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You’re so much more reasonable when you comment rather than anonymously spamming things that aren’t spam.Exactly this.
@LeParisien keeps droning on about naming Levy replacements who would be better. That argument is so fundamentally flawed because football executives aren’t like managers or players. There isn’t a pool of known quantities. We’re not going to replace Levy with another PL executive. Asking fans to name Levy replacements is futile because in the same way we didn’t know who Daniel Levy was before he took over at Spurs, we likely won’t know anything about who any hypothetical replacement is.
I’ve always given Levy his credit. When the stadium opened I posted here that it will forever be his legacy and I still believe that. I actually don’t think he should be replaced because he’s doing a great job on the business side.
The football side is a whole different matter. On that side, he’s failing. He has been for at a minimum the last three years.
I want Levy to step away from the football side. He can continue to run Tottenham Hotspur the company. But he needs to allow someone to come in and run the football side. Given them a budget to work with and let the manager, DoF, youth coaches, recruitment staff etc work within that budget to achieve best results on the pitch.
Levy is not a football man. He may be a football fan but he’s not a football man in the way that Rangnick, Campos, Orta, Paul Mitchell, Michael Edwards, Monchi etc are.
We need a DoF to give the football side some direction. To decide on a philosophy for success that this club is going to pursue and decide on managers, and players to fit within that philosophy. To put a robust recruitment and scouting system in place so that we’re always tracking players that fit within our model. We need a DoF and a manager to manage the squad and identify when players need to move on - an area that we’ve been poor in. Levy cannot do this role because he’s not capable. Not because he’s incompetent but because it’s not his skill set.
Let the DoF run the playing side and Levy can continue do what he does best to grow the company and the brand, secure sponsorships to increase revenue etc etc.
I think you’ve misunderstood what I am saying. I am asking which football chairmen in the world you would rather have. That is a kind of intuition pump to get people to realise that there is hardly anyone better out there currently doing the job. And if that’s the case then it is fanciful to expect someone to come out of nowhere to do a better job than 99.9% of already existing football chairmen.