Premier League rivals can have zero complaints about Tottenham label after £570m latest

Tottenham Hotspur have received their fair share of criticism from Premier League rivals in recent years.

Given the 'Spursy' tag, the Lilywhites have been the nearly men of the division for a long while.

At the same time, performances have continued to worsen on the pitch.

Twice in two years, Spurs have finished 17th in the Premier League - a position simply not good enough for a club with such high ambitions.

Despite this, Tottenham remain a global powerhouse, in terms of relevance, and their financial health - something they deserve their praise for

And after the latest batch of criticism from rivals, it must be acknowledged that Tottenham do operate on a different financial level to most, despite making hard work of showing that in recent years.

Why are rivals fuming at Tottenham again?

Given everything that has happened to Spurs in recent years, the club have become somewhat of a punching bag for rivals.

The latest part of this, comes from a rather innocent post from TalkSPORT, highlighting next season's fixtures for what was described as the 'traditional big six.'

As is the case in football fandom, people often love to assume that their club is always wronged by something, sparking an influx of certain fanbases in the replies.

In recent years, both Aston Villa and Newcastle have worked fantastically to throw themselves among the top contenders in the Premier League, and they deserve all the credit for doing so.

However, the anger directed at Spurs is very misplaced, when it is sent towards one of the most financially healthy clubs in the world - fetching around £570million in revenue across the most recent financial year.

In the most recent edition of the Deloitte Money League, Spurs sat ninth, with Manchester United, Arsenal, Manchester City and Liverpool the only English sides to come out ahead.

Whether people like it or not, there are six clubs in England who sit at a different financial table, and instead of the criticism, Tottenham should be praised for their work in becoming part of that.

Tottenham's finances compared with Premier League rivals

In a modern footballing landscape where a state-owned club successfully defended the Champions League, while one has held the Premier League in a stranglehold for over a decade, Spurs should not be the ones in the firing line.

Building a state of the art stadium, growing a global fanbase and expanding on international relevance, Spurs have organically grown into a member of what can be described as the 'big six'.

And of course, the term does attract criticism, it is not unfair to describe it as such, with Villa for example, fetching £378.1m in the most recent financial year.

For further context too, these figures come from a year in which Tottenham were in the Europa League, and Villa reached the Champions League quarter-finals.

There are plenty of clubs whose growth has not exactly been organic, but Spurs have practically shown the pathway to financial health by doing it the right way.

Should the likes of Villa want to further progress, doing the tasks previously mentioned is ever so critical - something already in place with their Villa Park expansion.

£255m of the Tottenham figure came from commercial revenue, with £91m for Villa.

The Midlanders are a huge club in England, who for a lot of fans, should be competing at the top - but to get there, you have to build, and throwing criticism at a side like Spurs who have done exactly that, is not going to change that fact, especially when the term 'big six' is deliberately misunderstood.