Don't think you can credit Redkanpp with his development. He'd been there 3 years developing before HR arrived. Also, Harry Redknapp touted Bale for sale via his son Jamie. HR did not fancy him much.What a load of fucking garbage. You really are so in Love with ENIC that you credit them with the signing and nurturing of Gareth Bale !!! You really think that when Levy signed the cheque he thought "mmm, this boy`s gonna develop into the most expensive player the world has ever seen" . I think I`d rather credit 2 of the men Levy fired with his development. AVB and to a lesser extent Harry Redknapp. Levy just got lucky. He hit the fucking jackpot. If he`d kept Bale, persuaded him to stay, built a team around him, that actually went on to achieve things then yes, I`d respect ENIC and thank them for Gareth Bale. But I aint gonna respect them or thank them for selling yet another Spurs hero just because the transfer fee broke the world record.
Credit goes to Commolli, among others, for that - and for Modric & Berbatov. He also made some not so good buys.
He also got KPB, GDS, Taarabt, Hutton, BAE, Gomes, Corluka, Pav, Bentley & Kaboul.
HR was instrumental in the dismissal of Commolli.
Left to his own devices he made some great signings did Harry.
Anyway, I don't think Levy has any input into the players we buy. He doesn't travel looking at youngsters.
He employs people to do so. Of course he would not have known.
So, maybe Levy should be given a little credit for appointing Commolli. A combined £160m + was made on 3 of his signings with and outlay of just over £30m.
I have been going spurs since the the 70's and I don't know how we were run under Swales, as I was too young to understand, but I can say categorically that ENIC have run this club better than Scholar - the Maxwell bollocks ffs - Venebles & Sugar.
Burkinshaw even said when he left the club's West Stand for the last time "there used to be a football club back there" referring to Scholar, Alexiou(sic) et al.
If you think our club is badly run now it has been run far fucking worse in my time. We could have even ceased to exist. Hey, but we got Lineker and Gazza!
ENIC may be a lot of things, and made some mistakes, but since I have been a Yid they have run this club better than either of the previous mentioned.