The Levy out protest has started

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We come 5th...
the other top 13 richest clubs include how many from England?...
5 I believe
so we should be 6th but we're 5th so we are over achieving by your own standards. So why blame Levy, get on your knees and take your turn licking - LMAO

It's Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd.

 

[michaelden]

It's Man City, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal and Man Utd.

yip 5 was a good guess, cheers for the facts.

It's good to back up opinion with cold hard facts, cuts through the emotion, and bypasses the heart, goes to the brain and should spark that frontal cortex into gear, getting our higher reasoning abilities running at max

 

[NEVILLEB]

he got a masters in business with honours from cambs or oxford, he was a successful business man, and chairman and now bought into a club he supports and has the business booming. Don't forget, Spurs are a business, sport is a business

when you're kicking a ball on Hackney Marshes, you're 1 paying fees, boots, kit, balls, refs, etc... and no one sells/buys/fires your ass for being shitter than the John Smiths spacktard. But you're still paying towards it all.

He has found a way for a fan to run his club well & make money. Are you jealous?

Yes, I want to be Daniel Levy. He's so cool.

You still haven't demonstrated how anyone could have possibly suggested Daniel Levy would be a great football Chairman. Something you are asking me to do for the next one.

It is more of a gamble than manager but needs to happen.

 

[allatsea]

Folk still talking about net spend as if it means something. All that matters is who you spend the money on. Clever scouting and clever buys means better players. Spending tens of millions net each transfer window means nothing if it is spent on the wrong players. We have to be smarter when we spend our money.

 

[michaelden]

Yes, I want to be Daniel Levy. He's so cool.

You still haven't demonstrated how anyone could have possibly suggested Daniel Levy would be a great football Chairman. Something you are asking me to do for the next one.

It is more of a gamble than manager but needs to happen.

read the posts in the last pages on the What Our Opponents Are Saying thread. There are a few really good quotes from an outside perspective. Should open your eyes to 1) our real situation, 2) our realistic expectations 3) the respect others have for the work DL has done

 

[jambreck]

He ran "Mr. Byrite", possibly the worst clothing chain store known to man.

No, he didn't.

It was his father's company.

 

[Lilbaz]

Barca don't bring just Barcelona youth, they buy loads from all over the world. You are not allowed to in the EPL. Travel distance is set at a max. of 90 minutes or something like that for youth players. Stops the rich clubs doing a Barcelona

We need hs2 built quick.

 

[Kiki]

We've had 3 different architecht signed up for it only for Levy to change his mind, between the 2nd and 3rd one he decided he wanted to move the club to Stratford East London and now its back to plan 1 again. There isn't even a building company arrangement. The stadium was originally meant to be ready for the 13/14 season when it was first mentioned 8 years ago, but then it was pushed back to 2015 two years ago. I dont think there will be a new stadium for a good while.

 

[Colonel Dax]

No, he didn't.

It was his father's company.

It was his father's company, but Daniel along with his brothers eventually took over operations:

"Blue Inc was founded on the roots of the famed 1990s discounter, dreamt up by Mr Byrite’s owners, the Levy family, whose retail lineage stretches back to 1912 when A Levy & Son opened a hat shop in Stratford, east London.

A chain of haberdashery stores was established, which eventually evolved into Mr Byrite. The name disappeared a decade ago when the three sons of its owner Barry Levy – Jonathan, Robert and Daniel – took control of the operation and ditched the discount image in favour of the Blue Inc name and a new brand-led offer."

http://www.drapersonline.com/news/steven-cohen/1737484.article#.UyhXe15P3-k

 

[Krafty]

I heard some calls for Levy out on sunday, I don't think it is particularly helpful and its not going to happen.

Sure, Levy can do a lot better, but equally he could be a lot worse, and it might be a case of better the devil you know.

 

[shelfboy68]

The Northumberland Project is about as real as the tooth fairy. We've had 3 different architecht signed up for it only for Levy to change his mind, between the 2nd and 3rd one he decided he wanted to move the club to Stratford East London and now its back to plan 1 again! There isn't even a building company arrangement in place let alone a crane in sight. The stadium was originally meant to be ready for the 13/14 season when it was first mentioned 8 years ago. The it was pushed back to 15/16 two years ago. I really dont think there will be a new stadium by 2020.

We are financially stable and funded the training ground upgrade with our own funds which is great for the club from here on in as long as we start making some other good decisions and Levy doesn't seem to do that too often. He isn't sure if he wants an English young core (Jol era), a continental experiment (Santini, Ramos, AVB, Baldini) or an all out attack easy on the eye side (Redknapp era) and we have floated between experiment B and the other 2 for the past 8 years.

