It is not often that I would quote a Sun journalist, in fact, it would be never, however, on this occasion I could not ignore what Duncan Wright tweeted out, for the simple reason that he is 100% right.
This was his tweet and I am sure it reflects the feelings of most Spurs fans tonight.
Daniel Levy looking around desperately trying to find someone else or something to blame.
— Duncan Wright (@dwright75) October 30, 2021
Zero excuses left – all roads point back to him.
The Tottenham mess has dropped down from the very top
I could not have said it better and yes, all roads do point back to Daniel Levy and there are no excuses left.
Levy has done brilliantly in increasing the value of the club, the new income streams and so on, it would be churlish to say otherwise but in terms of what is happening on the pitch, he has been an absolute disaster.
It would be easy to go through all the statistics and talk about how far we have fallen since the Champions League final, the sacking of Poch and so on but what is the point anymore? All roads lead back to Levy as Wright states correctly.
I am not going to go all ENIC OUT because that is just beating a dead horse, no one walks away from a multi billion pound business that is set to grow in value even more, certainly not Levy.
All we can hope for is that he realises he is no longer fit for purpose on the football side of things, sticks to the business side and allows someone with the same authority as him to oversee all team matters.
Joe Lewis, the majority shareholder can force that but Levy would do himself huge credit if he accepted his limitations and moved sideways without being forced.
Of course, it will not happen so expect more of the same I am afraid, certainly in the short term anyway.
What do you mean Lewis is not rich enough to invest? He is the top 300 richest men in the world, has about 4 yachts and buys Picasso’s. He was convinced by Danny boy to buy the club as an investment and to give that two a job.
All they’ve done since buying the club is enrich themselves in particular at the expense of the fans who they have fleeced. Lewis was rich enough,if he cared to finance the stadium as happened at Man City but he chose not to.
Or , we could ask Orient if we could share ?
You can add 5 DOF’s to that number too…
How do you know he was ‘flirting’ with other clubs. He wasn’t backed properly pretty much after Walker was sold. or have you completely forgotten that bit?
Levy’s illogical micromanaging led to the need for a rebuild, but once it needed to be undertaken there was only one man who should have overseen it and that was the manager already at the club. Because of course, we’ve been doing so much better since he’s been gone… 🤔
And none will go to THFC.
This is 100% fact I cannot understand why some cant see it.
From £25m to £3,5bn in 22 years
isnt that a tidy profit none of which will go to improving the team.
A tidy minority like him.
I dont understand it but it is a fact.
Put up the figures so we can have our ack-ack guns at the ready
The team could’ve won all that had we had different owners. Missing three transfer windows which Poch was complicit along with them see’s us where we are now.
This nonsense was going on long before then. I think it started with the sacking of big Martin Jol… that’s when I raised an eyebrow…
We are unsellable because of the ENIC valuation and our debt and yet Lewis is not really rich enough to invest freely. We are doomed in that area to remaining on the Tavistock profile.
We cannot obtain a decent manager because of the lack of real investment and the Levy interference with the purchasing of new players. Since Poc left not one new signing except possibly Romero is up to the job and not only do managers NOT want to come here but neither do players unless they are the one season wonders whom we but for a fortune and who then play on cruise control for they new pay deal.
I also am totally unimpressed by Kane’s performance and what I see as his present attitude. IMO we lost the CL final because he begged Poc to play him when he was obviously totally unfit. Only as a sub should he have played.
It is not just Levy., it is the whole ENIC set up as we were bought by a company that either has not the will or the money to actually make the club achieve anything other than being the poisoned chalice for managers that it has been for what ? 20 years
We should sell the stadium and find somewhere more fitting for our current quality of players, because they play as if they don’t deserve to be playing at such a wonderful ground. Hackney Marshes springs to mind!
He’s always the final decision maker even still we are lead to believe.
Poch again, really.
Poch was dead man walking for long before he got the sack and only the blip of lucking out in getting to the CL league final and RM wanting him kept him in situ.
levy had already not backed him over Danny Rose and zero transfer windows. Poch consistently flirted with others but without moving ( bit like Redknapp) it was a relationship that had burnt out.
way back danny rose called it right didnt he? and for that he was banished
Poch asked for a rebuild years ago and yet players like Ben Davies and Dier are starting important premier league games in 2021. This encapsulates everything about the Enic era. Levy said he is only a custodian of the club, yet by valuing our club so high with the highest debt in Europe he has essentially made us a very unattractive option for a potential buyer who could essentially get us on a level footing with the clubs us fans want to compete with, hardly a great custodian of a football club.
I think when (assuming they do!) Newcastle get their act together – and if a Super League hasn’t already started by then – that will spell the end for Spurs getting an invite to join one; they would have to get results on the field and not rely on their world class facilities.
I think the value peaks when the property around the TB is fully developed. But you’re right – the Levy ego seems large enough to keep these plunderers around for a long time. 🙁
Yes, it was Levy’s get out of jail card, one he doesn’t deserve.
Yes, I think I would, too! And, no, we are not poor enough to go down!
Don’t dismiss the Levy ego. The value peaked when we moved in to the toilet bowl.
I don’t think ENIC are in it for the long haul tbh. Most property developers just look to maximize leverage and get out when the value peaks.
Super League would have meant Enic forever. A franchise that can’t be relegated so no investment required. Levy’s wet dream. At this point it’s questionable whether we would be invited when it happens again. Another thing ENIC care about.
Its not just ENIC that are terrible. The Glazers are a disaster, Kroenke is awful. Arse and Utd supporters have been trying to get rid of these crooks for years. What really killed Spurs was when the Super League fell apart as that was the best chance to ramp up the team’s value for a potential sale.
It’s quite a job remembering them all, isn’t it?!
Alas, though, wouldn’t we have preferred to have had egg on our faces while the team won the league title, FA Cup and CL?
I just disagree that the game is over. Money not being spent -and I strongly disagree they don’t care for the TV money – and a toxic atmosphere effects the valuation. Joe and DAniel care about that. Fans can bring change as this isn’t a global brand like Utd – our pathetic on field performance over 22 years means the average American or Asian supporter will be looking at someone decent to ploughing cash into. Empty seats won’t look good on telly
No, they’re not; they’re not proper sports fans.
Ok calling me names is wise? haha. I’m just as fed up as everyone here. There’s no passion on the pitch. The gaffer seems powerless to stop it and the owners don’t really care. We’re an 8th placed mid-table squad with the 6th highest payroll or thereabouts. ENIC are a financial company. If you want them out, find a buyer or figure out a way to force a sale but otherwise it’s just venting, which I get too.
RIP
Actually, I’d ay you were poaching like JG!
I like it!
Tosser
Our attitude on the pitch is so poor and the performances so meek, I would take 10th now as a high point. We aren’t poor enough to go down though and I think, sadly, that tossed Levy knows it. Keep on fleecing Daniel.
I said earlier tonight that we we’ll finish between 7th and 10th, but having just watched MOM, I’d now say that will depend on us recovering some resemblance of form with clubs like Brighton and Palace looking quite impressive and a good deal better than we have looked of late.
Actually, jimmyg, after the word “value” you could have inserted “and by extension, his own personal wealth”
The wise man in the room never needs to tell everyone that he is. That tends to be the fool. Bruv.
fair enough, but it is not a waste just revolting fans will give bad publicity Enic/Levy and will hurt their image in the eyes of the sponsors that is the minimum every little helps cheers.
You know nothing about me bruv. I may be smug because I’m right. Go right ahead, boycott the games and don’t buy the 100 quid polyester kits. See if ENIC cares. They care as much about you and the other whiners as the FA care about Amnesty International, lolol.
Exactly, jimmyg!
We just felt they had no interest in our team. Not going to fund an investment company choking our love to death. We’ve been through a lot of thin years but that never mattered as we are Spurs but Enic are not Spurs.
The only hope we fortunately are iucky to have is that this business isn’t like Joe’s FX days. Numbers on spreadsheets may be how he thinks of the Spurs fan base but unlike a spreadsheet, we are real. The more toxic this becomes, the less it’s worth and that hurts enic and Levy. We will continue whining and complaining to get the club back. You are smug and very clever but a real fan you ain’t.
I can’t really blame you for jacking in your STs (if only thousands of others would do likewise). You can’t expect, as a fan, for it to be a bed of roses all the time, so you tolerate the bad times with as much stoicism and acceptance as you can muster until the good times come around again. Sometimes, though, the wilderness years last just a bit too long and the maladroitness of those running your club is such that you reach a point of no return where, indeed, there seems to be no hope. We’ve reached that point now under our present lousy custodians. They’ve racked up a mountain of debt building their white elephant and value the club at such a fantastical price that it could be some time before we finally see the back of them (and even then, the next owners may be just as bad or….worse!)
I bet this nasty atmosphere speeds up the timeline to pay for an NFL franchise or a bigger deal with a team looking to catch up.
I’m not making excuses for ENIC/Levy fam. They are solely responsible for this debacle. What I’m saying is they just don’t care at all about success on the pitch and it’s a waste of time whining about it.
Well said. 22 years of failure but it’s not the CEOs fault? Laughable.
Every little helps cheers.
It’s laughable. The one constant in 22 years of failure and it’s everyone else’s fault? What a Wally.
please stop making excuses for Enic/Levy they are the mother of all the problem of Tottenham if your argument makes sense how come the likes Liverpool, Arsenal and even Leicester are winning trophies and we can’t? hence I did not mention Chelsea Man City etc to prevent you coming the Oil excuse on top Newcastle is on the way, it is a dead end mate Enic/Levy has no more excuse+20 years long is enough, we can’t let this parasites enrich themselves and humiliate another generation of Spurs fans and get away with it.
I may be old and slow but I’m like Teddy Sheringham – in the right place at the right time.
I’d only just posted! You were in the traps ready to pounce!
The real problem is not Levy/ENIC. The world has changed. ENIC are a product of the environment. Wake up. They don’t care if you buy kits or subscribe to Sky or BT as long as they can get money from the banks backstopped by the BoE and ultimately the US Fed. ENIC are just grifters taking their cut and Spurs supply the grift. The days of local teams representing the community and the working man are gone forever. It sucks but IIWII. If you really want to devote any passion to this I suggest start supporting some local League 10 squad or better yet forget about the whole thing and join Levy and Co. to drink some15 quid triple IPAs on Bermondsey
Dear God, Sonificent, I’ve never evoked such a quick response!
That’s because he doesn’t care, He says he does but that’s because he’s a lying toad…
Levy employs the people that find the players and he signs the deals off. If he had said ok to mediocre dross, both the signings and the people that scout them then the nick stops with him. Why are you trying to protect the c*nt?
Here, here RDBT
We were described as flat, lacking in intensity, lacking energy; the present slough has dripped down from the boardroom where there is no drive, no real ambition where playing matters are concerned. Our manager doesn’t seem particularly inspiring but like all managers here he has his hands tied behind his back; no manager at this club is given the tools to do the job properly. The buck absolutely stops at the boardroom door and our useless CEO. Decline was already setting in while we were reaching the CL final, more through good fortune than anything else. Our form in the league around the turn of the year onwards was distinctly worrying and it was clear a significant rebuild was necessary but we we went through more transfer windows with little action on our part and the perceptible decline became more and more serious until we were left with a largely stale, disinterested squad of players.
Unfortunately, our CEO only likes to spend serious money on capital assets because that’s the way this greedy little parasite can best fill his own pockets. The man is hideous.
It isn’t?
