In the same week as transfer deadline day, Tottenham have somehow delivered the biggest bombshell of the week.
Indeed, Daniel Levy has stepped down as the Chairman of Tottenham Hotspur in what was a shocking decision to many.
Levy didn’t want to leave his post at Tottenham, but the Spurs higher-ups felt it was time for a change.
This will, of course, have serious knock-on effects, for example, Fabio Paratici now isn’t set to return to Spurs after this news.
Speaking on the Wildcards Podcast’s TikTok page, Jermaine Jenas has now shared his reaction after seeing Levy depart.
Jermaine Jenas reacts to Daniel Levy departure
Jenas shared his immediate reaction after seeing Daniel Levy’s departure from Spurs.
Like many supporters, Jenas’ initial reaction was that of shock.
However, after a bit of contemplation, Jenas did note that while Levy had his flaws, he, overall did a decent job at Spurs.
Jenas has slammed Levy in the past, but he was very balanced in his view here.
“Wow, so big big news coming out of Tottenham Hotspur. Daniel Levy has decided to step down as the Chairman of the football club,” Jenas said.
“I’m sure the initial feelings from the fans will be one of delight. I don’t think it’s a secret they’ve been trying to get him out of the football club for years now.
“I just hope once the dust settles there will be a level of appreciation there.
“I think you always want better players, more trophies, and those things can be thrown at Daniel, that is where he fell short, but he joined the club in 2001, I was at Newcastle looking at that Spurs side, an ageing side, mid-table, the ambition wasn’t really there.
“I looked from afar and I could see what Tottenham were doing with the good, young English players they were bringing to the table.
“They wanted to build a team to challenge for the Champions League, and they did that in terms of qualification for the Champions League, he got that done and his ambitions didn’t stop there, building that incredible training facility and incredible stadium.
“You’re never going to get the balance right, you know, fans are always going to want more, and he’s one that’s in the boardroom making the decisions for what you feel is the best thing for Tottenham.
And there’s no doubt in my mind that he definitely hit the brakes at the worst times, you know, I think about that Pochettino team in particular, the one that challenged for a league, the one that got to the Champions League final, and how he wasn’t able to manage that.
“You’ve got the Jose situation, there’s plenty of lows in there,
“But the reality is, he leaves the club in a better position than where he picked it up from. You know, his last bit of business, but we’re looking at now bringing Thomas Frank, a very good transfer window, to that as well. Now we’re looking at a team that, I suppose, most of us want to be like, they can do something, they can go on and achieve something.
“There’s a lot of positive thoughts around the club at the minute, and I think that, you know, I think he deserves a lot of credit for that.
“I suppose. If there is a way to go out, it’s, you know, delivering a European trophy, and yeah, and going out on a high.
“You know, like I said, there’s going to be a lot of conversation around this over the coming days, and I just really hope that once the dust has settled, and people do have a little bit of a think about it. They go, you know what, could have done better, but he didn’t do a bad job.”
Daniel Levy’s Tottenham legacy analysed
As Jenas says, overall, Levy didn’t do a terrible job at Tottenham, but he does leave behind a complicated legacy.
Indeed, for all of the positives Levy brought to Spurs, there’s an equally bad negative.
Levy will have his backers and his detractors, and, in all honesty, there’s no right answer here in terms of whether he was a net positive or negative for Tottenham.
What matters is that the Levy era is over at Spurs, and it will be interesting to see how Tottenham’s strategy changes from this point onwards.