Son Heung-Min is expected to be offered a golden handcuff extension to stay at Spurs, beyond the duration of his current contract, which is due to expires in 2023. A new deal would keep the much-loved South Korean at Tottenham until 2025.
Whilst this is brilliant news, it would be remiss of me not to ask why this was not the case with Toby Alderweireld, Jan Vertonghen or Christian Eriksen? Each of these players were kept hanging on so long, that by the time their deals were running down, all that was achieved was an air of stalling, bickering and bad feeling. Fans couldn’t work out why Mauricio Pochettino was on the face of things randomly dropping the Belgians from his first-team squad, and it was never explained to anyone.
Worse yet, Christian Eriksen’s demise at Spurs was pretty much a ‘How Not To’ guide on handling big stars. Levy and Pochettino appeared incapable of constructing a solution that served anyone well, and Tottenham were left with a doe-eyed Dane that wasn’t interested in getting injured before securing his exit visa from N17. Again, fans were left perplexed; how had a superstar turned into the shadow of his former self. If the situation wasn’t weird enough, it wasn’t long – just 8 months – after Christian joined Milan for €20million that he was then rumoured to be up for sale by the Italians for €50million!
My question is a perfectly reasonable one; what’s changed, Daniel? First we discover we can buy players because we do have a budget, and then it emerges that talent can be locked down in advance. Just what was the blockage at Spurs?
The one thing you’re implying being money, money for who? For Tottenham not for himself. You’re going on like he’s running away with it all. You gonna fault the man for having Tottenhams best financial interests at heart? Do you think all that past stuff re poch not getting enough backing and rubbish wages/contracts ect gonna happen at the n€w lan€? We are here now, stop kicking the back of the seats. Banging on about how things ran at the old lane. If we were still there We’d be fckd. £200 large a week players? Yeah right
The one thing you’re implying being money, money for who? For Tottenham not for himself. You’re going on like he’s running away with it all. You gonna fault the man for having Tottenhams best financial interests at heart? Do you think all that past stuff re poch not getting enough backing and rubbish wages/contracts ect gonna happen at the n€w lan€? We are here now, stop kicking the back of the seats. Banging on about how things ran at the old lane. If we were still there We’d be fckd. £200 large a week players? Yeah right
An attacker who can’t cross. A defender who can’t defend. IMO
No we wouldn’t have. The players had had enough of him/them by then. He had to go. Let me tell you that as a fact. Was either that or change most of the squad. You really think it was all rosey in the camp by the end don’t you. IT WASN’T.
Amazingly short memorys some ,at the time 2-3 seasons ago i never heard any of the hate . We should have titles and cups and its all pochs fault . Sorry but what have we won in the last 30 years compared to the other big teams?? F-uck all and probably averaged 8th or something.
He’s getting better man. He can defend better than any attacker we have. 🌚 he’s a great squad player. I expected much more from Sanchez.
Yep .
Levy doing supermarket sweep was not predicted ,but looks like he bought well ,plus that 60 mil we spent last year is starting to play.
I also think Tin Tin switched off over time as he saw the quality of the squad dwindling. Now he can’t turn it back on. I must admit I thought the squad rebuild would take a lot longer than it has done. Not quite there yet though.
You have to suspect that Poch simply wasn’t influential enough on Levy. You can imagine Jose in his ear at every given opportunity.
With a brain the size of a pea. Not good enough. Too many errors. Him and Sanchez.
When has levy ever had a successful manager? ( the popular bit is just nonsense) “vindication for sacking poch? Poch had to fkin go (he lost the dressing room and respect from his players) do you honestly think multi millionaire José cares about money now? He knows his worth that’s why he’s paid so much. Struth!! You’re always comparing. We ain’t Chelsea or man u. Jose&levy doing really well at the new lane and you’re still moaning
Yep, the policy of not seeing things through with people he hires and then putting all the blame on them and firing them is being found out.
