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The dust has barely settled on last season but Tottenham Hotspur chairman Daniel Levy has a busy summer ahead of him.

The Spurs supremo has spent much of the past 18 months up to his neck in the process of getting the club's new 62,062-seater stadium to finally open.

With the ground now hosting games and generally considered to be one of the best football stadiums in the world, if not the best, most of Levy's attention can now be turned to sorting out on-pitch matters.

This is a crucial summer ahead - Mauricio Pochettino has called it his biggest at the club - and it could well define what the next steps of Tottenham Hotspur's future are as the manager and players wait to see what the chairman has in store for them.

Here are five things we reckon should be on Levy's to do list this summer:

Back the manager

Probably the most important thing Levy can do this summer. Pochettino is crucial to everything Tottenham have done in the past five years and to the future of the club.

The Argentine admits that despite the chairman showing some emotion in recent weeks, what with the Champions League final appearance and addressing the players in the training ground with real passion, he'll still be a tough man to get some more money out of.

"It's like in poker, you cannot show your emotion. Daniel was like a little bit this type of person who cannot show his emotion. He was believing it was a show that you are weak. Now he is believing the opposite side. This transformation of the club, that we feel very well, he is a good example of how it is changing," said Pochettino.

"It's not that he's going to give us more money now – this area is not going to change, he's going to be strong! But of course in the personal relationships he's improving a lot from when we arrived here."

It is that personal relationship between the two men that has to be respected this summer. Levy is no fool and knows he's struck gold in Pochettino.

To take Tottenham to their first ever Champions League final and a fourth consecutive top four spot is a remarkable achievement bearing in mind all the fires he's had to put out this season.

He had no new signings over the entire campaign, more late returning players from the World Cup than anyone else, no real home stadium until the final month of the season, a drink-driving captain, Mousa Dembele leaving in January without a replacement, injuries to a plethora of key players and a tired small squad fighting against other clubs who were spending big money.

If anyone has earned the right to be backed going forward, it's the Argentine.

Pochettino is not after more money for himself, but he likes to feel that he and his staff are valued. If Levy were to offer him and his coaches a new contract just a year after his last it would be a masterstroke. A lot has happened in the past year and if the manager feels excited about the future he would likely sign on the dotted line to ensure his coaches are rewarded.

Decide on the new five-year plan

Once Levy has decided that he's going to give Pochettino the proper backing this summer, the duo need to sit down and thrash out exactly what the new five-year project at the club is going to look like.

The Spurs manager is currently still away on his post-Champions League final holiday, recharging after the long gruelling season. He will approach talks with Levy with more perspective, away from the emotions of that night in Madrid.

Pochettino has made it clear that whatever the club's new project looks like, it must be a big step up.

"We need to close the chapter," Pochettino said towards the end of the season. "We are not in Chigwell [at Spurs Lodge training ground] any more; we are not at White Hart Lane with 36,000 [capacity]. The magnitude of the club has grown 100 times. We cannot operate in the same way as five years ago. We are in another dimension.

"When you arrive here now, it looks like a big club. Before, you could say: ‘Yeah, but the stadium only holds 36,000.’ Now, there is no point in thinking like a small club. You must think like a big club. If you want to compare to Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Juventus or Real Madrid, you can’t think you are Tottenham with 36,000.

"When you settle in this fantastic new stadium, it’s to fight and not only be in the Champions League in some periods – like in the past. It’s a stadium to be in every season of the Champions League; every season being a real contender and fighting for big things. This is my idea and we will see if we can deliver it."

Levy will be the man who ultimately decides what comes next. That new stadium does have to be paid for but has been financed sensibly without crippling repayments and in a year with record profits and the money from the Champions League run, there is cash to spend after two transfer windows without doing so.

Pochettino ensured the players surpassed the ambitions of the club in his first five years and now the stadium and training ground have pushed the balance in the other direction.

Tottenham's squad building, the transfer funds and the wage structure, not only this summer but in the years to come, will dictate whether the club progresses or stagnates in the foreseeable future.

Decide on that lucrative naming rights sponsor

There was never any panic about getting a naming rights sponsor on board with Tottenham's new stadium before it was opened.

Very early, non-formals talks would have been held with various parties but there always seemed to be a feeling that the club were willing to wait until the stadium opened to really seal any deal.

Levy knew that the enormous, state-of-the-art ground would have the wow factor and sell itself better than any plans or concept images could and he wasn't wrong.

It's certainly the most advanced stadium in the world and with its two NFL games this autumn all of the USA's eyes will be on the first purpose-built NFL ground outside America with its innovative retractable pitch.

Levy has a real love of the USA and it would make sense for the stadium sponsor to come from across the pond with a globally recognised name, but the club certainly won't be ruling out offers from elsewhere in the world, particularly the lucrative Asian market.

While there's still no desperate rush to rename The Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, if Levy and his board can settle upon a lucrative naming rights sponsor this summer then in terms of timing, it would provide a massive financial boost to the plans for the club's new five-year project and beyond.

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Make decisions on Eriksen, Alderweireld and Vertonghen quickly

Three key players are about to enter the final year of their contracts and Levy must decide on what happens with them.

A decision on Toby Alderweireld appears to have already been made with no new contract offered to the Belgian defender. That means the ball is in the court of whoever decides to bid £25m to activate his release clause before the final two weeks of the summer window and then Alderweireld if he accepts their advances.

With Christian Eriksen, Levy must decide whether to spend all summer haggling with interested parties to get the highest possible price for the midfielder, no doubt aiming for something close to the Eden Hazard deal which comes to almost £130m with add-ons.

Real Madrid certainly have to shift a lot of players in the coming weeks after their £300m splurge on Zinedine Zidane's rebuild if they are to come in for Eriksen as well.

If the club do haggle over Eriksen then the chairman could well do as he did with Gareth Bale six years ago, spending the expected money earlier in the summer, with one of those seven signings being the Dane back then.

Pochettino needs clarity as well. Is he planning a new Spurs team without the Dane or building one with the possibility of him still at its centre? Both avenues will be looked at but a single vision is always the clearest.

Then there is Jan Vertonghen. The oldest of the trio is also entering his final year of his Tottenham deal. Levy must decide whether to adequately reward an integral man in Pochettino's team with a deserved, but unusual for Spurs, big pay packet for a 32-year-old.

Pochettino believes that Vertonghen's fitness levels mean he has years left at the top level, but it could also prove to be the case that Vertonghen has his own 'retirement' plan in mind, following fellow Belgians such as his close friend Mousa Dembele out to China to wind down his career in a lucrative manner either in January or at the end of his contract next summer and after eight years' service he would do so without any malice from the club or fans.

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Get to work quickly in the transfer market and make a statement

Spurs can't afford to hang around and embark on the usual bargain-hunting, late shopping trips this time around. It's completely failed in the past two transfer windows and as Pochettino has stated, big clubs don't act like that.

The manager has also stated on numerous occasions in recent years that he wants new signings in place before pre-season starts in July so he can work from day one with them on the philosophy and demands he puts in place.

The internationals are playing their part at the moment in terms of interrupting progress on any deals - very few Premier League clubs are announcing signings - but Real Madrid have proved with their Hazard deal that it can be done as have Manchester United in their move for Swansea's Daniel James.

Levy will also be aware that should players like Giovani Lo Celso and Ryan Sessegnon go on to impress at the Copa America and European U21 Championships respectively in front of watching scouts then their values and the competition for their signatures will only increase.

Lo Celso has an £88m release clause but the more he impresses behind Lionel Messi, as he did in Argentina's 5-1 warm-up win against Nicaragua on Friday night, the closer Real Betis will demand the eventual fee is to that clause total.

Most of all Tottenham need to make a statement. They need to break their transfer record for a player who will step into their starting XI, soften the likely departures of Eriksen and Alderweireld, push the club on and excite Pochettino.

Tanguy Ndombele would be such a signing and when France finish their two European Championship qualifying fixtures on Tuesday night, Spurs must step up their efforts.

They will of course face opposition from around the world for the Frenchman, but they are Champions League finalists with one of the most sought-after managers in the game, they boast the best stadium in the world and one of the best training grounds around. What a place to work and Ndombele will know he will play more for the Lilywhites than at any other club interested in him.

It's time for Tottenham to step up to the top table where they and Pochettino belong.

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