Levy: Should he stay or should he go?

[SpurSince57]

The whole of Europe will be shitting themselves from the very thought of coming up against those two.

In Bent's case, rightly so. Don't know about Campbell.

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

wheres the other 9 people that voted he should go i need some back up lol.

dc75 yes i see what your saying and i did agree with everything you say....until i realise the game is ALL about money now and unless you splash it you wont reach the top......man u....chelsea the top 2 clubs in england and they both have the highest wage bills.....spend alot of cash on players too, liverpool and arsenal have high wage structures but havnt really spent that big & thats why they wont win the league untill they do

 

[lily_lane]

I'm pleased the voting is currently 72 for and only 10 against.

I'm amazed at the negativity and criticism of Levy, and I hope he stays on for many more years and doesn't sell the club.

For the record, I wouldn't want the Arab sheiks to buy our club. What club would you have left? The Citeh fans will soon find out.

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

They didn't want to be here. Well, we were initially told by several ITKs that Keane would be happy to stay if we didn't want to sell, but clearly we decided to cash in. If we haven't directly replaced him there's enough firepower and creativity in the midfield to compensate.

Veloso didn't want to come. What do you fail to understand about that? Apart from anything else, SC members who've actually watched him play regularly (and a lot of Portugeezers) reckon he's not all that anyway.

Maybe you should learn to distinguish between FM and real life.

you seem to trust what the itks say over the keane issue but not the veloso....i heared it was the wages that we stubbled on! and keane handed in a transfer request wich i have showed you twice from the official site and you still seem to belive this itk talk

 

[dcarney75]

I'm going to bed - this thread is annoying!

I don't think anyone should look at what's happening at Man City and view it as a blueprint for what should be happening with us - it's only been 48 hours, for God's sake. Let's see where they are in five years and make a judgement then.

I'm a bit annoyed we didn't buy a big-name striker, but you can't just shake a tree and have then fall into your lap. And it's so much more complex than Zenit leading us on - by all accounts, it was a far from normal negotiation - we were up to our knees in dodgy Russian agents and businessmen and Levy, showing the shrewdness and care which has been the primary reason for our stability in recent years, evidently decided not to bite.

I get increasingly wound up by people bemoaning the absence of this player or that player - Huntelaar may not have settled in England, Arshavin may have broken his leg while on international duty this weekend, it's all ifs and buts.

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

In Bent's case, rightly so. Don't know about Campbell.

are you getting so old you cant sense sarcasm

 

[Bristol Coys]

wheres the other 9 people that voted he should go i need some back up lol.
dc75 yes i see what your saying and i did agree with everything you say....until i realise the game is ALL about money now and unless you splash it you wont reach the top......man u....chelsea the top 2 clubs in england and they both have the highest wage bills.....spend alot of cash on players too, liverpool and arsenal have high wage structures but havnt really spent that big & thats why they wont win the league untill they do

I spoke to a life long Citeh fan at work today who is very unhappy about the takeover. He thinks it will undermine everything that he feels Citeh stand for. Family club, local fans and youth development. He feels that in his eyes it pisses on everying that the club has stood for all his life and if they go down that route he might as well have made the choice when he was a kid to support the other lot.

I feel deeply and emotionally attached (unhinged) to Spurs. For many years I believed we always tried to play the game the right way, while that lot up the road (that smell) bored teams into submission. When the anti-christ became our manager and turned us into THEM, I felt betrayed. Depite not being as succesful it was this dignity and style which made MY team special.

The beautiful game is about more than winning and more than money.

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

as i said will he feel that way when the are sitting above united in the table?

 

[dcarney75]

wheres the other 9 people that voted he should go i need some back up lol.

dc75 yes i see what your saying and i did agree with everything you say....until i realise the game is ALL about money now and unless you splash it you wont reach the top......man u....chelsea the top 2 clubs in england and they both have the highest wage bills.....spend alot of cash on players too, liverpool and arsenal have high wage structures but havnt really spent that big & thats why they wont win the league untill they do

The Premier League now is rapidly becoming soulless, overhyped bollocks, courtesy of frothing blanket coverage from Sky, and investors who, in one fell swoop of the chequebook, render a club's recent history and endeavour totally irrelevant.

