When your team suffers a humiliating defeat it is really easy to give a kneejerk reaction and let fly. I have found that it is best to wait until the day after and to then give a more balanced reaction. That is what I have done and I must say, it has made no difference.
I am just as angry as I was when the ref blew the final whistle last night and the really sad thing is that this is not a new feeling.
I felt like this when Mauricio Pochettino was in charge and I feel this same fury with Jose Mourinho at the helm.
Now, do not get me wrong, Mourinho has a lot to answer for but it is minuscule compared to Chairman Daniel Levy.
It was obvious under Poch what was wrong, it was obvious that the squad needed a proper overhaul. It was obvious there were players that no longer played for the badge, that certain areas were woefully weak and yet Levy took almost no action.
Pochettino was crying out for an overhaul and Levy hardly budged an inch, much more could have been done in January but nada and even now we have the likes of Chelsea strengthening left right and centre.
Levy, in my opinion, no longer sees Tottenham as primarily a football club but more an entertainment entity. It seems to me that the Chairman is trying to build a business that can soak up mediocrity from the actual football team because the Stadium will generate so much money that the loss of Champions League football is easily absorbed.
The Coronavirus pandemic has smashed those plans completely and that has put failure on the pitch into severe focus and Levy cannot hide, he has no choice now but to stand up and be counted.
But will he?
Of course he will not, he has the skin of an Elephant, I mean, he had no shame furloughing the staff did he?
This is on Levy right now, Mourinho has to answer questions and that will be covered in later articles but the reason we are where we are today, from Champions League finalists to mid-table humiliation is because of the work that has gone before.
If Mourinho went tomorrow and a new manager was brought in do we honestly think it would be any different with this squad?
No, it would not in my opinion and there is one common denominator in all this failure and that is Daniel Levy.
#wishful
Chelsea sold Hazard for £89m and are buying Werner & Ziyech for £89m.
Chelsea sold their best player Hazard and bought Werner & Ziyech. Liverpool sold Countino and bought VVD & Allison. Leicester sold Mahrez,Maguire & Kante and bought well and are now third. Is it unthinkable to sell Kane & Dele for a rebuild,deadwood won’t scratch the surface.
3 will do for now. Couple more in the following window
Let’s hope last night was a one off, but a good few players last night threw Mourinho under the bus. I don’t see how he can change this without clearing the dead wood out now and bringing in at least six players he wants for next season. But we keep being told there is very little money. The interview he gave about players having no motivation to play for the club is shocking, but it’s also true.
Plus the cost of purchasing the land and building the stadium to add to the £23m outlay plus interest rates.
Exactly. They’re not football people, they’re money people.
That might be true. They have never put any of their own money in, and they’re not going to start now. That’s their decision they own the club.
The financial side of it his has been a massive success but unless you can get people though the door, it’s a dead duck.
And Joe is instructing him as to how much spurs cash he can spend (which ain’t a lot) levy could be just as frustrated with Joe as managers past/present and fans are frustrated with him.
Where is the restrictions on Chelsea tho? Got a player in that vdv and jol both recommended and a guy we allegedly were interested in years ago. Both been great players for us but we look at fraser? They are crooks and have stolen that club from us so guns and Roses and Anthony joshua can do their thing
I just said he works under the general direction of Joe Lewis.
They’ve had 20 years to get it right. Times up. Pack your stuff leave by the door marked exit.
Do you think levy can go splashing spurs cash without Joe’s permission?
The financial situation is far from a shambles, Levy and Lewis have turned a £23 million purchase of the club into an asset worth maybe £1.5 billion pounds, all financed with other people’s money. In my book that is genius.They have never put one brass farthing of their own money into the club.
Levy is not just an employee like everybody else. He owns almost a third of ENIC who own 85per cent of the shares issued by Tottenham Hotspur, he is in charge of day today matters at the club and he is following the direction of the majority owner of ENIC Joe Lewis.
It is absolutely not a given due to the close family ties but I can actually see Levy being moved on within 6 months. Above all the big cheese in ENIC is a businessman and what good business can Levy put before him in his next report. I was about to put some of it is not his fault but on reflection the stadium is 10 years too late. Look at Woolwich this is going to take a decade to recover.
Stepping back why would any (say CEO) of a company look at this shambles (I mean the PL table) and not think he could get a better person in.
Time is up Mr Tight Purse
‘THFC Will Never Be Successful, With Levy And ENIC In Charge ‘ ….Limerick AL circa 2010.
What has levy got to do with all this? He’s just an employee just like everyone else at the club. Joe runs this. Levy is paid loads to do as he’s told just like jose
So, where are we?
Levy is Joe Lewis’s godson so he isn’t going anywhere until Lewis sells
THFC or dies. If he sells, we hope the incoming have their own man & Levy goes.
If Lewis dies, we only hope he doesn’t leave a job for life at THFC in his will for Levy.
The virus has put paid to selling & making a profit as all the other events planned for the stadium aren’t allowed either. No crowds = no income.
Apparently, European football will have grounds at 50% capacity in Sept, with the intention of having 100% by January. If this can’t happen, any event that requires an audience to support it financially, is finished.
If that happens, where will any club be? Bankrupt.
Football could disappear
Levy is always quick to give himself pay rises. Based on the results this year he should take a huge pay cut or do us all a favour and resign.
I wholeheartedly agree levy is true a disgrace I said the season we made the Champions League final that levy showed lack of ambition by not purchasing players then start saying it was Poch Lie. We have striker options upfront all winter transfer window long lie.list of Targets that we are going for lie.It has to stop if your not interested investing in our club leave now!! Name me one team in world football that has no defensive midfielders or backup Central strikers there aren’t any. Aurier I beg of you please leave furlough him I beg of you never go near a Spurs shirt again and the same to Dier. No more heart attacks everytime you touch the ball.the worst thing is this man already told us that he is not going to invest in the team next season so as we watch rivals like Chelsea United Arsenal Wolves Sheffield United Leicester Southampton go pass us there is no sunshine after the rain.
Jose is up against it, Poch was up against it. The club is a dysfunctional sh*t shower with three quarters of a billion of debt pretending everything is ok because we can get 62k in our multi-use venue.
So pleased that it’s all coming home to roost for that bunch of crooks…
A manager always gets some stick, and 15m a year means your entitled to more than most. But the bottom line is poch asked to behave like a big club. My gut feeling is that was him on a slippy slope from there on. THFC are merely a means to pay off the debt that the monstrosity is. Football is totally irrelevant. People should read the vermins comments concerning football when him and his band of merry thieves took their share of rangers. Football is a low hanging fruit. So when he lies, you k ow he’s lying cos his lips are moving, about loving spurs, he actually admits he isn’t a football fan at all. I’m done with football. Or this new version of it.