Ex-Tottenham director: Daniel Levy has no understanding about football

Tottenham chief Daniel Levy has 'no understanding about the football game' even though he is very 'hands-on' with transfer business, according to former Spurs director of football Frank Arnesen.

Spurs are undergoing a difficult transfer market after key attacking targets Luis Diaz and Adama Traore chose Liverpool and Barcelona respectively, with both players snubbing a move to Antonio Conte's side in the process.

And Arnesen, who was Tottenham's director of football between 2004 and 2005, believes Levy is very good at delegating to his sporting director or coach about football matters, as he has no knowledge of the game himself. 

Arnesen told The Athletic: 'You also have clubs where there are owners who are very hands-on and they want to do the negotiations, like Tottenham. Daniel does it himself and is very good at it. 

'But he has no understanding about the football game and doesn't interfere if you want a left-back or a right winger. He trusts his manager and the sporting director to do that work.' 

Levy recently celebrated his 20-year anniversary of taking over Spurs and while he managed to take the north London club into the Champions League for a portion of that time, the club have won just on trophy - the 2008 League Cup - in that period. 

The high-points of Levy's tenure have been Spurs reaching the Champions League final in 2019 and the club finishing as Premier League runners-up two years earlier, but success in the form of trophies has been few and far between.

Levy has come under intense criticism in recent months, especially regarding Tottenham's involvement in founding the now-botched European Super League - which saw six Premier League clubs sign up to create the project.

That saga, along with Tottenham's