Fear can be a great motivator. A recurring phrase when discussing Daniel Levy has involved ‘leopards and spots’.
Yet suddenly this particular breed big of cat appears to have had its spots shooed away.
Mauricio Pochettino went from being an ENIC sock puppet fed on thin air, to landing 3 first pick signings in one window.
This wasn’t achieved anonymously, either.
The gaffer went public, making it painfully clear that he wasn’t responsible for signings. Thickos in the media pack who kept asking him when players were leaving were spoken to in no uncertain terms.
The club attempted to bite back, letting The Guardian know that there was a transfer committee, But it was barely a nibble. A few unconvincing lines in a newspaper with a dwindling readership – that nobody credible opted to aggregate.
This week, Ledley King was wheeled out by Cullen, to give us more suffocating, ambition-less dross.
The ENIC propaganda campaign has truly collapsed. Like LBC’s weekday 10 till 1 slot.
James O’Brien and Levyologists have far too much in common.
O’Brien’s sneering Remoaner shtick has shrunk his RAGAR figures, and the station is currently spamming both its listenership and their social channels on behalf of James’ wretched podcast. A podcast from the man who, the week after the EU elections, hid took annual leave.
Who guest presents when O’Brien is away? Bounce forward Levyite at large, David Lammy.
The degrees of separation are chilling, eh?
The point being, endless propaganda on behalf of a fundamentally rotten product does not work.
Normal people in our fan base want to win stuff. Supporters of every other club in the world want to win stuff.
The ENIC product is essentially rotten. That’s not up for debate. Spurs are now merely a core tenant in a shopping centre (which as conventional retail nosedives – the wisdom of which will be revealed in due course).
The club’s Business Walla stated categorically that this was an NFL stadium.
Another nasty right hook has caught ENIC when they were just coming away from the ropes.
It now emerges that Hugo Lloris isn’t having any truck with the ENIC tripe peddled by Ledders & Co., either.
Quoted by The Sun, the World Cup winner said:
“The belief is even stronger than before. But it is one thing to say things to the media, it is another thing to tell the truth inside the changing rooms.
“That is the most important thing — to speak the real truths between ourselves. Then we need to show what we are saying on the pitch.
“But there is no secret about how you get there. It is about work, it is about mentality, it is about personality.”
What personality did players such as Dier, Alli and Eriksen bring the European Cup final?
No’Cluedo is only still on the books because he’s unsellable. We had to take a 50% hit on Janssen to shift him. The list of players that Levy has bought who simply aren’t quite good enough is an increasingly long one.
I hope that Baldy doesn’t foolishly believe that the pressure is now off him and all on Poch. The January transfer window will also require the same levels of attention that were applied to this summer’s.
Levy has done well, I’m not so churlish as ignore context. Blood out of a stone (even it took nearly 20 years) is still blood.
However, Poch and Lloris won’t be here in a few seasons, mumbling about building and jam tomorrow.
This is the reality, not the perception, to quote the cherubic Argentine himself.
