The ousting of Daniel (COYS)

[THOWIG]

Vicario
Porro Romero VDV Udogie
Bissouma Bentancur
Kulusevski Maddison Son
Richarlison

Ample depth in the forward 6. The only thing I would have liked would have been an upgrade at CB but if we couldnt sell Dave or Dier then so be it. I'd llike to see us bed in Dorrington if we can somehow.

That 11 is class and is backed up by some other good players.
We all want Levy gone, but we were never shifting the amount of players needed this summers

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

6/10 window, left short again. Although it’s been far better than I thought it would such are the low expectations of our usual transfer windows.

•Vicario - 2-3 seasons overdue signing a Hugo replacement
•Udogie returning - looks great. Well done Paratici but 2-3 seasons overdue as a Rose replacement
•Van Der Ven - decent money good signing, 2-3 seasons overdue as a Vethongen replacement
•Phillips - young HG prospect, good we are making signings like this again but not directly impacting our new project
•2nd new CB required - NOT SIGNED - NO EXCUSE - disgraceful
•Porro - really signed last Jan otherwise we made no signings last Jan
•Maddison - fantastic signing, 2-3 seasons overdue as Eriksen replacement
•New CM - NOT SIGNED - mostly due to PEH & GLC staying, this I can understand and hope we sign a Gallagher etc next summer but we are ok for now
•Kulu - really signed 2 Januarys ago otherwise that Jan window we signed no-one
•Johnson - good signing to cover RW & ST
•Solomon - decent squad addition and improvement on Lucas even if it was a bit of a cheap opportunistic deal, decent little player
•Veliz - one for the future

Sold:
•Kane
•Winks

Loaned:
•Rodon
•Spence
•Tanganga
•Reguillon
•White

Retained but need to sell or rip up contract:
•Lloris
•Dier
•Ndombele

So really we made 4 decent signings, 3 of which were overdue a few years, a few youngsters, one cheap opportunistic deal and 2 deals which should be counted in previous windows, all whilst selling our best player for £100mil, only selling one other player, loaning out 4-5 and failing to sell or loan 3, in context it’s either a good chunk of the rebuild completed for a new Manager and/or it’s leaving the manager short in some areas and failing to properly offload quite a few players.

 

[0-Tibsy-0]

Vicario
Porro Romero VDV Udogie
Bissouma Bentancur
Kulusevski Maddison Son
Richarlison

Ample depth in the forward 6. The only thing I would have liked would have been an upgrade at CB but if we couldnt sell Dave or Dier then so be it. I'd llike to see us bed in Dorrington if we can somehow.

hopefully Son, Kulusevski and Richarlison can find some form between them.

 

[Original # 10]

That 11 is class and is backed up by some other good players.
We all want Levy gone, but we were never shifting the amount of players needed this summers

Say Daniel does go, how do you visualize the new regime?

 

[fishhhandaricecake]

Say Daniel does go, how do you visualize the new regime?

#anyonebutdaniel.

 

[Original # 10]

hopefully Son, Kulusevski and Richarlison can find some form between them.

Good point and amplifies how well we are doing despite the lack of statistical output from these guys. In reality they are still putting in great shifts for the greater cause

 

[rossdapep]

Sick to fucking death of him..
He is the owner equivalent of Fat Sam. A dinosaur.

Methods worked in the past but not now.

 

[funkycoldmedina]

It feels like Christmas Eve in here tonight - the night before the big meltdown.
Is everyone looking forward to it?.....1 more sleep

Merry Levymas everyone you can't say Uncle Dan hasn't delivered for this thread this year
Have another pig in blanket and forget about our sparse defence

 

[makeveli]

As long as we keep going and he turnover 6 mill a game and sells out Beyoncé tickets he don’t care we will never challenge we will always stay up but baldy always gets paid cause we allow him to, nothing we can do and he will never sell? Maybe 1 year we might get lucky like winning the lottery

 

[MattyP]

Trust Ange ffs

Ange isn’t the problem. Levy is. Always has been, always will.

 

[Ghost Hardware]

We sold the best forward in the world and probably the best player in Spurs history. We sold this player because for years the team has seemingly been considered an afterthought by those that make the decisions. We sold this player due to years of mismanagement highlighted by continued opportunistic investment where the deal always comes before the benefit of the squad. We sold this player for between £100 to £140 mil. We sold this player and spent £47mil on a potentially talented but still very raw 22 year old. We sold this player and didn’t put any real effort into covering the inevitable hole his absence would bring. We sold this player and didn’t even manage to cover up any other holes in the squad. We sold this player and yet again could not manage to properly back the manager. We sold this player because every choice and decision that has led us here was a made by a man/men who ultimately cares more about Tottenham Hotspur the business than Tottenham Hotspur the football club.

 

[Archibald&Crooks]

We sold the best forward in the world and probably the best player in Spurs history. We sold this player because for years the team has seemingly been considered an afterthought by those that make the decisions. We sold this player due to years of mismanagement highlighted by continued opportunistic investment where the deal always comes before the benefit of the squad. We sold this player for between £100 to £140 mil. We sold this player and spent £47mil on a potentially talented but still very raw 22 year old. We sold this player and didn’t put any real effort into covering the inevitable hole his absence would bring. We sold this player and didn’t even manage to cover up any other holes in the squad. We sold this player and yet again could not manage to properly back the manager. We sold this player because every choice and decision that has led us here was a made by a man/men who ultimately cares more about Tottenham Hotspurs the business than Tottenham Hotspurs the football club.

Sorry to be that guy but...............It's never, absolutely never, Hotspurs, it's Tottenham Hotspur.

 

[DanielJohnCosta]

We do.

that’s why we wanted him to get what he wanted and needed.

Spent 50 on Brennan Johnson. I’m sure he’s getting what he wants and needs

 

[Original # 10]

Ange isn’t the problem. Levy is. Always has been, always will.

Ok but what can we do? Ange is here, self quoted living the dream and will do wonders.

 

[midoshairband]

the only shocking thing is seeing people expecting it to be different each year.

until he goes, we will always be short on the pitch.

 

[SUIYHA]

It's weird. I remember when I was younger we always used to judge managers based on the players they'd signed. Arsenal had done so well because "Wenger" had signed Vieira, Henry, Pires etc whereas "Francis" had signed Vega, Sinton and Fox. I remember Sugar calling out George Graham after he'd been sacked for signing so many shit players. You could tell certain managers had massive influences on our squads - like all his clubs Redknapp signed Crouch, Defoe and Kranjcar here .Nowadays though - the credit or (more often) failures of our transfer windows are all pinned on Levy - even when we've had Directors of Football. When did this change?

I know we've had some managers come out in the past and whinge that they didn't get certain targets they wanted, but surely that's happened forever? Clubs not wanting to sell, changing their mind, hiking the price, someone else outbidding, wage demands becoming unrealistic, disagreements over valuation - as long as there's been transfers there's been that stuff. But when did we accept that a manager is just a pawn in the game and has no influence or responsibility to either help get things over the line or identify alternative targets if they can't get the first choice for whatever reason? Pochettino's comments about how they should change his job title from manager to head coach seem to have really changed people's perception on these things.

Imagine how shit the game Football Manager would be if they took the transfer element out of it. You identify which positions you think need strengthening, but don't actually get to do anything about it other than maybe tell the board, then at random moments of the game you are told that a random new player has arrived, or that the club has chosen to accept a bid for your star player and you don't have any say over it.

 

[cookiemonster]

Still so many people defending him

Stockholm syndrome is real

 

[Huddlebone]

The fall of from the last window where Paratici was in charge is so clear

 

[cliff jones]

It's weird. I remember when I was younger we always used to judge managers based on the players they'd signed. Arsenal had done so well because "Wenger" had signed Vieira, Henry, Pires etc whereas "Francis" had signed Vega, Sinton and Fox. I remember Sugar calling out George Graham after he'd been sacked for signing so many shit players. You could tell certain managers had massive influences on our squads - like all his clubs Redknapp signed Crouch, Defoe and Kranjcar here .Nowadays though - the credit or (more often) failures of our transfer windows are all pinned on Levy - even when we've had Directors of Football. When did this change?

I know we've had some managers come out in the past and whinge that they didn't get certain targets they wanted, but surely that's happened forever? Clubs not wanting to sell, changing their mind, hiking the price, someone else outbidding, wage demands becoming unrealistic, disagreements over valuation - as long as there's been transfers there's been that stuff. But when did we accept that a manager is just a pawn in the game and has no influence or responsibility to either help get things over the line or identify alternative targets if they can't get the first choice for whatever reason? Pochettino's comments about how they should change his job title from manager to head coach seem to have really changed people's perception on these things.

Imagine how shit the game Football Manager would be if they took the transfer element out of it. You identify which positions you think need strengthening, but don't actually get to do anything about it other than maybe tell the board, then at random moments of the game you are told that a random new player has arrived, or that the club has chosen to accept a bid for your star player and you don't have any say over it.

Clearly different Clubs under different regimes have bought and sold in different ways.

At our Club, there's overwhelming evidence that Levy- no matter the layers he inserts between him and the bloke sitting in the dugout- calls the shots. And has been proven over and over to both lack the expertise himself in the market, and to surround himself with others who also don't know what they're doing.

Of course he's hit the board with a few darts down the years- anyone could. FP still goes down for me as a good find, identifying a lot of really good, well-priced players from Italy.

But far too many misses and certainly a catalogue of bad judgements in the past five years that have seen us not only fall away but often bored to tears.

He must go, and you should go back to your video game.

 

[JacoZA]

I posted this in his thread, but I think it's worth posting here as well as Ange speaks quite candidly about the picking of transfer targets and being given players that would not fit his system: