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Shadydan said:
This is like a death in the family, it will take me a while to get over it!
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He's probably at home rolling his thumbs, seems the sort of bloke that likes to be busy.

It might be that he's done with football now, he'll sell his stake in ENIC, and invest in hotels and whatnot. I'd guess his stake in the club plus his other money wouldn't be far short of a £billion.

If it was me I'd retire and put my feet up for the rest of my life, but he's got the investment bug.
 
I’m beginning to think that levy was caught doing stuff Lewis wasn’t happy about , bound to be money oriented

I don’t believe that they (Lewis) have all of a sudden found an ambition for football as what was stopping them from doing that when Danny was there?

Tis fishy indeed
 
Shadydan said:
This is like a death in the family, it will take me a while to get over it!
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Come to John

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tart said:
Let's put that theory to the test, shall we?

Are you hard at work, or perhaps you're retired, or maybe you're just an idle fucker?

Makes no odds. That naughty Daniel has sneaked into the South Stand not once, but TWELVE times. Can you spot him? In fact, he's so naughty that two of him are actually sitting next to himself.

Good luck!...

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Maybe we could start a series of Where's Levy books.
 
Furball man said:
I’m beginning to think that levy was caught doing stuff Lewis wasn’t happy about , bound to be money oriented

I don’t believe that they (Lewis) have all of a sudden found an ambition for football as what was stopping them from doing that when Danny was there?

Tis fishy indeed
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As I said yesterday (I think), the whole time I've maintained that Levy has been obviously pretending to be a cold ruthless investment portfolio to Lewis, whilst actually running the club as if he owned it - as an actual football project. He used terms like 'custodian' to describe the ownership and obviously had a deep affection for the club. I don't see how anyone can seriously reject that idea. It may have not been ultimately as successful as it could have been, but he was never cold or sterile in how the club was ran. This resulted in always wanting to do the best for the club, which is sometimes the opposite of doing the best for the club's owner.

I feel like the Lewis family have caught onto this and will pretend to give a shit in an effort to fool the fan base, but will ultimately be gagging for a sweet multi-billion pound profit to split between them.
 
Furball man said:
I’m beginning to think that levy was caught doing stuff Lewis wasn’t happy about , bound to be money oriented

I don’t believe that they (Lewis) have all of a sudden found an ambition for football as what was stopping them from doing that when Danny was there?

Tis fishy indeed
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Charrington got moved in earlier this year, Levy’s ally Cullen pushed out, Vinai made CEO. I think it’s just as simple as Lewis’s kids taking over and wanting to do it differently to their absent father.

Joe is 88, Levy is gone, it’s Vivienne and Charlie’s club now.
 
CJJ said:
As I said yesterday (I think), the whole time I've maintained that Levy has been obviously pretending to be a cold ruthless investment portfolio to Lewis, whilst actually running the club as if he owned it - as an actual football project. He used terms like 'custodian' to describe the ownership and obviously had a deep affection for the club. I don't see how anyone can seriously reject that idea. It may have not been ultimately as successful as it could have been, but he was never cold or sterile in how the club was ran. This resulted in always wanting to do the best for the club, which is sometimes the opposite of doing the best for the club's owner.
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What Levy is is a true-believing ideologue for a certain vision of how a sports business should operate. To him there is no distinction between a competitive passion for the club and cold-eyed ruthlessness about the business, the two are one and the same in his mind.

CJJ said:
I feel like the Lewis family have caught onto this and will pretend to give a shit in an effort to fool the fan base, but will ultimately be gagging for a sweet multi-billion pound profit to split between them.
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That being what the fan base is asking for anyhow, so everybody can win here.

The happy thing about European football (unlike the cartelized closed shops in the US sports) is that you can only really make the big money by winning.

Hedge fund capital in the game will do everything they can to erode and destroy that incentive structure to gain stable and permanent profits for insiders, but they haven't done it yet.
 
FightingIllini said:
What Levy is is a true-believing ideologue for a certain vision of how a sports business should operate. To him there is no distinction between a competitive passion for the club and cold-eyed ruthlessness about the business, the two are one and the same in his mind.


That being what the fan base is asking for anyhow, so everybody can win here.
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Well, no - there is an alternative outcome that we've all known about.

We can have the same bad footballing decisions that Levy had delegated to others, but with the financial approach of a team who don't really give two shites about where the club will be in 4 years time. Like Man Utd - who aren't exactly signing talent, but instead are expected to over-pay for players of a mid-table calibre. Except potentially worse, as we've got a lot less 'drag' on our books meaning more space to potentially do what the detractors have been gagging for - to pay those players twice as much as they should justify.
 
CJJ said:
Well, no - there is an alternative outcome that we've all known about.

We can have the same bad footballing decisions that Levy had delegated to others, but with the financial approach of a team who don't really give two shites about where the club will be in 4 years time. Like Man Utd - who aren't exactly signing talent, but instead are expected to over-pay for players of a mid-table calibre. Except potentially worse, as we've got a lot less 'drag' on our books meaning more space to potentially do what the detractors have been gagging for - to pay those players twice as much as they should justify.
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We could spend more and it could go wrong. Aye mate, that's life.

To Dare Is To Do.
 
McCOYS said:
He's probably at home rolling his thumbs, seems the sort of bloke that likes to be busy.

It might be that he's done with football now, he'll sell his stake in ENIC, and invest in hotels and whatnot. I'd guess his stake in the club plus his other money wouldn't be far short of a £billion.

If it was me I'd retire and put my feet up for the rest of my life, but he's got the investment bug.
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When I was working, I noticed that most managers seemed to embrace retirement more easily than the executive ranks did, even though the executives had far better retirement plans. The difference, I think, is a loss of status and identity. Levy would do well to find something else to take on until he can adjust to not being in charge of Spurs. I think it was time for Spurs to turn a corner, and I wouldn't argue Levy should have continued on, but I do feel bad for anyone who has the rug suddenly pulled from under him. He has accomplishments on the business side to point to, but I think his vision for the football side of the house was out of sync with the realities of the business in 2025.
 
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