I hope people lucky enough to get to the game sing him a big thankyou. Would go down well with the home fans too
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It's the BSoDL party line. Daniel Levy deserves great personal credit. This spending spree is the result of 10 years of shrewd financial jiggerypokery, his moment, the one he's spent so much time preparing the club for.
It's not the Bale money he's been spunking. Or even the large slice of the TV cake.
BSoDL. Cometh the hour, cometh the bastards
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TBH I expected Levy to sell Bale for £60-70m, replace him with Downing for £15M & put the rest towards the stadium.
The fact that he's used the Bale money to buy moar and even moar players means he has gone up considerably in my estimation which I'm sure is a great comfort to him.
The fact that we could end this transfer window with a zero net spend is amazing.
The fact that he's used the Bale money to buy moar and even moar players means he has gone up considerably in my estimation which I'm sure is a great comfort to him.
The fact that we could end this transfer window with a zero net spend is amazing.
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I wondered how long it would be before someone came on here bitching about nett spend or the like, some fans are never happy and always bitching about levy.
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For doing a good job. For assembling probably the best squad I've seen in 30 years of supporting spurs. For having the balls to spend £7+ million on a 17 year old from Southampton and make enough money to build said squad. I don't know - for being an evil genius but for being our evil genius.
Except maybe we shouldn't
when we're winning?I wondered how long it would be before someone came on here bitching about nett spend or the like, some fans are never happy and always bitching about levy.
He asked a question, that's all. I didn't see him do any bitching.
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It's the BSoDL party line. Daniel Levy deserves great personal credit. This spending spree is the result of 10 years of shrewd financial jiggerypokery, his moment, the one he's spent so much time preparing the club for.
It's not the Bale money he's been spunking. Or even the large slice of the TV cake.
BSoDL. Cometh the hour, cometh the bastards
If we blame levy for not buying players, then surely he has to get credit for buying players?
If we end up with a net spend of £0 even better, cause the rest of the money will go towards the stadium.
Or do you still have the theory that we go in for players with no intention of actually signing them?
For doing a good job. For assembling probably the best squad I've seen in 30 years of supporting spurs. For having the balls to spend £7+ million on a 17 year old from Southampton and make enough money to build said squad. I don't know - for being an evil genius but for being our evil genius.
Except maybe we shouldn't
He alone identified Bale and other players and bought them for the team did he?
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Indeed a loaded question as well, and its no surprise you think differently.
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Probably not, but i guess he employed those who did.
Lilbaz
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Mullers 90% of your vendetta against levy appears to be because he didn't buy a striker. Are you saying he wasn't responsible?
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No, but I didn't say that - he spent the money. If you want to use that argument I guess he alone couldn't hold us back?
Fair enough mate - you've got your opinion
I'm more than happy with where we're at and I'm not sure how we would have got here sooner or in a more sustainable way.I don't have a vendetta against Levy. My main criticism of Levy is that he sets high standards for his coaches and managers which he doesn't live up to himself, do I believe he was responsible for lack of a striker? Yes. Should he get some credit for these signing, yes.
Should he take some of the blame if some of the signings don't work out? Yes.
So he should get credit for that?
Lilbaz
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How does he not set himself high standards.
Go on any other teams forum and see what they think of levy. A lot may not like him but they would all want him as their chairman.
absolute bobbins
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Why?
Just one example is he told AVB that he expected top four when he came into the job but failed to secure some of the players to get him there. Dempsey has been sold after one season, Ade is close to the exit after one season.
Another example Comolli carried the can for Ramos's failure but it was Levy that him employed him.
Because he is partly responsible for those signings. He should get credit for the signings if they work out but not if they fail?
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5th with a record of 72 points
These are our league positions since ENIC took Spurs into private ownership in 2003. ENIC and Daniel Levy has taken us from mid table nobodies to a top club. We have broken into the top4 that people assumed was impossible. On the journey, there's been some bad luck as well. Lasagnegate, Chelsea winning the CL, 72 points not being enough for the first time in ages etc. Not to mention that Chelsea and Man City all of a sudden had billions of money to spend while Levy had to run a business properly.
We've also got the best training facilities in England, and although it's taking much longer than planned we're likely to get a brand new stadium as well. We would have all wanted to see the stadium ready next season, but Levy is careful not to put us in a situation we cannot handle financially.
Considering how far we've come since the Sugar years, I find it amazing that he gets 10 times more criticism than praise. Levy has made plenty of mistakes, but he seems to have learnt from them. I would have confronted him with anger if I saw him on the streets during the Stratford saga and probably last January as well, but looking at the bigger picture I certainly wouldn't have swapped him for any other chairman.
9th
5th
5th
11th
8th
4th
5th
4th
5th with a record of 72 points
These are our league positions since ENIC took Spurs into private ownership in 2003. ENIC and Daniel Levy has taken us from mid table nobodies to a top club. We have broken into the top4 that people assumed was impossible. On the journey, there's been some bad luck as well. Lasagnegate, Chelsea winning the CL, 72 points not being enough for the first time in ages etc. Not to mention that Chelsea and Man City all of a sudden had billions of money to spend while Levy had to run a business properly.
We've also got the best training facilities in England, and although it's taking much longer than planned we're likely to get a brand new stadium as well. We would have all wanted to see the stadium ready next season, but Levy is careful not to put us in a situation we cannot handle financially.
Considering how far we've come since the Sugar years, I find it amazing that he gets 10 times more criticism than praise. Levy has made plenty of mistakes, but he seems to have learnt from them. I would have confronted him with anger if I saw him on the streets during the Stratford saga and probably last January as well, but looking at the bigger picture I certainly wouldn't have swapped him for any other chairman.
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