Tottenham legend Glenn Hoddle gives his verdict on club chairman Daniel Levy as unrest among supporters continues to grow
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Glenn Hoddle admits he understands Tottenham fans' frustration with Daniel Levy, as anger among Spurs supporters continues to grow during what has been a near-disastrous campaign for the club.
With Tottenham languishing in 12th in the Premier League, even after three straight wins, their fanbase has become increasingly unsettled.
Spurs are out of both domestic cups and with Champions League qualification out of the question fans have started to take aim at Levy and the board, calling for change.
Prior to Tottenham's win over Manchester United last week, supporters gathered in their droves to protest, demanding boardroom change.
They marched down the High Road to the stadium in good voice behind banners, while chants could be heard throughout the game with Levy the main target of their ire.
And now Spurs legend Hoddle, who also works as a pundit on TNT Sports, has urged the chairman, who scked him as the club's manager in 2003, to pump more money into the squad to bring 'glory' back to the club.
Frustration towards Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy has vastly intensified in recent weeks
At least 2,000 fans voiced their anger ahead of Tottenham's win over Man United last week
Spurs legend Glenn Hoddle told Mail Sport that he understands Spurs fans' unrest during troubled times at the club
Hoddle tells Mail Sport: 'Now I can understand that there are some people that are frustrated and they're turning their anger on it.
'Daniel's done a fantastic job with the stadium. He's built a fantastic training ground that any player in the world would love that environment to go and train and play in the stadium, right? That's the wrong way around for me.
'The money that the stadium is bringing in is quite amazing. It really is. I think the fans need to know that whether every penny is the priority. Is the priority the squad?
'Are we going to build a squad that that stadium actually deserves? Squad first, build a stadium afterward, but it's the other way around now. Now build a team where every single priority is for the squad.
'We're going to [need to] go out and then we're going to play perhaps 15 million, 20 million more than we should for that player because the future and the glory of Tottenham is going to come back.
Ange Postecoglou's side have endured quite a brutal campaign. 13 Premier League defeats have left them wasting away in the darkness of the bottom half of the table.
A tyrant amount of injuries have led to a series of disappointing results, leaving fans restless. A winder transfer window did not do too much to lift the spirits either.
Mathys Tel may have walked through the door on loan from Bayern Munich, but the signings of Yang Min-Hyeok, Antonin Kinsky, and Kevin Danso have not filled the huge holes left by injured players.
Levy has been the subject of much fan fury and the protests are only starting to grow
Ange Postecoglou's side have lost 13 Premier League matches and are in the bottom half
It means success does not feel too near for Postecoglou and his team. Even with the background of a magnificent 63,000-seater stadium, Hoddle believes spirits will stay low in the stands until success is brought to them.
'If you have had success there, the stadium would be a wonderful place for fans to go and watch,' Hoddle continues. 'But if the results are not going well, you're not as happy as you should be.
'If you're winning and you're building a team, and there's a team that can genuinely go for trophies, then that stadium actually deserves to have a squad that can go all the way over the next four or five years.
'Everything's there, ready, and Daniel's built it. But for me, they've done it the wrong way around. But so be it. The moment is now, and I think that's where the fans are disgruntled because they're not sure whether now is the time that they can.'
There has been some light at the end of the tunnel for Spurs of late, with league wins over Brentford, Manchester United, and Ipswich making them the in-form team in the division.
Next up, Postecoglou's side take on Manchester City on Wednesday night, a side they notoriously do well against - no matter their form.
Back In November, Spurs stunned the whole country when they smashed four goals past the sorry champions on their own patch, kickstarting a horrific run of form for Pep Guardiola's side.
Spurs' form has had a recent upturn after three league wins on the spin, including a 4-1 victory at Ipswich
Tottenham host Man City, who they beat 4-0 back in November, on Wednesday evening
And Hoddle cites City's possession-based style of play as the key reason why Spurs have so much success against them.
'The reason we do well against Man City is we are forced to actually defend a lot tighter as a team because they have the ball so much,' the former Spurs star adds. We drop a little bit deeper, [making us] harder to beat.
'Particularly in the away game in the league, wow. We hit them on the counter so well, but we had the correct players to do it, and we punished them.
'We put them to the sword that day. That was as good as Tottenham have played for two seasons.'
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