Daniel Levy is an unusual character in many respects; when it comes to small things, like getting a transfer deal done for the sake of comparatively small amounts of money, he had tremendous form for politely leaving the negotiating table. I have personally been aware of numerous examples over the years of situations whereby – again – small amounts of money would have prevented extraordinary ill-will from manifesting itself. Mr. Levy has had no qualms at all about going cold on people, where others may have wished to soften a situation.
Yet when it comes to putting his cajones on the line in the respect of big buck decisions Mr. Levy is equally willing to live with all the negative repercussions that might come with those deals also. Demolishing a perfectly serviceable stadium to build a multi-purpose spaceship of an arena, incorporating MK1 technology for an entirely unrelated sport quite frankly take cajones of steel.
A source close to the club tells me that Mr. Levy is now giving serious consideration to taking an option on Gareth Bale’s final year of his Real Madrid contract. Bloody-minded or brilliant, that’s the question.
My views on the soundness of business decisions made at Tottenham in the last 20-years are a matter of record.
What about the other two shouts that didn’t heavily feature hyperbole? 🧐
hehe
Yeah this ‘winning philosophy’ that Botchy repeatedly kept telling us about…. He finally shut up about this philosophy around the 4 year mark… Winning nothing and rambling on about the importance of winning… Dear oh dear.
Haha. Genius. Please start every comment section with ‘BTW – Levy is shock proof’
Levy has made us irrelevant to the big dogs. Remember Roy Keane, we’ll never had that been more applicable. Debt we will be unlikely to see wiped out in our lifetime.
Yes.
Fair play to you. I’ve been an expat 20 years now – still keeping my season ticket with my dad – and this blog has been consistent in what I believe is the root of our club’s problem. I felt genuinely sick at the final whistle when WHL had its last game and I don’t see the business rationale behind the record debt. Nothing since makes me see ENIC as anything other than their name and the football team is purely a cash cow. Anyone trying to say otherwise has nothing fact-based.
What about when we had 25% possession and lost then? 🤔
Nagelsmann won’t come unless he’s either an idiot or easily swayed by a big wage…
Poch gave us a direction and a “philosophy” on the pitch and I for one was ‘berry appy’ about it! 😂
Poch proved what he could do on limited resources compared to the clubs around us. If Levy didn’t back a manager that proved his worth then why would he back anyone else?
For me, Poch was yet another affordable punt by Levy. Luck rather than judgement. Did anyone expect him to come from Southampton and do what he did on our budget? No, and I very much doubt Levy did either, he actually admitted in the Amazon thing that he “got lucky” with Poch.
Pure luck, zero judgment…
If shrewdness only means being totally risk averse then he’s shrewd. Sadly for Daniel that is not the only definition of shrewdness…
Bloody minded, he’s got an ego Levy. As much as he likes to play his presence down. That’s more of a deflection technique, Levy will want to take all the plaudits, he’s like a dog with a bone. Which doesn’t bode well for Jose…
I was always taught that the first cut is the cheapest.
Gamblers anonymous?
Yup.
There is no greater ENIC good…
Yes, undoubtedly one of of the few footballing decisions that Levy has got right. Read Andros Townsend’s comments on Poch’s impact on the club which he described as a shambles before he was appointed manager. This was quite magnanimous of him considering that Poch never rated him and consequently sold him. You always ignore Poch’s plea to the board “to be brave” because it doesn’t suit your narrative that Levy and Mourinho will together bring success to the club. We remain anchor tenants, another fact that you always conveniently ignore.
So Forbes Businessman Of The Year is willing to give Bale another season in the hope that he comes good. This is akin to the stubborn business owner who doesn’t cut his losses when his business is going down the tubes and keeps chucking money at it in the hope the problem goes away. Shrewd businessman indeed.
We live in hope
It would’ve been had he backed him properly.
No, he’s yet to resign ☺️
…in one.
Was hiring poch a good “footballing decision?
NO!
And tottenham is up there with the big dogs and can’t be fckd with (trophies or not) don’t forget that bit. They’d all better put respect on our name
And, of course, new club record this year of thirty years without winning either the league or F.A. Cup (and I’ve included war years!) with Levy having been at the helm for 20 of those years.
We keep seeing 22 years on this website from contributors like yourself and Eastie, I believe it’s only (ONLY!!) twenty years that Danny Boy has held the reins. I think, however, that the stadium has been a lot more even than 100% over budget…and, of course, nearly a whole year late! I seem to recall the stadium was going to cost 400 million and thinking to myself, that the way these building projects go, it would likely turn out more like 700 million. And then the figure was touted as 700 million and what? It eventually cost 1.3 billion.
Whatever the figures were and the length of our esteemed chairman’s tenure, your basic sentiments are pretty sound, I’d say.
A part of me would like to see that happen only to see the same people calling for Jose’s head in his first full season shout “Give him time” “This isn’t his team yet, he needs more transfer windows to fix the squad” “We had 80% possession, so we basically won, if you ignore the result”.
It’s bizarre. Other clubs want to improve their medical team/scouting/you name it, so they get better personnel and the aspect improves as well.
We want to improve our scouting, so we get the brilliant “Mitch”, sign no one he recommends and then fire him with an NDA, replacing him with a man who hates transfer windows.
You really couldn’t make it up.
Good job you’re not our chairman mate.. Fcuk me.. The only way Bale could stay is if he improves his game ten fold, and all parties agree on the finances.. Not happening. His plan is to go back after the euros. This will happen…. The only way I would want him to stay is if they renegotiate the deal so he’s paying us..
Has Levy ever made a good footballing decision ever 🤷🏻♂️
Levy is shock proof 😆
Bring in Nagelsmann and make me chuckle
The facts are in….Levy is actively attempting to bankrupt THFC.
No balls of steel involved here….it ain’t his balls on the block.
It’s Tottenham Hotspurs.
Renegotiate the deal, take Bale for another year, and get a new manager to change the negative atmosphere in the club, happy days.
Surely not.. Unless he can improve dramatically before the seasons finished he has to go back.
I have seen very little evidence that Levy’s decision making in the transfer market has conveyed anything but his penny wise but pound foolish attitude. He might or might not have cojones (correct spelling!) of steel as he seems completely impervious of his unsuccessful twenty two year reign at the club with the net result being one League Cup win. His decision making in managerial appointments has been pretty dire with thirteen having been sacked so far, at what cost to the club? His appointments of scouting staff , DoFs, and player analytical teams has been incohesive and haphazard. He has left the club with a huge debt, delivered a new white elephant of a stadium 100% over cost and one year late, but he did have cojones of steel to pay himself a £2mill bonus for his failure. Let’s not forget either that the club are the anchor tenants of the white elephant. I think I will stick to my view that he has a tin ear when it comes to metal analogies.
If Levy hopes that keeping Bale will appease some of the fans when he sells Kane he’s got a shock coming!