“How have Manchester City, Liverpool, Chelsea and different clubs tried to improve their season? Bringing players and trying to put more pressure on their star players, their key players – and for us we need to do that too.”
Poch has resorted to giving Levy a gentle nudge in public in the hopes that our masterful chairman can deliver another rewarding window.
The threat the leverage that our very own Ron Wol keeps hinting at may be revealed.
“Right, now [I hear] we need to win some trophies, no?” he said. “That is good, the pressure. I think it’s important to understand now that we need to be clever how we manage the expectation and how we need to put pressure on our own players.
“If there’s no competition in behind it’s normal to drop your motivation, it’s normal to drop everything that you do. And then it’s difficult to win.”
The only slight problem is that it turns out Poch’s gun against Levy’s head isn’t loaded.
Levy couldn’t be less interested in winning trophies. They’re an economic distraction. The priority is the league and the top 5 placings. That’s where the money is.
This interview only further reveals the disarray inside the Tottenham camp.
We’ve just endured a fortnight of players being wheeled out to tell us quite emphatically that we don’t need to sign anyone.
Who exactly engineered these brain surgeons announcing they didn’t want competition for their places? We can guess.
This was then punctuated by our chairman telling us that the gaggle of haircuts that can barely make our bench are secretly worth £20/£30/£40million pounds each.
Now we have common sense from the best manager we’ve had since Burkinshaw, asking for reinforcements in a national newspaper.
Is Ronald Koeman or any other Premier League boss doing this?
Will common sense prevail?
The chances are less than slim – based upon every decision Levy has made in the last 16 years.
