Keith Wyness blasts Vinai Venkatesham and his Tottenham colleague who are root cause of all club’s problems
Tottenham’s hierarchy are showing zero leadership as the club battles against Premier League relegation on the pitch.
That is according to ex-Everton, Aston Villa, and Aberdeen chief executive Keith Wyness, speaking exclusively to Football Insider, who believes Spurs may be “missing Daniel Levy.”
Levy stood down as Spurs’ executive chairman in September after nearly 25 years at the club, with chief executive Vinai Venkatesham, formerly of Arsenal, taking over day-to-day operations.
Spurs are currently fighting to maintain their Premier League status, with just a four-point gap between themselves and the relegation zone.
Tottenham hierarchy ‘very absent in leading the club’
Everton’s former chief Keith Wyness – who served as CEO at Goodison Park between 2004 and 2009 and now runs a football consultancy advising elite clubs – believes the problems at Spurs are “stemming from the top.”
Speaking on the new edition of Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast, Wyness thinks Spurs need to hire a “strong decision maker” like Levy.
He told Football Insider‘s Inside Track podcast: “I think the problems go a lot deeper than Thomas Frank or Tudor. I’m afraid so. I think this is really something that’s stemming from the top.
“There’s a lack of leadership at the top. They’ve got the new CEO who came from Arsenal, Vinai, and I’m afraid he is not the personality to lead. And he’s been very absent from all I can see in terms of leading the club. And he is supposed to be the guy on the ground.
“Now we’ve got, you know, of course, the Lewis family, and it does seem the guy called Nick Butcher, seems to be the son-in-law, I think, of the Lewis family who’s taking a leading role in this sort of area. Again, he’s been quiet, but there seems to be just this vacuum at the top and that’s the real problem that Spurs have got.
“And believe me, from experience, I know this trickles all the way down from the top when there is no leadership and no clear leadership. I’ve mentioned many times how you need as few people as possible to be making decisions, and to have strong decisions from the top.
“Spurs are an absolute example of how they’ve got this wrong right now. And actually missing Daniel Levy, I think, who was a strong decision maker at the top. He had a lot of critics, but actually it’s got worse. So I don’t blame the manager as such. I think the problems go a lot deeper.”
Tottenham fans stunned at top earner reveal
Spurs’ recruitment was in the spotlight from the fanbase when it was revealed that Conor Gallagher is the club’s current top earner.
Gallagher, who joined the club in the January transfer window, reportedly earns £200,000 a week, with many fans believing the 26-year-old is not worthy of such a high wage.
The midfielder was the club’s only major signing in January as Thomas Frank failed to be backed significantly before he was sacked.