The worst kept secret in English football right now is that Tottenham Hotspur Football Club are in a whole world of trouble. I would comfortably assert that after finishing off Mauricio Pochettino’s hopes and dreams by depriving the poor man of any transfer activity for two years – when he absolutely needed it most – was simply a death knell – opposed to a clean end.
Fastest poured pints, the longest bar in a stadium, the biggest retail square footage for a football club in Europe and of course that glorious, retractable pitch which can facilitate one of the world’s other most cherished sports, perhaps as frequently as twice per annum. Go sports.
What ENIC are left with is a raging sea of debt caused by financial overexposure that no other football club in the world had dreamt of. Is now an awfully bad time to remind some Spurs fans of their ‘careful what you wish for” staple repost? Yes it is. Of course, it is.
“I do feel like it is a similar situation (to Gareth Bale). I love Harry, he’s one of the best strikers in Europe but I also look at his career”
Jermaine Jenas was quoted by the Daily Mail.
“…there’s a lot of me that’s kind of looking around and going, look at what Kyle Walker has done since leaving – he’s gone and won two Premier League titles and could get to a Champions League final this year, he’s achieving things in his career and Harry is only picking up more and more injuries every year.”
Kane’s departure is the writing on the wall and the horrific debts engineered by Daniel Levy’s stewardship handed Harry the pen that wrote them.
It makes absolute sense that Kane and his agent will look at offers now. There is no way Kane will waste his remaining years without some measure of success. He will be fully aware of what Bonzo has achieved since leaving. Man City seems a possible destination with Aquero departing. All the spin about the club not wanting to sell is just flim flam.If the right offer comes in Levy will grab it as he always has done. The club will issue the usual statement that it was the player who wanted to leave and they wish him success in the future blah blah blah, What club has sold more of its best players consistently over the past twenty years? What so called top club has achieved less than us over the past twenty years. Why would any world class player want to join a club with that record? Even Arsenal who have been very poor over the last decade still pick up trophies. FA Cup this year and now 14 times and a European spot and our coaching team and staff are jumping around at being outplayed and scrabbling a draw at Crystal Palace who had lost their last five consecutive matches. Nothing will change whilst ENIC and Levy are sucking the lifeblood out of the club and its supporters. My hope is that this pandemic squeezes Uncle Joes wallet so tightly that he nails out and accepts an offer and leaves Levy high and dry for new owners to show the exit door to. The new stadium is a folly that will go down in the history of football about how to destroy the reputation and soul of a once great club and its supporters.
This time next year we’ll be the Kings of Europe with those two! Real Madrid will come knocking though and then we’ll be back to square one.
You can’t compare Lord Harry of Walthamstow with Balio.
I posted on another board I watched Bale’s body language in Hong Kong and he had gone and oh the derision I got off the brain surgeons on there “oooooh Bale is off because he looks miserable”……………..****Boom****
Harry is different it is more of a case of want to stay but will have to move on soon to win titles (not League cups)
Of course it’s Levy’s fault if the manager asks for player A and Levy baulks at the price and instead buys player B who may be cheaper but by comparison is crap. This has happened repeatedly with Levy and is the reason we’re in the mess we’re currently in. Or are you blaming all the managers he’s sacked whilst defending him?
Criminal paying poch £35 million to win nothing? Stroll on will ya
ENIC take all THFCs profits? Prove it.
If you’re meaning me I’m still here standing firm by my club (still) ready to take you all on.
tbf I think Poch was “berry berry happy”
Rest easy Cow……..ready made replacements in Wilson & Deeney plus it solves the back up striker problem.
Then they would choose player A but levy got a better deal on player B?
The same approach Levy apparently adopted for the collapsed Berahino transfer prior to collapse of those protracted tortuous negotiations!
Everton were never really in the race. £6M pa for 5 years would’ve sucked up about a third of their transfer budget
Funds were never available. Levy offers managers player A and player B to choose from. It’s a loaded deck.
Hence, Poch being ‘berry happy’ with his squad so frequently…
The issue with levy is not what he allows to be spent (bar the year we spent nothing). The issue is that for the £70m+ spent it’s spread over 5 players rather than one or 2. Now we need 5 or 6 instead of one or two.
Hahaha
But we can afford my obscene bonus particularly for bringing in the shopping emporium for twice the budget and a year late.
I vividly recall Sissoko was on the verge of joining Everton (I wish he had!) until Levy hijacked that deal in the closing minutes of the transfer window.
Ok, but what about Aurier and NDombele?
