Tottenham Hotspur are having a difficult season, but Simon Jordan does not believe club chairman, Daniel Levy, is the man at fault.
Tottenham’s journey with Daniel Levy
Tottenham’s defeat to Chelsea on Sunday means they have lost four of their past seven matches in all competitions, winning just one of those games, against Manchester City. And they are now in the bottom half of the Premier League table, seven points off the top four.
While some have chosen to place the blame on Ange Postecoglou, a number of supporters have renewed calls on Daniel Levy to resign as chairman, as they claim he is responsible for yet another disappointing season.
Although Levy has regularly seen Spurs qualify for European football, the club have won just one trophy in his 23 years at the helm and it was the League Cup, which is considered the least important of English football’s trophies.
Simon Jordan is not convinced by those wanting Levy out
Some neutral commentators have chosen to call on Levy to resign including Jamie Carragher during Sky Sports’ post-match coverage of Tottenham’s 4-3 defeat to Chelsea, but not everyone feels the same way
Speaking on talkSPORT, Simon Jordan has questioned whether it is practical for Spurs to find new owners, while he has also claimed Levy is not to blame for Tottenham’s dreadful form.
He said: “How does it work when you get someone in the door? Because it’s working really well at the moment with Manchester United and Jim Ratcliffe, this new intellectual capital that’s coming in.
“Just what happened on the field against Chelsea and Brighton has nothing to do with the owner. That’s to do with the manager and what he decides to do in the game.
“Now, I do agree that in order for Tottenham to be more competitive, and you go back to the seasons when they’d lost the Champions League final, the argument is, why didn’t they back it then?
“People came out, David Pleat sat in the studio and said it was nothing to do with Levy.
“It was that Mauricio Pochettino didn’t want any new players. Pochettino sings a different song.
“The bottom line is, is if you don’t win anything and you’re commercially a very successful football club and you built a wonderful stadium, you’re going to be sat in a situation where people like Jamie Carragher or anybody else, or even the Tottenham fans that have their moments with Daniel Levy, are going to sit there and say, time for a change.”
Daniel Levy has to take responsibility at Tottenham
Whether Jordan should be trusted to make evaluations on the performance of a chairman is questionable, considering he oversaw Crystal Palace being placed into administration in 2010. He wants the blame being thrown at Levy redirected, but he offers no solution as to how Tottenham can become successful.
Ultimately, despite being the best-paid chairman in the league and enforcing the highest ticket prices in the Premier League, Levy has headed up the club through many a transfer window, where Spurs have failed to build a squad fit for purpose, which in recent years has seen heavy criticism from former managers including Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte.
No matter who is in charge as Spurs, they fall short every time. Can every manager who comes to the club continue to be blamed, or is it perhaps time to acknowledge that nothing will ever change until the Premier League’s longest-serving chairman calls it a day?