Pep Guardiola calls out Daniel Levy in press conference

[mawspurs]

Manchester City boss Pep Guardiola has called out Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy suggesting the 61-year-old was one of the major driving forces behind the Premier League’s decision to charge his club with numerous financial rule breaches.

Source: Daily Express

 

[rabbikeane]

The club that missed out on glory because of your financial doping, what a surprise.

 

[newbie]

Good, what’s the point of us building a stadium if it was better better to dig for oil!

I think in levy’s statement he mentions how the oil clubs have inflated transfers and taken the piss!

 

[mil1lion]

Man reports crime

 

[Bilko]

Oh what a di..khead Guardiola is.

 

[mawspurs]

Tottenham 'surprised and bemused' after Guardiola calls out Levy

Tottenham have been left confused by Pep Guardiola's comments on Daniel Levy.

www.express.co.uk

 

[UncleBuck]

And? So what? You lot are the ones who are in the wrong no matter how much you feel everyone is against you.
Does he think we’d have been the only club to complaint if true?
He’s a tit, it’s not like the PL have charged them because of Levy is it? Knob jockey, he’s best off sticking to talking about football on the pitch

 

[FloridaSpur]

He has painted himself into a corner now.

There is no way that none of the one hundred odd charges won't stick.

The man's an egotistical fool if he declares the charges false before a court has heard the evidence.

 

[jolsnogross]

Perfect confluence of City still playing the victim as the richest club around and Levy getting into the weeds of his favourite obsession: FFP rules.

Good luck to Levy and the league on this one, the league needs much better governance.

 

[whitesocks]

He has painted himself into a corner now.

There is no way that none of the one hundred odd charges won't stick.

The man's an egotistical fool if he declares the charges false before a court has heard the evidence.

Nothing will stick. They bought off uefa and they'll be able to buy off the prem/government too.
But they weren't found innocent by uefa/cas - much of the case had just timed out, just as it probably has here too in practice. He needs to stop lying about this.

Also he needs to stop lying about man c not buying these titles. Sure they haven't spent that much in the last 5 years and it is starting to show. But the 5 years previous to that it was £100m+ every year.
He is right that man c are assumed guilty by the average fan - as the stadium naming rights value of £70m pa is not market rate by a factor of 10. And the leaked emails are pretty damning as I remember.

I'm happy to convict but the outcome I want is the regulators to actually start actively regulating. ie what's happening at chesea this season is clearly strange and they should be all over that like a ton of bricks.

 

[cider spurs]

Cut the neck off his rolltop and flick him in the balls.

 

[1882andallthat]

He's said on the past he would leave them if they were ever found guilty of charges like this.

I hope they are and if he does it's about time he tried managing someone without the luxury of having so much money. Every club he's managed has been right at the top or very near it with the top or in the top 2 for spending power in their domestic leagues, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Man City.

Yes he gets lauded all the time for how much of a fantastic coach he is and how much silverware he's won, and how he transforms players at a high level to an even higher level.

He's a luxury / silver spoon manager, who has never had to go without in terms of transfer budgets so he goes running to the money tree every time there is a slight dip in his teams form, and he overstocks the cupboard with big budget players when the cupboard is already full of big time charlies and big budget players in comparison to other clubs the domestic leagues he competes in. If he really is as good as everyone says he is and all the pundits fawn over. Let him try doing it without the luxury of big budgets where competitors have clear financial advantages, and let's see if he still comes out on top......

 

[Japhet]

They've been cheating, knowingly, for years and have had plenty of shots fired across the bows. Now they're again facing charges but without the wiggle room that saw them get off the last lot, and it's somebody else's fault for dobbing them in. They've cheated every club they've played against over and over and over, and Guardiola, for all his protestations, is fully aware of that. Does he really think anybody else in football gives a flying fuck about their plight? They should have been brought to rule years ago, same for Chelsea, but better late than never, and credit to Levy for being heard.

 

[Johnny J]

Nothing will stick. They bought off uefa and they'll be able to buy off the prem/government too.

I'm not sure this is going to prove true. The PL, which is the clubs in the competition, have thrown the boom at City. They wouldn't have brought all these charges unless they wanted to hold City to account. The political fallout is massive already between City and the other clubs.

 

[Japhet]

I'm not sure this is going to prove true. The PL, which is the clubs in the competition, have thrown the boom at City. They wouldn't have brought all these charges unless they wanted to hold City to account. The political fallout is massive already between City and the other clubs.

Will play nicely into the City fans and their 'they're all out to get us' conspiracy theories. They've probably forgotten by now, but the fact is, ordinary people despise cheats and they've been at it for over 10 years with no proper punishment.

 

[newbie]

He's said on the past he would leave them if they were ever found guilty of charges like this.

I hope they are and if he does it's about time he tried managing someone without the luxury of having so much money. Every club he's managed has been right at the top or very near it with the top or in the top 2 for spending power in their domestic leagues, Barcelona, Bayern Munich, Man City.

Yes he gets lauded all the time for how much of a fantastic coach he is and how much silverware he's won, and how he transforms players at a high level to an even higher level.

He's a luxury / silver spoon manager, who has never had to go without in terms of transfer budgets so he goes running to the money tree every time there is a slight dip in his teams form, and he overstocks the cupboard with big budget players when the cupboard is already full of big time charlies and big budget players in comparison to other clubs the domestic leagues he competes in. If he really is as good as everyone says he is and all the pundits fawn over. Let him try doing it without the luxury of big budgets where competitors have clear financial advantages, and let's see if he still comes out on top......

Great speech but I don’t think his coming to spurs!