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[RJR1949]

Just looking at this from a business perspective, the clubs that sell for the biggest prices are the top title contenders and ENIC are missing out on a golden opportunity to make Spurs such a club: Chelsea are being run by a naive American who doesn’t understand football; Liverpool is up for sale and is losing the Sporting Director and Chief Analyst who have been so important for them; Man U is up for sale and the Glazers have stopped all spending.

We are set up to succeed with an incomparable stadium and training facilities, a smart proven Sporting Director and a proven coach.

But we are going to blow this opportunity.

Let’s hope that the Lewis’ realise this. I am sure they feel some loyalty towards Levy for all he has done to build the club. But Joe Lewis has always been a risk taker and maybe realises it’s time to place a bet on the final stage of building a great club.

 

[cookiemonster]

A very uncomfortable time for the pro ENIC/Levy supporters on here atm

They’ll be hoping for another rabbit out of the hat and more smoke & mirrors as quickly as possible

More magic needed from Danny boy in the transfer market lol

Lol

These are the battered wives

Oh it's alrignt..he promised me he will change ..,look how well he treated me in the past..etc

The little midget is preparing his bouquet as we speak

 

[sundanceyid10]

Just looking at this from a business perspective, the clubs that sell for the biggest prices are the top title contenders and ENIC are missing out on a golden opportunity to make Spurs such a club: Chelsea are being run by a naive American who doesn’t understand football; Liverpool is up for sale and is losing the Sporting Director and Chief Analyst who have been so important for them; Man U is up for sale and the Glazers have stopped all spending.

We are set up to succeed with an incomparable stadium and training facilities, a smart proven Sporting Director and a proven coach.

But we are going to blow this opportunity.

Let’s hope that the Lewis’ realise this. I am sure they feel some loyalty towards Levy for all he has done to build the club. But Joe Lewis has always been a risk taker and maybe realises it’s time to place a bet on the final stage of building a great club.

We have had a generational world class striker on our books. All we had to do was surround him with some good players in his prime years.

We have already blown the opportunity.

 

[Albertbarich]

Poch's return is Levy's final card though

No it's not

He will get the blame shifted to Poch, take some anger and appoint someone new and people will accept.

If he can't back Antonio Conte after the last few year then he isn't going to change for anyone else.

 

[Martinhotspur]

Does anyone really believe someone is going to buy spurs for say 4 billion and then spend another half a billion on players every window.
The only hope is Levy gets shifted. I don't think anyone is going to buy Spurs for the money they will want.

 

[Dougal]

but this is why it’s so messed up, nothing is long term or thought out, it all appears short term moves. Nobody should be shocked the squad is a mess when it is put together via short term choices. Levy has no long term vision for the football other than quick fixes, that is who we are, the quick fix club.

Oh, there is a long term vision. On the pitch the only consistency we ever had was a few seasons under Poch. But off the pitch? It’s consistently grown the customer base and raised prices. Levy thinks we are winning because he is winning. He doesn’t even see a problem, just setting up the latest refresh and on he goes. We’ll just keep believing things are going to click at some point because the law of averages say they should. And before you know it the season ticket details will be arriving in our inboxes and we’ll choose to stick again. And he wins again.

 

[For the love of Spurs]

Oh, there is a long term vision. On the pitch the only consistency we ever had was a few seasons under Poch. But off the pitch? It’s consistently grown the customer base and raised prices. Levy thinks we are winning because he is winning. He doesn’t even see a problem, just setting up the latest refresh and on he goes. We’ll just keep believing things are going to click at some point because the law of averages say they should. And before you know it the season ticket details will be arriving in our inboxes and we’ll choose to stick again. And he wins again.

yes to be clear I mean vision for on the pitch. Off the pitch we are like Amazon, a machine mostly.

 

[cookiemonster]

Does anyone really believe someone is going to buy spurs for say 4 billion and then spend another half a billion on players every window.
The only hope is Levy gets shifted. I don't think anyone is going to buy Spurs for the money they will want.

Nobody is going to buy spurs for 4 billion

Just another example of the greed that is in Daniel Levy

 

[Stoof]

Lewis does not need to buy Levy out to change the chairman.

Stop thinking about this as a football club. They don’t. It’s a business. A very successful business. Why would he remove him? Seriously, its a global high performing business and one of the wealthiest football clubs in the world.

(without seeing the constitutional docs, I wouldn’t be convinced that he could remove him as chairman either but let’s not get legal)

I hate that I’ve written that, but the sad sad truth is that Levy runs a good business. It’s a shame that the bit we care about isn’t a business.

 

[brasil_spur]

The last straw was Frazier Campbell for Berbatov

The last straw was Saha & Nelsen because he wanted to save a few Bob on Gary Cahill

The last straw was spending zero in 3 transfer window

The last straw was not wanting to pat Mane's wages and signing Sissoko instead

The last straw was playing games with Villa over Jack Grealish

The last straw was Joe Rodon instead of Milan Skriniar

The last straw was appoint Ryan Mason before a cup final

The last straw was appointing Nuno

The last straw was wanting to buy young players with low wages

Brilliant post.

I would end this with:

The last straw was hiring a world class manager that will always walk if not backed and then not backing him.

We have 4 weeks to find out if the above statement is true, let’s hope it’s not.

 

[Albertbarich]

Stop thinking about this as a football club. They don’t. It’s a business. A very successful business. Why would he remove him? Seriously, its a global high performing business and one of the wealthiest football clubs in the world.

(without seeing the constitutional docs, I wouldn’t be convinced that he could remove him as chairman either but let’s not get legal)

I hate that I’ve written that, but the sad sad truth is that Levy runs a good business. It’s a shame that the bit we care about isn’t a business.

