- Jun 11, 2012
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The whole Zeki Fryers move could simply be that Standard Leige fancied the player at £250K and bought him then Spurs offered Leige a chance to tripple their money in a short period of time. Of course you could think that Levy contacted Leige and whispered his sneeky plan in the CE's ear and they all laughed the way to the bank. Actually I think that idea is a little far fetched and it just happened the way it did. But when you throw Levy into the mix the papers like to bend to the image that has been created of Levy.
As a bussiness man what exactly has he done wrong? IMO not a great deal, he wants the best deal for THFC and is willing to do deals for player, and spend big. Recently look at our deals for Paulinho and Son, even N'Jie was a relivively big outlay for a young player. Levy can do a deal with very little fuss when everyone is agreeing but he will stand hos ground and wont offer over the odds of what he deems acceptable.
Of course people will want to voice their opinion and say Levy is this or that, but what is most telling about Levy himself is that doesn't feel the need to speak about transfer dealings openly no matter how much provocation he gets. He will get a booting from the press and a fair few other owners/chairmen but IMO stays professional about the job. To say hes unethical or that he brings down the public perception of the club in my opinion is both wrong and very niave.
Ha ha ha - do you actually know the reported story behind this deal? Fryers was training with us the summer after his Man U contract expired and after months of wrangling we refused to pay the £6m United wanted as compensation for him. Out of nowhere he signed for Standard Liege where he had played on loan earlier in his career and who had previously admitted they couldn't afford him. All of a sudden the player is homesick in November and desperate to return to the UK after playing a handful of games and voila he joins the club he had been training with the summer before who were desperately trying to sign him. Each to their own so guess it's ok to believe what you want.