Premier League crisis club of the week: Tottenham Hotspur - yet again

Another week, another Premier League football club in crisis.

And this time, it's a record setting third time that this particular club has been given the 'honour' of being named crisis club of the week.

That's right, Tottenham Hotspur, congratulations, you're officially the most in-crisis club of the 2022/23 season.

And here's why:

What's the crisis?

Well...where do you start?

Maybe the 6-1 defeat to Newcastle United on Sunday?

Or the fact that the club now have seemingly no hope of qualifying for the UEFA Champions League?

Or the fact that Harry Kane, Tottenham's greatest player ever, looks certain to leave the club in the summer?

Or possibly the fact that neither the men's or women's teams have a permanent manager?

Or that the club don't have a Sporting Director after their previous one - Fabio Paratici - was literally banned from working in football by FIFA?

Or should we start with the fact that the men's team have appointed their second interim manager of the season in Ryan Mason after Cristian Stellini somehow made this football team worse than it was under Antonio Conte?

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Or could we start with the fact that seemingly every single Tottenham fan's first-choice for the permanent manager job is their beloved Mauricio Pochettino who is closing in on a move to Chelsea?

Or fact that the first team needs a new goalkeeper, two new centre-backs, a whole new midfield and replacements for the rapidly-declining Son Heung-min and exit-bound Kane?

Seriously, where do you start?

Why are they in crisis?

When a club has this many problems, you have to look at the people who own and run the operation.

Those people are the ENIC group and club chairman Daniel Levy.

Levy and co. succeeded in a myriad of ways throughout their time at Tottenham. The fact that Spurs have the best football stadium in the world as their home is proof of that.

However, while building said stadium, while making Tottenham a more marketable entity and while vying for huge commercial opportunities, the ownership forgot what got the club a seat at the table with Europe's elite in the first place: being a really good football team.

While focusing on off-field opportunities, the club have egregiously allowed the senior team to float along rather aimlessly since making the 2019 UEFA Champions League final, bringing in big-name managers to act as quick fixes when they needed the 'painful rebuild' Poch called for years ago.

Here's Jude Summerfield's - from 90min's Tottenham podcast 'Oh What a Night' - thoughts on the situation:

So this week I sprained my ankle playing football, had a nightmare about Harry Kane joining PSG, and watched Tottenham lose 6-1 to Newcastle.

The 6-1 loss was strangely the funniest bit of the week, because of the nature of the implosion; a volcano filled with molten spuds lava finally erupted on Sunday, covering everyone of a Tottenham persuasion in pure apathy.

That's where Spurs fans are right now; they've been beaten with the promise of pragmatic and effective football for the past four years since Pochettino left and feel they've been played for fools ever since. There's anger at how Spurs have sleptwalk from disaster to disaster with no foresight, and rightly so.

What can they do to rectify it?

Rip it up.

Rip it all up.

New hungry players, new manager with a long-term plan and commitment to the club, a new away kit (the current one is a war crime), and, most importantly, a new chairman and ownership structure.

That's what's needed to fix the utter mess Tottenham Hotspur Football Club currently are.