Back in May, Tottenham Hotspur won the Europa League and secured a berth in the group stages of this season’s Champions League.
The European success also meant Spurs ended their 17-year trophy drought, and they will face Villarreal in the first Champions League group stage fixture on Tuesday.
Ahead of the clash in north London, Monday’s edition of El Periódico Mediterráneo, a newspaper local to the La Liga club, reported on Tottenham’s history, success and their investment in the summer transfer window.
The Spanish newspaper detail Tottenham’s honours, which includes two league titles [last one in 1961], eight FA Cups [last one in 1991] and four League Cups [last one in 2008] among the domestic competitions.
Spurs have also tasted success in Europe as they won the UEFA Cup/Europa League thrice and the UEFA Cup Winners’ Cup during the 1962/63 season.
The English club have two trophies since 2000 and lost the 2018/19 Champions League final to Liverpool, but that hasn’t stopped the newspaper from praising Spurs.
El Periódico Mediterráneo point out Tottenham are ‘not considered a winning club’ in the UK, but they feel the reality is ‘quite the opposite’.
The north London club, who appointed Thomas Frank as Ange Postecoglou’s successor before the start of the season, invested over €200m on new signings this summer.
Tottenham have nine points from four games and are third in the table, and despite their big investment and good start, the newspaper say Villlarreal aren’t afraid to face them in the Champions League this evening.