The Daniel Levy thread

[LexingtonSpurs]

Levy has made about £10m in this transfer window, profit.

He hasn't bought a single player Poch wanted. Not one. He is always more vocal about acquisitions he makes, if he wanted them.

When Poch gets sacked soon and we sell Lloris, Vertonghen or Eriksen the new manager will get himself another bunch of turds.

No net spend for 5 years now?

Even Hull City are being more ambitious.

I am sure there is all a very good reason for this, yachts aren't cheap and we have a stadium to build.
But what good is that if we don't have a team worth going to watch?

I can't believe people actually argue whether Harry Kane should be starting ahead of our "best" striker.

Lost the passion for the club, been a fan for over 20 years. Sandro getting flogged is probably about it for me now.

Ah, yes. Who can remember this time last year, when the sky was falling, and the world was ending because Levy/ENIC had not delivered on deadline day...to hear it then, we were going to be lucky to avoid relegation, Poch was getting sacked before christmas, Lloris was off, etc.

Yet, somehow, we finished 5th - color me shocked, based on what all the "experts" were saying on transfer deadline day, we should refer to last season as the Miracle at White Hart Lane.

The anti-Levy crowd doth protest too much, methinks.

 

[chinaman]

With Chelscum, manure and Liverbile all having bad starts, our late signing of Son and N'jie together with no back-up for Kane may translate into another missed opportunity to door-crash top four.

 

[Wheeler Dealer]

footballers come and go...the new training facility is brilliant...the new stadium will be hopefully. That's what he's building..the foundations for the club.

Little point having a world class stadium and training facilities if your players are 2nd rate. Its the total package not 2/3rds of the components that will catapult us forward

 

[NEVILLEB]

footballers come and go...the new training facility is brilliant...the new stadium will be hopefully. That's what he's building..the foundations for the club.

Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday have bigger stadiums than WHL but that hasn't guaranteed them success.

 

[Yid-ol]

Leeds and Sheffield Wednesday have bigger stadiums than WHL but that hasn't guaranteed them success.

But they don't have levy......

Spoiler

 

[Tott66]

Surely it's classist...

Depends what comprehensive you went to in it

 

[Dembele'Disciple]

Levy is great at the money and Negotiation stuff. Sadly for him, the men he surrounds himself with that are supposed to handle the football side of things have all be proven to be incompetent. Fans were delighted with the hiring of Baldini, but he's been proven to be nothing but a fraud that doesn't know what he's doing. There's very little Levy can do that he hasn't tried. Bale left and we splurged, yet didn't get even half of that out of the players that we got in.

Perhaps one day he'll bring someone in that really knows his stuff and we'll be the next atl madrid or BVB but that's going to need some luck cause what football has taught us in recent times is that these guys are few and far in between.

People need to understand that what's being asked of Levy is for him to have a team that over achieves. No matter how big our new stadium is gonna be, without the success, we aren't catching up to the clubs that are bigger than us. What made arsenal is the henry/viera/bergkamp era. What made united is the likes of Busby/SAF/Cantona what makes liverpool years.

Without substantial investment like chelsea and City, us suddenly cracking top 4 regularly and competing at the pinnicle of the european football scene is incredibly difficult.

I'd like to toss out a question to any of these 'levy out' or 'levy is holding us back' peeps, what's the new CEO gonna do? What's he gonna add to our club that Levy isn't doing? Is he suddenly gonna stop the in flow of failed signings? Is he gonna turn managers into tactical masterminds?

I'd understand the nay sayers of he was under achieving but he really isn't. We need to accept what we are in the english game. We're the club below the big guys. With a sheik buying us, its incredibly difficult for us to take the next step. Is it possible, damn right it is and BVB and Atletico have proven it but its mightily difficult and finding the football genius to head such a project is possibly even more difficult.

 

[Shadydan]

The men he surrounds himself with? You mean the people he hires

 

[lukespurs7]

footballers come and go...the new training facility is brilliant...the new stadium will be hopefully. That's what he's building..the foundations for the club.

It is 25 years since we last won the FA cup!

That is disgusting.

 

[NEVILLEB]

Levy is great at the money and Negotiation stuff. Sadly for him, the men he surrounds himself with that are supposed to handle the football side of things have all be proven to be incompetent. Fans were delighted with the hiring of Baldini, but he's been proven to be nothing but a fraud that doesn't know what he's doing. There's very little Levy can do that he hasn't tried. Bale left and we splurged, yet didn't get even half of that out of the players that we got in.

Perhaps one day he'll bring someone in that really knows his stuff and we'll be the next atl madrid or BVB but that's going to need some luck cause what football has taught us in recent times is that these guys are few and far in between.

People need to understand that what's being asked of Levy is for him to have a team that over achieves. No matter how big our new stadium is gonna be, without the success, we aren't catching up to the clubs that are bigger than us. What made arsenal is the henry/viera/bergkamp era. What made united is the likes of Busby/SAF/Cantona what makes liverpool years.

Without substantial investment like chelsea and City, us suddenly cracking top 4 regularly and competing at the pinnicle of the european football scene is incredibly difficult.

I'd like to toss out a question to any of these 'levy out' or 'levy is holding us back' peeps, what's the new CEO gonna do? What's he gonna add to our club that Levy isn't doing? Is he suddenly gonna stop the in flow of failed signings? Is he gonna turn managers into tactical masterminds?

I'd understand the nay sayers of he was under achieving but he really isn't. We need to accept what we are in the english game. We're the club below the big guys. With a sheik buying us, its incredibly difficult for us to take the next step. Is it possible, damn right it is and BVB and Atletico have proven it but its mightily difficult and finding the football genius to head such a project is possibly even more difficult.

You're totally in denial.