What he needs to do in the summer is either:
- give Van Gaal a 3 year contract and get him to get the best out of what we have with 2-3 changes in squad personnel and 1 gun signing. This will give the club another 18-24 months observing if young managers like Pochettino are a flash in the pan or are the real deal and they could be targeted to take over after the 3 year contract is up. Regardless of how VG is going in the first season he has to be given 18 months!
- give de Boer a 5 year contract, ask him if he wants to work with Baldini or if he wants someone he can trust as DoF (if Levy is hell bent on it) and give them the chequebook in the summer and again in January if he isn't happy with what we have. Again 14/15 league position shouldn't be too harshly judged

Have to agree regarding the stadium I can't see it being done for years and years if at all the whole thing is a farce I'm assuming that Levy is waiting for the price of bricks to go down 20p before he OKs it.

 

[jambreck]

It was his father's company, but Daniel along with his brothers eventually took over operations:

"Blue Inc was founded on the roots of the famed 1990s discounter, dreamt up by Mr Byrite’s owners, the Levy family, whose retail lineage stretches back to 1912 when A Levy & Son opened a hat shop in Stratford, east London.

A chain of haberdashery stores was established, which eventually evolved into Mr Byrite. The name disappeared a decade ago when the three sons of its owner Barry Levy – Jonathan, Robert and Daniel – took control of the operation and ditched the discount image in favour of the Blue Inc name and a new brand-led offer."

http://www.drapersonline.com/news/steven-cohen/1737484.article#.UyhXe15P3-k

That says, in effect, that he didn't run "....Mr. Byrite, possibly the worst clothing chain store known to man", as you put it. He took it over, rebranded it and transformed it into a much better company - cutting his business teeth in the process before moving on to setting up ENIC and eventually buying Spurs.

 

[jambreck]

Yes, I want to be Daniel Levy. He's so cool.

You still haven't demonstrated how anyone could have possibly suggested Daniel Levy would be a great football Chairman. Something you are asking me to do for the next one.

It is more of a gamble than manager but needs to happen.

Levy owns 25% of Spurs.

So who will sack him? Lewis - his family friend, mentor and business partner? Not in a million years.

Which leaves only one option....someone to buy ENIC out.

Has anyone expressed an interest in buying Spurs for a price that ENIC would accept?

 

[Colonel Dax]

Sounds to me that he didn't run "....Mr. Byrite, possibly the worst clothing chain store known to man", as you put it. He took it over, rebranded it and transformed it into a much better company - cutting his business teeth in the process before moving on to setting up ENIC and eventually buying Spurs.

He ran Mr Byrite, possibly the worst clothing chain store known to man, before rebranding…

There's something for both of us to chew on

 

[jambreck]

The Northumberland Project is about as real as the tooth fairy. We've had 3 different architecht signed up for it only for Levy to change his mind, between the 2nd and 3rd one he decided he wanted to move the club to Stratford East London and now its back to plan 1 again! There isn't even a building company arrangement in place let alone a crane in sight. The stadium was originally meant to be ready for the 13/14 season when it was first mentioned 8 years ago. The it was pushed back to 15/16 two years ago. I really dont think there will be a new stadium by 2020.

3 different architects? KSS, Populous and.........?

As I've probably pointed out too often, on multiple threads, a £450m project is an enormously complex and risky project for a company of Spurs' size. The figures have to add up. If they don't but Levy ploughs ahead regardless, the consequences could be catastrophic for the club. It's not something that can be rushed.

Look at other major stadium projects in this country - Wembley, Emirates, New Anfield, new Chelsea stadium, new Everton stadium. The former two were in the works for more than a decade each, as difficulties relating to siting, planning and funding had to be overcome. The latter three have been mooted and planned for even longer than our new stadium but none has progressed as far as we have. Why do you think that we should not experience the kind of delays and issues that every similar development has experienced?

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

Has anyone expressed an interest in buying Spurs for a price that ENIC would accept?

I don't know…….Has anyone?

 

[jambreck]

I don't know…….Has anyone?

On the basis that ENIC still own Spurs, I'm guessing that the answer is no!

 

[JuddYid16]

I don't know…….Has anyone?

no and I would assume no wealthy Arab would buy the "jewish club"

 

[ERO]

no and I would assume no wealthy Arab would buy the "jewish club"

A jew bought the "nazi club"...

 

[mil1lion]

I just want to see us pick the right manager for a change. A top quality manager would do great with our budget and current squad of players.