Tottenham Hotspur said on Sunday that the Lewis family is still backing a long rebuild, with Peter Charrington insisting the club is not for sale and that the owners remain committed to a reset begun in September. The chairman’s message came as the club tried to draw a line under speculation about ownership and future direction.
“On Sunday, despite a season that gave you so little, you gave everything,” Charrington wrote to supporters. He then addressed the rumours head-on: “Let us be direct. Tottenham Hotspur is not for sale.”
The statement is the clearest public sign yet that the club’s leadership overhaul, which began after the Lewis family authorised a full reset in September, is meant to be a long-term project rather than a short-term repair. Tottenham said it had discovered that football success had not been driving decisions, that it did not have the right expertise in key roles and that it had failed to build squads good enough to compete in the Premier League. Two 17th-place finishes in a row, the club said, were not acceptable.
Charrington said the Lewis family are “wholly committed to this Club and to this rebuild,” adding that they will provide “the stability and investment needed at every level to move us forward” and that they see their role as “a long-term responsibility, not a short-term fix.” The club said the board is committed to the leadership group and will give it stability and support, while most of the refreshed executive and football structure is already in post and others will arrive in the coming weeks.
That structure is now built around a fresh football plan. Tottenham said Roberto De Zerbi has been signed as men’s head coach for five years, and that it will build a squad with the right blend of experience, youth and leadership. The club also said it will invest across multiple transfer windows to rebuild, balance and strengthen, with this summer marking an important first step in that work.
The rebuild is not limited to the first team. Tottenham said it will modernise its football operation with a significant focus on raising standards across medical and performance departments, increase investment in the academy and continue investing in a world-class women’s team led by Martin Ho. The club said it has restructured leadership across the organisation since September, a move it framed as necessary after years in which football decisions had drifted away from football priorities.
For supporters, the promise now is less about one signing or one season than about whether the club can finally align ambition with process. The letter follows months of speculation about ownership and direction, but the message from Tottenham was blunt: the Lewis family is staying, the reset is real, and the people in charge will be judged by whether they can turn a long-promised rebuild into results on the pitch.
