Spurs identified their areas of need and received the backing to address them well, giving their demanding manager what he should require to mold them into a winner.
This has been a very unfamiliar summer for Tottenham. The offseason months in Spurs’ portion of north London are usually time for introspection and frustration, anxiously fretting that key assets may be sold while frustration mounts at Daniel Levy’s policy of brinksmanship with signings as he seeks the best possible price even at the expense of proper planning for the campaign to come. But this summer, after all the doubts in the spring about Antonio Conte’s future, business has been handled early, and there is a clear mood of optimism at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium.