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Mullers

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Up there, when you take into account the teams we are competing against.

You dont have to be good if you have the resources Chelsea, City and Man U have. I would say he is the best since David Dein. He did a similar good job for Arsenal back in the day. Levy job is now is even tougher with the wealth of our competitors and not just in the UK.

I love it when you are humble Mullers!
I always try to be, Steven.
 

CowInAComa

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Let's be honest you would have to have the patience of a saint not to have been infuriated by Levy at times over the years.

Today is not one of those days.
 

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How are the youth going to get through, when our transfer policy doesn't bear that in mind? We have 5 CB's not including Kaboul and Chirches blocking the way of the youth coming through.

Because players like Kane, Bentaleb, Mason, Pritchard, Rose, Alli etc. have saved us and are going to save us millions. Yes right now we have 5 CB's that we have invested in and we have some talented young defenders coming through the ranks but when Fazio or Vertonghen move on we will have players who are able to step in who have come through our academy. It has been a long time since that has happened at our club and I find it hard to believe that it isn't clear to see.
 

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Because players like Kane, Bentaleb, Mason, Pritchard, Rose, Alli etc. have saved us and are going to save us millions. Yes right now we have 5 CB's that we have invested in and we have some talented young defenders coming through the ranks but when Fazio or Vertonghen move on we will have players who are able to step in who have come through our academy. It has been a long time since that has happened at our club and I find it hard to believe that it isn't clear to see.
Someone like Vejlkovic is ready to step in now

I like a lot of stuff levy has down but some people on here are so tribal that they won't have any criticism of the guy.

Signing a CB to replace a CB signed the season before(wimmer to replace Fazio) is just plain stupidity and a failure in a transfer strategy

As for your Fazio comment are you suggesting we need 5 CB's next season? Chelsea last season won the league with 3 CB's and a RB filling in
 

Mullers

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Because players like Kane, Bentaleb, Mason, Pritchard, Rose, Alli etc. have saved us and are going to save us millions. Yes right now we have 5 CB's that we have invested in and we have some talented young defenders coming through the ranks but when Fazio or Vertonghen move on we will have players who are able to step in who have come through our academy. It has been a long time since that has happened at our club and I find it hard to believe that it isn't clear to see.
Kane, Bentaleb, Mason all got their chance because of the failure of the summer 2013 signings. Kane has said himself that he would be on loan somewhere or at another club if Sherwood didn't give him a chance. Rose got his chance because his only real competition was Naughton. Pritchard is a no brainer, if we had let him go Liverpool were ready to step in and Bale aside we've always had problems on the left. Ali was a cheap signing, not someone from our own academy.

If Fazio leaves and I expect him to we still have 4 CBs no space for any more, I haven't even mentioned us having Walker and Trippier as right backs, which leaves Fredricks and Yedlin in the cold.
 

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We cannot underestimate how massive the NFL link is, he has probably tripled the value of naming rights and sponsorship deals around the stadium. It has gone from being standard football stadium with relatively limited attention outside England to suddenly being a global venue
 
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We cannot underestimate how massive the NFL link is, he has probably tripled the value of naming rights and sponsorship deals around the stadium. It has gone from being standard football stadium with relatively limited attention outside England to suddenly being s global venue

I really hope so. Im interested to know how much extra cash we will make out of the new stadium.

also the sponsorship. I suppose now we are in the build phase a sponsor is the next step. Exciting
 

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I don't see how someone who has won one trophy in 15 years can be considered the best chairman in football.
just my humble opinion.

But his primary job is the chairman of the whole club, not just the first team and that is what he should be judged on.
If he delivers a new stadium, training ground, and academy system then that is a huge success for the club.
If he has delivered increased revenues, reduced costs, improved our presence worldwide etc then that is further success.

That probably accounts for 90% of his job.

He has delivered a 'par' performance from the first team where we pretty much achieve the position our financial position dictates but even that is still an improvement from 14 years ago.

