their performances on Tuesday, he laid the blame for the lack of options in the middle of the park squarely on Levy.

Here’s what the former Tottenham midfielder tweeted:

‘Skipp and Sarr have actually been decent, the rest of them very poor, miss the days of Spurs having a top-class creative midfielder, we’re so short in options on midfield, Levy has a lot to answer for.’

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Levy arguably deserves criticism for several of his decisions over recent years but some Tottenham fans are making him a scapegoat for everything that goes wrong.

The Spurs chairman is in no way responsible for the fact two of our midfielders are injured and another was suspended yesterday.

It is Conte who is responsible for the fact that we do not have a creative midfielder in the squad as the Italian opted to prioritise strengthening other areas of the pitch in the summer and in January as he is clearly not prepared to move away from his preferred 3-4-3 formation.