 

[lukespurs7]

With Chelscum, manure and Liverbile all having bad starts, our late signing of Son and N'jie together with no back-up for Kane may translate into another missed opportunity to door-crash top four.

not MAY... it WILL.

As it keeps doing under Levy's stewardship.

 

[Dinbych]

You're totally in denial.

I suspect it is more of a case that you like a lot of our supporters are utterly deluded about our club, in terms of it's capacity and standing in the modern game. It's like listening to Liverpool supporters at times, completely stuck in past, still believing that the club holds the same position in the modern game that it did 30 years ago.

 

[NEVILLEB]

I suspect it is more of a case that you like a lot of our supporters are utterly deluded about our club, in terms of it's capacity and standing in the modern game. It's like listening to Liverpool supporters at times, completely stuck in past, still believing that the club holds the same position in the modern game that it did 30 years ago.

Try 5 years ago...

You are the one stuck in the past. The Sugar years!

 

[tototoner]

From this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11849284/.html



Spurs tried to buy Morgan Scheniderlin last summer and were also interested in Victor Wanyama this year. On both occasions, the player became agitated and pushed to leave but the internal unrest was not then accompanied by what Southampton regarded as a serious bid.


Tottenham’s only offer for Schneiderlin last summer was £10 million and it is understood that they ultimately did not make a big bid this year for Wanyama.

Spurs also annoyed West Bromwich Albion this summer over their pursuit of Sadio Berahino, with the Midlands club ultimately refusing to sell and clearly exasperated by the tactics of Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.”

 

[mckenz]

From this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11849284/.html



Spurs tried to buy Morgan Scheniderlin last summer and were also interested in Victor Wanyama this year. On both occasions, the player became agitated and pushed to leave but the internal unrest was not then accompanied by what Southampton regarded as a serious bid.


Tottenham’s only offer for Schneiderlin last summer was £10 million and it is understood that they ultimately did not make a big bid this year for Wanyama.

Spurs also annoyed West Bromwich Albion this summer over their pursuit of Sadio Berahino, with the Midlands club ultimately refusing to sell and clearly exasperated by the tactics of Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.”

Cool, Can I quote from that article too?



"Tottenham’s only offer for Schneiderlin last summer was £10 million and they ultimately did not make a big bid this year for Wanyama although it is understood that they were prepared to go to £20 million for either player if Southampton had shown any willingness to sell."

"although their principal reason for refusing to sell them players is that they regard Mauricio Pochettino’s team as a direct rival."

 

[Trix]

From this article

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/tottenham-hotspur/11849284/.html



Spurs tried to buy Morgan Scheniderlin last summer and were also interested in Victor Wanyama this year. On both occasions, the player became agitated and pushed to leave but the internal unrest was not then accompanied by what Southampton regarded as a serious bid.


Tottenham’s only offer for Schneiderlin last summer was £10 million and it is understood that they ultimately did not make a big bid this year for Wanyama.

Spurs also annoyed West Bromwich Albion this summer over their pursuit of Sadio Berahino, with the Midlands club ultimately refusing to sell and clearly exasperated by the tactics of Tottenham chairman Daniel Levy.”

Cool, Can I quote from that article too?



"Tottenham’s only offer for Schneiderlin last summer was £10 million and they ultimately did not make a big bid this year for Wanyama although it is understood that they were prepared to go to £20 million for either player if Southampton had shown any willingness to sell."

"although their principal reason for refusing to sell them players is that they regard Mauricio Pochettino’s team as a direct rival."

Ha ha. I can smell the burning from here.

 

[DogsOfWar]

It is 25 years since we last won the FA cup!

That is disgusting.

Only eight teams have won the FA cup since we last won it.
The top 5 have won every cup with the exception of 3 finals, Everton, Wigan, and Portsmouth.

It's not disgusting, it's just symptomatic of modern, SKY/Premiership, football.

The days of Derby, Forest, Villa, Coventry, Everton, West Ham etc winning leagues, European trophies, and cups are gone.
It is a closed shop and will take an enormous effort (or billion pound investment) to change this.
Sadly, the fact that we have been able to knock on the door is a success in itself.

 

[jurgen]

I suspect it is more of a case that you like a lot of our supporters are utterly deluded about our club, in terms of it's capacity and standing in the modern game. It's like listening to Liverpool supporters at times, completely stuck in past, still believing that the club holds the same position in the modern game that it did 30 years ago.

We're the sixth biggest team in the land realistically. But that also makes us one of the richest clubs in the world. And a fair whack bigger than the 7th - or should be - in terms of revenue. While the top 5 are clearly dwarfing us on that front, I don't think its necessarily deluded to wonder if 25 years might be getting a little long to wait for an FA Cup - or, also, wonder why we regularly fail to make much dent on European competition when we're definitely one of the rich boys in that arena. We have to box clever, but we have done before in recent memory.

Ironically, despite their riches, Chelsea have made a pretty crap start and both Man Utd and arsenal look nearly as lightweight up top as we do, Liverpool are flattering to deceive.. it could have been the time to strike(r)...

 

[Mullers]

If Berahino is the striker you want, with no plan B as a back up.

If you've only got one main striker in your squad who's under a lot of pressure.

If the WBA Chairman has explicitly told you he won't do a deadline deal.

If you haven't yet won a game in the league...

If all these things...why is Levy under bidding on deadline day?

Just stupid

I said when Mitchell was employed Levy won't change, he will still do his deadline shit and it's proved to be the case.
Exactly what Poch was afraid of.

 

[NEVILLEB]

I said when Mitchell was employed Levy won't change, he will still do his deadline shit and it's proved to be the case.
Exactly what Poch was afraid of.

It's been truly enlightening to see the same pattern repeat itself over and over and see a huge portion of our fan base unable to see it.