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Pedders81 said:
I see there’s a few links to Jacob Ramsey ahead of Villa’s PSR doom deadline. I bloody hope he’s not an Eze alternative as he’s nowhere near as good as him. I don’t even know where he would fit in our side as he’s not a traditional left wide forward and he hasn’t got any standout attributes. He just looks like an overhyped and expensive average EPL player.

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We will probably end up signing him.Lange apparently really rates him
 
Ulrika-ka-ka-ka said:
If you criticise Levy/ENIC for the lack of trophies despite making us a big 6 in that period, surely you must pay homage to them for winning the EL? You can’t blame them for the perceived underperformance but not credit them for the success.
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You do understand we were part of the established BIG 5 before they rocked up. And the 5th most decorated team in England....Not some provincial, small time over achievers.

In fact we were instrumental as one of the BIG 5 in establishing the Premier League in the first place

In 1990, the managing director of London Weekend Television (LWT), Greg Dyke, met with the representatives of the "Big Five" football clubs in England (Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, and Woolwich) over a dinner.[30] The meeting was to pave the way for a breakaway from the Football League.[31] Dyke believed that it would be more lucrative for LWT if only the larger clubs in the country were featured on national television and wanted to establish whether the clubs would be interested in a larger share of television rights money.[32] The five clubs agreed with the suggestion and decided to press ahead with it; however, the league would have no credibility without the backing of the Football Association, and so David Dein of Woolwich held talks to see whether the FA were receptive to the idea. The FA did not have an amicable relationship with the Football League at the time and considered it a way to weaken the Football League's position.[33] The FA released a report in June 1991, Blueprint for the Future of Football, that supported the plan for the Premier League, with the FA as the ultimate authority that would oversee the breakaway league.[28]

The ENIC came along, and boy oh boy have they taken advantage
 
Nobody3 said:
Daniel Levy is a very smart guy and if it wasn't just a throw away line when he said we want to win the league and the champions league then he knows the transfer policy and wage structure has to dramatically change.
Basically we/he would have to start to spend on the scale of previous and current winners in these comps.
I think most of us doubt this will happen. The only way this will happen is under new ownership imo. Enic, agree or not, have done a fantastic job of building a very profitable and attractive business ripe for a takeover. If Enic now sanctioned the of 3.5-4 billion? sale to an ethical buyer I think most of us would say thanks for what you have done for my club and enjoy your next venture.
After spending the last 5 minutes writing this paragraph I have realised what a waste of my time it was and can only hope to enjoy more often than not some exciting performances and results under Frank.
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I find the fact he said it and then it wasn’t edited out if he didn’t mean it, even more interesting. It was just a bizarre thing to say because he’s got no intention of doing what’s needed to get to that level. Shows his complete lack of understanding though perfectly.
 
Brian Fantana said:
Like I said yesterday, we seem to be the only club in the league who doesn’t seem to push hard to sign players who are better than we currently have. We buy player who we hope will be. It’s a strategy that will always leave us chasing our tails.
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It’s tiring that people don’t want to see it for what it is. We have a loser mentality at the top of this club. They want a business model not a football club.
 
LeParisien said:
We have spent the third most on transfers over the past five seasons, behind only Chelsea and United. In net spend terms we’re fourth behind Man Utd and the two sports washing cunts.

I don’t think anyone would expect us to spend more than Chelsea, City or United. That’s where our money is going.
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We haven’t paid back much of those transfers - seems like the majority of the payments are still outstanding via staged payments. We are generating an extra £200M every season. Where is the money?
 
FightingIllini said:
I mean, I hear what you're saying, but that's a bit silly isn't it?

Levy's manner of leadership and ENIC's financial constraints are both hinderances to the club and it should all be swept out, today.

We all know the situation will never change, but to the extent it could and did change, it would be measured in pounds sterling, cold hard data would show the difference.

Chicanery around statements and timelines is exactly the kind of bullshit that has strung this circus along for 25 years now.
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Now he has said these things publicly he should be held to account.

It is an open secret that he put players on bonus related contracts so if Spurs qualified for the Champions League they got paid more money.

He has set the criteria by stating he wants to win these trophies and he has also trousered a 24 year fortune for winning very little.

His words should be used against him to expose if he is the conniving liar many believe him to be or he's this genuine Spurs 'supporter' who wants Spurs to win trophies.

From the supporters point of view Levy has not been worth the remuneration he has already taken from THFC.

He has failed by the standards Spurs have set in the past to deliver tangible success on the pitch.

He has continually overseen the failure of the club to win trophies and the sale of the best players the club has produced or developed.
 
Brian Fantana said:
I find the fact he said it and then it wasn’t edited out if he didn’t mean it, even more interesting.
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This is what Vinai did at Woolwich.

Made the club, from ownership on down, communicate to the fans in their terms and in line with their goals. That's just good marketing, and an area where Spurs have been shockingly poor and alienating (where Woolwich were more absent and neglectful).

