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I Take A View That Sacking Nuno Is A Button Marked ‘Do not press’ for Daniel Levy

By The Boy -

Let’s consider the facts, opposed to getting swept up in a whirlwind of utterly baseless speculation. After failing to back Mauricio Pochettino in successive transfer markets, totalling over 500 days of inactivity, the decision to bring in José Mourinho appeared at first glance to be a bold move. Here we had a coach with an exemplary CV that could be trusted to win. The unifying feeling amongst the fan base would surely be triggered by silverware.

Regrettably, it would appear that young Daniel was more concerned about the negative baggage that many great men bring with them. Despite turning Harry Kane and Heung Son-Min into a free-scoring duet with a relationship that many pundits hailed as ‘telepathic’, and reaching a cup final, Levy decided to pull the trigger on the Special One.

The fiasco that was finding ANYONE to take the job was one that ran for over 70-days.

Reports since the loss against Manchester United this weekend – another 3 goals that whistled past Hugo Lloris in a single game – are linking us with a variety of coaches. Many of the names we have heard before… during those 70-plus days of searching.

Things are tough, but what hurry will Mr Levy be to return to this particular drawing board? I would suggest, in no hurry at all…

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Kosher Kid
Kosher Kid
2 years ago
Reply to  Average Joe

Some nice alliteration too, ( feasted on the flesh and blood of the beloved). Scrumpy in the morning can often bring out the best in a poet.

Dino
Dino
2 years ago
Reply to  Bertoliver

I disagree last season… look at the fullback, and midfield positions… significantly weaker than kane & sons best scoring years under poch

Average Joe
Average Joe
2 years ago
Reply to  legoverlass

Good imagery. Well done.

Bertoliver
Bertoliver
2 years ago
Reply to  Dino

They were no more prolific under Jose than they were under Poch the figures speak for themselves. I think it’s true than in the Poch era there was far more creative options and Kane and Son benefitted from assists from amongst others Eriksen, Dele, before he fell off a cliff, and our full backs. In Jose’s time they perhaps had to depend more on each other in the absence of other options.

Dino
Dino
2 years ago
Reply to  Callmematty

Another 3-0 loss v Everton & hes likely away… what’s Big Sam upto? 😉

Dino
Dino
2 years ago
Reply to  Bertoliver

Maureen improved Kane & Son… had poch still been there those two would not of had the goal scoring & assists they did…that they did is on maureen.

James McKevittr
James McKevittr
2 years ago

I could write Ali Golds column now, talks with Conte, talks with Zidane.

We end up with the equivalent of Tony Pulis.

James McKevittr
James McKevittr
2 years ago
Reply to  Tangangry

Indeed, but the legend of the patron Saint of France St Denis tells that he walked six miles with his head in his hands after he was beheaded. Asked how he did it, he replied that, “It is only the first step that is difficult”.

Tangangry
Tangangry
2 years ago
Reply to  CzechSpur

NDom needs to be the first out the door, his attitude stinks the place out and his gameplay kills any semblance of tempo.

Tangangry
Tangangry
2 years ago

wishful thinking.

James McKevittr
James McKevittr
2 years ago

I hope that we are seeing the beginning of the end of ENIC and it’s ownership of Tottenham FC.

At long last the majority of fans are accepting the idea that our problems can’t always be laid at the door of the manager and players.

It could take years more, Mike Ashleigh hung on for years, but maybe just maybe ENIC begun to loose their grip.

Urbane Sturgeon
Urbane Sturgeon
2 years ago

I suspect that the Telegraph exclusive was handed to them by the club. It must be almost impossible to talk to candidates from abroad without a risk of it getting out, whereas having an in house tête-à-tête is pretty much risk free unless you’re a an idiot with a big mouth which Levy isn’t.

I imagine this is a clear message dressed as media gossip. For me, it’s not if but when. Some italian blabbers reckon Parrot Itchy has already talked to Conte; Oh paleeeeeez!

James McKevittr
James McKevittr
2 years ago
Reply to  CzechSpur

Very sensible ideas but very little will happen, its like Alice in Wonderland at Spurs.

James McKevittr
James McKevittr
2 years ago

The Myth of the hard man negotiator exposed again. When pressure comes on especially in public, the furlough fiasco for example, he caves.

Paddio
Paddio
2 years ago

This season was written off before it started and with a 50% win ratio in the league, Nuno might not get moved until a replacement is lined and that’s if the PR doesn’t die down. As he was never recruited to win anything.

I’m not sure Nuno is control of tactics, formations, the club set the football framework, as he’s often stated he’s there for preparation and quite specific in that.
Even if the message maybe understood, he never looked once like they were really his footballing convictions and that also rubs off on the squad.

The jig was up for Nuno from the day he entered talks with the club, as it would have been with anyone who was sounded out.

SpursGoliath
SpursGoliath
2 years ago

Take away 6 points and add another -3 to our negative GD and then we’d have really been seeing Levy sweat

Weve got lucky so far, maybe the occasional win will have us hovering just clear of the relegation fight all season?

With no entertainment on the field the best chance of fun we’ve got is the club flirting with relegation and seeing Levy in panic mode and maybe even loosening those white knuckle grip purse strings in January.

