Levy Time is out of time

The most spoken about chairman in football is also the most maligned and criticised. That’s not to day the ongoing problems at Old Trafford and the Anfield dramatics several seasons ago are any less troublesome for other fanbases. But at Tottenham, it’s a little different. See, the Glazers and any given US consortium have often been targeted as insidious investors, milking the club or using it as financial collateral. Spurs, for all the abuse the chairman gets for the football (lack of trophies), we can’t truly say the club has suffered off the field under the rule of ENIC.

Now some fans believe that ENIC are simply curating a masterful collection of revenue and sporting stature to allow their investment to grow into the billions. They would be right. I mean, come on now, the reality is that football is a sport and rich people are not into giving out £ for no reason at all. Every owner is seeking something back. What Spurs have achieved from a club facing bankruptcy after Irving Scholar’s misadventures to what it is today – it’s astonishing. Considering we don’t win and compete at the level we should be at.

I’d wager a bet that if the club speculated a little, we’d be a dominant forced on the pitch as well as off it. You’re better off speculating over at BettingSites than hoping for Spurs to change their methodology.

Levy and the board have turned the club into a juggernaut, economically, so there isn’t that much to bemoan here. Or is there?

See, Spurs are where they should be based on the wage spend. We do splash the cash on new signings but we don’t create a culture of riches for potential world class targets to skip down the high road to play in Lilywhite.

And for all the good the club have achieved with the stadium and revenue streams, some will argue that we are losing our identity as a club. Modern football has taken a massive bite out of the sport in general, but Spurs are arguably leading the way with expensive season tickets and not being that fussed about legacy fans because ‘if you don’t go, someone else will – and if that someone else is a day-tripper, it makes no difference to the club’. See, someone visiting N17 for the day is more likely to spend money at the club shop.

The club infamously gave us ‘customer reference numbers’ and many feel disenfranchised by how Levy focuses on the things we care little about. Even if those things help us sign players, there is an edge, a desire missing from the grand plan.

And what is that plan?

For ENIC to sell us to a Qatar investment group?

Why is it not to win the league?

We hear that Levy is a fan and even if he isn’t to the level of the going public, his ego will not allow him to leave Spurs without achieving something on the field. But how do you achieve something you have failed to do for 18 or so years?

Answers to N17 please.