But if he continually improves the infrastructure of the club then at least we stand a chance of competing with the top four in the future.

What most of the pro-Levy comments are based on is his competence as a chairman of a multi-million pound organisation which is exactly what he is and not the manager/coach of the first team.
 

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But his primary job is the chairman of the whole club, not just the first team and that is what he should be judged on.
If he delivers a new stadium, training ground, and academy system then that is a huge success for the club.
If he has delivered increased revenues, reduced costs, improved our presence worldwide etc then that is further success.

That probably accounts for 90% of his job.

He has delivered a 'par' performance from the first team where we pretty much achieve the position our financial position dictates but even that is still an improvement from 14 years ago.

But if he continually improves the infrastructure of the club then at least we stand a chance of competing with the top four in the future.

What most of the pro-Levy comments are based on is his competence as a chairman of a multi-million pound organisation which is exactly what he is and not the manager/coach of the first team.
The first team is a very large part of his job, a successful team increases the global brand and fan base.
Villa, Sunderland and Newcastle to name a few, all have big stadiums and they are nowhere.
The stadium's deal with the NFL will slightly increase the brand but if we are still coming 5th/6th with no trophies, we'll just be a club with a great stadium not winning anything.

The success of the academy is more important than anything else and for that to be successful you need a transfer policy which ties in with that, meaning you look at what players are coming through before you buy a player and we are not doing that at the moment.

If coming 5th or 6th is what Levy is happy with, then Levy should have just stuck with Jol and not have had expectations of a top four finish after the first 5th place in a very long time.
 

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Today is a fantastic day for Spurs and every fan involved with the club.

To see that some are still holding back and refusing to see the immense impact that Levy has done for not just to improve the Club but also to provide it with a sustainable structure that will enable Spurs to grow into an eventual commercial giant without the help of an oligarch or sheikh is disappointing but that will not dampen the excitement I have with the latest developments nor my appreciation of Levy in terms of his vision and business acumen.

What has always stood out for me with Levy is that he is both farsighted and works with a plan. These key ingredients are required for Chairman/ CEO and few indeed if any within the EPL displays as much ability in these two aspects as he has. From his interviews, the completion of our superb world class training facilities, the commercial deals the club has signed, the continental structure that he tries to establish, and the culmination of the a world class stadium facilities with community regeneration aspects, each and every one of them puts together a clear vision that he has in order to lift Spurs up to highest tiers of world football on solid financial footing. He began the plans of building the training facilities in 2002 which has taken years to complete but Spurs will now benefit for decades from this achievement. He began plans for the building of this world class stadium and now with a global NFL tied to it, Spurs will again be able to benefit from this development when completed from decades on. Do not be surprise if Spurs can get into top 5 in revenue general/ commercial value by 2020. All these serves to provide a fantastic and lasting platform for Spurs to achieve its footballing ambitions. Look at what Man U can do when it needs to lift itself back up after its decline in football achievements just because of its immense backing from a strong commercial/ business base it has.

People seem to be pointing to individual errors and mistakes he has made and that he definitely has done but ultimately no one is perfect. What must be pointed out is that these mistakes has always been tied to footballing aspects of the Club, and as long as the leader or Chairman, who is Levy, recognizes these mistakes, has a plan, and takes action, then we need to look at it from a longer term perspective just like with the training facilities/ academy/ stadium where lasting changes can take time especially when he is delving into an area which is not his forte so some patience should be allowed. What I can say from everything that has been established and yet to be completed is that he clearly shows that he has a vision for where he wants us to be and a plan. What we should applaud him for is his determination to stay with the plan and his vision, to make the changes step by step, in taking side way steps when he encounters difficulties from a wrong decision, and eventually getting us to where we are today.

As a person who manages a team as well, I can testify to the difficulty in motivating and leading everyone to face the same direction especially when the vision as Levy likely had in early 2000s was so radical and seemingly impossible that any rational fan coming out of the Sugar era would have thrown the idea and him out of the window in a second.

