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I don't know the business of football as well as you guys, but...
I understand Levy is a hardball-playing businessman, but lately, at least on the surface, it seems to me that his desire to get the best deal has been muddled with his desire to stroke his own ego.
He's known as shrewd so he plays up to that...and sometimes perhaps goes too far?
Every businessman I've ever known - even the ones 'addicted to haggling' (as someone said of Levy in a previous post) has always had a point where they realized that the time for haggling was over or there was a great risk of screwing the deal.
I'm not saying that's what Levy has done here. I wasn't there. I don't know the man.
Impressions are all I have, though, and from what I've seen the last three years, it's not that he's addicted to haggling, he's addicted to 'winning' negotiations.
I understand Levy is a hardball-playing businessman, but lately, at least on the surface, it seems to me that his desire to get the best deal has been muddled with his desire to stroke his own ego.
He's known as shrewd so he plays up to that...and sometimes perhaps goes too far?
Every businessman I've ever known - even the ones 'addicted to haggling' (as someone said of Levy in a previous post) has always had a point where they realized that the time for haggling was over or there was a great risk of screwing the deal.
I'm not saying that's what Levy has done here. I wasn't there. I don't know the man.
Impressions are all I have, though, and from what I've seen the last three years, it's not that he's addicted to haggling, he's addicted to 'winning' negotiations.
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Perhaps we should send these two to do our negotiating 
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This is a fair post. Whilst Levy is a very shrewd businessman, that doesn't mean he excels in the art of sales negotiation, which is essentially what is going on here.
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Ironically, this is what the Valencia chairman said when he was told he was going to have to negotiate with Dan Levy.
EnfieldYiddo
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The annoying thing is half these idiot Spurs fans now berating Levy due to his underhand tactics are the same ones who post tripe like 'LOL YOU GOT LEVY'D' when a deal does go through for cheaper than we expected.
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Perhaps we should send these two to do our negotiating
Maybe just Sandro and we all know Gomes will break a nail or something then cry like a girl to be replaced
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I ahve no idea if this has broken down and if it has if it's levys fault. But I hate this pervading attitude which has been created around us that we're difficult to work with and miserly. Its about Glory, not about money pinching accountancy. There will come a day where Levy will phone somebody up just to be told they wount even listen to an offer
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felmani26
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People are generally moron's - Spurs fans included!
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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...airman-Daniel-Levy-over-Hugo-Lloris-deal.html
You know how I know that's bullshit? The agreement in writing bit. Yeah. Easiest thing in the world to prove and yet...
He was just pissed he got out-Aulased after playing the pay up or no deal card all summer long.
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jesus you're hilarious thinktank! i've been chuckling at that for the last 3mins - luckily i work alone....
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agreed. aulas had a reputation for being a very tough negotiator and we came out of that deal superbly. sour grapes to me
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Paul Breen-Turner @paulbreenturner 6m
Soldado deal virtualy done for him to join Spurs!
This guy was mentioned on Talkshite earlier about the Bale BS, and has just tweeted this.
Soldado deal virtualy done for him to join Spurs!
This guy was mentioned on Talkshite earlier about the Bale BS, and has just tweeted this.
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The way I see it is that he has a release clause, of course we will haggle. We know that we can trigger it at any time in the next 10 days so that's why the business boys at spurs are trying to get it down. Easy for us to all say just pay it etc but it seems Valencia need the money and if they don't end up selling for our original offer I can see us whacking the release clause in etc. it's almost like a parachute in negotiations. I'm no business man but that's my view. I think we will get him.
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Mostly, I wanted to give this comment a 'Like'-rating. Then I came to think about how that might have been misinterpreted..
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