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Levy In or Levy Out

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TonySoprano said:
This only means anything if it’s an independent review. Which it won’t be.

So it’s pointless, we’ve heard all this review bullshit many times over the last 24 years when Comolli and Arnesen and others were here.

The root cause of that bald cunt Fuhrer running the club like his personal toy is never going to be addressed.
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Have the owner even if he is minority being the chairman is such a conflict of interest. Means there is zero accountability.

Chairman: how am I doing?

Owner: you are doing great, it’s only everyone around you who is letting the club down.

Chairman: thanks, you are such a brilliant guy, amazing even.
 
Tomo said:
Hmmm. Why is the clubs money been split over different companies? Is the stadium revenue streams going towards different projects. That’s a bit weird.
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Interesting to note that they are late in filing the Tottenham Hotel company accounts.
Also looking further into the group accounts over £90m spent on fixed assets under construction in the last two years.
"We can't spend what wecdon't have - unless it is on capital projects of course"
 
Donnie Hotspur said:
Interesting to note that they are late in filing the Tottenham Hotel company accounts.
Also looking further into the group accounts over £90m spent on fixed assets under construction in the last two years.
"We can't spend what wecdon't have - unless it is on capital projects of course"
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If the club is spending the money it generates on a hotel that will look so fucking bad. Raising the money via investment or Joe putting in a few quid is one thing but this would be quite another.
 
Gym&Chill said:
The problem with Levy is he takes an autistic approach to the footballing side. Sometimes he gets lucky and hires a Redknapp or Pochettino whom have the character and common sense to perform well and somewhat left to their own device in spite of Levy trying to sabotage the manager at every turn.

Other times we see where Levy has full reign over the club and hires meek puppets like Ange/AVB and we fail miserably on a colossal scale.

At a club like Spurs who don’t want to be overly ambitious in the transfer market or with wages, in order to qualify for the Champions League whilst maintaining a strict wage/transfer budget, we have to draw on more shrewd means of becoming successful.

For instance, under Redknapp, there was more emphasis on common sense football. Working with what he had. But making smart transfer decisions with the likes of veterans like VDV. Bringing in a veteran like Scott Parker. Who today would be baulked at but at the time was a shrewd bit of business that had a massive impact on the squad. Even an aged Gallas had a massive role in the CL. Adebayor on loan. And it all gelled together because every single player was brought in carefully and had their own huge role within the starting 11. And then Levy decided we needed a manager with more tactical acumen.

And so AVB flopped because he didnt have the ability to work within these limitations

and so our next punt Pochettino turned out to be exactly right. An emphasis on younger players which fit his high energy style. But not too dogmatic that we’d need players we simply couldnt get or have to fit an inflexible style of play the club couldnt provide (see Conte/Mourinho) a simple style of football. Aggressive off the ball. Using the wings/fullbacks. Creativity in midfield. But again, the glass was half fall in that there wasnt that extra push to break the clubs strict budget in order to push on and win titles. And so long story short we changed the “project” again and moved to the next philosophy.

Ironically, moneybag managers in Conte and Mourinho. And sure, we spent some money. But this was money saved from the Poch era and was far short of what was needed to revolutionise the squad which was running on fumes from the Poch days. So sure, we spent some money with no real approach and it didnt really go anywhere. Which makes you wonder why Levy didnt just spend money under Poch when he asked for “some furniture to fill the nice house Levy had just built” and so the attempt to revitalise the squad wasnt nearly up to par with what Mourinho and Conte are used to. And the players were B level that couldnt play the systems they desire.

And so the squad has finally fallen down the pecking order with less quality and direction with a mixed bag of misfits and we hire a wild card manager we knew little about other than he “talked” about being an attacking manager. The rest is history. Even more dogmatic than Conte or Mourinho but without any of the experience or pedigree.

And here we are from bad to worse with even less direction or club philosophy other than empty shallow words of “exciting football” whatever that means. Constantly flip flopping from project to no project. From No money to overpaying on B level players. From “project” managers to money bag managers. Theres no real consistency other than Poch and ironically that was when Levy was most restraint holding Poch back despite all of his success here, and yet spends money for Ange and Conte.

For me, for Spurs to be successful you need a patient strict father figure manager, who has the balls to have Levy figured out, and to some degree keep Levy at arms length, and also have a common sense approach to the football on the pitch. This shallow intricate tactico hipster football just doesnt work at a club like Spurs where we refuse to buy the exact players to fit their style of football. The best style of football to suit a club with limited funds is a young energetic team who can play aggressive off the ball, closing down opposition, and using pace and wing play. Its a football hack imo.

But also we need to implement redknapp era too. Youngsters only take you so far. So established first teamers. But also some veteran players that have no resale value (levy hates that) every player must be bought with intention and with a huge role within the squad. Not just throwing a dart at a dartboard hoping that buying expensive younger players will come good in the future with big resale values but then not actually advancing as a club because you refuse to also buy established big name players with little resale value and thus never bening good enough to win stuff.
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Funny Reaction Too Long Didnt Read GIF
 
We used to have one of the richest owners in the league, but now we are bottom half. Loads of clubs have mega rich owners and we need a cash injection to keep up. A full sale would be ideal at this point.


Premier League​

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Newcastle United
(more information)		Public Investment Fund (85%) (state-owned)
RB Sports & Media (15%)		$620B[38][nb 2]Sovereign wealth
Wolverhampton WanderersGuo Guangchang[50]
Liang Xinjun
Wang Qunbin		$5.33B[51][52][53]Fosun International[nb 3] (investment, private equity, asset management)
Manchester United
(more information)		Glazer family (51.75%)[34][35]
Sir Jim Ratcliffe (27.7%)		$20.4B[36][37]First Allied Corporation (commercial property, retail), Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Ineos Group (chemicals industry)
Woolwich
(more information)		United States Stan Kroenke[1]$16.9B[2]Commercial property
Kroenke Sports & Entertainment
Walmart
Manchester City
(more information)		United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi United Group (82%)[30]
United States Silver Lake (18%)
[31][32]		$16.8B[33][nb 1]Sovereign wealth
Investments
Chelsea
(more information)		Clearlake Capital Group (Behdad Eghbali and Jose Feliciano)
Todd Boehly
Hansjorg Wyss
Mark Walter[13][14]		$15.8B[15][16][17]Investment consortium
Los Angeles Dodgers
Aston Villa
(more information)		EgyptUnited States V Sports[3]$10.3B[4][5]Investment and Industry
Fortress Investment Group
Comcast[6]
West Ham United
(more information)		Wales David Sullivan[45]
Czech Republic Daniel Kretinsky
England Vanessa Gold[46]		$10.3B[47][48][49]Daily Sport, Sunday Sport
EPH
Liverpool
(more information)		United States John W. Henry
United States Tom Werner[27]		$13.0B[28][29]Fenway Sports Group
Fulham
(more information)		PakistanUnited States Shahid Khan[23]$7.9B[24]Flex-N-Gate Corp (automobile parts manufacturer)
Jacksonville Jaguars
All Elite Wrestling
Everton
(more information)		United States The Friedkin Group (Dan Friedkin)[21]$7.6B[22]Car dealerships, investment
Tottenham Hotspur
(more information)		England Family of Joe Lewis (60%)
England Daniel Levy (25%)[42]		$5.8B[43][44]Currency Trading
Crystal PalaceEngland Steve Parish (10.74%)
United States Josh Harris (18%)
United States David Blitzer (18%)
United States John Textor (40%)[18][19]		$5.5B[20]Private equity
Nottingham ForestEvangelos Marinakis$3.6B[39]Capital Maritime & Trading Corp
Leicester CityThe Srivaddhanaprabha Family[25]$3.5B[26]King Power International Group (duty-free shopping)
BournemouthWilliam P. Foley[7]$2.0B[8]Fidelity National Financial
Vegas Golden Knights
Brighton & Hove AlbionTony Bloom (75.61%)[11]$1.3B[12]Professional gambling, property and land development, investments
SouthamptonSport Republic (80%)[40]
Katharina Liebherr (20%)		$1.3B[41]United Group (telecoms and mass media)
Inheritance
BrentfordMatthew Benham[9]$280M[10]Gambling firms
Ipswich TownGamechanger 20 Ltd.American Pension Fund

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Even Leeds Uniteds owners are worth 7 billion and Elland Road is to be expanded to 56,000 shortly. Newcastle has a 70,000 seater stadium on the way, Man Utd 100,000. Not to mention Everton going up to 54,000.

Every year our competitive advantage is being eroded as Levy and Co run out of cash. This club has grown to big for them and they have taken it as far as they can.
 
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