There are no two ways about it, Ryan Nelson is in for one hell of a ride. We have been told that Spurs have an immensely talented squad packed with Internationals, according to Jamie Redknapp. So Manchester City better be on their game; after all, there will be no trophies for doing well against Southampton.
Ryan told the BBC that Spurs were in his heart, in his blood – so at least we ought to be spared the ‘Tom Sherwood Experience’ again.
Mason put in a full nelson by Pep
Not a chance in hell.
Whole things hilarious. He looks like a deer trapped in the headlights. He’s as quiet as a mouse. People will worry for his health after that brain injury, worst collision I’ve ever seen or heard off.. He knows nothing about the super league because he’s had his head in a laptop for 13 hours. He’s happy the lads are professional and willing to listen and learn from him. He never said what he was looking up on his laptop did he… You tube I expect, How to coach school teams…
Roma, Marseille…..ffs
Almost as scary as having Ryan Mason in charge…
🤣 I was scrolling down to see who had spotted this .. Its a good tongue twister, bet you can’t say ‘ RYAN NELSON RYAN MASON’ really fast ten times.
None, really! But much as I dislike the concept of the ESL (and I haven’t much liked a lot of other things since the NEW TV age was ushered in in 1992), I think you have to join it, if given the chance, or you get left behind.
Oh, that’s good!
Absolutely, as far as I’m concerned.
YES, there’s almost no depths to which they wouldn’t sink.
All these people are really interested in these days – and in some sports like cricket even the governing bodies – is the casual fan and the huge amounts of cash they can make out of them; the traditional, committed fan is way down their list of priorities, sadly.
What’s Levy’s excuse though????
My sincere thanks and congratulations to the fans of rival clubs for your determined fightback against the proposed monstrosity. of the ESL, though much has nevertheless been lost in our game since 1992.
Ours claims to be a fan though.
Yes, he seems a pretty appalling man but I imagine that goes for most of the chairmen and owners of the biggest clubs these days.
Levy’s statement just bollocks! If he could have said – TRUTHFULLY – that we were never very keen on the idea but felt we couldn’t afford to be left behind, I would feel more forgiving in this instance.
I’m not sure it was a ruse; I think the Americans underestimated the love we have for our clubs and for some of our traditions. They are used to doing what they like in the US with their franchises and branding. I think they have had a bit of a jolt in the last few days.
Delightful!
I can’t understand how this is worse than having gangsters buy clubs as pet projects – the fans have no say in that and it is anti-competitive. Or the way the FA cup and League cup have been completely devalued. There was an outcry at the start when teams started to field weakened teams, but it’s normal now. When coming 4th in the league puts you into the big time how is that competetive. It devalues winning anything as 4th is the big target for everyone. The fans want cups but the board secretly don’t care. In public they are cheering but it is not profitable, and that is the game that we have been playing for decades.
Don’t forget sending people back into care homes who were covid positive after they caught it in the hospitals.
Although maybe the government deserves a teeny little bit of blame for not predicting there was going to be a need for more beds this winter seeing as normal flu leaves hospitals completely overflowing every winter even without covid. That and underfunding and undermining the health service and loading them with debt.
Sold th3 soul of the club. Shame on them and now their naked greed has been laid bare.
Utd s share price took a hit today and Woodward paid the price. ENIC answer only to Danny’s godfather so no change expected.
I was lucky enough to go to the manu game, still have the flag and t-shirt the club laid out…very emotional day indeed….
Agents are scum but I don’t mind the concept of rich owners who want to buy in and compete with the big boys. In fact, that’s what the Super-duper league lot are terrified of. I couldn’t be more disgusted with our club management and that’s saying something during Enics tenure.
Sadly, you are probably right but there has already been collateral damage after the ESL fiasco with the resignation of Ed Woodward. Other heads will probably roll.
Let’s hope so. Footy needs a reset.
Cap agent fee’s and players should cover the cost (not clubs) just like any other business and cap players wages…De Bruyne asking for 375k a week when clubs are taking loans out to survive HAS to stop…
Which wasn’t hundreds of millions in the hole.
“something else is going on here”
I’ve been feeling the same thing. Not saying we’re right, just that the speed of it all seems odd, like it’s all being flushed through quick to get it out of the way. Poor Aitch’s posts and vids are struggling to keep up.
He’s lower than a snakes belly. He makes my skin crawl.
He should just eff off not before putting our club back EXACTLY how he found it….
Levy is a cockroach. He won’t do the honorable thing and Lewis won’t do the right thing.
NO Hugs remember…..there’s a 99.7% survivable lurgy about according to the Gates Foundations spokespeople.
Levy is full of dog poo…..he jumped on the band-waggon for more free money just like he was willing to send us to east London to get a free stadium.
