{"id":713263,"date":"2026-07-27T08:45:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:45:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713263\/"},"modified":"2026-07-27T08:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T08:45:09","slug":"micky-van-de-ven-tottenham-spending-highlights-new-ambition-after-unacceptable-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/713263\/","title":{"rendered":"Micky van de Ven: Tottenham spending highlights ‘new ambition’ after ‘unacceptable’ season"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tottenham<\/a> had three managers last season, with Thomas Frank managing less than eight months in charge<\/a> before being sacked after a dismal start to the season.<\/p>\n

Interim manager Igor Tudor left the club<\/a> after 44 days before De Zerbi took over with seven games of the season<\/a> remaining.<\/p>\n

Frank struggled to connect with the Tottenham<\/a> fans and was criticised for playing with a “safety-first” approach.<\/p>\n

Van de Ven believes De Zerbi will have the team playing better football, helped by the new signings and a full pre-season to drill the squad. <\/p>\n

“It’s going to be different compared to the manager we had last season,” Van de Ven said.<\/p>\n

“It’s going to be more with the ball, I think, more about playing football. I think it’s also going to be more enjoyable for people to watch because we’ll be playing offensive football.<\/p>\n

“You can see he [De Zerbi] has brought a lot of passion into our group, a lot in terms of mentality and passion on the pitch. <\/p>\n

“It is something we needed because everybody was a little bit down.<\/p>\n

“He brings a lot of good energy and, from pre-season, we have really had the time to bring his football into the team. That’s really enjoyable.”<\/p>\n

Earlier this month Spurs broke their transfer record twice in two days, first signing midfielder Mateus Fernandes from West Ham for \u00a385m before bringing in Sandro Tonali from Newcastle<\/a> for \u00a3100m.<\/p>\n

Jan Paul van Hecke, Van de Ven’s Netherlands team-mate, has also joined from Brighton<\/a> in a \u00a352m deal, alongside the free transfers of experienced trio Marcos Senesi, Andrew Robertson and Martin Dubravka.<\/p>\n

“The feeling of the team is really good, to be honest,” Van de Ven added.<\/p>\n

“I have really enjoyed working with him [De Zerbi]. That’s what we have been doing in this pre-season, and the guys who are coming in have been unbelievable as well.<\/p>\n

“They have fit in well to the group.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tottenham had three managers last season, with Thomas Frank managing less than eight months in charge before being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":713249,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-713263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/713249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}