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I kind of hope it is only me, but...
After almost 6 decades of supporting our beloved club, I now find myself emotionless to anything they now say or do, along with the "modern" era of the game.
Basically, I've had enough of all the gumph written and spoken about by the media and podcaster's alike, and more importantly the people that run this club on behalf of Enic.
I truly hope it's down to me just becoming an old fart at 65 and the vast majority of Spurs fans can still find the passion and hope of a better, brighter THFC.
But me, I'm just so tired of it all!
After almost 6 decades of supporting our beloved club, I now find myself emotionless to anything they now say or do, along with the "modern" era of the game.
Basically, I've had enough of all the gumph written and spoken about by the media and podcaster's alike, and more importantly the people that run this club on behalf of Enic.
I truly hope it's down to me just becoming an old fart at 65 and the vast majority of Spurs fans can still find the passion and hope of a better, brighter THFC.
But me, I'm just so tired of it all!
Sadly it is not just you. Sinc we were on the rise and peaked with reaching the Champions League Final in 2019, we seem to be on a downward spiral. with a slight rise in Conte's first season. On top of that the people at the top seem to have little clue. All while the scum seem to be on the rise even while playing an admitted rapist in a civil settlement for 4 years.
Oh shut up. Levy was running the club for decades, whilst Joe sat on his boat drinking cocktails.
So don't fucking sit there and trying to rewrite history with me.
Wake the fuck up yourself.
Levy has done the damage, no one else.
He was the one that didn't back Poch for three windows, flip flopped styles to defensive with Mourinho who sacked the week before a cup final. Embarrassed the club before signing Nuno, then sacked him 10 games later. Signed Conti, and didn't back him and left him with Dier as CB for two fucking season. Signed frank and left us with no functioning left had side...
No one else, Levy. Levy is the biggest cunt to ever grace this club.
We have wasted an enormous amount of money on fucking shit players, under Levy. An appalling waste of money.
According to the football financial experts, it's not. But because your hero spent hee haw on them, you'll die on this hill. Predictable.
50% of that revenue is significant. We were spending 37%, that's a big difference.
Levy fucking is ENIC.
All his decisions were approved. He was the figure of ire that needed to fall to take pressure off the board.
He keeps defending the new ENIC like they're his own children. They're about to relegate us and he can't wait to get his panties in a twist about how they're not Levy. Did the same with Frank.
Angry dude.
Got a point though, hasn’t he?
He said that all this improving the wages PR drive is them playing to the gallery whilst positioning themselves for a sale, which honestly is plausible.
So why didn’t they raise the wage bill before whilst Levy was in charge? Could it be that they deliberately kept the club running ultra self-sustainably to maximise profitability, minimise financial risk, and steadily increase the club’s valuation? The same fucking model benefited ENIC massively over two decades...suddenly loosening the purse strings now conveniently aligns with improving optics and making the club more attractive to potential buyers, funny that.
Joe Lewis effectively lost control of the club in 2022 and the Lewis family assumed formal control in 2025. So it took 3 years to finally act decisively THREE YEARS. If they were genuinely unhappy with Levy’s approach why did they allow it to continue uninterrupted for so long? I think it's pretty obvious to those who don't have LDS and actually stops being childish for once and continually point the finger at Levy...he was doing exactly what ownership wanted - he delivered financial growth, world-class infrastructure and massive increases in club valuation.
He was serviceable to their core objective which is called asset appreciation and it won't come as a surprise to anyone that the objective may be shifting because they are looking to sale.
The Lewis family are doing a very effective job of rebranding the narrative and repositioning themselves as the fixers creating distance from Levy and implying he was the root cause of the club’s stagnation, it's actually laughable however Levy didn’t operate in a vacuum he was executing ownership’s strategy, it's so obvious.
This sudden shift in messaging and spending isn’t some new awakening, it looks far more like strategic repositioning. Improve perception, increase competitiveness optics, boost valuation further, and create the ideal environment for partial or full sale discussions.
More fool the fans who think ownership were passive victims in all of this and if you believe that this is the case then you're massively naïve...but yeah bald bad man, it was all his fault, he was out of control and ENIC have had absolutely nothing with the club's operations up until now, do me a favour
Thats not even a good defence of ENIC or the Lewis family. Yeah Levy was the chairman, but ENIC still could intervene at any point. They didn't. They're complicit and their inaction in January, when we were in an absolutely desperate state and in a relegation fight is a sign that this is business as usual.