Finishing the season 13th with Desperado Santo still sat there with forced smile lockjaw will just be depressing

East Stand
East Stand
2 years ago

Whatever you feel about Jose’s approach, he knew he had to get those two supplied. The fact Nuno is unable to get those two involved more is perhaps indicative of how truly out of his depth he actually is…

East Stand
East Stand
2 years ago

He needs to look in the mirror and admit that he and he alone is responsible for the one trophy in 23 years, he might not care but he has to take responsibility.

This utter nonsense he comes out with about “everything I do is the best for Tottenham Hotspur”…. Surely Daniel, one minor pot in 23 years is clearly NOT the best for Tottenham Hotspur.

You constantly talk out of your ar*e and have been for over two decades mate…

legoverlass
legoverlass
2 years ago

If there is one thing that ENIC and Levy do not like it is the glare of the spotlight shining on their faces showing for all to see the facade of their tenure as owners of THFC as a mechanism to unlock land and property development. Levy in particular appears to like the shadowlands where he can remain outside of the glare of the prying eyes of the world. A world of non-accountability, non-public ownership, where he can satiate his Napoleonic lust for control and power. A status he would struggle to sustain in a public arena where his machinations would be subject to scrutinisation and critique. I have said several times in the recent past that the jig is up for ENIC and Levy. They have rolled their loaded dice for over two decades, manipulating the narrative to conceal their truth and to perpetuate the penury myth with its ever repeating new project plotline. Meandering from season to season like some Pied Piper of Haringey followed by the emptying wallets of the emotionally vested generational legacy of the supporters. They led these masses to the promised land of the as-yet-unnamed billion-dollar Valhalla only for them to awaken and find that indeed the gold and glory that was promised was nowhere to be seen as the chosen ones to deliver were in fact in absentia. The Pied Piper has led everyone down a cul de sac from which there is no turning back. The hubris for taking the wrong path no longer has validity or substance and the followers are awakening. The mist of deception is beginning to clear from their eyes and they are beginning to see that before them is a barren wasteland devoid of any semblance of green shoots of hope or a future emboldened with the DNA of To Dare is To Do. As the veil of ENIC and Levy slips yet further revealing their abhorrent visage the whisper of disenchantment and anger builds to a rising crescendo amongst the masses. They begin to realise that in this desert this monolith entity that has feasted on the flesh and blood of the beloved host of THFC can not survive without drinking the water that pours from their wallets. One by one they turn their heads away from the carcass of ENIC that is writhing in the withering gaze of their awakened consciousness. Quietly one by one they start closing their wallets with a soft movement that resonates like a thunderclap in the head of the beast before them. A beast that has realised that the jig is finally up and that the true power has shifted in that moment back from whence it came. It is done. It is over. As the masses turn and walk away the sun begins to rise on a new day and a new future. Let it be Lord Let It be!

CzechSpur
CzechSpur
2 years ago

Get in a new manager, give him some transfer money and a free hand to fire the failed players out of a cannon. If we don’t do that, the laziness and half ass-ry will continue unabated. But show the following the door:

Gollini
Davies
Dier
Sanchez
Doherty
Winks
Dele
Bergwijn
Sessegnon
(and inevitably, the broken Kane and ageing Lloris)

and it just might give a welcome kick up the backside to people like Lo Celso and Ndombele who only show up very rarely. (Though Ndom’s been somewhat improved, I’ll give him that.)

Right now, managers have no authority, as players have no fear of getting booted out of the club for underperforming. We can’t keep on waiting for washed-up characters like Dier and Dele to somehow get good again (if they ever were good at all).

We’ve been here for years, haemorrhaging money and accepting failure. This needs to stop right now.

Glory Costs Too Much
Glory Costs Too Much
2 years ago

Well there aren’t many teams that are going to fall for our current blitzkrieg attack that’s for sure, then you’re getting into the relegation zone. If we carry on getting worse the way we are, anything is possible. It’s very hard to pick up 3 points without getting a shot on target…

Glory Costs Too Much
Glory Costs Too Much
2 years ago
Reply to  Callmematty

I doubt any manager can transform this lot without major transfer backing from baldy, and we all know he doesn’t do that.

Glory Costs Too Much
Glory Costs Too Much
2 years ago
Reply to  Bertoliver

I think it was the assists provided by Kane and the telepathic combination of the two that were most noteworthy under Jose, until teams started to get savvy of course.

Glory Costs Too Much
Glory Costs Too Much
2 years ago
Reply to  James McKevitt

It seems the boo’s echoing around his stadium on live TV have got to him, goodness knows what he’ll do next the man is such a knee jerk. Appoint Ryan Mason I dare say before trying to con Conte with promises of jam tomorrow.

Glory Costs Too Much
Glory Costs Too Much
2 years ago

Levy needs to pull the trigger on himself, for he is the problem. The little bald elephant in the room.

Ballina Hotspur
Ballina Hotspur
2 years ago

I’ve heard we have been linked with Porto manager Sergio Conceicao. I was talking to a Portuguese fella at work (Benfica fan) and he said Conceicao is worst than Nuno. So I wonder if that would be another Levy special.

