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Slightly less than one.
I'll help you a bit. The Prem has one. Where are all these other countries you refer to?
Slightly less than one.
Do you think that Grealish would have been a good player to invest in? He might have had limited impact this season but I can't help but feel that we should have got that done when we had the chance.
Before I pass comment, two things that need confirmation
1 Levy takes more money out of the club than any other chairman? As in he pays himself well over 2m a year from THFC funds.? Highest amount in England? Europe? Anywhere?
2 Levy intervened to ensure a family member got a key contract for building the stadium? That family member’s company are the main cause of the problems and delay to the build?
Go back 10/15 years and you had the choice...
The ENIC/Levy way or the Abramovich/Oil Money way?
Champions League trophies, League Titles, FA/League Cups, big money signings or 1 League Cup, New Ground, New Training centre and a small net spend?
Not really a choice is there?
We will never compete financially or possibly ever win trophies with these owners...
but winning trophies was never high on the list for these owners was it.
But our way is the right way, even if it also involves a billionaire tax exile, a chairman who pays himself twice as much as anyone else in his position, huge ticket prices, zero investment in players etc..
Before I pass comment, two things that need confirmation
1 Levy takes more money out of the club than any other chairman? As in he pays himself well over 2m a year from THFC funds.? Highest amount in England? Europe? Anywhere?
2 Levy intervened to ensure a family member got a key contract for building the stadium? That family member’s company are the main cause of the problems and delay to the build?
But our way is the right way, even if it also involves a billionaire tax exile, a chairman who pays himself twice as much as anyone else in his position, huge ticket prices, zero investment in players etc..
Before I pass comment, two things that need confirmation
1 Levy takes more money out of the club than any other chairman? As in he pays himself well over 2m a year from THFC funds.? Highest amount in England? Europe? Anywhere?
2 Levy intervened to ensure a family member got a key contract for building the stadium? That family member’s company are the main cause of the problems and delay to the build?
What an absolutely brilliant post! Completely and utterly en pointe. Well said, sir ?Levy has transformed the club off the pitch and rightly takes credit for it. Although TBF we were so potless and down when he took over you'd have had to be a buffoon of world class proportions to have not improved us but nevertheless, he's down well, up to a point. He's also taken massive credit for our fortunes on the pitch so you'll excuse me if I laugh my cock of when people say it's not his fault we haven't won anything. How on earth can you give credit and then deny any blame when it suits? Yeah, right, anyway, that's by the by. But off the pitch, generally, until this summer, well done shortstuff.
Then, this summer we became the first ever club to not sign anyone in the transfer window. The first ever. Yes, EVER. Put that on top of the stadium being delayed until who knows when (and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if that were next season now) and there's two great tranches of negativity surrounding the club almost before the season has properly got into gear. Now results have started to mirror that and the vultures are circling. Who's fault is all of that? The tooth fairy? Or the man at the top? Or, because it's Levy does the buck, in this one instance, stop with Mavis the tea lady with the saggy dumplings?
You don't not spend to add some quality and freshen up the squad, you just don't, there's another unwanted 'first' that we're so adept at collecting. Both the stadium delay and the failure to add to the squad are down to Levy, nobody else. The buck stops there, that's the way it is, the man at the top carries the can wether you like it or not.
And what's the end game? Fast forward however many years you like, two, five, ten. The stadium is paid for. Can anyone really see Levy suddenly spending big? I can't because as the old saying goes, a bald dwarf can't change it's spots.
This is starting to look like a great big case of he's taken us as far as he can. He's not fucked up often but when he does they tend to be big ones, he's starting to ruin his legacy/reputation or whatever way you want to put it, this summer was one great big fuck-off mistake and the brownie points are starting to slip through his fingers.
If we genuinely want to compete, if we genuinely think we're a big club, then start fucking acting like it instead of lurching from one laughing stock act after another. I bet he wishes the ground would swallow him up right now. Well rumpelstiltskin, it might just have done so. He needs to front up about exactly when we expect to move into the new ground and start making plans to invest in the squad and then actually do so, nothing else will do.
And lets not mention potentially pissing off the best manager he's ever likely to hire, we'll see how that one pans out before we use it as a stick to beat him with.
Sometimes it's OK to tell your dad he's fucked up. This is without doubt one of them.
Christos ke panagia
*Sneaks out of Spurs Chat and back into hibernation
Go back 10/15 years and you had the choice...
The ENIC/Levy way or the Abramovich/Oil Money way?
Champions League trophies, League Titles, FA/League Cups, big money signings or 1 League Cup, New Ground, New Training centre and a small net spend?
Not really a choice is there?
We will never compete financially or possibly ever win anymore trophies with these owners...
but winning trophies was never high on the list was it.
Football clubs exist to win games and compete for trophies - end of. Certainly not for someone to hijack it in order to increase his personal fortune, by turning the club into a property development scheme paid for by retained earnings and crippling loans...
Missed the nuance...Are you agreeing with me or not? Think you need to read my post again?
Football clubs exist to win games and compete for trophies - end of. Certainly not for someone to hijack it in order to increase his personal fortune, by turning the club into a property development scheme paid for by retained earnings and crippling loans...
Football clubs exist to win games and compete for trophies - end of. Certainly not for someone to hijack it in order to increase his personal fortune, by turning the club into a property development scheme paid for by retained earnings and crippling loans...
Whilst a Sheikh Mansour investror ploughing in a few billion is a lovely dream, the prospect of getting Glazer/Kronke type investors gearing up the balance sheet and sucking the life out of the profits for their personal gain makes me feel that we should stick with Lewis and Levy until the right investor comes along?