Just to be clear, Levy has pissed me off rightly over the years, I totally admire loads that he has done, and I detest how tight arsed he's been over the playing staff, and how he's recruited. There are many things wrong about his tenure, and I've wanted him out on lots of occassions, but I do think he has had a masterplan, for the club as a whole being. The stadium will be here long after we all are, and it is literally one of the best in the world, we need to be very proud of all that he's done in that regard and it was never going to be full tilt on the stadium and full tilt on playing staff, we'd have been bust in weeks.
I just think that we have hit a moment when that is under control and he can now, too late for some, really push on with the actual football side of things. Remember Woolwich when they built their stadium? if it wasn't for wenger and his ability to spot a player and coach really well they would have been all over the place.
Anyway we're all here for the same reason, we all love our Tottenham, opinions will vary, but hopefully we all get what we want, proper success and glory, sooner rather than later and I for one, wouldn't mind if it happened under Levy's tenure, I kind of think he deserves it at this stage., and no, I'm not Mrs. Fucking Levy.
Respect everything you posted here, even though I tend to disagree with parts of it.
The thing is, there's no hard evidence to suggest the 'tight arsed approach' you acknowledge is likely to change any time soon. Quite the opposite if we're being honest
The last few years we've witnessed a drastic cost cutting exercise where player wages have been butchered to such an extent that we now invest a significantly lower proportion of our revenue in the playing squad than any other club in any other major league in Europe.
As a result, we're becoming less and less likely to attract the quality of player our history, our heritage and our ticket prices deserve. Small wonder this has coincided with our calamitous slide down the table.
This is the complete opposite to his statement that the new stadium would be a game changer that would allow us to compete with the Elite clubs in Europe. We're not showing any signs of doing any such thing.
This is why I'm so surprised you and others are prepared to take his recent words at face value.
Yes. The stadium is fantastic. But it's equally important to understand that, in the clubs own words, it "was built primarily with NFL in mind, with the ultimate goal of landing an NFL franchise in London" with Spurs described as "merely the Anchor Tennants "
My feeling, shared by many others, is that ENIC used the club and its huge fan base to further their non - footballing ambition. They use footballs global popularity to increase their wealth, and we, the fans, get little back in return while our two bitter rivals strive for footballing success and leave us in the dust.
If ENIC sold up tomorrow, and I mean sold the whole shebang including the stadium to owners who prioritise winning then I would be the first to say "Cheers Daniel. 25 years of pain but 25 years of glory to look forward to thanks to your effort"
Sadly, however, I think he's here for years to come so long as he can keep milking the cow and so long as fans keep swallowing his bullshit.
www.nytimes.com
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