That, it has to be said, is some absolutely remarkable Spursing.
To spend well over £220m on new signings, breaking your transfer record twice in the process, with another investment of at least £140m lined up and plenty more planned to appease the temperamental maverick coach who finally answered the rescue call last season, only to become considerably worse, is more Spurs than was ever even previously assumed possible.
For that absurd regression to be revealed against the team Spurs stole the manager of little over 12 months ago is exceptional.
And for their Premier League-proven recruitment drive to be sent up in smoke by a division debutant whose only previous top-flight experience constituted ten games in Belgium, 76 matches in Austria and a solitary season in France was the cherry atop a thoroughly inedible mess of a cake.
Spurs are far from alone in being damned by their ignorance of Mamadou Sangare, a £39m signing Brentford could already triple their money on if they were so inclined.
Within a single appearance the Mali international rendered his lack of Barclays experience entirely moot. Keith Andrews described Sangare as “a throwback midfielder” and “all-round” player before the game, his hand in two goals and feet stuck in elsewhere underlining the Bees’ belief they had landed a bargain.
Sangare’s one-two with Dango Ouattara before the driving run into the area to tee up Keane Lewis-Potter’s opener was phenomenal. It was the midfielder’s shot which Antonin Kinsky parried for Michael Kayode to make it 3-0. He was buzzing around when the Spurs keeper repelled a Mathias Jensen effort directly into Vitaly Janelt’s path, too.
Not a single Spurs player seemed capable of conjuring anything close to that calm authority and impetus on the ball.
It was a complete shambles, especially a defence featuring three debutants, but especially a midfield in which two of the three components were substituted at half-time, and especially an attack that could get nothing to stick and was contained laughably comfortably.
Kinsky’s display was dangerously Atletico-coded at times, with the second Brentford goal encapsulating the work Roberto De Zerbi still has to do to turn things around in north London.
The keeper’s pass to the halfway line was hypothetically sound but let down in reality by the fact it was to Richarlison, whose non-existent hold-up play only confused Brentford for so long. When possession was inevitably surrendered, Lucas Bergvall became essentially transparent. The damage was done before Kinsky palmed a tame shot straight out in front of him, although that certainly didn’t help.
By that point, at 2-0 down, Spurs’ transformative summer had taken them from consecutive 17th-placed finishes to…17th. They almost felt compelled to concede another and drop two more places.
Perhaps the difference can be boiled down to Brentford’s only new player slotting into and complementing an established team, while four Spurs debutants meant partnerships and understandings are only just being formed in key areas across the pitch.
But the sheer relentlessness with which Spurs lost the physical battles was stark, and not something Savinho or Omar Marmoush seem particularly equipped to help.
It is a shame Igor Thiago missed his second-half penalty and in the process squandered the perfect scoreline narrative parallel on offer.
Four years ago to the month it was Brentford who undermined the brave new era of Erik ten Hag so fundamentally that Manchester United feared Casemiro might back out of his impending move.
As the story goes, the Brazilian’s response was to message his agent to say: “Tell them I’ll fix this.”
When it comes to Spurs, it doesn’t appear as though anyone actually can.