This blog spent a long time – many years – telling the truth about ENIC and received a metaphorical kicking from all quarters for its trouble. These days, the climate on social media towards the investment company from fans is frequently hostile.
This is no great shock as no tangible results have been forthcoming from the football team, and the generational size of the debt has begun to sink in with most fans.
Those supporters who once to waffled on about jam tomorrow have largely become silent. After all, there’s only so long one can keep prefacing every excuse with “yeah but” whilst watching rivals lift trophy after trophy.
The idea that Spurs are a well-run football club is a peculiar one, especially after Liverpool lift the Champions League cup, and now the Premier League title. Who in their right mind feels that they should have instead demolished Anfield and build a shopping centre instead? I’m guessing that few of you reading this are currently raising a hand.
The grim reality is that very many fans have finally heard the penny drop and understand that having issues with a football club’s owners, has nothing to do with supporting the actual club any less. Indeed, it shows a level of free thought and concern that is only to be respected, to be championed. This is a football club and not a religious cult.
£340million was held in reserve, and ENIC blew it and a lot more on infrastructure. For which there is no successful precedent in football or indeed a trophy.
ha ha ,yeah your right ,i was typing it feeling it was not right:)
I rarely used to comment but I’ve been a fan of the boys blogs for about ten years now. There were alot of muppets on other blogs and coming on here berating him often for simply telling the truth.. Often hilarious and occasionally harsh, but the truth is all that matters. He has given credit when due… I think his humour and language riled people up because some nitwits are brainless and others have soft skin…. I was worried at one point a few years back H was going to pack it all in. Everyone was getting blocked and I thought the poor man has had enough.. Congratulations called for indeed he was always right about enic.. The leviologists have all gone silent these days, there was one on here around the time of pochs demise but thats it now.. Even the idiots have realised now. The cat is out of the bag.
Liverpool are the best now. Premier league and champions league dons… They have a lot of champions leagues to win over the next few years to rival madrid with bale and ronaldo they won it four out of 5 times recently which is incredible.
The art of being a good chief executive is knowing when and to whom to delegate to. Ronald Reagan was a great example, and Boris as London mayor also had some vey good executives working for him. Levy always knows best when we all know that as far as his football knowledge is concerned, he know very little. A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
It’s all Liverpool, Liverpool now on TV and radio. I think one advantage Liverpool have is that with the owners Fenway Sports they bring a history of having won things with The Boston Red Sox and there is more than one person guiding the club, they also bring in the best talent in managers coaches, physios etc and they delegate responsibility and let people get on with their jobs.
Contrast that with Spurs, there is only one voice that counts. Do you think for one minute that John Henry principal owner of Fenway Sports sits in an office on the last day of the transfer windows doing deals, deciding on which players to bring in. I doubt it I imagine he has enough intelligence and humility to let the real experts do their jobs.
I think you should be doffing not donning!
As a fairly recent convert to this site, I congratulate HH for his long standing antipathy to Enic. My only complaint is that I feel he is rather harsh on Poch’s track record which was pretty good considering our net spend on transfers and wages. Wo knows what would have happened if the board, let me correct that, Levy, had decided to follow his advice on recruitment which was spot on. If only we had followed the Liverpool template. Frankly, it doesn’t matter who the manager is, the club is not prepared to go to the necessary lengths to win silverware. Levy is the highest paid chief executive in the PL Why?
This is different to Man Utd, Chelsea and Man City winning. They will win again and we can look and think they won by spending money we can only dream of. This though should have been us 3 years ago. It has been said before and we will re-visit it again in the future because this is part of our history, the nearly years (I’m sure Levy will release a DVD of it) but for a owner of a football club to put long term finances ahead of success that was staring them in the face is hard to take. None of the Leeds Utd scaremongering stories either. As HH has stated on numerous occasions, there are few teams that have done a Leeds. Liverpool had disappointments under Klopp. He too, like Poch was under pressure to deliver a trophy and was being called a ‘nearly’ man. If the owners had pulled the rug from under him after the Europa League defeat v Sevilla the Liverpool fans would have been in exactly the same position as us, feeling bitter of what could have been. Even if, in the next 10 years we become serial winners, that period of time, under Poch will be scorched with memories of what if.
You need major investment in players and wages to win things. Or you might have a year like Leicester, (highly unlikely) but like Leicester that can’t be sustained. I just see no evidence that the present regime will ever put Spurs in a position to achieve sustained success. Enough to be competitive, yes, enough to get the all important Champions League football, yes, but not enough to win trophies regularly. I hope I’m proved wrong.
Perfect post Harry and spot on!
I don my cap sir!