To answer the question "what is the way forward for THFC ??" you first need to ask whose opinion counts and what do they want. For me it is the fans opinions but what they want is a much harder question. Some will want trophies, perhaps at almost any price, others want "good football" however that is determined and there are many other options or combinations. Spurs are a club with a long history of exciting attacking football and the idea of winning the title by playing for 1-0 every week would be anathema (remember the man in the raincoat?).
At present though it seems that it is ENIC who determine what the club wants - and that does not seem to be trophies. I would hazard a guess that becoming rich by developing the stadium, the fan base and qualifying for the CL every year suits their ambitions. For them - a trophy? - yes please if we could have it but no thanks if we have to compete for the most expensive players.
For me - I would dearly love to win the league - even though the Premiership is not the type of league I like - being money-dominated as it is. But that is just a function of my age. Starting to support Spurs in the late 50s and being spoilt by our 1960's is my curse. Like England winning the World Cup in 1966 - I never thought that would be the last time I would see it.
I just do not understand how teams can come from nowhere and win the league - like Leicester - or how a team we were roughly on a par with a few years ago like LIverpool after their lean years but went on to major successes and now the horrible NL Reds are having a season nobody predicted and I will not bet against them winning the league this year. How does that happen while we seemingly drift?
If anything, two of the last three managerial hires *ahem* imply that ENIC
are looking for trophies, hence they brought in Winning Managers™ such as Conte and the ubermensch - but the issue is that it feels like they're looking at the honours section of their Wikipedia pages as opposed to matches their teams have played
In the case of the ubermensch, I said at the time that bringing him in felt like a quick and clean break after sacking Poch that would placate the players as much as the fans as we'd brought in a manager with a track record of success without any fuss so we were pointing the club forwards. Similar can also be said with Conte, as we realised Nuno wasn't working out and again wanted a quick and clean break where we'd satisfy players and fans alike and point the club forwards again
And this is the issue: it feels like we're skipping two or three steps, which was especially clear with the ubermensch, as the thinking seems to be parachute one of these blokes in and get the trophy jinx off our back regardless of how their philosophies fit with some of the players we hav,e which means the planning looks remarkably like this
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And that's the biggest issue with trying to get this group of players a trophy - other than "This group of players" is basically just Kane, Son, Dier and Lloris at this point, as the rest of Poch's squad have departed - is it makes ENIC look like they're getting wound up by the r/soccer pondlife knowing the same number of jokes as the average member of the alt-right, or perhaps the fans getting wound up by the r/soccer pondlife knowing the same number of jokes as the average member of the alt-right which is filtering up to ENIC and they believe a trophy will be the magic salve for that as if, if we did win an FA Cup, we wouldn't then hear a Greek chorus of "Mickey Mouse trophy" as the goalposts get moved
...or the third way,
the shouty section of our fans who couldn't fill a phone box with one of their protests bitching and moaning on Twitter has filtered up to ENIC, and they're trying to placate the most miserable section of our fanbase even though they habitually move the goalposts so they can complain about something they claimed would have made them happy, but by complete coincidence whenever ENIC or Levy are trending on Twitter it's because of these angry morons who clearly don't have a clue but are shouting it into the void, which is resonating with the void between the ears of the people who mindlessly agree with the crap they post
It's similar to how Man Utd fans didn't really have much of an opinion about the nearest neighbours' trophy haul until their nearest neighbours were considerably richer than they were, and when they did have money this banner magically appeared in a corner of Old Trafford
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Now, am I suggesting we chuck £1bn+ of money at players to stop people with Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea flairs on r/soccer using the exact same joke as they circlejerk one another? Obviously not, after all we may as well use that money to hire a couple of goons to go to their houses and slap them for the same effect, but what we do need to do is have a plan that is likely to still be in place eighteen months after we implement it, which even at the time we hired both Conte and especially the ubermensch looked like wishful thinking
... then just before they scored we brought on Royal 
