For the past few months of the 2025-26 season, there was an eerie silence from the top of Tottenham Hotspur. Roberto De Zerbi did not just have to save Spurs’ Premier League status. He also had to be the public face of the institution, rallying fans and players with his press conferences and interviews, telling them to keep believing, keep fighting, and to never give up.In the end it was a triumph. De Zerbi got into the players’ heads and they won enough games to stave off relegation and stay in the top flight.Now that De Zerbi has saved Tottenham from the drop, everyone can look forward to this summer, next season and beyond. And the Tottenham hierarchy have finally re-surfaced this week, sticking their heads above the parapet, ready to talk to the fans again.On Monday we heard from Peter Charrington, the private banking veteran who became non-executive chairman when Daniel Levy was dismissed last September. Charrington is a long-standing confidante of the Lewis family, who have owned the club since Joe Lewis acquired a controlling stake in 2001, and effectively speaks for them. He laid out in more detail than ever why Levy was sacked. He wrote that “something seismic had to change at Spurs” and that the family “authorised a full reset”. Levy was not mentioned by name, but Charrington referred to “uncomfortable truths” about the state of the club discovered over the past year.If Spurs fans were looking for more specifics about mistakes made since last September, rather than just issues inherited from Levy, they were not forthcoming from Charrington. When CEO Vinai Venkatesham spoke to the BBC, in an interview published on Wednesday morning, he conceded that it was a “risk” to appoint Igor Tudor in February and accepted that no one would dispute that “it didn’t work out”.Vivienne Lewis, Vinai Venkatesham and Peter Charrington pictured during Spurs’ game with Atletico Madrid in March (Justin Setterfield/Getty Images)On Wednesday evening there was another Venkatesham interview, this time with Tottenham’s own media channels, in which he said that the club had been “left behind in far too many areas” of football operations over the past five years. He echoed Charrington’s language about the club’s parlous state last September and repeated the need for “a fundamental re-baselining, a complete reset”, which was now underway. When asked about the failure to sign more forwards in the January window, he conceded that Tottenham do not currently have “the right blend” in the squad but said “predominantly the opportunity to do that is in the summer”.Most significant of all, however, came earlier on Wednesday morning, when Tottenham published a short letter to fans from the Lewis family. This is the first time that the Lewis family have ever spoken publicly regarding Tottenham Hotspur. Traditionally, or at least for the first 24 years of ENIC ownership, Levy would speak on behalf of the majority shareholder. But Levy has gone now. At times Venkatesham and Charrington have spoken on their behalf. But many fans wanted to hear from the family directly.