Sincerely hope your right, but I don’t see it. I see a flurry of incomings at reasonable fees, and obvious departures, as well as perhaps 1 or 2 we’ll maybe be surprised at losing in this window. Then a massive Kane deal (sale) at the end of the window.
We’re just gonna have to see how it pans out I guess. Be interesting to see what happens to Dortmund’s players too as that will affect the market for Kane.
We are miles away from challenging City but everyone else is within reach with only minor improvements. If we hadn't conceded the last minute goals against Newcastle, West Ham and Liverpool, all of which had dodgy refereeing decisions, we would have finished third last season. A few upgrades in the weaker spots, a coach who can actually make a difference on the pitch should make us a little better.
Just posted this in the club watch thread by accident lol. Interesting that his role at Juve evolved from more of a traditional DoF (scouting players and managers etc.) to a more broad role around football operations. Sounds like it’s the latter he’s coming in to head up here, with obvious oversight over transfers and managers as a part of that. I’m sure the new structure will come out eventually, I imagine the THST will ask about it in due course at a minutes meeting so we’ll get to see it laid out by Levy.
Tbh it could've gone in either mate, lol. Yeah I think he's coming in to basically be Levy MK2 but purely for the footballing side. Ideally what I've been calling for for some time too so hopefully he doesn't let me down! Lol. Hopefully Levy can now solely focus on the business aspects for the club, there's no other person I'd want running that side of things for us but I'm hopeful this is the start of him moving away from the footballing aspects, providing Fabio is as good as his reputation/ history suggests.
Ok handily he basically lays it out here So first team, recruitment, academy, and the women’s side of it.
Ok I’m posting this one here because this thread gets more traffic lol Honestly very surprised to see Levy doing a video like this, as he’s notoriously private (a fact he references in the vid a few times). He’s quite defensive of his record over his time as Chairman, perhaps understandably. A few salient points: confirms that managers have turned down players, without mentioning names says that a lot of the managers linked in the press haven’t even been spoken to won’t be drawn on Kane beyond saying that he’ll do what’s best for the club even if that means certain people don’t get what they want To me it’s quite a defensive interview, which I get given the recent criticism, and obviously it’s being out out through club channels so it’s going to have a lean on it. But it’s interesting to see him speak directly to fans because we don’t see that too often. I think it’s a sign he’s feeling the heat a bit. Hopefully with this message and the Paratici news, a new manager is imminent.
YOU ARE (see below) . "the club should be run by people with the same level of ambition of those at the clubs that win most of the trophies, criminals or not." Which by definition includes people who are murderers, because they too can have the "same level of ambition of those at the clubs that win most of the trophies" .
It does seem a little odd to me but maybe there’s some legal stuff that has to be finalised so he can officially be a director. I’m not sure. I imagine he’s already working on the manager and signings though as has been reported, it would make little sense otherwise. ‘Little sense’ is an apt summary of much Spurs activity recently though so let’s see what comes out in the wash.
^^^just to come back on my point above KH, apparently Patrici is officially contracted to Juve until the end of June. So he’s unofficially working for us right now but can’t officially take a role as an MD until July 1st.
Happy to see Levy confirm what I thought was the position on most issues. I have no doubt it will not change the mindset of the people who want him out but hopefully an improving football team will do that.
Yeah this wasn't a spontaneous interview, he's done this knowing full well fan discontent is at its highest under his stewardship. Fair play to him for doing it, loved the fact he's admitted we'll be looking to move players on and getting their agents to look for moves, that more than anything is what I want to see at the moment. Said it many times but I'm sick of some of the players at this club and I can't wait to hopefully see the back of some. The manager turning down players comment was absolutely in response to the 18/19 window where we know Poch turned down a few. In a way I'm glad he said that too, I'm all for Levy criticism but on social media and even on here, too many have blamed him solely for that summer even when at the time Ally Gold and others were mentioning the manager was turning players down. I'm hoping Paratici's arrival, his message at the end of the season and now this interview is a sign he and the club realise a lot of mistakes have been made and are now looking ar repairing things, both at the club and with fans.
Even unofficial working would be a bit of a risk while contracted to someone else. I'm surprised he hasn't got a non compete clause with a few months out required as he must know things about Juventus's transfer plans which could be damaging to them if Spurs knew them.
As long as you realise that mistakes will always be made in football because of the nature of the beast. I am content with the obvious fact that Levy wants a better result for the team and a better position in the league. The ambition is there and the tiny clue is spending something like 1.5 Billion on infrastructure alone and his commitment that the income from the clubs activities goes into the team.
There may be a non disclosure agreement in place but let's not forget that the knowledge in Patrici's head is what Spurs are buying.
Mistakes are fine to a degree but there's been too many in recent years and he's been rightly criticised for them. Paratici likely wouldn't have been hired if things hadn't been so terrible over the last few years. He's been hired with an immense amount of pressure on his shoulders to sort out the mess we're in.
Shows he’s learning (finally) by appointing Paratici as general manager. I quite liked the interview, showed his passion for the club and shows he cares.
