Surprised he went to Everton. I would have thought he'd go back to pulling pints at The Queen Vic.
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Christ, levy could leave next and you’d be claiming he was the soul of the club and joe Lewis is the real problem.
Not sure how you got this from my comments.
Levy is the problem at the club when it comes to transfers.
We haven't only signed donkies in the time Hitchen has been here.
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Been saying that all along in this entire thread but people still want to blame Hitchin, it's so weird.
I think though Levy has found a better DOF for the way he wants to the club to conduct business, from the looks of it Paratici is a bit of an Italian wheeler deeler who loves a deal, I don't know whether that's a good thing for Spurs or not especialyl considering Levy vetoed a lot of Hitchen's suggestions.
He claims to have been the only scout in Europe to have known about Luis Suarez.This really is a mental argument.
Please can someone tell me a single gem hitchen has unearthed. PLEASE!
Fucking hell, anyone could negotiate a deal their employer couldnt afford.
Here we go: “PSG I will give you £300m for mbappe, mbappe here’s 1m a week wages”
Done.
Fucking clowns on here, to a man
The logic on here is very confusing ....
It's Levy's fault because he stopped Hitchin buying good players
It's Hitchen's fault because he wasted all Levy's money on bad players
Fact is Hitchin got enough good players on a limited budget to get us into a CL final ... was that Hitchin good? Levy good? Poch good? Players good? or were they all, as some on here would like to believe, completely useless?
So all the blame with none of the praise, much like most of your posts in fact. If you could only be cup-half-full instead of cup-half-empty you'd find life so much more fun.It was Levy's fault that we had a self imposed transfer embargo under Poch for a while, and it's Hitchen's fault that when the purse strings finally did open, we spent it on GLC, Ndombele and Sessegnon. We suffered lacklustre window after lacklustre window under him.
So all the blame with none of the praise, much like most of your posts in fact. If you could only be cup-half-full instead of cup-half-empty you'd find life so much more fun.
Yawn. Another weirdly angry post from you when people point out basic facts. If only you could be slightly more cordial with people rather than oddly spikey whenever somebody criticises your overlords. We're talking about Hitchens being sacked after a long period of failure. What great signings do you feel he made? Can you name actual tangible contributions aside from stuff like 'we got to a CL final!' which was more down to the manager than us having some great, balanced squad?
And hey, if you're happy with the work he did, that's fine. Go wax lyrical about him in a corner and tell everyone how great Aurier, GLC, Ndombele, Sessegnon, Fernandes, Doherty are. It sounds like a fun convo.
Why is it angry? You are obsessed with misery ....
I'm happy that Spurs fans are now annoyed when we fail to reach Europe's top competition ... we couldn't say that for fifty years 1961 until 2011, then Hitchin's signings managed it four more times in less than a decade.
So just what long period of failure were you referring to?
As I said you are always glass-half-full it's just a bit depressing.
Yup five appearances in the CL, our only five since 1961 - he didn't do a good job.You're telling me I'd find life more fun because I don't think Hitchen did a good job. There's nothing even inherently negative about that, he just didn't. Our signings under him were mostly flops. You can't even sit there and come up with positives that don't involve factors not directly related to recruitment.
I'm not going to define success and failure by what we were fifty years ago. The club sacked multiple managers for finishing outside of Europe. Clearly they define success differently to you, which appears to be we were shit once so we should be happy with what we get. After the CL final our squad declined badly and has continued to decline for years until we've landed Conte.
I'm glass half full about factors deserving positivity. Conte appointment for example. I'm not glass half full about Hitchens, whose most successful signing was probably Lucas. I'm not gonna sit here and blow smoke up the arse of the guy who oversaw the GLC, Ndombele and Sessegnon window.
Yup five appearances in the CL, our only five since 1961 - he didn't do a good job.
Can't argue with your logic, when you say "I'm not going to define success and failure" so not based on our history, then you just become irrelevant.
What players that he recruited were crucial to our CL qualification? Or was he propped up by signings made by his predecessor and one of the best strikers in PL history coming through the youth academy? Do you think that because we did well on the pitch that equates to every aspect of the club immediately being ran well? Are you that blinkered?
I'm not going to define success or failure by your definition because it's bullshit and the actual club won't do it either. They sent a fucking letter out to the fans because of how shit we'd been and talked about how we aren't living up to expectations. We didn't build a mega stadium to be a conference league club. Failing to finish even inside EL places is absolutely 100% a failure, whether you like to admit it or not.
I'm still waiting on you naming Hitchens signings which were an undeniable success. I suspect I may be here for a while.
Or are you saying all 43 were shit?
Thought the Bale fellow was OK - might be worth another season?All apart from Lucas yes..... and he's borderline.