There is no doubt that Tottenham Hotspur have been the most embarrassing club in the Premier League this season, and after watching their putrid performances against two of the worst squads in the league in West Ham United and Burnley, it is patently obvious that Spurs are also one of the worst teams in the league right now. And it may only be a few more weeks of poor results when Spurs realize they, too, are staring down a real threat of relegation.
The gauntlet of fixtures begins soon with Manchester City, and Tottenham are nowhere close to the team that beat the Citizens 2-0. Now, Spurs had a chance to improve their squad - or even simply fire Thomas Frank for his many sins - but instead of being proactive this winter transfer window, Conor Gallagher is the only potential starter the club has signed this window.
Gallagher, of course, was discarded by both Chelsea and Atletico Madrid for a reason. So all told, Spurs have not upgraded a single position, Gallagher is not playing at the level of a Premier League starter to begin his Tottenham career, and there is just about no time left in the winter transfer window.
Tottenham are a joke now
Tottenham Hotspur supporters are looking at the landscape of the Premier League and their own squad, and after more devastating injuries to Mohammed Kudus, Lucas Bergvall, and even Rodrigo Bentancur, fans cannot help but come to the very logical conclusion that instead of being better after the winter transfer window closes they will, in fact, be unequivocally worse.
It is a sentiment that Thomas Frank himself agrees with, based on his comments at a press conference prior to Tottenham's matchup against Manchester City. Frank said, via The Spurs Watch, "I think thatâs fair. We lost six or seven players. Thatâs crazy and some of them extremely unlucky like Lucas and Ben."
The most infuriating thing about this quote is that if Frank is publicly admitting that Tottenham are actually worse on January 30 than they were on January 1, then, clearly, the entire front office at the N17 knows this. And instead of doing something about it at any point over these several weeks, they have been showing unsuccessful interest in bogus, overpaid veteran players like Leon Goretzka and Andrew Robertson who are neither joining Tottenham nor would move the meter anyway.
Tottenham are the laughingstock of the Premier League. Only they could enter a transfer window in which they needed to make a few major signings and emerge from it much worse than before.