As per Twitterati football ace Fabrizio Romano, Fabio Paratici is set to make his debut in North London this week, and in true CEO genius style, Daniel Levy has allegedly delegated the task of finding the club with a billion-pound stadium… a manager.
Quite how speculative this is remains to be seen, but the optics are terrible. Shipping in a player scout and asking him to scout a first-team coach gives off the impression of unmitigated chaos. You may as well ask Prince Charles to officially open the stadium – and when he arrives, ask him if he knows how to wire in a dishwasher.
My view is that these are Daniel Levy’s end of days at Tottenham and Joe Lewis isn’t likely to indulge much more of what is brand wrecking activity. Tavistock Holdings is a vast operation, and it wouldn’t take much to trigger a bigger game of musical chairs.
We have 460 million followers worldwide! REALLY?
I suspect that it’s already TOO LATE!
I don’t understand why we’re suddenly talking about Tavistock; someone please explain this to me!
It’s very nice having a past, Tappa, but you have to live in the present and in this present we are fast losing any relevance.We will shortly be just another club.
Yes, but that’s the trouble! We are becoming a museum club whose achievements lie mostly in the past, just like Aston Villa, Newcastle, Sunderland, Wolverhampton, Sheffield Wednesday etc. We are in very grave danger, if we don’t achieve something soon, of falling behind and joining the pack as just another club.
Oddard? I presume you mean Edouard?
They must have a favourite’s chance of winning the Europa League, a cup for also rans, but in my view that won’t really enhance or add anything to what they have already achieved in the last six seasons winning both the league and FA Cup in which ALL our best teams participate!
You seldom see a Spurs shirt here in the West Midlands; Spurs have lost their former appeal. I think they were gaining some popularity among supporters of other clubs; there were quite a few who would like to have seen Spurs break through and win a league title, but in the end we didn’t sustain our performance for long enough or win any of those elusive trophies so we didn’t really acquire any new fans of our own. Correct, we don’t have the global outreach of the other five clubs with whom we supposedly form a Big Six and it’s becoming increasingly likely that we soon won’t be considered part of it any longer.
Help yourself. The other 120 years obviously mean nothing to ya
I think I prefer one PL title and one FA Cup in ten years to Levy’s lamentable record of one League Cup in twenty years but there is no accounting for taste.
That director was Trevor Birch. Hired in September 2020 and naffed off to the Football League the following January ☺️
I sincerely hope you’re right, I really do. Nothing would please me more.
I couldn’t find he job coffee for the managers vacancy as I believe I definitely meet their criteria for employees:
Tavistock Group’s success and reputation is a direct result of our employees who continually demonstrate and maintain the highest standards of service and professionalism. Our culture is entrepreneurial, international, and filled with driven doers.
So. Every dog has its day. When they’ve won 3 European cups 8 fa cups. 4 league cups. And a double for good measure tell them to come talk to me.
Tell them little fools to enjoy it while it lasts. Big Tottenham a come.
I’m paying them respect because they have achieved and won, the polar opposite of what we have done. And since their change of ownership they have grown into an extremely well run club who attract good quality players and aren’t dysfunctional in any way. And they produced results by doing this. Something we crave.
So what. You can pay them untold respect if you want. I ain’t.
Over taken us in what? So they’ve had a good few years. Prior to that they were just a little dirt club.
PL and FA Cup in the last 10 years not good enough then? We can only dream of that right now. Gonna win is not the same as have won.
We should have signed Luis Campos who has a great track record for talent spotting and making serious money for his club in the transfer market. The fact that Levy has appointed Paratici gives me little confidence that it is the right choice. Paratici is not renowned for buying younger players and is very Italian centric in his recruitment. Serie A football is played at a much slower pace than the PL and is dull to watch with a much older average age per team than the PL. This is a window dressing appointment which will be spun as Levy taking more of a back seat in recruitment matters when we all know that he can’t help himself interfering in matters for which he is not qualified . Lewis needs to wake up and realise that Levy is the Gerald Ratner of football and is only damaging the Tavistock brand.
I’m here all week, folks!!!🤣🤣
Yep. Leicester have been doing well recently. When they’ve won anything in Europe I might take them a bit more seriosly.
Well said, couldn’t have put it better myself. Levy is a tone deaf, anally retentive cretin.