A family member is close to a another family member of a CEO of a prem club and I found out this morning Levy was going to pull out but couldn’t say anything….
I’m not sure about the lockdown’s generally but the form they took. The NHS has a huge amount of questions to answer.
The longest waiting list for treatments since records began, halted life saving and life extending treatments, four month delays to investigative scans and tests.
This people were/are supposed to be the experts in all of this and they’ve behaved like chickens with their heads cut off. It’s atrocious really “thank you NHS” what for? Making the death toll many times worse than Covid caused via incompetence? Yeah, thanks for that…
Defo….
Staged. All too orchestrated and in and out.
There is a God. Levy is a dead man walking. Time for the President of Patagonia to pick up the bat phone and sack the useless c**t that is our chairman. He has never got anything right. I suggest that Seppuku is the best result for Levy. For those of you that don’t speak fluent Japanese, this means ritual suicide.
People will swallow anything they propose now, so long as it isn’t that.
All bit of a ruse, something else is going on here. The only way something isn’t going on is if the authorities sanction the clubs involved or ban the owners from any further involvement in football…
Neither will happen so you have to wonder…
Make room for The Carabao Cup, its coming.
Dont really get Barcelonas involvment in this. They need the majority of their 140.000 members/fans, who own the club, on board to get something this big through. Would never been accepted
“the game we all love”
Yeah I’m just like you…..what a snake. Levy loves nothing but cash and owl bagels.
But he saves on the bonus for winning The Carabao Cup.
Thanks Daniel, you can also stick your one League Cup in 22 years up your a*rse, while you’re at it…
Gary Neville is calling for the removal of the Glazers, says they have no future in Manchester and Jamie Carragher says Fenway Sports need to leave. Oh it’s going to be nasty.
You know, the word ‘sustainability’ is one of my pet hates, It’s usually meaningless in whatever context it’s used and it is too often used to excuse any old pile poorly thought out of cr*p someone might be trying to flog.
“oh, my electric cars is sooo sustainable” no it isn’t but your gullibility obviously is…
Without the £350 million that was coming from the ESL, the Jose payoff is going to sting a bit.
I’ll bet Daniel is apoplectic …….
Media pushing the “fan power” narrative…..pat yaselfs on the back everyone blah blah…..patronizing rubbish. This was all a smokescreen.
Either that or these elite #\@$ have seen how people have rolled over this last year and thought they could push this through now. Once they smell blood, it’s hunt time. We gave up our freedom and they won’t stop now.
Haaaaaa! Levy was hanging on white knuckles to the dream of non meritocracy non competition and bags of free cash…
Naaah They all come out 24 hours later in a row.
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would be surprised if Tottenham haven’t announced they’re pulling out too before tonight is over…
Love it, could it be the end of Levy? How many more bad decisions can a CEO make before being sacked. Levy is a clusterf**k of bad decisions. Is it time for Seppuku for Levy? For those of you who don’t speak fluent Japanese, it means ritual suicide.
Domestically and I think RM might after Bale
Owners ultimately
They tried and failed to introduce a wage cap, Real Madrid wouldn’t agree it.
Where was all that money going to?
True, but we haven’t reached the state where United are being looted by the Glazers.
Barcelona would probably not been allowed to join anyways. Earlier this evening, their new President confirmed that the club needs the majority vote from their 140.000 members to proceed.
Not Spurs fans.
We’ve that in the form of Enic, you could say we were copied
He steps down only to leave his hand up his new puppets backside
Well if it stops the likes of the Glazers, Kroenkes and Fenway group buying the club I think that’s a good thing.
Doesn’t stop wage caps just the arbitrary figure it would be set at
We are a small proportion of the fan base, filling stadiums is small fry with what was on offer
I think this has actually pushed up the figure you’d need to buy the club.
This was the one thing hidden in all this, once they had got rid of UEFA and FIFAs control they would have introduced a wage cap.
It would be like an NBA team three of the Star players would be getting ninety percent of the wages. The rest would be on minimum contracts.
Why, this form has gone ‘lame’ but the principle behind it will be just repackaged. I googled what our global fan base is, we are not just part of let’s grab a beer at the three compasses before we go to the match anymore. For better or worse those days are dead. And where there are fans there is cash to be made.
I cannot remotely see that happening.
The downside is that we will be stuck with the parasites that are ENIC for the foreseeable. Levy and Uncle Joe won’t get top dollar anytime soon so we’ll be stuck with them. Expecting people like Levy and Lewis to ‘do the decent thing’ is lunacy.
Yes, but fans “have no compwehension”…
They won’t if wages get suppressed from their opposition.
Cry ‘God for Harry, England, and Saint George!’
‘Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war’.
A couple of my close friends are chelski fans. We have hugged on occasion but rarely on match days.
