I´ve said before but what has Baldini done wrong? The signings were either worked on before he got there or not his suggestions apart from Lamela.
We need a new Chairman
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parklane1
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Does not matter really they will only find something else to bitch about.
Your forgeting the BSoDL logic, he is only responsible when we are successful, when we are not successful he is not responsible it is someone elses fault.
parklane1
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Bollocks, i travel with the same group of fans every week 30 of us and none of them want Levy out.
Don´t know about that mate, my impression is he has a fair number of supporters.
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How was I 'totally wrong' to defend AVB? the manager of the team I support (you may want to look that word up). Also please explain how I've been proved 'totally wrong' because from where I'm sat things seem to be pretty much the same. You're citing Adebayor scoring as the main improvement post-AVB. Are you actually suggesting that that was a good enough reason to appoint a new manager? undoing 18 months of squad development. I'm not even going to bother raising the fact that we've been dumped out of both domestic competitions under Sherwood.
I haven't changed my position at all, I think you need to look in a mirror. You wanted rid of AVB, that hasn't worked, you now want rid of Levy. That's a change in stance.
I actually think you spout that much rubbish that you've started to believe yourself.
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Rodgers was asked on Thursday how he now looked upon the possibility of joining Spurs when Redknapp left.
“A close shave,” he said. “They are a great club and one of the things I looked at was the history. They’d had 11 managers in 18 years there so for someone like myself, I needed to create something.
"I needed to go to a club that was going to give us that opportunity. I am more than happy with the choice I made to come here and hopefully in time it will prove to be the right one.”
Rodgers said he believed Spurs are suffering for sanctioning the transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, the number of new recruits ensuring it was inevitable it would take time for Villas-Boas to gel the side.
“Obviously there have been difficulties from Bale leaving. It shows you that when you have someone with that X-factor, sometimes eight, nine or 10 players can’t replace that,” he said.
“That was why we fought like tigers to keep Luis Suárez here because he is a top player, he is a top performer. There are many good players but very few who perform week in, week out to that level.”
“They [the Liverpool owners] have a strategy,” said Rodgers. “When I look at managers and decisions, it makes me appreciate the decision I made to come here. They were so supportive of me. We still have a way to go in order to be where I want us to be but I think it is clear that we are making progress and you have to give the owners huge credit for that.
“Never once have I ever felt under any pressure. If you are put under pressure in a short period of time it may affect decision-making. I have never felt that even in the most difficult moments, the first five or six months here when there was the transition.
"They were very strong and committed in the choice that they made and hopefully everyone including the supporters and players are getting their rewards for that. They know where they want the club to go and they are prepared to give it that time to evolve.”
“A close shave,” he said. “They are a great club and one of the things I looked at was the history. They’d had 11 managers in 18 years there so for someone like myself, I needed to create something.
"I needed to go to a club that was going to give us that opportunity. I am more than happy with the choice I made to come here and hopefully in time it will prove to be the right one.”
Rodgers said he believed Spurs are suffering for sanctioning the transfer of Gareth Bale to Real Madrid, the number of new recruits ensuring it was inevitable it would take time for Villas-Boas to gel the side.
“Obviously there have been difficulties from Bale leaving. It shows you that when you have someone with that X-factor, sometimes eight, nine or 10 players can’t replace that,” he said.
“That was why we fought like tigers to keep Luis Suárez here because he is a top player, he is a top performer. There are many good players but very few who perform week in, week out to that level.”
“They [the Liverpool owners] have a strategy,” said Rodgers. “When I look at managers and decisions, it makes me appreciate the decision I made to come here. They were so supportive of me. We still have a way to go in order to be where I want us to be but I think it is clear that we are making progress and you have to give the owners huge credit for that.
“Never once have I ever felt under any pressure. If you are put under pressure in a short period of time it may affect decision-making. I have never felt that even in the most difficult moments, the first five or six months here when there was the transition.
"They were very strong and committed in the choice that they made and hopefully everyone including the supporters and players are getting their rewards for that. They know where they want the club to go and they are prepared to give it that time to evolve.”
alamo
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Oh great, another boring anti-Levy thread on the back of a bad result or two.
I can't even be arsed to argue the individual "merits" of other clubs chairmen any more. Or bother to bring up the progressive rise in league position under Levys tenure.
If I did I would only be dismissively written off as a BSoDL, despite the fact I recognise his faults and believe in an ideal world with the advantage of hindsight things could have been done better.
I can't even be arsed to argue the individual "merits" of other clubs chairmen any more. Or bother to bring up the progressive rise in league position under Levys tenure.
If I did I would only be dismissively written off as a BSoDL, despite the fact I recognise his faults and believe in an ideal world with the advantage of hindsight things could have been done better.
NEVILLEB
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You don't just not understand football, you don't understand some of the basics of life.
Blindly ignoring the faults of your leaders because you are a 'supporter' is not intelligent.
It's sheep like behaviour. The sort of thing that goes on in cults or dictatorships.
Luckily Tottenham Hotspur has a massive fan base who put the club first. People who spend a fortune on tickets and shirts because they support the team, not the current financial backer.
I don't support Daniel Levy. I'm a Tottenham Hotspur supporter and I put the clubs interests first.
As a purely football argument surely you understand why AVB was fired? Why he also failed at Chelsea? Why he played boring football at both clubs?
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Although he wont be free, so to speak, he does however fits in with some of Levy's other philosophies, if by name at least...Carson Yeung
alamo
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Very true. Thanks to Dan, fun-time-frankie and MJ.
And we have averaged higher in the ten years after compared to the ten years before, even finishing fourth twice which given the state of football at this time is an achievement in itself.
Your expectations over what you expect of a chairman are ridiculous bordering on the absurd.
BSoDL? Rich coming from a BSoFM.
Youth team player?
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Not to mention the fact that everyone was hailing Baldini as the signing of the summer before everything went tits up. He helped get a lot of big deals done very quickly. I don't think he's done a bad job at all. None of the signings we made were head scratchers, bar perhaps Soldado (for the price, considering his age and limitations).
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You mentioned a progressive rise in league position but note that we finished 5th in 2005 and are in 5th in 2014.
You mentioned the 1990's and yes, Alan Sugar wasn't a good football chairman.
But in the 1980's we had 3 x THIRD PLACE finishes and 2 x FOURTH PLACE finishes. Not too bad!
So maybe our current position is a true reflection of the size of the club? Maybe the 90's was a reflection of how little Alan Sugar understands about football or people or anything that's not an Amstrad computer.
Maybe we should all move on from the 1990's and grow a pair.
spurs9
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[quote="NEVILLEB, post: 3910767, member: 9638"He'd have only had to look at Alex Ferguson to see the importance he placed on the character and lifestyle of his players[/quote]
You are looking at Fergie wrong. He didn't just buy players with certain character , he instilled that character in his players.
You are looking at Fergie wrong. He didn't just buy players with certain character , he instilled that character in his players.
spurs9
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That's true. It was a mix of both.[/quote]
IMO, that's why we need LVG. He would do the same.