Honestly, I don’t think he’d have any qualms about sacking Jose either because there’s nothing Levy hates more than a manager who becomes popular and successful attempting to call the shots. Which is why this thing with Jose might only last a couple of seasons.
If Jose wins something then both his and Levy’s reputations will have been restored to an extent. Levy will be vindicated for sacking Poch and Jose can leave the club without being sacked if he wants for a final big payday somewhere else. He’s been sacked from his two last jobs remember…
He does. He’s been paid poorly (relatively speaking) for most of his career. Turning up for international duty as the “big dog” and getting paid less than many. Same as danny rose. All the worlds best left backs were probably laughing at Danny’s money.
I can’t fault the attacking player. Just has quiet games sometimes. (Which is a fault i suppose🌚 Absolute baller.
Yep. 🌚 he did get himself into defensive covering positions though. (Block off not tackle🌚 he wasn’t lazy.
He owes poch fk all. He sees his time at Tottenham a waste. No cups no money (relatively. Poch shoulda been pressing levy to better his contract ages ago. Joke manager.
If Levy had backed Poch properly last summer we’d have been in the Champions League this season.
The furlough thing too… the guy is just a snake. Most of all to the fans.
He didn’t need to back Poch because Poch was able to do it without proper backing. He was a fool into himself, although he probably expected Levy to back him more in the end. He didn’t and I think Mauricio pretty much gave up after last summer. I reckon they had a massive row as we got close to Coutinho and Dybala but something happened and the deals were pulled. If Levy was even trying properly to get them done…
Ginola wasn’t too shabby either
Agree he has certainly had big patches through most seasons when he was off the boil and we all said it. Saying that he was always leaving to join some tournament and had the will he have to join the army for as year stress . Since that has passed he seems far more settled and fitter .
I’d say that pretty much sums him up.
Irreplaceable Modric aint bad!
IMO Son best Spurs foreign signing since Klinsmann!
His tackling was simply dangling his leg out!
No denying his talent, I compared Eriksen to a butterfly floating serenely around the pitch generally sitting on the periphery without ever imposing himself on a match.
Short memories these people. I bet they were all singing his name after we beat Real Madrid and after Amsterdam though. Rightly so the guy was pulling up trees for the club. These are not the sort of people you’d want in the trenches with you,..
He certainly never really turned up in the biggest games, even against the smaller sides if someone went through him early he’d just go into his shell. Never consistent over a whole season either. He owes most of his reputation to Pochettino, without him he’s even less convincing…
Denied by a mixture of profligate finishing(Newcastle) and a worldy goall (West Ham)
We should be going into the fixture with a win taking us 2pts clear at the top
Even better!!
Apologies you are right!
lol Everton 4 wins
1 draw
Currently losing
= 13 pts
Spurs win 11pts
Getting confused.
2 wins
2 draws
1 loss
= 8 pts
4 wins , 1draw = 13 pts David !
Everton on 14 pts
Spurs on 8pts
Win and we are on 11 pts 3 pts behind Everton
2pts!
In an unpredictable season, arguably stronger than we were in 2016 it’s another rare moment of destiny on our doorstep to win the PL title!
With both Liverpool and Citeh weaker why not!
Courtesy of a BBC blog tweeter. “This is more like the Everton I know”…
Everton fan
Well. well,well Everton are currently 2 down to the Saints. Lose and we beat Burnley tomorrow eve have closed the gap to 3 pts!
He can clearly play, but not in big games and not when it matters!
Oh please! Kane’s the reason Levy’s spending money?
Dim witted for not praising a loser. He deserves thanks not praise. Tottenham fans worshiping nearly managers. Fkin embarrassing.
That don’t make sense to me. “Always a/the boy when you’re a man now and a $h!t hot ” boilermaker/plater/fabricator welder? I’d be boying them off. People treat you how you allow yourself to be treated.
