It wasn't aimed at you or anyone else specifically. Lots of people didn't/don't like what he's done/not done for us, on here or not. In the short-term, it's easy to get pissed off with him and Enic. I've done it myself from time to time. Looked at over a longer period of time, he's been successful in transforming us into a club that has a great future, from bein a mid-table anachronism. He does what he thinks is good for the club and doesn't get too much of that wrong. It's fun to watch Gooners disbelieving how he's got building and financing a stadium so right...so right that we're able to keep our best players and afford to buy Hojbjerg, Reguillon, etc. Not many clubs would pass up swapping their chairman for Levy and we will almost certainly be worse off when he's no longer running the club
have you watched the documentary? he impressed me in that...seems to care about the football side more than I thought he did and he’s backed his man in the transfer window. cant complain
Yes, although I thought hard about not watching it. For the most part, I'm happy with watching the football and what goes on behind closed doors is not as interesting to me. Levy's lack of media interaction hasn't helped his (or the club's) reputation but Harry and Poch speak very warmly about him as a person. Mourinho clearly has a lot of respect for him and what he's achieving...and he's Spurs through and through.
The stale transfer windows pissed a lot of us off as we could all see the club wasn’t far off being the real deal but for whatever reason they didn’t sign anybody. The last couple of windows though has seen Spurs buy lots of players and more importantly they seem to be the correct sort of players in the correct positions. After missing out on CL football and COVID-19 it’s typical Spurs to splash the cash when you least expect it
Cos if the goons are going to move for Big Sam, it will have to be sooner than later, or Pulis it is.
Interesting round of games: What do we prefer in the 18:00 KO game at the Emirates. Personally , I want a S'ton win, because a) are they going to be up there come the business end of the season? and b) last time they went top we took over immediately and c) I want Woolwich to lose. Chelski have just lost two on the trot after a long unbeaten run and could today fall to 7th. Similar could befall us if we lose today and to Leicester at the weekend. This season is just crazy and wide open.
Do not care at this moment, apart from banter reasons. Once we reach the stage where PL match results mean that rival teams can open a big pts gap above/below Spurs, then I care.
What's happened since the summer of 2018 lends significant support to the oft-quoted line, that Levy made money available but Poch didn't want the players we could afford, who wanted to come and whose clubs would sell. That summer, Lyon just wouldn't sell Ndombele...that's hardly Levy's fault. Poch getting the sulks, just hurt the club...and in the end, him as a manager. I've long suspected that we ****ed up the Grealish move because Poch saw him as a lesser option than Ndombele and others and wouldn't say yes to a viable alternative until it was too late. Grealish would have been a perfect Levy purchase...young, home grown, club freshly relegated, Jonathan Barnett as agent, etc, etc. I am enjoying that we're back to buying players like Hojbjerg and Rodon. It's what we do best.
I wouldn't argue with that...but players like Sandro, Big Vic, Daws, Carrick, Danny Rose and Kyle Walker were stonking buys, where others hadn't seen what we did. It's a huge shame that the first two had their careers ruined by injury and the last two aren't remembered fondly. Even Bale was a bargain and I'll be happy to see us do more of that kind of business in the future
Anybody remember Bert Head the manager who took Palace to the top division for the first time and kept them there for a few seasons, mostly by buying older players at bargain prices. I think he was someone in the Harry Redknapp mould who could spot a player that others hadn't noticed and who knew how to build a team.
I remember that Palace team, and a few names have stuck - Johnnie Jackson, Mel Blythe, John Craven (no not that one), and Martin Hinshelwood are players that I recall from them being one of the London teams that featured regularly on the Big Match. They also had players like Bobby Tambling, Charlie Cooke, Alan Whittle and Don Rogers who made their names elsewhere.
