Charlie Grace

Sun 7 September 2025 17:57, UK

Tottenham Hotspur’s hierarchy have heaped pressure on the club and themselves to succeed after their bombshell Daniel Levy decision last week.

Levy stepped down from his role at Tottenham after 24 years at the club, signalling a major reshuffle of the backroom staff at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.

Some pundits have suggested that Levy was “pushed” out of Tottenham, while others have warned of the impact that pushing out a chairman that grew the stature of the club might bring.

Levy’s savvy business acumen has grown the status of Tottenham since he joined in 2001, and the club is now classed amongst the country’s most successful sides without the trophies to match.

Tottenham must get this right

Jamie O’Hara spoke to Sky Sports and suggested that Tottenham are now in a position to chase success in the next five or six years.

While others have pointed out how Levy took Tottenham from a mid table position to competing for the Premier League and Champions League during his time in North London.

As the pile-on continues, Tottenham are setting themselves lofty expectations ahead of the post-Levy era, with Sky Sports’ Kaveh Solhekol suggesting that the club’s owner Joe Lewis believed the two trophies won by Spurs in Levy’s 25 years at the club wasn’t good enough.

Solhekol suggested there’s no noise from Tottenham about a change of ownership structure but Levy’s replacement Vinai Venkatesham is certainly under pressure to bring “more wins more often.”

Given the growth of Tottenham under the leadership of Levy, executive chairman Venkatesham and new non-executive chairman Peter Charrington will be under pressure to quickly improve on field results whilst also carrying on the off-field business model that Levy installed so well.

Assessing Daniel Levy’s impact at Tottenham

When Levy took over at Tottenham in 2001 the club had finished tenth in the 2000-01 season, finishing below Leeds United, Ipswich Town, Sunderland, Charlton Athletic and Southampton.

Fast-forward 25 years and Levy as Tottenham amongst the consensus “big six” in England alongside both Manchester clubs, Chelsea, Arsenal and Liverpool.

During that time Spurs won their first trophy in nine years, the 2008 League Cup, and finished third twice, coming second in the Premier League on one occasion too.

Levy signed off as Tottenham chairman with a Europa League title as well, and while fans rejoice at his departure, it is worth remembering the grass isn’t always greener on the other side.

The now-former Spurs chief regularly attracted criticism among fans and pundits over the years for the club failing to capitalise on key situations.

Levy was often seen as the reason Tottenham came close to successes without the end result, whether in transfer chases or pushes for silverware, but how much he was actually the issue or a shield for Lewis and his family is less clear.

What is clear is that now he has been removed from the equation, against his will or not, he can no longer take the blame if familiar failings are repeated, so the pressure is now on the new regime, as well as the Lewis family, like it hasn’t been for a long time.