Tottenham Hotspur — too good to go down, or too bad to stay up?

“You know [Manchester United] you are finishing in the bottom half next year, I promise you, I [as a Tottenham Hotspur supporter] won’t be there! You thought we are mud brothers, we are not. You see that [UEFA Europa League] trophy I took from you? I’ve risen above you now. I’m looking down on you. I’m telling you now, Spurs will not finish bottom half next season, I can comfortably say that!”

This is what YouTube creator and Tottenham Hotspur fan Fuad Cadani had to say in one of the episodes of the popular football podcast “Sharky Does Sports” about the fortunes of his club ahead of the 2025/26 Premier League season.

Safe to say, his quote has aged like milk.

At the time of writing, here are a few lows that Spurs have experienced in this season so far:

• They have not won a Premier League game in 2026.
• They have only taken four points in 11 league games this year.
• They are currently on a five-game losing streak, the longest in the Premier League.
• Interim head coach Igor Tudor has lost all his first three games in charge of the Lilywhites.
• Finally, Spurs are now just one point away from safety, with Nottingham Forest and West Ham United picking up form as well as points in their late bids for survival.

Funnily enough, Manchester United, the team Cadani predicted to finish in the bottom half, are sitting rather pretty — third in the table, far away from the perils and uncertainty of the bottom half of the Premier League table, and even farther from what is shaping up to be a memorable relegation dogfight.

So, in essence, you have a team who have forgotten how to win matches, a billion-pound stadium that has turned into a cesspit of toxicity, a board that is inching closer and closer to being hated with passion, and an interim boss who has already been drained of all his energy and enthusiasm just three games into managing this situation at the club that is Tottenham Hotspur.

Spurs have been one of the most consistent sides in the Premier League in recent times, yet the situation they find themselves in is a classic example of what happens when one thinks they are too big to fail. They finished 17th in the league last season, though relegation was never really a possibility, given the three teams below them were far gone and atrocious. This time around, however, relegation is possible, and Spurs are right in the thick of it.

The players seem bereft of confidence, looking like they do not know how to manage games, and positive vibes are very much non-existent. They have a captain who verbally assaults the club on social media at every given opportunity while being a walking red card on the pitch. They have a forward line that is arguably one of the worst in club history, which boasts the likes of Peter Crouch, Teddy Sheringham, Jermaine Defoe, Harry Kane, and Son Heung-min as their strikers in the Premier League era. Their midfield is an utter shambles, and the less said about the defence, the better.

Now, you could give them a bit of leeway over the sheer turnover of the players they have faced due to the injuries that plague them, but even that is mitigated by the fact that they barely spent any money in the recent transfer window. Breaking the wage structure for a good but not great midfielder in Conor Gallagher reeks of panic-buy philosophy, and that was the only first-team acquisition they made in January.

Even Igor Tudor’s appointment, even on an interim basis, is now looking like a farcical move in every way imaginable. He was heralded as a firefighter with a track record of delivering immediate short-term impact. But, with all due respect to the likes of Udinese and Lazio, they are not clubs with a global following and a £1bn stadium.

After the 4–1 drubbing against Arsenal, Tudor said that his team were heading in the right direction. But now, he looks like a man who is walking in a ghost town, with an eerie sense of nothingness and failure all around him.

Spurs face Liverpool next in the league, and despite the game against Atlético Madrid, it is a no-brainer that Premier League survival should hold more importance than European football right now.

Spurs are currently missing players who happen to be the best players the club have at the moment, and that gives you a feeling about them still being too good to go down. However, given the manner of their performances, one limp showing after another, and the shambles they find themselves in both on and off the pitch, they just look too bad to stay up as well.

It is rather fitting, in an ironic sort of way, that the club that would perfectly fit these descriptions happens to be Tottenham Hotspur. Like Giorgio Chiellini said, “It is in the history of the Tottenham.”