Blaming ENIC doesn't stop you blaming Levy, this situation we are in is so awful that there's more blame to dole out than we know what to do with. Blaming ENIC, partially owned by Levy, doesn't stop me from blaming Levy. It would be ridiculous not to lay serious blame at his door. I don't quite understand your urge to separate ENIC and Levy.
The Lewis kids unceremoniously sacking Levy kinda belies this, right?
For 20-odd years Spurs were the autocratic fiefdom of Levy, operating with the total and unflinching support of Joe Lewis who was content to leave his formal status as majority shareholder out of the operational picture.
That has very clearly changed. Why it took from October 2022 to September 2025 to make the change is anybody's guess, but it changed.
I don't think that demands some sort of hope or patience in the Lewis kids to just acknowledge that reality. We've got people in charge now who don't really have any basis in the club's Levy-era immediate past, for good or ill.
A reminder that when Arteta got Woolwich ahead of us in 2023 after our post-Conte meltdown that was the first time they'd finished ahead of us since 2016.
We were almost there. They were in our rear view mirror. We chose not to push on, and they did. The rest is history.
You'd have a better job arguing with a brick wall. Let him live in his little fantasy world.
It actually re-enforces my point
Daniel wasn’t acting independently, he was appointed and backed by ownership for over 20 years because he delivered exactly what they wanted. They had ample time to remove him, 24 years in fact but they have gotten rid of him now simply because their priorities have now changed.
For two decades Levy was the right man to maximise the club’s value and he did exactly that. His priority was never short term success at any cost it was financial growth, sustainability, and long term asset building. That approach transformed us into one of the richest and most financially secure clubs in the world whilst these fuckers sunned themselves in the Bahamas and got even more richer. Now that the ownership dynamic has shifted so has the direction, everything ENIC benefit from today exists because of the model they have supported all along.
Cherrington has come in who is Joe's financial operator and doesn't know the first thing about football, he is there to protect the asset and oversee the value of the club and to manage to next phase whilst they fuck Levy and Cullen off because they have done their job and outstayed their welcome - this is business, bye bye.
In regards to the 3 year gap, the clue is in the timing...Joe Lewis’ legal issues in 2022 triggered a gradual transition of control to the family and changes at that level don’t happen overnight, they would’ve needed time to fully assume control, assess the club internally and decide on their long term direction.
If Levy was truly the problem, he would’ve been removed immediately. Instead, he stayed to provide continuity and stability during the ownership transition...his eventual removal suggests this wasn’t about correcting past mistakes but about ENIC repositioning the club once they were fully in control and ready to move into the next phase which is preparing for a sale.
ENIC without Levy just spunked £35m on Conor Gallagher and brought in a kid from Brazil who's hardly played in a boost to rescue our season. Have stuck by tweedle dee and tweedle dumb for whatever reason I can't comprehend. Waited months too long to sack the most incompetent manager we've ever had in the PL era.
Yet you go out of your way to defend them, like you did Frank, to the point it's weird.
Yes, Levy is to blame for much of this, that's obvious. These idiots in charge, that have absolutely no clue about football, are compounding the issue and making it worse.
You're like a reverse Shady. Levy being bad and ENIC also, aren't mutually exclusive. ENIC in all forms, out.
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All his decisions were approved?
Yeah, he approved them, as he was left to the run club as he saw fit. Joe Lewis didn't give a fuck.The fucking rewriting of history to absolve Levy of everything, is not just fucking disgusting and delusional, but actually insults the club we support...
It's like you're just ignoring what people are saying then getting angry about something nobody has said. You're the one stuck on this ridiculous idea that you can only blame Levy OR ENIC, rather than both like everyone else is.
Unless you were close to the board it’s very difficult to know with any certainty how much was Levy and how much was ENIC/Lewis’.
Having spent 30 years in finance across several different business areas, I find it hard to believe that the ownership weren’t heavily involved in what happened at THFC. Day to day operations would have no doubt been down to Levy, but in my personal experience I’ve not known any millionaire owner who hasn’t wanted to know in great detail what the strategic plans for the business were, and once they were set, be regularly reported to on progress.
But ENIC didn't get involved until his kids took over the reigns... ENIC was a silent partner under Joe, all the decisions made at the club were Levy, especially the footballing side.
So where I am rewriting history?
So yes, you blame Levy, coz he was the won calling the shots...
And it's amazing how the Levy fans were proclaiming everything that happen the club was down to Levy, when things were going well with Poch etc etc, but not that Levy's shit has finally caught up with the club, it suddenly ENIC's this, ENIC's that and not mention of Levy over the last 20+ years... It's all suddenly ENIC only...
Just take your revisionist BS and f off.
How do you know this with any great certainty?