Mo Salah has been a huge success at Liverpool. (Image: Getty)
are set to again pay a heavy price for not listening to the transfer advice of former striker Mido. has heaped the pressure on , with his side now floundering in 15th in the table.
The club have also not landed a trophy since 2008, and fan discontent is growing despite Spurs taking a 1-0 lead to for their semi-final second leg next month.
And the ex-Egyptian international was savage about the state of the club on Monday, appearing on talkSPORT to label the owners “embarrassing.”
Now though, previous social media posts have come to light where the 41-year-old urged his old team to push to sign 11 years ago, before later encouraging them to go after Eintracht Frankfurt striker Omar Marmoush.
Back in 2013, when Spurs were spending big following the sale of to , he tweeted: “I advise Spurs to sign Salah from Basel…he is the player needs…he is better than Lamela and much cheaper.”
Instead, Salah would then join the following January for just £11 million. After moving to Roma, he returned to England in June 2017 in a £36.5m move to , and has proceeded to become an icon of the .
Mido played 61 times for Tottenham. (Image: Getty)
Then in 2024, Mido reminded Levy and co of how they ignored his pleas, and this time told them to go after Marmoush. “Years ago, I advised Spurs to sign Salah, when he was still at Basel, they never listened to me,” he said.
“Now I’m telling you please go for Marmoush he will be a great signing. He will fit in perfectly in Angie’s system as a left or right winger…hard worker, top professional, and can score goals. Please Levy, sign Marmoush from Frankfurt.”
But it seems have repeated their mistake. Instead, Marmoush is on the verge of a £70m move to . And the player who scored 19 times in 61 games while in north London has made his feelings known on live radio.
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“To be honest, it’s embarrassing and I don’t think the real problem is or any other coach,” he ranted. “I’m being honest here, the people at the top have been running the club from a financial point of view, not from a football point of view.
“I feel sorry for every Spurs fan and I’m one of them. You always have to find the balance between the football operations and the right investment and for Daniel Levy and the people at the top I really think their first concern is to make money out of this football club.