This goes back to our conversation last night.

An angry and mobile Spurs fanbase can really hurt their business. Imagine a few thousand turning up at a concert , imagine the fanbase all agreed to stop using the In house bars and food places, imagine they stopped buying merch?

That effects their pockets which is a language they speak to

 

[Dougal]

This goes back to our conversation last night.

An angry and mobile Spurs fanbase can really hurt their business. Imagine a few thousand turning up at a concert , imagine the fanbase all agreed to stop using the In house bars and food places, imagine they stopped buying merch?

That effects their pockets which is a language they speak to

He’s already ahead of you. All the events outside football aren’t solely aimed at Spurs fans. He’s taking money left, right and centre from people other than Spurs fans. We’re basically just keeping his venue warm between events. Add in the tourists at the games and the prices we pay and every Spurs fan that watched us at the old ground could walk away for the final time and he’d still be quids in.

 

[Lifelong]

Stop thinking about this as a football club. They don’t. It’s a business. A very successful business. Why would he remove him? Seriously, its a global high performing business and one of the wealthiest football clubs in the world.

(without seeing the constitutional docs, I wouldn’t be convinced that he could remove him as chairman either but let’s not get legal)

I hate that I’ve written that, but the sad sad truth is that Levy runs a good business. It’s a shame that the bit we care about isn’t a business.

exactly this.......and it saddens me to the core but that's the way it is........

 

[YIDfromtheLANE]

I don’t know what the excuse is for the last, let’s say 8 years, I’m being polite there.

But has Levy come to a conclusion in his head with the emergence of Newcastle, Man United and Arsenal getting their shit together, along with City, Liverpool dominance that the games up for competing. To legitimately compete, he’s not prepared to apply a financial strategy to put ourselves in the frame, and with that acknowledges the financial rewards will not be available. He has therefore wants to revert to buy young, cheap and sellable if needed to regenerate the lost financial rewards and thereby protecting the balance sheet. Or at least as history shows he’s not prepared to stretch a deal to get the player the manager wants. Still applying that just making do approach.

Football wise he’s hoping to stumble on a side, luck out isn’t he. I would suggedt he’s given up, but to give up you must have been having a go in the first place. He doesn’t want us to compete, let’s face it he never really has, always been happy to appear to be in the conversation but not invested in enough to genuinely dominate. His mindset he’s not willing to be brave due to his projected balance sheet without CL money, which props everything up. Therefore reverted to safe option strategy and hope for a season in the sun once every so often. Probably based on a competitor having an off season rather than the ability of his assembled side. Now with too many financially ambitious teams in the mix the ‘having an off season’ approach is even more limited.

It’s time to go. If you’re not willing to be brave, throw a little caution to the wind, then what’s the point. He’s too safe, doesn’t need to be reckless just financially ambitious beyond just being safe, enough to extend the investment that extra mile for players that are a grade above of what he has historically settled for when the opportunity has arrived to push on.

In my opinion his objective is for us to bob along in and around the big boys as long as he can open up his spreadsheet each morning and smile smugly and congratulate himself on its strength and perfection for income v costs ratios. Bet he wanders off to the coffee machine with a little spring in his step.

It really is now time to go.

 

[RJR1949]

Way back when I used to do business with Sugar and was in the Spurs boardroom when we were beaten by Aston Villa and there was a big demonstration outside the main gates that meant we had to stay inside the boardroom for a hour after the game and finally were only able to drive out by driving through the old gym and out a side gate onto Paxton.

Looking at how Sugar reacted through these events I’m pretty sure that they were the last straw for Sugar, he just thought the aggravation wasn’t worth it.

Levy has done much more for the club than Sugar ever did. I admire his business acumen and the way he has realised his off the field vision.

He deserves to leave the club with pride and his head held high.

But go he must.

 

[H-SF]

I think everyone agrees that new owners would be ideal. But realistically, is there any chance of a takeover happening sometime soon?

 

[chrissivad]

Levy had a play when he first took over, but then Chelsea and City have come in along with now Newcastle.

It didn't seem like his play has ever changed and hoped that the TV money bubble would burst, that obviously hasn't.

We need new ideas at the top

 

[mil1lion]

Levy is 29.4% ENIC

That doesn't stop ENIC restructuring and giving him a different role at the club. Levy out can be Levy out of our transfer dealings rather than out of the club. It's clear the fans just want Levy to leave the football side to Paratici and Conte.

 

[mil1lion]

I certainly wasnt laughing at the signings of Jesus & Zinchenko.

The point is they are reacting and having a right go in the market.

Spurs fans seem to care far too much about fees.

To be fair our window was as strong but we just haven't had the same last couple of summer windows arsenal have had. We just need to keep doing what we've done last year. Another year like last and then a couple important signings each season after is what we need. At the moment we have a first 8 good enough to start and 3 of those are into their final 18 months (Lloris, Perisic and Kane).

 

[Dov67]

I think everyone agrees that new owners would be ideal. But realistically, is there any chance of a takeover happening sometime soon?

I’d say there is no realistic chance of a buyer any time soon.

Levy’s approach to selling the club will be the same as his approach to selling unwanted players - he will demand a ridiculous fee which no sane person/corporation will go near.

If that wasnt enough we have two further flies in the ointment. Firstly i dont believe he will be open to offers until he has fully monetised the new stadium with naming rights and maybe even an NFL franchise. Secondly, both Liverpool and Man U are on the market, at the moment, two far more successful and valuable brands, so the pool of potential buyers, which is very very small in any case, is now even smaller.

the sad fact is we are stuck with him for the foreseeable.