This is always such a stupid dichotomy because it acts like it’s some kind of deliberate decision to either aim for top 6 or aim for trophies. But what makes you most likely to win trophies is having a squad that is regularly competitive in the Premier League and routinely playing in Europe. “Being in the big six” dramatically increases our chances of winning a cup because it makes us richer and makes us a more enticing destination for higher caliber players. Aiming for 11th place as long as it comes with the odd League Cup once a decade isn’t a good strategy unless your goal is to be West Ham.
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This is always such a stupid dichotomy because it acts like it’s some kind of deliberate decision to either aim for top 6 or aim for trophies. But what makes you most likely to win trophies is having a squad that is regularly competitive in the Premier League and routinely playing in Europe. “Being in the big six” dramatically increases our chances of winning a cup because it makes us richer and makes us a more enticing destination for higher caliber players. Aiming for 11th place as long as it comes with the odd League Cup once a decade isn’t a good strategy unless your goal is to be West Ham.
Will be hilarious watching some defend it if true. I am choosing to think it’s crap like most links, good , bad or indifferent these days .Hearing (well, reading) that Spurs have shown an interest in Noah Edjouma, some 19yo forward from Toulouse. Scored 2 goals in 10 games last season. Valued at less than 1mil and wages would be like 10k pw tops.
There was a period where Levy's market acumen was actually a driving force in improving the club, but you'd probably set the end date for that at more like 2011ish.
Levy became chairman in February 2001 with the club in the bottom half of the table, having not finished better than 10th since 1996. In February 2011 we beat Milan at the San Siro in the knockout stages of the Champions League, with a fantastic squad of players purchased through Levy's revenue generating ability and dealmaking nous.
By February 2021, despite having produced one of the best players in the history of the club for free via the academy, we were back in 9th with the squad in an inexorable tailspin.
"Yesterday's man" is exactly it. Particularly in that 2004-2010 range he really strengthened the club, but that is a lifetime ago in terms of the sophistication of the football business.
Probably why Charrington is now around. He is the guy apparently who is Joe Lewis’s fix it man, the person when you want to shake things up. Someone like that isn’t sitting on our board now to eat cheese and drink wine.
Until Levy is gone Spurs are Levy's show, period.
Hasn’t worked that way for us.
We’ve built squads good enough to challenge for top 6 OR go deep in cups. Never a squad deep enough for both. Mainly because cups aren’t financially worth it for ENIC
Well, in that sense "we are Coca-Cola" as well. "We are Apple". "We are Amazon".
That's how business works.
Football was sold generations ago - when the first advertising hoarding next to the pitch was sold, we started this journey. And really, back when the concept of "professional" football was created, really. The reality is supporters are just consumers. We think it should be different...but its really not.
See ya in three years time mate
just today? lol.
Levytime is always 3 years time
Nah, I think things change when Lewis croaks. At the moment he’s the patriarch and his word stands, but shit will get messy after.
I take your point that the sole revenue generated by ticket and merchandise buying fans is a small percentage of monies generated, but fans being largely irrelevant, no!
The minute fans stop attending games to the level we see now, is the minute the game dies. No more tv rights, no more advertising rights, little media interest, just empty stadia and the end!
Hi JOHN THOMAS
Care to explain why you vanished around the time we won a major trophy and when you returned you posted fuck all about it?
We are still waiting for your explanation.
If true, shame on him.
What's real is that our main area of focus is recruiting kids, especially ones that don't commend big fees or wages. Doesn't even matter most of them are foreign, can't speak English and know fuck all about the club...they're cheap, could be sold for a profit and may help raise our profile (humhum commercial revenue) worldwide eg Takai in Japan.
Tel is so obviously our big name signing this summer. There's no chance in hell we're spending big wads on a proper high profile quality player, let alone 2 or 3...unless it's another has been like Timo combined with poor man's Beckham aka James Ward-Prowse.
Not a serious club.
See you in August.
It's because you support Spurs and aren't a professional Levy fluffer. I feel your pain.