It’s the sort of thing that happens in sport: Harry and Poch have several near misses and win nothing while someone else wins on their only serious attempt. You have golfers who win a major championship on the only occasion they contend and others who finish second four times and never manage to land a big one. Even Jack Nicklaus managed to finish second seven times in the Canadian Open (not a major) without ever winning it!(on one occasion he was even runner up to Peter Oosterhuis winning his only tournament on the US tour)
Totally, this along with not allowing Poch to rebuild and backing him has shown them up to not care a jot about the fans whatsoever. Oh and the furlough thing. Anyone still buying into their con is beyond hope.
We learned something this week, these clubs call us legacy fans, not nice and shiny enough for them. It’s streaming, Netflixing, downloading, on demand 24hr Party People, Millenials they want.
Hats off to you British fans! You have single-handedly slain the beast as it emerged from its foetid uterus. It took less than 48h. Italy and Spain, meanwhile, were conspicuous by their silence. As a football fan, you have my undying gratitude!
PS: I actually feel like hugging a Chelsea fan. Could smeone kindly reassure me that there’s absolutely nothing wrong with me? Please?…
Man City out, Chelsea out, Athletico out, Barcelona out, Woodward resigned. The damage to the brands of these clubs even though they have pulled out has been catastrophic. They have lifted the veil on their real values and views of the fans and now tail between their legs they are scurrying for damage limitation. Levy is hiding under his desk in the Cheese Room and looking at the red phone nearby. He is crunched up in a crouched position not unlike Golam. Beads of perspiration are trickling down his face as he awaits the call from Uncle Joe. Could the little emperor fall on the same sword he had just removed from Mourinho’s back? Maybe the ESL does have a silver lining after all. The bailout maneuver has failed. The stadium remains empty. Uncle Joe stirs from his saline drip induced coma on his tax haven gin palace and his hand slowly reaches out towards the red phone in front of him……….make the call Joe… make the call! Good luck with season ticket sales by the way…….
Chelsea are usually bouncing a little before the change, though, compared with us when we make our change. I do understand the point you’re making and, yes, the Russian does seem to get a bounce.
You could be right. He’s always avoided media scrutiny over his Spurs cock ups but the hatred the six clubs have generated over the SL may mean the media view very differently from now on
I don’t!
The prospective manager ( though you’d hope for their own sake that they’ve actually done their homework) perhaps looks round our stadium and thinks “what a fantastic looking set up; this club should be League champions, European champions, the works.” And then after they’ve signed up, they’re given their budget by Levy with the advice “I suggest you look in Ligue 1, there are some real bargains to be had there!” Or am I just being an old cynic? Levy has form, you know!
People have short memories.
Liverpool players saying they don’t like it and they don’t want it. Expect there will be loads of players coming out against it now.
Nagelsmann our target, it would seem. The German would have to be mad, in my view, to put a spanner in the works of his own progress by going to work for Levy and ENIC, though I guess he’s young enough to regain ground lost after he’s been sacked. Of course, who knows how Levy sells the club to a prospective manager to get them to sign on the dotted line.
I agree. I know some here have their misgivings about Levy (to put it mildly), but this is a mis-step of a whole different scale. I wouldn’t be surprised to see him step down as chairman within the next 12 months.
Also there was no guarantee that with very little to play for, no relegation, unless you were in with a chance of winning it, the games would be glorified pre season games.
Don’t underestimate Enic and Levy.
Makes ENIC look like the desperate money-grubbers we’ve known they are for so long.
I think maybe it was the basic unfairness of it all, we were in but clubs like Everton, Aston Villa, Wolves who once were dominant clubs in English football but have been caught out by cycle of history were shut out for good. Same as Ajax, Benfica, Roma, Marseille.
Woodward gone from Utd, Levy next please.
Surely this is a question of damage limitation now to the reputations of the clubs involved. If we are one of the last left standing it’s going to look so bad.
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Yeah, it’s a bit of a worry. Anyway, nothing to do with us so they can shove their Super League where the sun don’t shine….
I have a feeling we’re probably not that popular in Asia. Having been success-starved for so long, we don’t appeal to glory hunters like the other five clubs. Our facilities might help, though.
If the club was hit with a huge fine, demotion etc. that megalomaniac still wouldn’t quit.
I’m not ordinarily one for hyperbole, but I think this whole ESL fiasco will prove to be beginning of the end for Levy…
Listened to a lawyer who has written a text book on European Law say that because there was no or severely limited access to the League to all other teams it was anti competitive and basically a cartel and because they treat football and the arts differently to business the laws on access are even tougher on potential monopolies.
Lets make it great again then! 😂
Just a question and not my opinion, why would fans who rather us play good football but not win anything (seen this sentiment on here this year) oppose the super league?