You can’t blame any of those players for leaving either, a footballer’s career is short after all, but Levy has never had a coherent plan to replace the talent we lose. Everything is done on the cheap. For one of the richest clubs in Europe the recruitment is abysmal. Hopefully, the wider footballing community will start to see Levy for what he is.
but it IS Levy’s fault…every manager comes out and pretty much says they didn’t get their first choice and the board make the final decision..Jose has just come out and said Stevie isn’t his signing…
£63M wasted on NDombele is a utter disaster!
£23M on Aurier
£23M on Lamela
£20+m on Sissoko
D Sanchez
Foyth
R Sessegnon
etc etc
+1
In fairness to Levy whilst he is culpable for the current malaise surrounding the football side of the club funds have been made available for current and past managers to spend on players but not spent well which surely is not Levy’s fault??
When you sell the best RB in the league for £50m and replace him with a PSG reject for £25m what does that say about Levys ambition? Toughest negotiator in football? Only when it comes to selling our best players. He rinses the selling club for all he can before they go on to win trophies together. He has ripped the soul out of Spurs and WHL. Can you imagine telling Man U or Scouse fans that their clubs are only anchor tenants in their homes!
The problem is we all know that those profits won’t be recycled back into the squad will they? They’ll go to ENIC, Levy will continue to pay low wages and save pennies by buying the cheapest rejects and cast-offs he can find in his bargain basement world. He will always find an excuse not to buy or retain quality players. First it was the “we can’t afford them without CL football”, then “we can’t afford them because our ground is too small”, then “we can’t afford them because we’re in debt with the new stadium”, then “we can’t afford them because of the virus pandemic”. I suppose now we’re back in the ropey it’ll be back to the first excuse will it?
A depressing familiar theme!
Plus Berbatov
Following Kane’s likely departure it follows a familiar theme!
Sol Campbell, Michael Carrick, Teddy Sherringham, Modric, Bale, Kyle Walker all left Spurs to win trophies and they did!!
Many a team has sold their most valuable and best player and got stronger, but I have no trust in Levy delivering the players Mourinho needs to improve us.
No one in their right mind thinks that the artificial turf pitch was built to host two NFL games and nothing else.
Concerts, fights, and a lot more will create a significant income stream as the pandemic subsides.
You can’t spend what you haven’t got, and that income will change the financial state of the club forever, once it takes root.
The pandemic has taken a year (at least) out of the programme and it will hurt very badly for some time, but nobody could have foreseen that
Where are all the Levyologists now then? Even the idiots realise the whole charade now.. They were on here in abundance when the two years neglect was in motion.. Giving the Boy loads of 💩 for stating facts, telling the truth, and predicting all of this long before the superbowl was even built!….. H, I stand to attention and salute you sir. You were right all along. Time has told. The flat earthers have all gone into hiding.
To up the cost of ST’s is to dare !
The grounds for revolt is undoubtedly there. The fan-cam thing has had its day and the full extent of the economic crash is about a year away. A 61,000+ plus stadium sir?
No fanks!
Funny old game.
I know a little, not lots, about kettles, one of my oldest friends is still in Mayfair, still trying. God loves a trier.
IWC are undoubtedly up there, but it’s a fakin tin medal to be presented with one as a professional footballer.
Look at the haul they had out of Dele Alli’s.
Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille.
With this two bob watch I thee expel from my clutches.
Levy will undoubtedly have a substantial selling fee in mind and would sell in a heartbeat, if he can achieve the amount he wants. Problem is , and not forgetting FFP is now redundant, there is only the likes of citeh or PSG who can contemplate such an amount of money right now, and I imagine he would demand full payment from them, so that he can offer Jose at least half to sign new players, and try to appease him and the fans anger. However I dont think the fans will let this go, they will finally revolt and either demonstrate for ENIC out in mass numbers, or dont return to attend games when that is decided upon, it will be the pivotal moment .
Perhaps it’s tempting for all current Spurs fans to transfer their allegiance to wherever he goes. I know that sounds criminal but so is what Levy and ENIC are doing to our club. Perhaps we should all take a sabbatical until such a time as they are no longer the owners. Personally, aside from also supporting Leeds Utd I have no way of fighting back against these evil SOB’s. It’s criminal what they have done to people like Poch and all the other managers they sacked or forced out, not to mention almost making Kane a cripple by forcing him to play all the time without back-up, and denying him a real chance of a trophy. Mind you at least he’s pocketed great wads of their money, what have we got – broken dreams and the never ending feeling of being conned. Why are we wasting our lives supporting this club that has been hijacked by legalised criminals?
Not if Harry leaves but when. We all know how good he is and we’ll have plenty of time to contemplate that as he hoovers up trophies elsewhere. Harry will be watching the transfer window to see if two or three top players are brought in to match his ambition as he himself said and the same again in January. I doubt very much that Kyle Walker ever thinks he made a mistake and that he should have stayed like Jan Vertonghen and walked away with no winners medals but a very nice watch.