I love football but I'm not so divorced from decency and common sense as to fail to see the situation. So I wouldn't be jumping for joy if we went down the path of City/Chelsea. I'd like Spurs to be the club which proves success can be achieved outside those limited parameters, capiche? And if it takes five more years of building, so be it. There's a bigger issue at stake than whether we make the Champions League next year. A much bigger issue.

Anyway, I'm off to bed to stare at my poster of Steve Hodge and dream about "jumpers for goalposts" and old style trade unionism.

 

[dcarney75]

I spoke to a life long Citeh fan at work today who is very unhappy about the takeover. He thinks it will undermine everything that he feels Citeh stand for. Family club, local fans and youth development. He feels that in his eyes it pisses on everying that the club has stood for all his life and if they go down that route he might as well have made the choice when he was a kid to support the other lot.

I feel deeply and emotionally attached (unhinged) to Spurs. For many years I believed we always tried to play the game the right way, while that lot up the road (that smell) bored teams into submission. When the anti-christ became our manager and turned us into THEM, I felt betrayed. Depite not being as succesful it was this dignity and style which made MY team special.

The beautiful game is about more than winning and more than money.

What he said.

 

[double0]

Its unbelievable this thread...suggesting Levy to go, on what grounds?

Tbh I'm ashamed with a lot of Spurs fans bitching and being negative towards the club.

 

[TallBlokePH]

Just a quick point on the 'why can't we have some rich type'...firstly, if it was that easy why did none of the tycoons who bought clubs buy Spurs...and secondly, FIFA/UEFA are seriously looking at whether they can push through a financial system with restrictions on what can be spent (based potentially on the actual income & balance sheets of clubs from that income) to level the playing field a bit - and if that goes through, it doesn't matter how much a club's owner has because it won't mean a damn thing!

Which, if it happens, means Levy has put us in a fantastic position by making sure we're one of the few debt-free clubs!!

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

to be honest mate can you blame us........we are nothing but a mid table and a feeder to the sky 4

 

[ohh_when_the_spurs]

Just a quick point on the 'why can't we have some rich type'...firstly, if it was that easy why did none of the tycoons who bought clubs buy Spurs...and secondly, FIFA/UEFA are seriously looking at whether they can push through a financial system with restrictions on what can be spent (based potentially on the actual income & balance sheets of clubs from that income) to level the playing field a bit - and if that goes through, it doesn't matter how much a club's owner has because it won't mean a damn thing!

Which, if it happens, means Levy has put us in a fantastic position by making sure we're one of the few debt-free clubs!!

money in the bank doesnt win you games.....its world class players you buy with it does

 

[Teddy Klinsmann]

levy is one of the most astute business men around and when it comes to running a football club, negotiating, finances etc there are few better around. if anyone is to blame for this whole episode i think it has to be comolli. he has obviously failed to deliver the players as required.

 

[dcarney75]

to be honest mate can you blame us........we are nothing but a mid table and a feeder to the sky 4

I feel like I'm listening to the looped S.O.S. message in the first episode of 'Lost'.

Definitely going to bed now!

 

[double0]

I personally want THFC to continue building with youth players through our academy also purchasing promising talents like ie Lennon and Bostock who can hopefully in the next couple of months/ years break into the squad/team (bostock), with the addition of international quality players within our own budget.

Personally the Chelski and Citeh model doesn't sit well with me an overnight Billionaire....although I was kind of happy for the Citeh fans because they've gone through the mill in the shadow of United and its payback.

 

[SpurSince57]

are you getting so old you cant sense sarcasm

It wasn't sarcasm. It was stupidity.

And I can recognise people who need to be back on their intensive study course to be be a fully-qualified Savoy cabbage several miles off.

Now please don't provoke me again, because I shall really let rip, and you won't like it one little bit.

 

[striebs]

It's like Sir Alan Sugar said , it's foolishness throwing money away trying to complete when you can't .

Levy's missed a few too many opportunities for my liking and I don't care for the people he surrounds himself with like Donna Cullen or the way he treated Jol or payed a dividend .

Still preferable to most of the alternatives though and football's got bigger problems .

 

[General Levy]

He's doing a fantastic job BUT I WANT A TRILLONAIRE PLZ!!!11mg: