Daniel Levy has outlined his commitment to helping Tottenham go on to achieve more success after their long trophy drought finally came to an end.
Spurs had gone 17 years without winning any major silverware until they beat Manchester United 1-0 in the Europa League final in Bilbao last month.
Such a memorable triumph was not enough to prevent a managerial change in north London this summer, with Ange Postecoglou paying the price for overseeing the worst Premier League campaign in the club’s history as he was sacked only a fortnight later and replaced by long-time Brentford boss Thomas Frank.
Levy has now publicly addressed the collective board decision to move on from Postecoglou and hire Frank for the first time in an interview with Tottenham’s in-house media team, in which he spoke alongside new club CEO Vinai Venkatesham.
Levy has come in for increasing criticism from frustrated Spurs fans amid protests against both him and the ownership this season, though the top-flight’s longest-serving chairman - having first taken up the role in 2001 - is now hoping to take the club to Premier League and Champions League success in future after a pivotal hurdle was finally cleared in Bilbao.
“I’ve got very broad shoulders, failure is not an option,” he said. “The desire [is] to succeed. Because it’s so difficult I want to succeed even more.
“The pressure and disappointment of not winning over a number of years, I just wanted it so desperately. Not just for me, my family, but all the fans around the world.
“We deserve some luck, and that last seven or so minutes [of the Europa League final] was horrific. It felt like hours. So when that final whistle went, that was just an amazing experience.
“And you saw the outpouring of emotion with the parade, it was just incredible. We’ve won a European trophy, but it’s not enough.
“It’s what we haven’t done that is more important. We need to win the league. We want to win the Premier League, we want to win the Champions League. We want to win.”
Levy also said: “We’re very proud of the stadium, but we need to make sure we win on the pitch. There’s no point in having a wonderful stadium if you haven’t got a wonderful team and winning.
“The reason we do all these other events is to provide additional financial resources to the club, which in turn goes back into the team. Everything is about the team. Everything.”
