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I love (hate) Daniel Levy, please don’t mention him anywhere else!

SUIYHA

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Yes, this. I know someone will pop up and say 'it's not that easy' and 'owners won't sell until deadline day' but, ffs get the groundwork done in the months before and get the players in early January!

This has been done to death but it's never that simple. Even if we lay the groundwork, sound out a player and their club and get the impression that they may be willing to sell and that the player may be up for joining - a player has no incentive to make the commitment early if they think other options might come onto the table. Good players have options, that's just the nature of it, and unless we're by far and away the best option they are going to get (unlikely in our current predicament), they will always wait until later in the window before making the call.
 

Mooger Fooger

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We lost both our centre backs (again) at the beginning of December. It's now the 16th January and nothing has been done to address it. Not a loan, not a recall, nothing. This is inexcusable in my opinion and typifies the way the club is run.

A proper club does something about it straight away. The manager always has one hand tied behind his back.
 

sidford

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we’ve beaten City and United and are up vs Liverpool in the semi
We did indeed beat them and that's great but every club gets good results every now and again. I would point to the overall performance rather than a handful of results. If we wanted to do that sure I could point to palace & ipswich (both of whom hadn't won In league before playing us), Brighton & Chelsea collapses etc but let's not do that.
My point was and is, I don't see us spending money to buy players on a manager who won't be here next season. Better to keep whatever funds we have for the next patsy to try and help them last longer than 18 months
 

ginola99

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got the stadium now and probably thinks we are too good to go down. The old young Levy might have tried something, this one, doubt it.

This.

We could be in the Championship and he won't care as the club is still worth billions owing the real estate.

The stadium was for one thing, and one thing only, to future proof ENIC's investment.

Sickening.
 

JamieSpursCommunityUser

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We lost both our centre backs (again) at the beginning of December. It's now the 16th January and nothing has been done to address it. Not a loan, not a recall, nothing. This is inexcusable in my opinion and typifies the way the club is run.

A proper club does something about it straight away. The manager always has one hand tied behind his back.

Farcical I agree.

You just know we're banking on getting Davies, VDV, Romero back and then all staying fit for the run in.

Porro not breaking down despite playing insanely high minutes.

Udogie being rushed back and not breaking down.

Just total negligence with our squad management 3 windows in a row.

The arrogance to think we can get away with leaving ourselves short just so we can haggle on relatively smaller outgoings.

Levy's ego compels him to win every single negotiation, even if it's strategically unwise.

Hanging onto players if he doesn't get his price, watching their value fall off a cliff in the next window, whilst undermining each manager project since Redknapp.

Even staring into the abyss we're still being outgunned in the market by Ipswich.

He thinks because the brand can now attract regional noodle partners, that we have become bullet proof from relegation.

We are not. Neglect the squad for long enough and this is what can happen.

We need 2-3 first team ready signings immediately. CB/LB, DM, WF/CF. Or we're in trouble.
 
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Joe Bjorn Hotspur

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This Jan me of the Jan 2009 window when we were last in a mess, and Levy was forced to spend a wedge on Defoe, Keane, Palacios and Chimbonda
Totally agree and in a sign of desperation he will once more try his best to keep the fans on board with an appointment like a former fans favourite.

Honestly wouldn’t be surprised if he’s keeping Harry Redknapp with Jermain Defoe on standby for a caretaker role with Lennon and Keane as assistants, no jokes can picture such a move to tap back ‘into the club’s DNA’.

There’s never a plan with Levy always acts when we are up shits creek. It’s so cruel on the fans. No matter what your view on love or hate Levy he’s a piss taker and absolutely detests our fans.
 

thebenjamin

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Hey managers, who wants to come and work for Daniel Levy in front of a crowd paying the world's highest tickets prices and demanding a commensurate product? You will be allowed a wage budget of up to 100k a week for one star player over the age of 23! Your total wage budget per season will be among the top 10 clubs in the Premier League! You will even occasionally be furnished with a player in a position you asked for! You will receive a vip pass for The Dare Skywalk! (terms and conditions may apply)
 

Dov67

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He is not going anywhere and he is not going to change the way he (mis)manages this club

you want things to change - there is only two ways in combination to do that (IMO) and even then its a really long shot

  1. makes things so hot and hostile for him and the board at every single home game, that he dreads the very idea of going to his precious f****g stadium
  2. mass walkouts at certain pre-determined point in the game, so whole swathes, possibly the entire south stand are empty - the publicity and the hit to his ego would be very uncomfortable

I know and am well aware that making this happen is very very difficult and as some posters have correctly pointed out getting people who have paid fortunes for a ticket to agree to leave is no easy thing.

But he and this board couldn't give two hoots about 300 people protesting outside the club shop or well crafted critiques of their tenure on twitter.

You want things to change? Then go nuclear, and even then, he's such a piece of shit he may still ignore us
 

SUIYHA

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Has he had his interview with Simon Jordan yet?

If he has then they'll hang onto it until a more PR friendly time to release it.

Then again if there is anyone on Earth who might release something like that the day after a derby defeat....
 

buttons

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He is not going anywhere and he is not going to change the way he (mis)manages this club

you want things to change - there is only two ways in combination to do that (IMO) and even then its a really long shot

  1. makes things so hot and hostile for him and the board at every single home game, that he dreads the very idea of going to his precious f****g stadium
  2. mass walkouts at certain pre-determined point in the game, so whole swathes, possibly the entire south stand are empty - the publicity and the hit to his ego would be very uncomfortable

I know and am well aware that making this happen is very very difficult and as some posters have correctly pointed out getting people who have paid fortunes for a ticket to agree to leave is no easy thing.

But he and this board couldn't give two hoots about 300 people protesting outside the club shop or well crafted critiques of their tenure on twitter.

You want things to change? Then go nuclear, and even then, he's such a piece of shit he may still ignore us

100 percent, nail on the head. I’ll be honest, I don’t really have the inclination to turn up early and protest outside the ground, I’d much rather have a pint with my mates BUT inside the stadium should be horrendous for Levy. Sadly though the stadium he’s built has created an atmosphere where it’s so difficult to get anything going inside the ground as every other seat seems to be filled by tourists (very welcome of course) or away fans (ridiculous).

we’re stuck. It’s a really horrible situation and it sickens me to think the people at the top of our club don’t give a f*ck about the football side and give even less of a f*ck about the fans.
 

JamieSpursCommunityUser

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100% this.



I’m genuinely in shock how the club are OK with:

- Not having a single fit LB in the squad because our backup RB is doing an OK job there
- Not having a LCB because our 18 year old midfielder is playing ok there
- Not singing a winger despite the fact that not a single one of our forwards can succeed in a single 1v1, let alone do it consistently
- Shoehorning a bunch of number 8s into the number 6 role, until one of them plays bad and then swapping them over again as the cycle repeats We’re supposed to be aiming to compete and this is the state of the squad
 

E17yid

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It's such a pity that all the England stuff had to start up when it did.
I remember going to the lane against Newcastle (I say remember but I was pretty drunk for most of it) when Adebayor got 4 assists and Saha bagged a couple. Everyone was wearing Harry masks and singing “we want him stay” one of my fondest memories at the lane that was and in typical spurs fashion it all ended in misery.
 

thebenjamin

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I remember going to the lane against Newcastle (I say remember but I was pretty drunk for most of it) when Adebayor got 4 assists and Saha bagged a couple. Everyone was wearing Harry masks and singing “we want him stay” one of my fondest memories at the lane that was and in typical spurs fashion it all ended in misery.

Yeah he stopped turning up for training
 
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