It’s the “lavish spending” problem all over again.

My view is simple – for a couple of years they have tried the “new managers and lots of new expensive purchases” approach and it has failed and of late they have come 17th.  So what do they do this summer?  The same again.

But if I may quote in a little more from the article, “Time for Tottenham to start panicking? This is, of course, a subtle trick question. Tottenham is one of those clubs that never actually stops panicking. They panic when they concede and they panic when they score.”

And pushing my luck with quoting from the same publication, try this, “Since beating Aston Villa 4-1 in late 2024, Tottenham have gone behind 44 times in all competitions and come back to win precisely zero of them.”

But here was something new.  The reason that Tottenham have utterly failed to sell the naming  rights of the stadium, is because “every visiting side gets to own the place”.  A clever little bit of journ.

And I promise this is the last one – and you really should go and read the article yourself through the link above, “Over the past 12 months, Aston Villa have won the same number of domestic fixtures at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium (two) as Tottenham.”    But at last a newspaper reporter agrees with Untold – it has taken a long old time to get there, but they have in the end.  “Tottenham are discovering that buying new footballers is the easy part.”

Arteta showed that and Arsenal had the patience and had confidence in him to let him do it and finish eighth in the league twice while he built his team.   Fortunately for us, (because I am enjoying the show) Tottenham didn’t go to the classes where they aught that lesson.

What is interesting here is the foot of the table because the bottom three clubs have all played the maximum number of games….

But that table needs to be compared with the spending table… becuase the point is not that spending is wrong.  Spending is fine as long as you can buy the right players for your team, and sell at a decent price the player who can’t deliver for your club, but maybe could elsewhere.  This table again comes from the Guardian, and is perhaps the most helpful one that we can find.