James McKevitt
James McKevitt
2 years ago

Can’t agree with you H, a repeat of the hostile fan reaction will not be welcome more especially as The Emperor for maybe the very first time was subject of the fans anger.

No, Daniel has one weak spot and that is he doesn’t like public humiliation.

Humiliation is okay for the likes of plebs like Martin Jol, the crowd knew he was sacked before he did or Jose, shafted in the week before a Cup Final.

But good ol Daniel doesn’t appreciate the attentions of the mob especially in front of the friends of Daniel and broadcast all over primetime Sky TV.

So goodbye Nuno, you have joined the long, well paid list of those who have been Levyed.

Bertoliver
Bertoliver
2 years ago

Harry respect your view and love of the special one but Jose did not transform the Harry Son relationship in quite the way you imply. Both were prolific scorers before and during the Jose era.
Since 2014 to the present day here is the tally of league goals they have scored
2015 Harry 25 Son 4 Total 29
2016 Harry 29 Son 14 Total 42
2017 Harry 30 Son 12 Total 42
2018 Harry 17 Son 12 Total 29
2019 Harry 18 Son 11 Total 29
2020 Harry 23 Son 17 Total 40
In seasons 2018 2019 Harry missed several league games through various injuries.
This is not demean their performance under Jose but to suggest they were transformed under him is not entirely correct

Callmematty
Callmematty
2 years ago
Reply to  THFC

Don’t care what they’re paid as long as they’re up to the job. It’s not my money.

Billy Tonsils
Billy Tonsils
2 years ago

No doubt he needs better service from better players but it isn’t going to happen is it. Levy wants to bleed every decent player to death rather than support them with decent players. At the same time Dele Alli picks up 100g a week for being a tart.
As for Winks ..Dier . it’s all about PR for the stadium not the football club.
BTW I am not blaming Kane here, he should’ve been sold and the money invested.
Bet Danny is walking tall now eh..that showed em ..no one outwits Daniel except football agents , coaches / managers, Do Not Go to Jail, pick up a big bag of cash…Danny’s the man ..shrewd hard nosed football man , but it isn’t about the football is it. It’s about Land and the borrowing our stadium facilitates.

THFC
THFC
2 years ago

I’d love to be a fly on the wall in any meeting Levy is holding with potential managerial replacements, to see his “genius businessman-ship” first hand. Conte/Fonseca will be doing everything they can not to burst out laughing at anything other than a ludicrous salary and equally generous termination clause. This next contract will make Mourinho’s look like peanuts, if these possible managers have any sense about them at all.

Don’t worry though, the hard-working gullible fans will foot the bill once again.

Spurs47
Spurs47
2 years ago

No sane person wants the job but it must be clear to Levy that he has made yet another error of judgement with the appointment of NES. It’s not that complicated, the football is awful, the fans are restless and the team is stale, unmotivated and hovering around mid table but may well fall further. NES is just a quite disaster-bless him. The dilemma is all DL’s making, who in their right mind would hire a manager sacked by Wolves ffs? Fall below mid table, lose to West Ham in the EFL cup (very likely) or, some might say worse- lose to Vitesse in the ECL and things will definitely get to be heated and uncomfortable. He can’t just get shot of NES and go another 70 days with Mason as caretaker. Thick skinned he may be but that would be real “Emperor no clothes” territory and merely showcase the fact that DL hasn’t got a clue and is simply going round in downward pointing spirals. I hate seeing my team performing so badly but I have to confess that part of me wants this to get worse in order for change to take place. Need a crack to let in the light?

Callmematty
Callmematty
2 years ago

Nuno is a dead man walking. If he’s not gone by the time of the Everton match next weekend, he definitely won’t be around for the Leeds match after the international break.

You don’t know what you’re doing
You don’t know what you’re doing
2 years ago
Reply to  Billy Tonsils

I think Kane is equally as pissed off playing in front of a pedestrian and vision less midfield and waiting for any service from head down and run Moura, who you’d probably want to play up front because it worked once nearly 3 years ago.

Billy Tonsils
Billy Tonsils
2 years ago

No one with any dignity is coming to this comedy of errors. The best thing Levy can do is instruct Nuno to bench Kane , he isn’t worth playing at the moment and it is starting to appear that the other players are fed up with him.
Daniel Levy Chmn of Debt owner of nothing what a limp dick you really are.

São Paulo Spurs
São Paulo Spurs
2 years ago

Yes, I’ve been thinking about this today and I also think Levy might not sack Nuno. Not because it’s not the right thing to do, more because finding his replacement will be difficult. Difficult in the fact that either Levy or Paratici will need to make cast iron promises to whoever dares take on the role. Therein lies the rub, remember back in the summer when young Kane thought he had a gentleman’s agreement with our deceitful leader? You can argue to the toss about gentleman’s agreements until the cows come home. The upshot is, Levy has now publicly made it crystal clear that he’s not a man of his word unless all the cards are stacked in his favour.
As long as we stay mid-table and don’t get into too much trouble, I can’t see any change at Spurs for now..

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