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Glad Levy is gone, delighted, ecstatic.

Yes he moved the club on so far off the pitch and I will always be thankful for that. But he held us back on the pitch, from really being competitive, due to his penny pinching and his lack of appetite to take risks.

To really push the boat out for the best players. I am so happy he is now gone, so we can thank him for what he did well, and no longer have to moan about all his flaws. I wish him well and thank you for everything.

We are in a great position to kick on now, so let's hope we see a change in our ambition in terms of the fees and salaries we pay to get the best players to this club.
 
Nabil Bentaleb said:
I think he should been far away from the football decisions some time ago. Not entirely out of the club but the football part. If he was pushed away against his will is a bit sad tbh. He clearly loves the club. He was just out of his depth in the sport stuff.
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It's impossible to know.

The fact that firstly, he's been sacked and, secondly, the BBC are reporting that Lewis' family were unhappy with the club's sporting success would suggest that he has remained involved.

Also, by all accounts, he was leading the chase of Eze, so he's still negotiating.

Maybe his prevarications were the straw that broke the camel's back. Although, ironically, you probably could break Joe Lewis' back with straw.
 
scott said:
Your local cinema is a bit behind! I wonder what they will be showing next week? Taxi driver?
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robert de niro compliment GIF
 
Aphex said:
Glad Levy is gone, delighted, ecstatic.

Yes he moved the club on so far off the pitch and I will always be thankful for that. But he held us back on the pitch, from really being competitive, due to his penny pinching and his lack of appetite to take risks.

To really push the boat out for the best players. I am so happy he is now gone, so we can thank him for what he did well, and no longer have to moan about all his flaws. I wish him well and thank you for everything.

We are in a great position to kick on now, so let's hope we see a change in our ambition in terms of the fees and salaries we pay to get the best players to this club.
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Absolutely agree 100%. We can thank him for building a great business off the pitch in that aspect he was one of the best if not the best. When it came to backing the managers by putting players on the pitch, that's where he let us, and himself down.
We have brought some absolute rubbish over the years due to penny pinching but this last window with Paulinha, Kudus, Xavi and Muani was the best for a long, long time, so Thank you Mr Levy for building a great company and I hope that now we can build the same success through the team that plays at our magnificent stadium and have a successful club to go with the successful business.
 
what next now the witch is dead? In hearing from a very good source /friend that we will be sold to
Qatar for circa £4 billion by Xmas
I hope we’re all happy now. It’s certainly a brave new world .
 
Ionman34 said:
I can't help but feel that this is the first step towards a takeover. He's invested 25 years of his life into growing this club from a pauper to a player. To suddenly step down like this, effectively relinquishing control, just doesn't ring true. Do you think he'd hand over control of an enterprise, now worth Billions, to someone else when he effectively owns a quarter of it? Run the risk of someone else taking that value down?

He has potentially a Billion quid that's going to line his pockets if someone else is buying the club, that's the ONLY reason I can see him stepping down.

We've had all the talk about Staveley trying to get a group to buy a stake, maybe he's selling his? Maybe ENIC are selling up? Maybe I'm overthinking it?

We can but hope that IF this what happens, the grass is actually Greener.
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View: https://x.com/SamiMokbel_BBC/status/1963689088352973133

There is not a totally coherent story about the future atm, but it seems as if the Lewis family (majority owners of enic/Spurs) helped persuade Levy to stand down ...... with the apparent desire to get change and 'more sporting success' - I'm not sure I fully believe that, its more likely an increase in value of Spurs would be attractive to Lewis family.

IMO the only ways this makes sense is

1 Sale of 100% or majority of Spurs to other investors.

I think with further investment of say £500m into the football side of Spurs, half paying off existing football debt, half into new players plus a similar investment in the property side of Spurs a new investor could see a significant financial return. And fans would see more sporting success from further upgrades of squad.

Also means Lewis family and Levy realise in cash their investment in Spurs.

2 Sale of a minority stake in Spurs, say 24% by Tottenham creating more shares so £500k - £1m money goes into Spurs.

Again significant investment into football side of business, but with Vini and management responsible for delivering sporting success - without Levy input

Either way, it should mean substantial money put into Spurs to upgrade the squad which is good for fans,

Why has Levy stood down ? I think quite simply outside investment is required to take Spurs forward both from a sporting point of view as well as to increase the financial/capital value of Spurs ..... and Levy was resistant to any dilution of his stake in Spurs,

So if Levy is persuaded to step down as Chairman and probably at the same time accept dilution of his shareholding ...... extra investment is possible without Levy vetoing it.Spurs

If I'm correct I would expect to see an announcement of investment into Spurs within next few months.

That's my best guess
 
His tenure undeniably will grow in our estimation in years to come, but I think it has been clear since the stadium finished he really is a total chancer on the football side. I was very willing to be patient with him when all the infrastructure was being built, because it seemed like there was a strategy that would manifest footballing success.

But he was always just far too insistent in having his paws all over the footballing side, which he has no expertise in. It was underlined by all the cringey shit in the documentary where he’s talking to players and everything. He should have been nowhere near football decisions besides signing checks.

You look at City and Liverpool, who obviously are extremely well off in terms of money but they are also finely tuned organizations because they empower actual football minds like Txixi and Michael Edwards to make and execute footballing decisions. Every director of football we ever had felt like a patsy, with Levy calling the shots.

There’s no excuse for him spending 25 years blundering around aimlessly on the footballing side with no strategy or vision. Even if he didn’t want to spend money, there’s no reason we couldn’t have been extremely competently run on the footballing side like Brighton or similar. But he wanted to do it all and couldn’t let go, and had no vision of what it should look like because his background isn’t football.

However, I am slightly concerned about the seeming ascendancy of the Lewis children in decision making, I do hope they set up a structure and then let professionals run it and stay in the background.
 
Dr Rocktopus said:
Well let's agree to disagree. I consider results better than attempts, even if those attempts are weally weally good. You don't. Say no more.
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Well let's break this down, then.

During "one of the least successful periods in the club's history," we:

* Not only elbowed our way into the big boys' table but entrenched ourselves there at a time when it was virtually impossible to do so without winning the ill-gotten wealth lottery a la Chelsea or City.
* Came closer to winning the league than we have since, well, we actually won the league.
* Participated in European competition in all but 2 seasons (something we have never even come close to doing in our history)
* Built arguably the best football venue in the world
* The last two points in particular enabled us to attract and afford a higher caliber of player more consistently than ever before (though most of us would agree this ability has not been maximized to the extent it should have been, both in terms of quality and quantity)
* Contested 4 cup finals and 7 more semi-finals

To describe this period as you have just because we did not get the breaks we needed to get over the finish line (and, yes, some portion of the blame for that can reasonably be laid at the chairman's feet!) is either just childish, agenda-driven petulance, or it suggests that you genuinely would prefer to finish 11th every season as long as it comes with the odd League Cup once a decade — in which case, I humbly express my deepest sympathy once again.
 
Rafa’sWand said:
Yes winning the conference league or league cup is more of an achievement than losing a champions league final. Football is about winning silverware.
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Football is about entertaining the people. Some are black and white and see trophies as the only thing but others want to see beautiful football and a team that can compete with the best in the world. And take part in something weekly that is generally enjoyable for 90+ minutes.

I’ll take the latter any day.

Last season was a pile of shit with a cherry on top.
 
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