Levy has a vision and a plan for Spurs, and that is why he is not the one holding Spurs back but rather the naysayers who do not see his vision even though so much of it are now in plain sight.

Yes, he is the chairman of a club who bought a CB when we seem to have abundance of CBs and youth talents in this area but this is a minute detail within the vision and plan that Levy has brought to life to lift Spurs and everything tied to the Club to world class standards.

Today, I will seat back and enjoy the fantastic view of Spurs that Levy has shared and it will be a pity if others do not see what is clearly ahead of everyone who is a part of the Club.
 
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Shanks

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The first team is a very large part of his job, a successful team increases the global brand and fan base.
Villa, Sunderland and Newcastle to name a few, all have big stadiums and they are nowhere.
The stadium's deal with the NFL will slightly increase the brand but if we are still coming 5th/6th with no trophies, we'll just be a club with a great stadium not winning anything.

The success of the academy is more important than anything else and for that to be successful you need a transfer policy which ties in with that, meaning you look at what players are coming through before you buy a player and we are not doing that at the moment.

If coming 5th or 6th is what Levy is happy with, then Levy should have just stuck with Jol and not have had expectations of a top four finish after the first 5th place in a very long time.
Isn't that that whole point of todays announcement, to take us to the next level on the pitch?

How do we increase revenue to pay the money for the big players, that will take us to the level of challenging the title year on.... you have to start with the development of everything thats taking place, as in behind the scenes so to speak.
 

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This is the best stadium in the country. Old Trafford is certainly bigger, but not better.

We also have the 2nd best training complex in the country and one of the best in Europe.
 

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The first team is a very large part of his job, a successful team increases the global brand and fan base.
Villa, Sunderland and Newcastle to name a few, all have big stadiums and they are nowhere.
The stadium's deal with the NFL will slightly increase the brand but if we are still coming 5th/6th with no trophies, we'll just be a club with a great stadium not winning anything.

The success of the academy is more important than anything else and for that to be successful you need a transfer policy which ties in with that, meaning you look at what players are coming through before you buy a player and we are not doing that at the moment.

If coming 5th or 6th is what Levy is happy with, then Levy should have just stuck with Jol and not have had expectations of a top four finish after the first 5th place in a very long time.

Yes of course, but the point is that in the current footballing environment our only way to compete is to do these sorts of deals and increase our revenues and marketability.

Yet again you are asking us to compete with three of the richest teams in the world (United, Chelsea and City) plus Arsenal who have had a stadium twice our size for most of Levy's tenure, and seem to think that we can just do that as we are. It's completely unrealistic, and we need the new stadium, we need the additional income of something like the NFL deal, we need the improved academy to help us compete.

Levy is putting all of these things in place meaning that we are in a much much better position to try and win trophies than we were when he arrived.

Yes the ultimate aim is to win trophies, but whatever happens on that front in the next few years, once the stadium is done not even Levy's harshest critics will be able to say that he hasn't put us in a much much better position to challenge for those trophies in the long term.
 

Geyzer Soze

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This is the best stadium in the country. Old Trafford is certainly bigger, but not better.

We also have the 2nd best training complex in the country and one of the best in Europe.
Who's got s better training ground? I thought ours was considered the top one
 

Mullers

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Isn't that that whole point of todays announcement, to take us to the next level on the pitch?

How do we increase revenue to pay the money for the big players, that will take us to the level of challenging the title year on.... you have to start with the development of everything thats taking place, as in behind the scenes so to speak.
That is Levy's intention, he did announce that we need a new stadium to take us to the next level.
I've always said the new stadium is not essential to bring us to the next level, neither is it a guarantee.
Poch said we need to be cleverer than the teams that spend more than us and that's what I agree with. We need to scout properly, I don't know if Mitchell is the answer, that remains to be seen. If we seek to fight the top four with a kind of Chelsea/Man City/United strategy we will lose that war.
Get the right manager in.
Have a good academy system.
Have a good scouting system
Those are the things that can deliver success.
 
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