Tottenham Hotspur said on Sunday that its fans gave everything in a season that gave them so little, as the club laid out a blunt reset after two 17th-place finishes in a row and confirmed Roberto De Zerbi as men’s head coach for five years.
Peter Charrington said the Lewis family stepped in last September and authorised a full reset at Spurs, adding that the club had fallen short for too long and that the decision came later than it should have. He said Tottenham would build a squad led by De Zerbi to compete at the highest levels of Premier League and European football.
The statement lands after a bruising run that Tottenham itself described as not acceptable. Charrington said the club had allowed the qualities that make Spurs distinct to fade, had not made football success the driving force behind its decisions and did not have the right expertise in key roles. He said the club also failed to build squads good enough to compete in the Premier League, a judgment that cuts to the core of why this rebuild is being framed as more than a routine managerial change.
Tottenham said it has restructured leadership across the club since September, with most of the refreshed executive and football structure already in post and others due in the coming weeks. The board said it is committed to the new leadership group and will give it stability and support, while the Lewis family will provide stability and investment at every level to move the club forward.
Charrington also said Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale and that the Lewis family is wholly committed to the club and the rebuild, pushing back on speculation about ownership and the future direction of the team. The club said this summer is the first step in a plan to invest across multiple transfer windows to rebuild, balance and strengthen the squad, while also modernising football operations with a greater focus on medical and performance standards.
That overhaul reaches beyond the men’s side. Tottenham said it will increase investment in the Academy and continue backing a world-class women’s team led by Martin Ho, signaling a club-wide reset rather than a single-team repair job. The message is clear: after last season and the one before it, Tottenham is treating its decline as structural, not accidental, and betting that time, money and a new football hierarchy can stop the slide.