They managed to win the PL without him, didn’t they? Now they have signed Soumare from Lille and are in talks to buy Oddard from Celtic. They are a well run football club, exactly the opposite of us.
Superb
Hahahaha
Paratici’s first job, learn how to say “Yes, Mr Levy, I’ll do exactly as you want because you know best”.🤦♂️
Levy cannot stop interfering with football affairs any more than a lady of the night cannot stop dropping her knickers.
👆This, all of this👍👏
Leicester have already overtaken us. For sure.
Yeah I can help clear that up….. It’s not true
Stumbling upon a manager who’s a match made in heaven for you and then sticking with him till death is one operating model. It’s similar to what Spurs hoped for with Poch. But of course Leicester seem to be doing it better i.e. actually backing their manager and trying to keep him happy. Another way is that while you have that magic manager, you use the momentum to also improve the sporting infrastructure, and I’m not talking about spending a Billion on a stadium, instead of that, improve the scouting network, improve the academy coaching staff, upgrade the training facilities, and make the footballing hierarchy more cohesive. Dortmund and Leipzeig did that and they were well placed when Klopp, Ruchel and Ragnick etc departed. The transition was smoother.
Instead under Poch, Levy booted Paul Mitchell from the recruitment team and put Hitchen in charge whose ‘strategy’ appears to be throwing darts at a list of footballers registered in France FA. Then our respected academy personnel like Kieren McCenna and John McDermott bailed and weren’t replaced properly, and our club hierarchy went through multiple ‘restructurings’ all of which included Levy’s yes men and women changing their titles but nothing else with the man himself on top with no accountability. The only external hire was last year as a head of footballing operations and he only lasted 3-4 months.
You either plan for long term under the same manager by backing him, or you plan for sustainability in transitions by investing in the infrastructure and squad. Under Levy, we actually get the worst of both worlds.
Levy gotta be focused on working our stadium and bringing in dough. Simple
Leicester Better hope rogers stays there for the rest of his life
The athletic are reporting that Levy will leave all* footballing matters to this new bloke. Atleast some positive if this is true.
Better late than never. Good appointment
Totally. Levy will still be at Tottenham long after Joe’s gone
As long as the other financials are good Levy is safe. I doubt we are an anchor tennant for Tavistock.
I think it’s perfectly reasonable in a normal working environment for the DoF to be overseeing the managerial appointment, since the DoF will be the manager’s boss.
But I completely agree that Levy’s position has to be in some danger, if we continue miss out on Champions League, then the TV and competition revenues will drop, and the ticketing sales will suffer as well. If we and Leceister repeat our last two years, I don’t see how they won’t overtake us. And no matter how much Levy and some Spurs fans like to pretend, we’re not an elite club. We don’t have the global outreach and revenue streams of the other five clubs. We’ve gatecrashed the big boys party over the last 5 years. But there’s usually room for only one. If Joe (or whoever’s running Tavistock) sees clear signs of Leceister going past us, then Levy would be in big trouble despite his relationship with Joe. As he himself must’ve alluded sitting across the Spurs manager in his office at least 10 times during his reign, it’s just Business.
Interesting but I am not sure why you mentioned this but it is a little known fact that Lewis made more money than Soros out of Black Monday and the sterling crisis but he just kept out of the limelight which was the clever thing to do.
He’s safe as far as Joe’s concerned because he doesn’t care about football either…
Forget the job title, this is Head Scout and the current Head Scout, Hitchen provided Levy with a manager shortlist months ago.
This is Levy deflecting this chaos and trying to create the impression that things are getting ‘fixed’ by a ‘football man’. If the pr*ck had listed to football people about two years ago or more, we wouldn’t be in this mess in the first place. Levy is an embarrassment…
20 years is enough in any job. Move him on Joe.
If he’s getting a director of football position, then I’m sorry I disagree – it’s entirely sensible that he’s heavily involved (leading) the recruitment of a new manager. What’s poor is that Levy should have sorted DoF 6+ months ago and then he’d have never been in this sorry state, we’d also be able to be recruiting and selling now regardless of who the new coach is..
Ah, Lewis and Soros have form together. Who would of thought?
https://www.tavistock.com/portfolio/sports-events-institutes/tottenham-hotspur/
Quite a portfolio.