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Spurlock said:
Just need Levy to **** off somewhere somehow...he’s **** when it comes to football and I’m sick of pretending I give a **** about his business ventures...he needs to be busy plotting our summer on the football pitch

There will be no good to come out of this for Spurs, the football club. It’l be like our ****ty arrangements he made with Madrid, it’s the same as when he holds out for a buck or holds onto a buck and costs us on the field.

Plus I’m sick of this club investing in my time by putting timeframes on things. Then when that time comes no **** is to be found to be able to blame and he throws the manager under the bus and we all move on. He’s controlled 20 years of my life supporting Spurs...he’s **** and outlasted 2 wives, I’ve had 2 kids, one has become a man, lost loved ones...yet this **** is still here calling the shots on my emotions when it comes to Spurs.

It’s boring now...it’s not football...he’s no football man. I’m convinced he went and plonked himself in the canteen because he knows he’s ****ing clueless but wants to give off the opposite whiff to the gullible.

A big part of me want the wheels to totally come off, a part of me wants Kane to leave, he deserves better and maybe those amongst us who can’t get enough of ENIC will realise they have no intention of turning us into an elite team. I won’t put any money into the club, haven’t done for years and won’t do till ENIC go because they don’t stick to their end of the deal...the shaisty wheeler dealer Del Boy imitating twat.
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I'm with you regarding not putting any money into the club until they sort their **** out.

The football club needs someone running it who isn't responsible for a whole load of other ****. It can't be someone's hobby and it ain't Hitchen.
 
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The RDBD said:
Then THFC are taking the lease on the golf club in order to
get development rights on the land between the golf course and
the Spurs training ground.

This is the Faustian pact that Enfield council are making in
order to get the losses off their books.

There is good PR for Spurs if they get the golf club reopened
and still accessible to the "everyman" golfer. If Levy is remotely
involved, no doubt he will get a management regime in that
makes things run at break even at the minimum,
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I wouldn't have thought it would be difficult to promote the place with the players we've got on our books.
A few clips of them playing a round on it after training would probably go a long way.
There's a flyover for each hole, if anyone's interested:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdmW1mrely0Go2PFC4Yyg7w/videos

Doesn't look **** to my untrained eye, but I'm clueless about golf. Other things too, but definitely golf! <laugh>
 
PleaseNotPoll said:
I wouldn't have thought it would be difficult to promote the place with the players we've got on our books.
A few clips of them playing a round on it after training would probably go a long way.
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AFAIK, it and the Picketts Lock course are the only ones
in the borough that do not require membership to play on
(although members no doubt get first choice on tee-off times) .

So that aspect is what needs to be preserved for PR purposes.
However I could see a Levy type raising the prices significantly
etc if necessary to make it a going concern.
 
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The fact that Mourinho's got nothing to say would suggest that he's had his wings clipped and that further hanging players out to dry will affect the terms under which he leaves.

This is ****ing ludicrous but as always, it's all about the money.
 
Spurlock said:
Just need Levy to **** off somewhere somehow...he’s **** when it comes to football and I’m sick of pretending I give a **** about his business ventures...he needs to be busy plotting our summer on the football pitch

There will be no good to come out of this for Spurs, the football club. It’l be like our ****ty arrangements he made with Madrid, it’s the same as when he holds out for a buck or holds onto a buck and costs us on the field.

Plus I’m sick of this club investing in my time by putting timeframes on things. Then when that time comes no **** is to be found to be able to blame and he throws the manager under the bus and we all move on. He’s controlled 20 years of my life supporting Spurs...he’s **** and outlasted 2 wives, I’ve had 2 kids, one has become a man, lost loved ones...yet this **** is still here calling the shots on my emotions when it comes to Spurs.

It’s boring now...it’s not football...he’s no football man. I’m convinced he went and plonked himself in the canteen because he knows he’s ****ing clueless but wants to give off the opposite whiff to the gullible.

