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As some of you might know I have, from time to time, involvement with the hierarchy at THFC. Today I was asked to proof-read the following open letter from Daniel Levy. I'm sure it will be posted on the Official Site shortly, but in the meantime here it is for SC's eyes only.
Dear Supporter,
How quickly things change in football. Our early season form, progress in the Carling Cup and our quality signings in the transfer window of established, successful Premiership footballers had everyone optimistic for the season ahead. And last week’s unenforced sale of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Pascal Chimbonda has not seen that change at all really.
This has been a pretty easy period for the club. Few questions have been asked and barely any criticisms have been leveled. However, the sales of Boateng and Chimbonda have understandably angered and frustrated hardly any of our loyal customers, sorry, supporters. So I would like to explain some of the reasons behind these controversial moves.
Kevin-Prince Boateng’s departure was undoubtedly the shock of the summer. I personally had a dreadful relationship with Kevin-Prince and he was one player I never thought would see 2010 at the Club. I know you all felt the same. The decision to sell Kevin-Prince was therefore not a financial one, although in such circumstances when that berk Storrie offered us four million quid I nearly pissed down the inside trouser leg of my seventeen thousand pound suit.
The sale of Pascal was an entirely different matter. Pascal first intimated to Harry Redknapp that he wanted to leave Tottenham after just thirty-eight seconds following his return from Sunderland. At the time we actually sold him immediately to Hull but he desperately wanted to return and we resigned him the same afternoon before we even had time to update either sale or purchase on the Official Site. Over the next forty-eight hours he signed for every single team in the Football League apart from Blackpool due to his lifelong phobia of tangerines. Anyway, when the transfer window closed on February 1st he was back at Tottenham, much to all our surprise. We look forward to his return in January 2010.
The internal decision to sell Kevin-Prince and Pascal was premised on suitable replacements being found in the youth team. Both Harry and myself were eager that we first identify the young players who could step up into the squad in place of Boateng and Chimbonda, and then immediately send them on loan to a side in Division Two. Our extensive array of coaches can then monitor their progress from the highlights package on regional television rather than get all cold out in the nasty winter weather at the training ground. Not to mention maintain their important media commitments.
The ultimate success – as I have said before – of our dealings in this summer’s transfer window was not about the departure of two sub-standard players. Quite simply we succeeded because we were not being guided by incompetent buffoons who would spend my money as if it were a game of Championship sodding Manager and they were trying to turn Real Madrid into Rushden & Diamonds.
I have received numerous e-mails and letters from supporters joining the general merriment at the departure of Kevin-Prince and Pascal. Lord knows, we’ve laughed ‘til we’ve cried here, too. Donna Cullen got the cheque for four million pounds from Portsmouth blown up like one of those ones you see on Comic Relief and called in the whole team and presented it to me while putting on a Terry Wogan accent while Paul Barber pretended to do a faux Lenny Henry-in-Africa type report about the depressing, deprived city of Blackburn where Pascal now has to live. Seriously, I nearly shit myself I was laughing that hard.
Finally, I know I am sometimes criticised for appearing too business-focused, too uncommunicative, or simply for not being emotional enough when it concerns our team. The majority of our fans know that it's simply not my way to seek a high profile. To them, and to you, I say: sod off you useless piss-sacks.
Yours, Daniel
Dear Supporter,
How quickly things change in football. Our early season form, progress in the Carling Cup and our quality signings in the transfer window of established, successful Premiership footballers had everyone optimistic for the season ahead. And last week’s unenforced sale of Kevin-Prince Boateng and Pascal Chimbonda has not seen that change at all really.
This has been a pretty easy period for the club. Few questions have been asked and barely any criticisms have been leveled. However, the sales of Boateng and Chimbonda have understandably angered and frustrated hardly any of our loyal customers, sorry, supporters. So I would like to explain some of the reasons behind these controversial moves.
Kevin-Prince Boateng’s departure was undoubtedly the shock of the summer. I personally had a dreadful relationship with Kevin-Prince and he was one player I never thought would see 2010 at the Club. I know you all felt the same. The decision to sell Kevin-Prince was therefore not a financial one, although in such circumstances when that berk Storrie offered us four million quid I nearly pissed down the inside trouser leg of my seventeen thousand pound suit.
The sale of Pascal was an entirely different matter. Pascal first intimated to Harry Redknapp that he wanted to leave Tottenham after just thirty-eight seconds following his return from Sunderland. At the time we actually sold him immediately to Hull but he desperately wanted to return and we resigned him the same afternoon before we even had time to update either sale or purchase on the Official Site. Over the next forty-eight hours he signed for every single team in the Football League apart from Blackpool due to his lifelong phobia of tangerines. Anyway, when the transfer window closed on February 1st he was back at Tottenham, much to all our surprise. We look forward to his return in January 2010.
The internal decision to sell Kevin-Prince and Pascal was premised on suitable replacements being found in the youth team. Both Harry and myself were eager that we first identify the young players who could step up into the squad in place of Boateng and Chimbonda, and then immediately send them on loan to a side in Division Two. Our extensive array of coaches can then monitor their progress from the highlights package on regional television rather than get all cold out in the nasty winter weather at the training ground. Not to mention maintain their important media commitments.
The ultimate success – as I have said before – of our dealings in this summer’s transfer window was not about the departure of two sub-standard players. Quite simply we succeeded because we were not being guided by incompetent buffoons who would spend my money as if it were a game of Championship sodding Manager and they were trying to turn Real Madrid into Rushden & Diamonds.
I have received numerous e-mails and letters from supporters joining the general merriment at the departure of Kevin-Prince and Pascal. Lord knows, we’ve laughed ‘til we’ve cried here, too. Donna Cullen got the cheque for four million pounds from Portsmouth blown up like one of those ones you see on Comic Relief and called in the whole team and presented it to me while putting on a Terry Wogan accent while Paul Barber pretended to do a faux Lenny Henry-in-Africa type report about the depressing, deprived city of Blackburn where Pascal now has to live. Seriously, I nearly shit myself I was laughing that hard.
Finally, I know I am sometimes criticised for appearing too business-focused, too uncommunicative, or simply for not being emotional enough when it concerns our team. The majority of our fans know that it's simply not my way to seek a high profile. To them, and to you, I say: sod off you useless piss-sacks.
Yours, Daniel
