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Management Levy out?
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Micro managing.
No , it doesn't make sense but nor does the theory neither manager wanted a forward. BOTH managers not wanting even one makes less sense, in fact it's virtually impossible imo.
I would imagine Levy said to Poch : " I'm not renewing Lorente's contract" or something similar and then asked Poch if he was in agreement with this. I'm sure Poch would rather have Lorente than nothing at all , why wouldn't he?
I would imagine he agreed with Levy that this was ok on condition another striker was signed , I'm sure Poch was hoping for an upgrade on an ageing, slow forward.
It does seem Levy won't pay big money for a forward and doesn't want to get burnt again after Soldado and Janssen.
Of course both managers wanted another striker/AM/CM/DM/ defenders, which manager doesn't.
Again you seem to be saying that Poch wanted a striker (he probably did) and Levy said "You can spend around £150m on other areas of the team but you can't have a striker"
It's just not credible.
Will the parade route be starting outside the stadium or Tottenham town hall?
Have you been invited?
Levy obviously couldn't find one or one that represented good value with potential for a profit or good resale value further down the line !
Sorry JH it's for Spurs fans only .... you dream about the good old days of Sugar with 100m turnover and imagine what that will buy you ... a bit weird but whatever makes you hard.
Help? What does 'not backing the manager' mean? Seriously though eh...
- The club buy players the manager doesn't want?
- The club don't buy players the fans want?
- The club are buying the wrong type of players?
- The club don't spend enough money?
- The club take money away from the squad?
- Players the club buy are too young?
- The club don't land the manager's targets?
Maybe not backing the manager is accepting that failure is an option ?
We need a striker. We get a striker. No fucking about. Not a reactive approach, dragging things out to the last minutes and then, inevitably failing as complex transfers can’t be done in the closing hours of a window.
You can sign and announce a player now for 1 July. You can sign someone in November for January, Levy does not seem to do that. Why ?
We ain't had another effective striker for years ,
We ain't had a defensive effective midfielder for years .
No level of excuses can make that acceptable .
The running of the football side from the top is a complete fuckwit douchbag show.
We ain't had a defensive effective midfielder for years .
No level of excuses can make that acceptable .
The running of the football side from the top is a complete fuckwit douchbag show.
Are there many examples of signing someone now for summer? Except Zyech to Chelsea?
And if we did sign a striker now, he’d not play till next season. By which point we have Kane and Son again.
And the question has to be asked yet again, which top quality prolific striker can we sign that only played when Kane is injured? “Hey Timo Werner, sign for us for £80m and £200k a week. I’m sure you’ll get between 6-10 games each season. Do we have a deal?”
what a depressing thought
I thought it was 3.5yrs?
Not sure it is - he's managed us from lower PL to upper PL places on a tight budget
If a new backer / owner is more willing to take risks then he might be the perfect Chairman
LeeMcl
thanks for the reply but I'm no clearer about 'not backing the manager'... ?
(Maybe not backing the manager is accepting that failure is an option ?)
(We need a striker. We get a striker. No fucking about. Not a reactive approach, dragging things out to the last minutes and then, inevitably failing as complex transfers can’t be done in the closing hours of a window.)
(You can sign and announce a player now for 1 July.)
(You can sign someone in November for January, Levy does not seem to do that. Why ?)
(Maybe not backing the manager is accepting that failure is an option ?)
Not sure what you mean by this mate? Sorry.
(We need a striker. We get a striker. No fucking about. Not a reactive approach, dragging things out to the last minutes and then, inevitably failing as complex transfers can’t be done in the closing hours of a window.)
So are you saying the club isn't buying the players that the fans want, or do you mean the club isn't buying the players the manager wants?
(You can sign and announce a player now for 1 July.)
We signed and announced NDombele on the 2nd of July, not sure what you mean by this?
(You can sign someone in November for January, Levy does not seem to do that. Why ?)
Off the top of my head? Say we sign someone in November. The player then sustains an injury (or doesn't make the journey because of transport issues... Sala) in December. That's very unlucky but then, someone are we lol!
The cost of buying players early sky rockets out of the club's price range?
It worked out fine when the club bought Luka Modric
You can sign players in the last moments of the transfer window. Our club has signed many players this way and saved millions using this approach. Maybe media reports about players the club wants and actual interest sometimes blurs information here?
It’s four areas as far as I can see.
1. Football Manager generation. It’s a piece of piss to sign players and to keep massive squads happy on the laptop, so why not in real life?
2. We’ve had relative success recently and this has raised expectations to a level that we’d have to be operating in a vacuum to achieve. We’d have to have no Man City or Liverpool or any of those pesky clubs that also want to win giving us any hassle. The bastards.
3. A fundamental lack of understanding that we have to get money to spend money. And the purchase of players isn’t the only pull on our purse strings.
4. The ticket prices are extremely high in comparison to other clubs. So therefore we should be better than those clubs. The same people will pay for a meal and demand it is the best thing ever if they are paying top whack, again not understanding that life just isn’t like that sometimes.
But hey, could be something else.
Plenty of other clubs have back up strikers, but apparently we cannot..
Chelsea have giroud, athletico signed morata even though they have Costa. Ffs even Bournemouth have Wilson and king, but little old us obviously not.
We all know money talks and bullshit walks, so if you pay what's needed in football these days you can have a very strong squad in both quality and depth.
But our parasite does not like this way, andthinks we are the only club that this universal football rule does not apply too...........not the smartest plan from a supposedly clever bloke imo, he and poch and Mourinho have been quoted as saying we have to do things differently, why ???
Your a right cock nibbler mate.... BECAUSE WE HAVE SPENT OVER A BILLION POUNDS ON A NEW TRAINING GROUND AND STADIUM, do you know how many zeros that is?