A big part of me want the wheels to totally come off, a part of me wants Kane to leave, he deserves better and maybe those amongst us who can’t get enough of ENIC will realise they have no intention of turning us into an elite team. I won’t put any money into the club, haven’t done for years and won’t do till ENIC go because they don’t stick to their end of the deal...the shaisty wheeler dealer Del Boy imitating twat.
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Epic rant, 9/10. <applause>

It's a real conundrum for me. I think @PowerSpurs makes a good point in that since ENIC took over, no other club has improved its global standing and financial strength as consistently as us. The only exceptions to that rule have been Chelsea and City, who basically did it by money laundering. Most other big clubs have visibly declined.

What I admire most about ENIC is that they came in with a long-term vision in an increasingly short-term-fix world, stuck to it, and for the most part it has paid off. The new stadium didn't pop into existence 5 years ago. The first blueprints and plans were drawn up as far back as 2007 - coincidentally the time when BMJ had broken into the top 6 and got us rubbing shoulders with Europe's elite for the first time in a generation. The fact that the stadium was a vision they stuck to and delivered over 12 years deserves a huge amount of respect and certainly calls into question anyone who doesn't think they have the club's best interests at heart. Compare that to the way Mike Ashley has treated Newcastle in the same period of time (he became majority shareholder in 2007) and it is night and day. Within 2 years, they were relegated and since then have only finished in the top half of the PL once.

Levy recognised that the only alternative to the money laundering solution was sustained, consistent growth; inching forwards year on year. And we have done that.

It is also difficult to blame ENIC entirely for the lack of trophies when you could just as easily blame Poch's tactics and squad management. And I do, despite looking at Poch as a father figure. He screwed up. More than once. That 16/17 and 17/18 team was comfortably good enough to win things. We just couldn't get over the line.

The area I feel Levy is worst at is in how to sometimes be reactive rather than always being pro-active. This is especially true when things move 'ahead of schedule', as they did under Redknapp and Poch. He doesn't seem to have the capacity to make good decisions under pressure or 'on the fly'. So when the pro-active projections show that you'll need a Pochettino to maneuver you into the top 4, complete the stadium move, then bring in a Mourinho to win the big ones, he doesn't know what to do or even how to do it if and when that projection is shortened by 2-3 years, which is exactly what happened under Poch (in that he got us challenging for the title and doing well in Europe 2 years before the stadium move) and also under Harry (who got us into the CL in his first full season).

That, imo, has been his biggest shortcoming. He is terrible at strengthening from an unexpected position of strength. It's as if the 10/11 or 16/17 teams didn't warrant major investment because they 'weren't supposed to be that good so soon' and weren't playing to the script.

I really hope that the failure of this season has finally taught him this lesson.
 
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I read it and it was a pretty flat factual report of Mourinho ducking the question of why we can't defend a lead and that he may never answer that question...which is common currency elsewhere.

I'm guessing the club thought fans' responses should be silenced, so that, like her Maj, Levy can ignore the ever increasing ****storm around him, whilst enjoying the smell of fresh paint everywhere he goes....
 
"Thanks for that Brian" said:
I read it and it was a pretty flat factual report of Mourinho ducking the question of why we can't defend a lead and that he may never answer that question...which is common currency elsewhere.

I'm guessing the club thought fans' responses should be silenced, so that, like her Maj, Levy can ignore the ever increasing ****storm around him, whilst enjoying the smell of fresh paint everywhere he goes....
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Why can't we defend a lead? Specifically because that's exactly what we try to do.
How many times this season have we played on the front foot, looked the better team, had plenty of chances, taken the lead and then sat back?
It makes no ****ing sense. Why change the thing that got you in front in the first place? Keep ****ing attacking.
 
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PleaseNotPoll said:
Why can't we defend a lead? Specifically because that's exactly what we try to do.
How many times this season have we played on the front foot, looked the better team, had plenty of chances, taken the lead and then sat back?
It makes no ****ing sense. Why change the thing that got you in front in the first place? Keep ****ing attacking.
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Mourinho's a scorpion.......it's all he's got.
 
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