On Thursday, the club announced that Daniel Levy would step down as chairman of Tottenham, a divisive figure who has been blamed for keeping the Premier League team profitable but unable to make it a trophy-winning force for nearly 25 years.
Levy, 63, announced his retirement from his position with Tottenham as a “global heavyweight competing at the highest level,” the longest-serving chairman in the Premier League.
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Significant progress has been made, according to Levy, but it hasn’t always been an easy journey. I’ll be a strong advocate for this organization forever.
Levy’s departure comes a few months after Tottenham beat Manchester United 1-0 to reach the Europa League final, ending a 17-year trophy drought. Spurs won the English League Cup for the first time since then in 2008, and it was their first major success since 1984 when they won the UEFA Cup, the equivalent of the Europa League.
Many Tottenham fans also accused Levy of pursuing profits over silverware by failing to fully support some of the most well-known managers in football he has worked with in recent years, including Jose Mourinho and Antonio Conte, despite his reputation as a tenacious and uncompromising negotiator in the transfer market.
Despite the fact that Tottenham was one of the so-called “Big Six” in English football and had one of the best stadiums in world football, there were protests against his tenure last year, when the club finished 17th in the Premier League, one place above the bottom three.
Since moving from White Hart Lane to Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, where it has hosted concerts and other sporting events like the NFL and boxing, has Levy oversaw the transition.
In light of Levy’s departure, who reportedly owns roughly 30% of the club’s majority owner ENIC, Tottenham stated that there would be “no changes to the ownership or shareholder structure of the club.”
