for this rather plaintive look at where we are right now…
Levy is a conundrum, that’s for sure. You can’t ignore his efforts regarding the new stadium and the training ground but at the same time, you can’t use it as a stick to beat the Spurs fans. We only want a team that we can be proud of and actually try to win things. He’s done two things right (if you ignore the stadium delays and over-expenditure) however, he’s done countless things wrong. How many managers during his tenure? Far too many. This only goes to prove that his management recruitment policy is flawed. They can’t all be bad. How many players signed during the last minutes of transfer windows which only disrupts the teams’ ability to settle before the season starts? Plenty!
How many players do we need to see leave the club in search of silverware before the penny drops? Now, Danny Rose isn’t a human being I admire. However, why is he still at the club? It’s safe to assume that there is probably stubbornness on both sides of this conflict. Forgetting all that, surely it’s better to find a solution to get him out of the club rather than having a disgruntled player stinking out the gaff?
The Amazon documentary rubber-stamped my theory that he’s a micro-managing, egotistical geek who’s lucky enough to run a football club. Watching the “uncharismatic one” slither around the canteen having “banter” with the players and staff was cringe-worthy.
Make no mistake, this summer we need a significant squad overhaul and try to recruit a top-quality manager to make the squad competitive. My worry is that come September a lot of the deadwood will still be floating around that glorious training ground, still lacking hunger and the necessary motivation to compete. Furthermore, in charge of them will be another Levy punt. The reality is that any top manager wouldn’t touch Spurs or Levy with a barge pole. And who could blame them? A lot of fans are saying that after the European Super League debacle his position has become untenable. The sad truth is that milestone was passed many years ago, and we are still unfortunately stuck with him.
Fans will be back next season and forever.
If bale had played more (he shouldve) he’d a scored 20 this season. Hardly a waste of money. Winner at Hotspur way is a brilliant thing if you ask me. Harry Kane is still the highest paid player at Tottenham. I’d 100% be keeping bale for next season. I’d have him terrorizing all the bottom half teams (with the odd big game
Nonsense.
Imagine if they don’t (again) with £80mil more than us spent on wages.
That’s all he needs to do. I can see us having one with a regular £100mil player budget per season soon. But hey that’s just me. Levy just needs to stay upstairs and leave the football to football people.
How much did we pay for eriksen? Whatever it was we got our moneys worth. Eriksen could a been sold 18 months earlier? Not if he didn’t want to.
This season the sqaud was pretty much gassed after the Leceister defeat…. the majority of the fit players can only pass the ball backwards & sideways, with the majority of the rest being gassed after 60 minutes…& folk wonder why we lose so many points from winning positions… a fragile mentality compounded by poor fitness levels… we’ll be lucky to finish 10th next season… which if we lose our remaining games is where we could be at the end of this one….
Daniel Levy – Financial Genious! Don’t make me laugh! Stadium Cost at start – £450m. Final Cost – not yet known but has exceeded £1b. Brilliance from our financial wizard?
Certainly bottom half.
Eriksen could have been sold 18 months earlier and fetched about 45m. He went for 11m in the end. If that doesn’t prove that he’s winging it I don’t know what does…
Owns too many shares to be a patsy, he’s fully on board and definitely a policy maker rather than a flunky…
This.
I am only excited about someone making this club reaching its vast potential. I want league titles, not just cups. The talent we have had & never finish the complete team. Now 20 years of ENIC. 1 League cup. New board, new owners, clear the deadwood
After 20-years, Levy is no patsy
Everyone blames Levy and for sure he’s awful, but he’s just Lewis’ tapper. Lewis is the guy that blew billions buying worthless Bear Sterns stock and he’s the one who won’t spend the money, hiding out on his yacht somewhere.
TBH with our weak squad depth I can’t even see us winning a domestic trophy for the simple reason we always run out of steam at the end of the season when the trophies are up for grabs. What with injuries and fatigue we’re always an outside bet. In addition any of the other top 10 can probably better us in a one-off game.