The club should do better in that area for its own sake, it's important to communicate well. But competitively it's meaningless, and Vinai is strictly a figurehead here to burnish Levy's image.

It's all a reaction to Levy Out finally emerging out of the dark catacombs of the internet and into the actual stands as the Conte thing fell apart.

Keep the pressure on.
 
Tottenham Massive said:
He's the most obvious troll on the forum. And there's some serious competition.
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Ionman34 said:
And why?

Because Scholar bankrupted us. He is the single reason why we ended up playing catch up for 2 decades, further exacerbated by the introduction of oil money from Abramovic and Qatar.

How that prick gets a pass on here is beyond me, he almost killed our club.
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Scholar was well ahead of his time, he was a visionary for where the game was headed (for better or worse) and really did have ambition to make Spurs a top club.

I don't agree with blaming him for Sugar's sins. Sugar was a clueless dinosaur who missed a window of opportunity that other clubs raced through.

In a way we kind of had those chairmen in the wrong order. Sugar in the 80's, Levy in the 90's and Scholar in the 2000's would have put each of them in the time period where their vision for football made the most sense.
 
Jaynola said:
Or maybe because they're a huge club that's won a zillion big things over the past few decades. And one that, though struggling big time now, will surely bounce back soon enough.
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This is a bit Groundhog Day at this point, isn't it? People keep saying this. Fair enough, if you say it long enough you'll be proven right. After all, it only took 30ish years of saying it for Liverpool to get right.


Anyway, its all nonsense. It's professional football. Players follow the money - they don't care about the sport as much as supporters and certainly almost never bear any real allegiance to anything other than their paycheque.

More than you'd like to think, honestly, are like BAE and Bentley and don't even particularly like the sport.
 
FightingIllini said:
Scholar was well ahead of his time, he was a visionary for where the game was headed (for better or worse) and really did have ambition to make Spurs a top club.

I don't agree with blaming him for Sugar's sins. Sugar was a clueless dinosaur who missed a window of opportunity that other clubs raced through.

In a way we kind of had those chairmen in the wrong order. Sugar in the 80's, Levy in the 90's and Scholar in the 2000's would have put each of them in the time period where their vision for football made the most sense.
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Sugar and Levy have been terrible chairman who made personal fortunes from football using THFC as the vehicle for their greed.

It's that simple.

Their time in control of THFC has tarnished our rep and led to the Spursy tag sticking like shit to a blanket.

We were always fancy dans but we were not as shit as Sugar and Levy have allowed us to become, for sustained periods, throughout their tenure.
 
Tottenham Massive said:
You do understand we were part of the established BIG 5 before they rocked up. And the 5th most decorated team in England....Not some provincial, small time over achievers.

In fact we were instrumental as one of the BIG 5 in establishing the Premier League in the first place

In 1990, the managing director of London Weekend Television (LWT), Greg Dyke, met with the representatives of the "Big Five" football clubs in England (Manchester United, Liverpool, Tottenham Hotspur, Everton, and Woolwich) over a dinner.[30] The meeting was to pave the way for a breakaway from the Football League.[31] Dyke believed that it would be more lucrative for LWT if only the larger clubs in the country were featured on national television and wanted to establish whether the clubs would be interested in a larger share of television rights money.[32] The five clubs agreed with the suggestion and decided to press ahead with it; however, the league would have no credibility without the backing of the Football Association, and so David Dein of Woolwich held talks to see whether the FA were receptive to the idea. The FA did not have an amicable relationship with the Football League at the time and considered it a way to weaken the Football League's position.[33] The FA released a report in June 1991, Blueprint for the Future of Football, that supported the plan for the Premier League, with the FA as the ultimate authority that would oversee the breakaway league.[28]

The ENIC came along, and boy oh boy have they taken advantage
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And Abromovic came in and Sheik Mansoor came in and they hoovered up trophies with wealth of billions but of course you think we should have the resources to beat them like the glory days of Sugar in the 90s eh
 
FightingIllini said:
This is what Vinai did at Woolwich.

Made the club, from ownership on down, communicate to the fans in their terms and in line with their goals. That's just good marketing, and an area where Spurs have been shockingly poor and alienating (where Woolwich were more absent and neglectful).

The club should do better in that area for its own sake, it's important to communicate well. But competitively it's meaningless, and Vinai is strictly a figurehead here to burnish Levy's image.

It's all a reaction to Levy Out finally emerging out of the dark catacombs of the internet and into the actual stands as the Conte thing fell apart.

Keep the pressure on.
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In fairness, one of the things that has been missed is that he said it in regards to him having broad shoulders in light of criticism and wanted to win the Premier League and Champions League. I think the actual quote and has been taken out of context of the rest. I do need to listen to it again if I can stomach it. Not fans fault, but we know he has no intention at all of doing what is required to get the club to that level.

I listened to LWOS and the tit Matt Law was on there and he said that we are years away from being at that level at all if the benchmarks sporting directors use to get clubs there. 7 or 8 years off. The club has been left miles behind by levy of the other top teams.
 
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