He might not “bring it” often enough (he does, stats don’t lie) but he can play man. He has plenty of ability. He’s skilled up. Spanish player really ain’t he. (Eriksen
Listen. “What have you won though?” what did he win though?” This is how it is. Only certain Tottenham fans hold him in such high regard. Most people who know what this thing is all about see him as a failure. I hear he was offered £20s (mil) and he thought that couldn’t buy a decent player. José woulda taken that little money and found someone. Poch ain’t got any links
In Texas, it is known as a Two-Step.
Poch knew he wasn’t getting any money till the stadium was built.
Nope. The s£adium did. That’s the hate you have for levy thinking. Love and hate can turn people fool.
The bottom line is he sacrificed trophies for the stadium.(wasn’t a dead cert we woulda won any) Plenty more time to win trophies. This is/was his thinking. Quite simple really. I knew if he wasn’t backing arry (we had a good team, were close and levy wasn’t expecting it)) he wasn’t backing anybody till the stadium was built. Poch had a very expensive squad (made so by him) he shoulda shuffl€d them about after 3 years. (He knew that was the only way he was getting money to freshen it up) he never did it. You won’t hear me faulting our magnificent stadium. Money well spent I say. Will be here standing proud for another 100 years. What’s all the “unnecessary crap? Everything here is necessary for making money and prestige
If that’s what he got, then that’s the same wage we offered him… No way does he deserve that.
I’m sure it was all Tintin. He forced his way out as nicely as he could… Perhaps it would have been better had he done the Modric a year or two earlier, downed tools completely, rather than waste everybodys time. The club and himself suffered… I blame Levy for not getting rid earlier, rather than sucking up to him and in his own words (they did ‘everything’ to keep him)… No player should be bigger than the club. Never hold the club to ransom.. Sir Alex would have been shot of him far earlier.
Irreplaceable for sure on his day.. Inconsistency is still in his game though he’s getting better.. Maureen seems to have toughened him up which I like. He was occasionally a soft touch but this seems to be stamped out of him now.
Have to agree about Toby and Jan…. Not Tintin though. Levy confirmed in that amazon doc to Tintin that he would match any other clubs offer to him in wages. This was an offer that was clearly said before and was ongoing. It was clear it was not about the wages with him. Tintin kept quiet until his contract was nearing the end and then suddenly wanted out! A new challenge, but it wouldnt be so bad to stay! . Considering the serial bottler never had competition for his place, and he never turned up for finals or crunch/big games, and he tried to be sly and coy to get his big move to his big club… Good riddance to the Pirlo wannabe I say.. If he was a superstar then a super club would have snapped him up. Not to whimper off without winning a dime with us, to go and sit on Inters bench. What a snowflake of a man.
Even Levy recognises that Son is irreplaceable. Everybody on here knows that Son has been magnificent for a number of seasons but it feels like its only this season that pundits are acknowledging how good he truly is. I get good vibes from Son I think he’s happy at Spurs.
If Levy truly wanted CL football to pay for the stadium then he would have backed Poch to continue doing it. He wanted the CL football money without being prepared to invest the funds for it. He can’t have it both ways and getting dumped into the EL (just) made all his hair fall out with shock.
We could have knocked say £100m off the cost of stadium (cut out all the unnecessary crap) and given Poch a fighting fund of 100m to spend on the players HE wanted. Everyone would have been happy.
Poch would never have been backed in a million years, it took a high profile manager like Mou to bring Levy to his senses.
Sanchez has at least one attempt to score an own goal every game. Serge I’m happier with so far.
Dier sitting on the shoulders of Sanchez for all deadball situations.
Poch told the board to be brave two seasons before we reached the CL final. He could see the writing was on the wall for that team and that it needed top class reinforcements. He was ignored by Levy and the board, fact. Levy assured the fans that the building of the new stadium would not impact our transfer budget, completely untrue, fact. Poch got us into the CL four consecutive seasons without spending much money. He deserved a pay rise. Although it is time to move on from him, we have a new team and manager now, he well over achieved at the club, particularly if you remember the shambles we were in before and he deserves recognition for this rather than the constant churlish carping he receives from some of our fans.
