Tottenham are heading into the final day with their Premier League survival still on the line, while a major overhaul is already under way behind the scenes. Sky Sports News reports that the Lewis family and chief executive Vinai Venkatesham intend to reshape the club’s long-term future regardless of which division Spurs are in next season.

The changes come after a period of upheaval that has already reached the top of the club. Since 2022, Joe Lewis’s stake in ENIC has been held in a family trust, with Vivienne Lewis, Charles Lewis and Nick Beucher overseeing Tottenham Hotspur. The Lewis family decided Daniel Levy should leave in September last year, and he departed a few games into the season, days after a troubled transfer window in which Tottenham missed out on Morgan Gibbs-White and Eberechi Eze.

Venkatesham has since carried out a substantial internal review of how the club arrived at its current position. At a later Supporters Trust meeting, he said Tottenham had made “strong progress in areas such as the stadium, training facilities, commercial growth and stadium operations”, but added that other parts of the club were “falling short of what is required to compete at the highest level”. That assessment has landed hard with supporters who have watched the first team underperform for years despite a sharp rise in revenue.

The numbers behind that slide are stark. Venkatesham found a swing from profit in 2018 to £450m-worth of losses from 2020 to the end of last season. The club’s state-of-the-art stadium and training ground have not stopped a long-term decline on the pitch, and fan protests against the ownership and Levy had already intensified before his exit.

That is why the next chapter matters so much. Tottenham are trying to rebuild the football side of the club at the same time as they fight to stay in the top flight, and the shape of that reset will depend on whether they can secure their Premier League place on the final day.