The UEFA Europa League triumph apart, it has felt like Tottenham have been sleepwalking into a major crisis for some time now.
And that crisis is happening right before our eyes with the battle to avoid relegation to the Championship.
With this season now coming to an end, one of the so-called big six in the Premier League have only finished in the top six in three of the seven seasons since Mauricio Pochettino was sacked.
The Argentine had led Spurs to five consecutive top-six finishes in his five seasons in charge, with four straight top-four finishes.
Finishing 17th last year and likely to finish either 17th or 18th this year, the cracks that have been emerging since Pochettino left the club are widening.
Tottenham Have Tried Everything To Secure Success
Roberto De Zerbi - Spurs' third manager this season - has been tasked with not only papering over the cracks, but re-affirming the foundations of the club and getting things back on an even keel in north London.
The Italian will want to do that from the comfort of the Premier League, rather than having to rebuild in the Championship next season, but that requires four big results between now and the end of the season to get themselves out of trouble.
If Tottenham do go down, however, it would give credence to a long-held belief of Pochettino's that has not been heeded.
The now USA manager told Spurs chiefs that a "painful rebuild" was required after the UEFA Champions League final defeat to Liverpool in 2019. That rebuild was not forthcoming and Pochettino was sacked months later.
Spurs have struggled to recover ever since, trying various different methods to try to get back on track - born winners in Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, pragmatic coaches in Nuno Espirito Santo and Thomas Frank, Tottenham style managers in Ange Postecoglou and now De Zerbi. But while the playing squad has changed it has never truly evolved into anything better.
The likes of Hugo Lloris, Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and others were replaced by lesser players over the years and it has shown on the pitch.
The Pochettino era will finally come to an end this summer, however, as the last remaining member of the playing squad from the Argentine's time at the club will say goodbye.
Ben Davies has been a Spurs stalwart, giving 12 years of his career to the Lilywhites, but with his contract ending, so too is his time in north London, with no extension to be awarded.
It will be back-to-back seasons in which Tottenham have struggled at the wrong end of the Premier League table and De Zerbi must be given time and funds to make the requisite changes at the club - the ones he can influence at least - in order to get Spurs back where they belong.
De Zerbi needs to completely hit the reset button and be ruthless with the owners and with the playing squad, stripping back and starting again afresh.
Pochettino Explains Transfer Strategy Is Not Just About Buying Players
Speaking on the Overlap this week, Pochettino said: "When you see the first game when Jurgen Klopp arrived was against us and then a few years after when we played the final of the Champions League, you see it was a completely new team, while we kept the same structure.
"It's not only about money, sometimes players that are good don't belong anymore in certain clubs. If you don't remove, these players maybe are impossible to improve or increase their level and that for me is key for all projects. Make the decision to be right not only in players that you want, but also when is the moment when players don't belong anymore? That's when things are maybe not in line."
Pochettino knew in 2019 and maybe before that he needed to change things, not just slightly, but hugely, at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. He was not able to and was given the boot. De Zerbi now must make sure wholesale changes that are required, are made.
That may, however, depend on which division Tottenham find themselves in...