Sacking Pochettino at the time and within the context of circumstances was an indication of how utterly idiotic Levy is regarding anything outside of accountancy.
He just does not have the skill set, or the inclination to run a top flight football club.We have got to the point where he has damaged the ‘brand’, the brand that is supposed to be the anchor tenant. This weird analog concept of ‘multi use entertainment venue’. Isn’t that what they did with the Millennium Dome when they ran out of options?
Sorry, the whole business model is decidedly questionable and the football? Beyond a joke, a directionless mess.
Both Paratici and Nuno were panic appointments by a man who has run out of options, every dead end explored and exhausted.
Doing it on the cheap no longer cuts it Daniel, where you going next son? You have no idea do you…
Hasn’t Levy already moved sideways by appointing Paratici? According to transfermarkt we’ve spent the best part of 600m since the 2014/15 season, its not Levy’s fault that most of that has been spent on absolute garbage.
Haha. I have to confess that I wasn’t paying too much attention until they announced bulldozing The Lane. Never agreed with anything from then on. Levy out.
Thank you. Levy should be ashamed. The heart and soul fans are leaving but that little tool doesn’t care a jot. Just fill up on the fan there for ‘an experience.’
Agreed big time 👍
One of the good comments I read today I’m very proud of you and your dad for dropping ST and stopping filling Enic/Levy pockets cheers 👍
My dad told me today he hasn’t missed going that soulless dump once since we decided to drop our STs. He’s been going since 1961.
The attitude certainly pervades from the top. Winning isn’t a consideration. The team epitomize that.
Yep, agreed. It all leads back to Levy and nobody can blame players, managers or anyone else. I’m not saying they are blameless but it all starts from the top.
Didn’t want it. WHL was home.
Levy didn’t give us the stadium. The club paid for the stadium with hundreds of millions of pounds worth of debt. Actually Daniels mismanagement of the stadium build meant we overspent so much that it will take decades to clear the debt we are now saddled with. Levy has done nothing but increase ENICs portfolio value whilst sacrificing onfield success.
Levy is a prime time fool. No clue about what it takes to make a football team a success.
Levy is a fraud and all frauds eventually get found out. Don’t spend a penny on ENIC wares if you’ve got any sense.
It must be clearly obvious to the outsiders now when someone from the sun gets it right.
To hit ENIC where it hurts is in its pocket. So stop spending at the club shop and going to games. But to hit them the hardest is to stop paying for Sky sports and BT sports. Stop the television money coming in.
No matter how bad spurs are at the moment, they will still draw views to see if Nuno gets sacked, see if we get any worst, to hear Keane and other take the mick out of us.
Thanks for the stadium, now fek off you bald fraud,
Most of us in this blog knew this years ago. We were called all sorts by those who believed the hype.
Looking on rather smugly I’d like to say. TOLD YOU SO !
The grim reality is is that in 2 and a half seasons Spurs have become the most dysfunctional club in the EPL….even Norwich know what they are about ..up and down parachute payments..Where are Spurs in the Landowners League..just saying..Off to Trumpton with the Kappelmeister. Nutjob.
we haven’t properly replaced any first team member since poch was manager (by that i mean with someone better ) and have lost 5 ish so this is what we are left with an aged unmotivated club with a stadium which deserves more and an owner who will not sell through stubborn pride and the loss of value that the club has since his ownership
but levy will find it hard to find a buyer for a crown with fake jewels
Hit em where it hurts, stop spending money on this sideshow of a club
Yes thats the great thing about this all these players and the coaching staff are all of one mans doing. So stop blaming the players and the manager for once and direct it where it really should go. #enicout
HH said this years and years ago. The culture comes from the top – get a chairman who signs a brilliant manager and lets him pick his players, and you just might win stuff.
But if your chairman is a micromanaging lunatic who always thinks he knows better, well, you know…
The rot set in years ago from the top and filtered down.
Chairman sets the agenda of a business, buck ultimately stops there esp after 14 people in charge of the first team over 20 years.