http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2390870/Santini-opens-up-over-Spurs-divorce.html"It was hard from the start," he told a French television station. "There was a problem of where responsibility lay in the club, especially when it came to transfer policy, where we could never reach agreement."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2390870/Santini-opens-up-over-Spurs-divorce.html"I find it totally incomprehensible that Jacques claims not to have understood the role he took at this club or indeed his contract, which spelled it out," Levy said.
"At no time during our discussions did he suggest he had any problems with Frank. Jacques asked to leave for personal reasons. He resigned on this basis and that is what he told the players when he left. I am absolutely flabbergasted he should now say that it was not due to family problems. If this is the case, he has clearly been less than honest with us.
"I am deeply disappointed and personally let down that he has chosen to make these comments late in the day. He was meant to be my guest in the directors' box today but failed to turn up without telling us.
"The respect I had for him is gone and, on the basis of what we now know, we obviously appointed the wrong man. I don't know what his motive is. Perhaps it was to do with his inability to achieve success. In the last three games we have seen the kind of football we want to see."
If Levy believes that the manager has lost the backing of the players and the fans, your time is up. He basically said so in the interview with garth crooks.
You may agree with that or not it's up to you.
David Pleat signed Defoe in 2004, when the season was finished, Pleat did not go back to his DOF role, he was replaced by Arnesen.
So it appears that Levy didn't have confidence in him either, in which case why are you giving him 7 million to spend when you know that you don't want him there?
Santini was appointed and Jol was appointed as his assistant by Arnesen. Santini left in 2004 first citing personal issues and then gave the real reason why he left.
He said:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2390870/Santini-opens-up-over-Spurs-divorce.html
Danny boy was furious!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/2390870/Santini-opens-up-over-Spurs-divorce.html
Hold up, hold up....woah Nelly.
You mean to tell me after nearly a whole season of extensive research and the sacking Hoddle and his coaching staff and David Pleat, you ended up appointing the wrong man, who as an inability to achieve success and does not deliver the kind of football you want to see???
I'd say that was an error..a serious error.
You kind of skated over the mistakes that Levy made a bit quickly there sport, so let me just expand on that just a little bit.
I'm not going to start at 2006, I'm going to start at 2001 when George Graham was sacked 3 weeks before a cup semi final with Arsenal.
Sacked for leaking confidential information, a breach of contract, which basically boils down to him saying there is a limited amount of cash to spend on new players and he's not happy with it. Redknapp said a hell of a lot more than that but he managed to stay until 2012.
So clearly as Graham said at the time it was a excuse...a flimsy excuse.
Not long after that the club ran it's affairs in the press.
I have to agree with George's Lawyers here.
http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/graham-hits-back-after-cash-find-26094137.html
We appointed Glen Hoddle, we lost against Arsenal in the Semis and we lost against Blackburn in the 2002 league cup final.
That is failure. We failed.
More to come in part 2.
David Pleat signed Defoe in 2004, when the season was finished...
This is a bit daft. In 2001, ENIC had only just taken over and Levy had zero experience of running a fooball club. Oh! He made a mistake. Or even three. What a surprise.
By 2003/04, he had worked out that the way of doing things that had failed through the '90s was also going to fail in the '00s. So he changed the club's entire approach to squad-building and its managerial structure. How is this bad? It's called learning, adjusting and having the sense to abandon unsuccessful systems. Otherwise known as good management.
And the result was that we were back in Europe within 2 years.
If you want to point out his mistakes, point out the chronic one, his most notorious blind spot and the one area in which he has repeatedly refused to learn from failure: his incessant sacking of capable managers in pursuit of further improvement and his inability to see that the instability that he thus creates is what is preventing that further improvement.
Incorrect David. He was formerly a director at Rangers. If we had won the FA cup in his first season and then gone on to win Blackburn then he would have got credit for it.This is a bit daft. In 2001, ENIC had only just taken over and Levy had zero experience of running a fooball club. Oh! He made a mistake. Or even three. What a surprise.
By 2003/04, he had worked out that the way of doing things that had failed through the '90s was also going to fail in the '00s. So he changed the club's entire approach to squad-building and its managerial structure. How is this bad? It's called learning, adjusting and having the sense to abandon unsuccessful systems. Otherwise known as good management.
And the result was that we were back in Europe within 2 years.
I know that David, bad punctuation on my part, not the first time and certainly won't be the last.Defoe signed in Jan 2004. The season was not finished.
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/sport/football/250817/Martin-Jol-I-paid-for-Tottenham-top-four-failureBut Jol insists he was under too much pressure to break into the big four on a limited budget.
He said: “At that time, Liverpool were still in the top four and you had Arsenal, Manchester United and Chelsea.
“So to tell me that we had to be in the top four was a bit too much for us.
“We had different players with Pascal Chimbonda, Erik Edman and Stephen Kelly and that is different to what they have now.
So what you are saying is I should not point out Levy's mistakes in this thread even though the title isSeriously Mullers. Don't try and highjack someone else's thread that they took time to research and write. Do your own.
You sound like that annoying bloke down the pub. When anyone tells a story he's done it bigger and better. Everyone nods and smiles and thinks what a wanker.
So what you are saying is I should not point out Levy's mistakes in this thread even though the title is
THE LEVY YEARS – TAKING US FORWARD OR HOLDING US BACK?
Which is asking a question, giving a choice to a viewer.
Topic starter didn't say I only want to see views from people who will blow smoke up Levy's arse.
Why don't you, start your own thread about Levy where only positive views are allowed and I won't post in it, if it is burning your eyes so much that I am pointing out Levy's mistakes?
Well yes it is the place for it.I'm saying discuss his post and the points he made in it. Agree or disagree that's fine. But if you want to start writing your own blog about every mistake Levy (perceived or real) has made over the years, this isn't the place for it.
And the hiring of them.The only failure of Levy you're mentioning though is firing managers. We get it. Nearly every club in the world seems to turn managers over quickly though, it's not unique to Levy. I think the Jol one was a big mistake but most of the others were justified.