That ‘Expressions’ … what a funny guy! I have been watching his shit recently, especially his ‘melt down’ after the West Ham debacle. Hilarious, genuine comedy gold.
Yes, it’s true apparently. More than 20% of Koreans now support Spurs, over 11 million. Man Utd are a distant second at around 6% I believe.
A very fair point and I believe a wholly accurate one. I am not sure whether the Christian Erikssen contract was mishandled by us, or whether he genuinely wanted a new challenge. My real beef was with the way Toby was handled. Poch didn’t seem to appreciate his true quality or value and he was under-compensated or under-remunerated by the club as a result, Even though the situation was ultimately resolved.
Hate Monday night games!
That’s the way it often is. Thing is people evolve and develop. Only people either stubborn or thick don’t see the benefits of growing with them. Anyway, Poch will probably go somewhere soon and shut all these dim witted people up. Not that he needs to, plonkers will always be plonkers…
But levy was in the middle of building a stadium and wouldn’t be sidetracked. Nothing else mattered, he just wanted to get it done. It was the same with arry (nelson saha) I rate his bloody mindedness. When its built we’ll spend. He was right. He kept us in Europe through most of it all. I’m glad he did it and I’m glad its over.
Are you also happy we’re in a position to pay that kinda money now?
Wot a loada bo77ocks. Poch knew exactly where he stood when he took the £8.5 million. You think levy didn’t tell him there’d be hardly any money to spend while the stadium was being built. Poch probably arrogantly thought he wouldn’t need much. He was just happy to get such a big job.
If poch was good enough he’d still be here. (Being backed) even if Jose wasn’t here who ever was woulda been backed too. N€w lan€ now, why can’t people understand that.
Friendly bunch yes. Miss them on the manor. They love expressions🌚 my guy. Blessup Jamaica
Serge is strong you know (athletic too). He won’t be ruffed up
And they’re such a happy bunch too, make me smile those guys.
51 is that 20%? Wow
Fans mean sponsorship revenue.
10 million.
Wow. Out of how many?
Yep Donna and Daniel in the hot tub at Hotspur Way with donna smacking his head.
Perhaps Mourinho insisted via a clause in his contract that he be fully supported with quality players in transfer windows? I couldn’t see him taking the job otherwise, especially after what happened to Poch who was basically screwed over by the club after achieving the near impossible with what little resources he had.
Hopefully in Mourinho Levy has finally met his match. I think it’s dawning on the little Emperor that if he does the same with this manager, he’s going to very unpopular and there would be calls from a significant proportion of the fanbase for “enic out”. He can only cry wolf so many times and get away with it.
Sell the stadium, find new owners and play all our home matches in S Korea! Lovely jubbly. Makes sense!
Never knew that!
Same for me as a Boilermaker, if you left and then came back you were always treated like a man/equal to the other trademan but if not you were always a/the boy.
We could pay double that and it would still be a no brainer. Apparently we have 11 million fans now in South Korea.
I’d be a happy chappy with a deserved pay rise of £200k per week!
Otherwise his selection and Aurier surely is asking for trouble??
Son is the most famous sportsperson in South Korea. He must be incredible for our commercial deals. Losing an asset like that would be horrifying to Levy. The Belgians and Eriksen have nothing on Son. Stratospheric difference in their appeal.
Happy with Rodon selection but please not Sanchez please please please anything but brittle Sanchez!!
Perhaps it is all part of a wider conspiracy theory that ENIC are contemplating selling the club?? Surely not!!
time for the new lad to step up, he’s 6’4?
