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The main thing is that since about 2018ish it's got a lot more expensive to play this game, and Levy is a rich man on paper, but it's all tied up in Tottenham. It will feel like spending "his" money, because it is. And it's also true that for every high cost/high wage PL player, there is a low cost/much lower wage player who turns out to be just as good.

FWIW I think if Levy could just have backed Frank a bit more, and continue to back him over the next couple of years, he might well find his asset value increases by much more than the outlay

Agree on all points and im hoping we still see further backing
 
It was great to get Kane from the academy, the likes of Dele, Walker, Eriksen, etc on the relative cheap. Levy always seems to be attempting to repeat these feats, not really understanding that they are the exception, not the rule.

Spending a fuckload on the very best players is a small risk, but where we are shopping, that level or two below the very best, every transaction is a risky one. Levy doesn’t have the wish to take those risks, by the looks of it.
It’s not just the level below, the signings really have to be players no-one else wants. Single source negotiations when the club needs to sell.

Lots of factors
 
It was great to get Kane from the academy, the likes of Dele, Walker, Eriksen, etc on the relative cheap. Levy always seems to be attempting to repeat these feats, not really understanding that they are the exception, not the rule.

Spending a fuckload on the very best players is a small risk, but where we are shopping, that level or two below the very best, every transaction is a risky one. Levy doesn’t have the wish to take those risks, by the looks of it.
I don't agree with this. Our four most recent record signings are Davinson Sanchez, Tanguy Ndombélé, Richarlison and Dominic Solanke I think, none of whom you could reasonably argue as successful

Add in the likes of Reguilon, Sessengon, Soldado, Bergwijin, Lo Celso, Sissoko, all of whom cost big money, and our return on the money we've spent on expensive transfers is pretty abysmal.

Compare that to the likes of Bale, Dele, Kane, Walker, Eriksen, etc. and you can absolutely see why Levy is so reluctant to spend big.

He can see the evidence with his own eyes.
 
The main thing is that since about 2018ish it's got a lot more expensive to play this game, and Levy is a rich man on paper, but it's all tied up in Tottenham. It will feel like spending "his" money, because it is. And it's also true that for every high cost/high wage PL player, there is a low cost/much lower wage player who turns out to be just as good.

FWIW I think if Levy could just have backed Frank a bit more, and continue to back him over the next couple of years, he might well find his asset value increases by much more than the outlay


That's a risk though, ENIC don't do risks. Never spend money they don't have
 
I don't agree with this. Our four most recent record signings are Davinson Sanchez, Tanguy Ndombélé, Richarlison and Dominic Solanke I think, none of whom you could reasonably argue as successful

Add in the likes of Reguilon, Sessengon, Soldado, Bergwijin, Lo Celso, Sissoko, all of whom cost big money, and our return on the money we've spent on expensive transfers is pretty abysmal.

Compare that to the likes of Bale, Dele, Kane, Walker, Eriksen, etc. and you can absolutely see why Levy is so reluctant to spend big.

He can see the evidence with his own eyes.
So, as I said, us shopping at the higher end of our available market doesn’t lead to success. Which you’ve said you don’t agree with, but then posted several examples of unsuccessful signings from that level.
 
So, as I said, us shopping at the higher end of our available market doesn’t lead to success. Which you’ve said you don’t agree with, but then posted several examples of unsuccessful signings from that level.

You said:
Spending a fuckload on the very best players is a small risk, but where we are shopping, that level or two below the very best, every transaction is a risky one. Levy doesn’t have the wish to take those risks, by the looks of it.
I was pointing out that when Levy has taken that risk, i.e. by breaking our transfer record, it's not worked out, and that our more succesful players have often been "cheaper" punts.

Which you said, "are the exception, not the rule." whereas, it seemes fairly evident that the opposite is true.
 
The main thing is that since about 2018ish it's got a lot more expensive to play this game, and Levy is a rich man on paper, but it's all tied up in Tottenham. It will feel like spending "his" money, because it is. And it's also true that for every high cost/high wage PL player, there is a low cost/much lower wage player who turns out to be just as good.

FWIW I think if Levy could just have backed Frank a bit more, and continue to back him over the next couple of years, he might well find his asset value increases by much more than the outlay
He's not anywhere near wealthy enough on paper to own a club of this size. His net worth is £400m, even with 25% of a sale, if that were to be £4bn, £1.5bn still isn't anywhere near enough personal wealth to run a football club this size, of you have any aspirations of winning.
 
There's a lifelong gooner in my indoor footie team. He always talks about Levy in glowing terms. Exactly in the same way dududu do. Always reminds of him when the topic comes up.

It does make you wonder. .:sonhmm:
The chants of away fans singing (Daniel Levy, we want you to stay) after a bad loss & some home fans voiced discontent to owners, is a gut punch for those sensitive souls like me in attendance!

Have we ever sang Levy’s name? I’ve never heard it & we can be fickle fans sometimes. Makes you think…

Evolving our infrastructure and assets, bravo great business man sure.

Football side? See this thread and X ad naseum infiniti

I came here to seek balance on why Dan gets away with it for so long. I’ve had enough but don’t want my matchday experience tarnished by toxicity when it’s my escape. So we do sort of need to be together or at least a critical mass.

I don’t get why he’s still defended so widely even if not serenaded. Respect the opinions of those who don’t see it as a big issue but just can’t see that POV.

Are there more like me who are at their wits end but don’t wanna start being negative during games?

:frankshock2:
 
There's a lifelong gooner in my indoor footie team. He always talks about Levy in glowing terms. Exactly in the same way dududu do. Always reminds of him when the topic comes up.

It does make you wonder. .:sonhmm:

And so tell me, why do you always post the same images all the time and make the same point over and over again?

Looking forward to the window being done and we win a few games so you'll go 'on holiday' again.
 
I think you’re being quite naive; if there’s a lesson to be learned from the Pochettino years, it’s that standing still in this game means that automatically you are going backwards.

Also we’ve had 24 years of this and now I think Levy is actively harming us - it’s quite clear that a number of his peers love getting one over on him (and by extension us), and he has brought this on himself.

Once the strains of a 2 game a week schedule kick in, I’m pretty sure that we’ll run into some pretty familiar problems.

As far as I’m concerned, any positive results are in spite of Levy, not because of him.

Tempting fate here but a lot of people are hanging their hats on 2 games a week being this insurmountable obstacle for us - Pochettino who you mention had a starting XI with little in the way of back up options,certainly worse than we have now, while we played in the CL under him and he managed to navigate 3 or 4 competitions most of those seasons to the latter stages - he done so by keeping his XI fit and 3-4 others.

Our issue isn't actually depth - it's lacking some quality in the first XI to move what should be a top 6 team towards being title challengers, in terms of actual depth we have pretty good options apart from full back (only Spence to cover both sides) and AMC where we have injuries.
 
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