Im reticent to pin all the blame on Levy, Conte’s wig has a lot of sway…
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Fair enough but you don’t touch someone like Conte unless you have £200m in the bank to spend and a clear plan to win the league soon as possible. He is not a project manager and he is a wild man.
I think for most fans it was either or. The most important thing was taking football decisions ions away from Levy and that hasn’t happened.
If you look at any discussion around Poch or Conte most supported them being backed to get the players they wanted and spend the money they deemed necessary.
some of u guys didn’t learn from the grealish and dybala deals? Gotta keep your expectations low with this team
He didn't want a ready-made team he wanted the power, money and ambition to build a team that could compete. He made reasonable requests, wanted similar things that he would get at our (supposed) rivals and was told no, Spurs don't have the ambition to compete for those things.
How would fans not be pissed at hearing that Levy has shown, once again, that we are not willing to be a big club, not willing to compete with the top teams and once again trying to do things on a shoestring budget with him being in charge of football?
Everyone that knows anything about football and conte knew his demands. Levy is a dumb cunt if he didn’t. I’m mad about negotiating to get this obvious conclusion and have everyone laughing at us now. If he never had serious talks with him because of his well known big demands we wouldn’t be so irate. We will end up with the exact same type of manager we could have in may just a month later
Even if that is the goal, I think at best it is a secondary goal, there is no way that no investing in Spurs helps that goal at all and hurts the overall value of the business.
How long is the waiting list? How many people were basing their decision to renew or not based on Conte rumours?
Almost every person I saw online that was wavering about renewing was based around the fact that if you give up the ticket it will be hard if not impossible to get it back with the massive waiting list.
I am sure that there are some who might have been influenced by Conte/Poch rumours but it would have to be a small number easily replaceable by those on the waiting list. I doubt Levy is ready to lose everything he is by this Conte news to gain a few more renewals that would have been easily replaced.
its really because conte didnt want to divulge where he got his hair transplant. levy wanted his own wig
How do we know Conte made "reasonable" requests? And what is the definition of "reasonable"?
Here's a simple example. Conte says he needs new CBs. All of TFC would agree wholeheartedly.
It's rumoured that the CB Conte wanted to buy from Inter was Stefan de Vrij, 29 years old, and valued at £45 million.
If signing de Vrij instantly turned us into PL contenders & helped persuade Kane to stay for another year, you could certainly argue that Conte was making a "reasonable" request.
But Levy & ENIC's business model has never involved buying 29-year-olds for £45 million, because he relies on getting good money in resales and ideally covering the original transfer. He even doubled his (our) money on Eriksen despite there being only 6 months left on the Dane's contract.
So I'm sure that Levy would not judge £45 million on a 29-year-old CB as a "reasonable request".
Now the more worrying aspect is whether Levy would pay £45 million or even £62 million on a CB in their mid-20s, like Skriniar or Ruben Dias. The evidence suggests he wouldn't do that either.
And I would judge £45 million on a top class 24-year-old CB as a risk worth taking and a "reasonable" request.
I shit you not, I’d actually be interested to see what he could do with a decent squad.One man for the job
No point in appointing him at spurs then.
I guess reporters like Gold and Romano could all by lying but we haven't heard a single unreasonable request made by him so far. If that were the case I would have to think the club would be leaking like crazy that the demands were unreasonable, especially through Gold.
7 staff and 200 million aren't unreasonable. Control over the team so that we can compete with our supposed rivals is not unreasonable.
Buying De Vrij to play for Conte is worth more than buying mediocre players like Andersen for 25m. De Vrij helps you win which brings in more money and makes it easier to attract better players.
If De Vrij is an example of what Levy thinks is an unreasonable request then it shows that he doesn't want to win. That he doesn't want to run this as a football club.
As for him getting good money on resales how is that going? Are we likely to make good money on guys like Dier, Winks, Sanchez, Aurier, Daveis, Lamela? How has he done managing that resale value on Dele? Maybe he should stop focusing on resale value and start focusing on football.
Well we have been waiting for pretty long.
Supporters are just that.
Through thick and thin they will hand over their hard earned.
Levy though, is a cunt.
From the Super League crap to entering into a space he shouldn't have and left the Club looking like amateurs.
I voted for Poch. Nostalgia and all that. However to allow this fucking debacle to reach this point shows you all you need to know about Levy and co.
You want to play with the big boys ? Aim up or don't go there. Simple.
And yet that's exactly how the club operate, not sure I believe this one at all.
And then I see it's Goal...
all going into the best chairman in the league fund