Your points about Poch not being supported and Eriksen not being rewarded properly are correct. Poch, who had done a great job for the club, was, after five and a half years of Levy, in a state of near clinical depression. Eriksen became a shadow of the player he once was as Levy didn’t pay him the same as his peer group, and he became disillusioned . The net result was that we ended up selling a £100 mill player for £16 mill. Not very clever by the” famed negotiator”. His cheapskate incompetence at bringing in a back up for Kane resulted in costing us points when he was inevitably injured .
I don’t think Levy does guilt. It wasn’t so long ago that he furloughed the staff. There must be another reason as he is only motivated by one thing.
Back to more mundane matters like who is marking Chris Wood on Monday night??
The cynic in me would argue Levy is desperate for Spurs to be part of the “big 6” and thus will do anything (without spending their own money) to get/stay in it!!!
The mind boggles!!
its nude images, thats why Jose has never seemed so happy..
Perhaps it’s finally sunk in to Levy that his previous way has been proven to be the wrong way? Perhaps he’s finally climbed down from his somewhat arrogant pedestal and admitted that the way just about every other club do their business is actually the right way after all?
Maybe he’s finally realised that to become an elite club you have to achieve success on the pitch not just in bean counting and making your investment company richer.
Personally I think he was jolted into action by the lack of a CL place for the first time in 5 years along with just scraping into the ropey thanks to Chelsea (ironic!).
If he’d of supported Poch who has been proven beyond doubt to be a good manager in dealing with a very barebones squad (which is different to being a good manager with all the tools at their disposal), last summer then who knows? If he’d of paid Eriksen what he was worth when he was one of the top 5 playmakers in Europe, and of bought in a decent 2nd striker then maybe we’d of won that title and the CL final, who knows?
So is this all about guilt for Levy? Possibly.
Recognising that Kane could be on his way in the summer it’s a pivotal season to win some silverware that prompted the influx of new recruits. Levy knows that. Jose knows that and us fellow fans know that. Simply put it’s a make or break season actually winning something.
A very good point well worth raising.
I get the feeling that a power struggle emerged in tandem with Pochettino’s emergence as a more than competent top level coach.
When ‘little’ Poch arrived from ‘little’ Southampton everyone knew where they stood. Levy was the puppet master and Poch was handed the privilege of managing a huge club by our bald supremo.
Poch was slightly indebted to Levy for the chance. Then Levy scuttled off to smell, lifts, cheese and carpet samples and really didn’t want to be troubled by much football related.
Consolidation, water treading would be the football strategy and ‘building for the future’ would be the PR spin, all a head of the club moving house.
Pochettino did the unthinkable, he made us regulars in the top 4, we beat Real Madrid we got to a Champions League final. None of this was in the ENIC business plan, the whole ‘point’ of the stadium was to get to where Poch had already got us.
Poch’s cache grew and grew and despite his best attempts to tow the line with the “berry appy” stuff he was obviously becoming very frustrated. “We need to be brave” wasn’t heeded… there was only going to be one outcome.
Poch probably thought “f*ck it” and began to throw his weight about after the final and stress the need to rebuild a competitive side again and freshen things up with competition for places etc. Last summer wasn’t the window we needed after 12 months of nothing.
Levy pi**ed one guy off to the point of clinical depression, Jose is too long in the tooth to tolerate such amateur behaviour.
I was an apprentice many years ago and it was always said; that you have to leave the place where you make your name or your always taken advantage of, your always the ’boy’.
Levy is a bully, however, he may have met his match in Jose…. “No compwehension” Daniel?
Yeah ok, f*ck off, we aren’t all mugs you know…
It’s a very good question. Why has Levy seemingly changed his modus operandi? As you say, we appear to be able to buy established players, rather than cheap French punts, and we also seem able to pay the going rate for proven footballers. A leopard seldom changes his spots but Levy appears to have done so, even if it is temporary. This has happened in the midst of the Covid crisis as well which is particularly trying for football and the hospitality industry. I find it hard to believe that it is all Mourinho’s influence but who knows?