The Tottenham chair, Daniel Levy, believes he'll get credit score for his time in cost solely when he leaves and is assured Thomas Frank may help the membership to “compete on the highest stage”.
In a uncommon interview, Levy described the development of the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium as his “biggest achievement” and hit again at followers who've blamed him for the membership's failure to win extra trophies.
“I feel it's a kind of conditions [in which] once I'm not right here I'm positive I'll get the credit score,” Levy instructed Gary Neville on his Overlap podcast. “This stadium is an emblem of Tottenham Hotspur on the worldwide map. I feel it's improbable for the local people – the employment that we're creating due to this stadium.
“The truth that different golf equipment are actually making an attempt to repeat what we're doing, that ought to be an indication that perhaps we did do one thing daring, and one thing proper.”
The Europa League triumph final season was Tottenham's first trophy since 2008 and got here simply earlier than the tip of a Premier League marketing campaign during which they completed seventeenth after a file 22 defeats. Levy sacked Ange Postecoglou 16 days after the victory in opposition to Manchester United within the closing in Bilbao and he's hopeful that Frank may help the membership to problem for trophies on a extra constant foundation.
“Everytime you appoint a coach, you all the time imagine it's proper,” Levy stated. “You want a variety of elements for it to be proper. Thomas is a extremely smart particular person, a improbable means about him by way of communication. I feel he might be nice at each growing younger gamers and older gamers and making them higher. He will get the type of soccer we need to play. He understands that Rome wasn't in-built a day. We haven't stated to him: ‘You've received to win the league this yr.' We simply need to compete on the highest stage.”
Levy was essential of the Premier League for the time it has taken to conclude the case involving alleged breaches of the league's laws by Manchester Metropolis. The membership, who deny wrongdoing, had been charged with greater than 130 breaches in February 2023.
“I feel it might be actually unfair of me to speak about one other membership within the Premier League,” Levy stated. “All I'd say is that it's going via a course of which I feel has gone on for much too lengthy. It must be introduced, for the great of the sport, to a conclusion a technique or one other.”
