Oh wow, hadn't seen the 5857575 other posts about that today, cheers!
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Levy ruinedFascinating insight from Hugo in his new book:
Hugo Lloris: how the gift of a luxury watch made me realise Spurs would accept second best
In exclusive extracts from his autobiography, the goalkeeper tells of his dismay at a well-meaning gesture by Daniel Levy before 2019 Champions League finalwww.theguardian.com
We do all have one engraved memory, though. Four days before the final, Daniel Levy called us all together to announce that, with the support of a sponsor, we would each receive a luxury aviator watch from the club. At first, we were excited to see the elegant boxes. Then we opened them and discovered that he’d had the back of each timepiece engraved with the player’s name and ‘Champions League Finalist 2019’. ‘Finalist.’ Who does such a thing at a moment like this? I still haven’t got over it, and I’m not alone. If we’d won, he wouldn’t have asked for the watches back to have ‘Winner’ engraved instead.
I have considerable respect and esteem for the man and all he has done for the club as chairman – I got to know him – but there are things he is simply not sensitive to. As magnificent as the watch is, I have never worn it. I would have preferred there to be nothing on it. With an engraving like that, Levy couldn’t have been surprised if we had been 1–0 down after a couple of minutes: so it was written.
Lets suppose (1) you have this sort of a problem in some organization. Lets further suppose (2) you have an owner that wants what is best for the organization. And lets finally also suppose (3) that such an (see 2) owner tried to do something about it.
So he or she talks to everyone who was involved. Every single person that knew about those watches. And he hears many things. There's a lot blame-avoidance. A smart owner in such a situation would
FIRE EVERYONE (especially . MIND YOU !!!! . the . person . appearing . the . very . least . likely . at . fault)
who knew and/or was in contact with has happened and would bring his own, new person to run the organization. A person that such an owner knows does not have and has never had such problems in their business workings. Never ever. And then such a person would bring his own other such persons he or she knows are professional and reliable.
That is what happens in good organizations and that is how good owners act. They divorce their own selves as well the organizations they own from everyone that was involved in such a thing. They don't engage in any sort of investigative work trying to ascertain faults and blames. Such owners know very, very well that all of such ascertaining is bullshit and just serves to undermine the organization. Which, in this case, is the Tottehnam Hotspur Football Club.
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Such an owner would know all of what I have written prior in this thread in advance but would not act quickly and suddenly. Instead such an owner would act gradually in his ways of going about firing everyone. And the very hardest and most difficult thing such an owner would face would be WHO TO BRING IN as the replacement. That would, in fact, be the very, veeeery most difficult thing to know for a place such as the Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. And in the meantime, prior to knowing, deciding upon and ascertaining thaaaat, such an owner would . do . e x a c t l y . nothing. Except, of course, start paying greater attention to things.
Such an owner would NEVER RUSH. Instead, he would ALWAYS place the very highest value on OBSERVATION and ASCERTAINMENT OF INFORMATION.
Such an owner would NEVER RUSH. Instead, he would ALWAYS place the very highest value on OBSERVATION and ASCERTAINMENT OF INFORMATION.
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I bet he bought them in Patpong market.
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Speaking to one's self is the first sign of madness..... or AI'ness.
Can't figure it out.
Here's another quote from Lloris in same book, taken from another forum...
"I have a lot of respect for Daniel. I think he has done amazing work for the club. When I look at the position of Spurs when I arrived, [in 2012] and when I left [this January], it’s a different club."
"Daniel always tried to make the right decision for the club and we were also a bit unlucky. At our best with Mauricio, we had to compete with the Chelsea of Abramovich, the Emirates Marketing Project of Guardiola, the Liverpool of Jürgen Klopp. It was really tough because if the club was ready to invest £50m, the others will invest £100m."
"I really like what I see and I believe that they are going in the right direction. They have a proper football style, a mentality, and I think [Postecoglou] brought exactly what the club needed at this moment – freshness and a new fan expectation. That’s probably why I felt really heavy when we were with José or Antonio. It was a different football style."
"I have a lot of respect for Daniel. I think he has done amazing work for the club. When I look at the position of Spurs when I arrived, [in 2012] and when I left [this January], it’s a different club."
"Daniel always tried to make the right decision for the club and we were also a bit unlucky. At our best with Mauricio, we had to compete with the Chelsea of Abramovich, the Emirates Marketing Project of Guardiola, the Liverpool of Jürgen Klopp. It was really tough because if the club was ready to invest £50m, the others will invest £100m."
"I really like what I see and I believe that they are going in the right direction. They have a proper football style, a mentality, and I think [Postecoglou] brought exactly what the club needed at this moment – freshness and a new fan expectation. That’s probably why I felt really heavy when we were with José or Antonio. It was a different football style."
‘Better keep that option of an Ambassadorial role open, I know I’ll stick something generic and nice in so I keep my privileges!’
We get it Hugo mate, we know the bits you really mean
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How could you get this so wrong?? That’s not what happened at all!!
Can you read???
The article.
Four days before the final, Daniel Levy called us all together to announce that, with the support of a sponsor, we would each receive a luxury aviator watch from the club. At first, we were excited to see the elegant boxes. Then we opened them and discovered that he’d had the back of each timepiece engraved with the player’s name and “Champions League Finalist 2019”. “Finalist.”
I hope to fuck he doesn't get an Ambassadorial role.‘Better keep that option of an Ambassadorial role open, I know I’ll stick something generic and nice in so I keep my privileges!’
We get it Hugo mate, we know the bits you really mean
Seriously, who writes like this? Is this what happens when AI gets drunk? :/
I see they've binned the @Thedealer again.
Stuck this dude on ignore, his posts are shit
Edit - oh he's banned
How would an AI sign up for a football forum?
My bet is he wouldnt have given a shit if it was a bottle of fine red.
All I got was a cabbage!
I read the article, and I'm not thrilled about it.
I'm not sure you read the article, because you've gotten some key details completely wrong.