Unless we address the elephant in the room, namely the lack of quality in depth, then things are never going to change. One striker worthy of the name, one defensive mid worthy of the name, I could go on.
I don’t know whether Levy is just plain stupid or plain tight, but this has been going on for most of the enic tenure. It’s directly prevented us winning trophies many times. With injuries and fatigue we’re no better than a bang average mid table team at best.
Now Levy has shot himself in his little foot by sacking Poch we’re not even going to get top 4. Every time he fiddles about he makes things worse. What is a matter with Joe can’t he see that Levy is dismantling his investment piece by piece until one day all that will remain is the stadium as a memorial to what could have been.
And no fans coming back to stadiums so Levys done us big time. Goal posts being moved again as I and others warned.
Without Kane we probably would be in the championship
If anyone tries to stick up for Levy’s financial nous in the future all you have to do is utter the following two words. Gareth Bale.
The money that has been wasted on that lad (also a hero of mine) is ridiculous. After that transaction any argument that Levy is gods gift to finance is null and void.
Investment company that leverages others money, they are not too bad (unless they have over stretched).
If Gerry Robinson ever wanted to make a new tv program we would be perfect for it.
Levy for all his skills as an accountant is running the English National investment company (and we should call them this and not ENIC as i think people loose what the company really is) and hence Spurs as pure self sufficient business and as such loads the club with debt, Remember always play with other peoples money never your own,it feels safer.
But being 1/4 owner of the club he is too close and emotional in his role of chairman which is shown in his decision making and his ability to change his thinking.
He has also had smoke blown up his backside by football people of what knowledge he has of the game, even Poch put that in print in his book and multiple times by fans and the media in his romanticised tough guy negotiator ability.
Tottenham is structurally not right at the top and the emperor meddles too much and destroys the potential on the pitch. Because ultimately the criteria for fans is performance not market value of the club or its assets.
Success and winning are fine margins but missing them is the 1st looser spot.
Several myths surround ENIC.
Penury, genius and academy – none stand up to the faintest scrutiny!
There’s a consensus among some that if it were not for Daniels financial wizardry we would be mid-table in The Championship. You’ve got to commend the guy for creating this illusion that he’s a shrewd businessman keeping Spurs afloat against the odds. Only the other day we had Paul Robinson talking about how Levy is on top of his game when it comes to club finances, he has the best interests of the club at heart and would never do anything to jeopardise our future. Meanwhile the owners of City, Chelsea, Liverpool and Utd have the best interests of their clubs by trying to buy the best players to win things. The problem among our fan base is that there is still a cohort of fans who get excited about things like ‘finished top 4 with lowest net spend’ ‘record attendance for a premier league game on a Tuesday night’ cobblers. Levy knows this and it’s no accident that we get the announcement of our new partnership with Dulux around the time Jose gets the bullet. ‘There is unrest among the fan-base, announce the Dulux deal, that should bring them around. From what I have read, I understand the families of Lewis and Levy are close meaning Levy’s position as CEO is cast-iron. But dear Lord the most crudest of analysis of the football side of things will tell you millions spent on multiple managerial pay-offs and millions wasted on one duff signing after another. Levy has been a disaster on running the football side of things and he should be moved into a land development role with a director of football recruited to manage the football side of things from top to bottom. The problem is they will be reporting to Levy and not allowed get on with the job.
levy has overseen worst success period for club (1 League Cup) in 90 years
Levy and ENIC objective is purely profit otherwise they would have put more into transfers and wages to match the top teams. Funny Levy has done this for himself being highest CEO in League, he had chance at height of Poch period but he failed to invest at time Liverpool signed Allison an Van Dyjk
Levy seems financially astute, but not really footballing astute. Could he hire a good Director of Footballing matters and leave that guy to the Manager Recruitment, and then leave most of the transfer decisions to the Director, Manager, scouts etc (basically Levy just says how much cash is available… maybe states no-one over 26 (for resale value) – then steps back)
Imagine if Arsenal finished above ENIC fc??
Sharp intake of breath*