The bare stat overlooks:
1. The choices made by Levy and
2. The money splurged by those two hasn’t always represented value for money and/or a wise assessment of the player’s abilities or suitability for the PL.
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1. The choices made by Levy and
2. The money splurged by those two hasn’t always represented value for money and/or a wise assessment of the player’s abilities or suitability for the PL.
When Liverpool forked out big for VVD and Alisson they overtook us and won CL followed by the Premier League. We, on the other hand, penny-pinched, ended up with multiple Option B, C or D players that probably cost us more overall and what have they got us? Scary thing is that nothing seems to have been learned
Ive always banged on about how Levy lacks the minerals to speculate in order to accumulate. The penny pincher hasn’t got a clue about football or a footballer. He could have purchased Grealish for what is pennies and flogged him to City for 100 mill but he didn’t have the football know how the likes of you and I have on a football forum and because of that he has missed out on a juicy 75 mill windfall.
His vision is skewed.
You have to take into account the small matter of selling Coutinho for 142 million that enabled the spending. To describe our transfers as penny pinching is too strong. I think. We are always going to miss out on some targets because of competition from other clubs with greater resources but we are getting closer to competing with the top clubs and as the new stadium funds kick in it will reduce the gap further. You always have to take into account that funds are not unlimited and if we blow all our resources on one player it can leave us light in other areas. We need more than one defender for example so we need to be able to fund two which does put a limit on the cost of one.
Ignoring the reality of the Grealish situation with new owners refusing to sanction a sale turns your argument to dust.
Like I said, he probably ended up buying 4 or 5 players for the same amount or more than Liverpool paid for the 2 players in question. It's not about not having the money to spend... but how he spends it
We had the chance to buy him before the new owners stepped in
we offered a paltry sum and we’re playing silly beggars at a time that Villa were willing to sell due to financial issues…within the same time frame the new owners stepped in and told Levy to **** off with his ridiculous offers
I think it’s your tunnel visioned unconditional backing of the owners that makes your arguments for him dust tbh mate. You’re that Levysta who I have never seen criticise Levy…no man who understand football would go without criticising levy and his footballing decisions in the time he has been here…yet the way you go on you’d buy his bottled farts.
Great argument Spurlock. Utter bollocks but very funny.
great reply mate, I’ll take that as a ‘spot on again, Spurlock’
That goes without saying but he has often balked at spending a large chunk on 1 quality player that would have taken us forward and instead ended up spending more on 2 or 3 players that were mediocre at best, collectively cost us more in wages and were then difficult to shift. I'd like to call it a false economy but it wasn't even economical, more like eco-comical.
As an example, in 2016 we bought Sissoko, Janssen and N'Koudou. The Sissoko and Janssen money alone would have got us a decent striker.
That's true but it comes back to judgements on players and that is never an exact science. And the performance of players in the team is always hindsight, all teams suffer from this situation not just Spurs.
Grealish will not rock the boat at Villa Park and demand a move despite his desire to speak to Tottenham. Spurs' opening offer of £3million plus Josh Onomah - who spent last season at Villa - was rejected and while they got close to the £25million asking price, Villa eventually told them Grealish was not for sale(The Independant)
classic Levy taking the piss before he embarrasses himself without knowing it.
classic Levy taking the piss before he embarrasses himself without knowing it.
I think it’s fair to criticise Levy for not being proactive at times, and fair to criticise the whole management of the squad since the Poch team began to peak. But we’ve never been in a comparable situation to Liverpool in having that one player who was in high demand who we could sell without missing and plug gaps. By the time we had serious gaps, they were too numerous to fix with one/two incomings and the players who would fetch the fees to do it were too important.
We can all point to players missed and weak signings but it's always in hindsight and from the safety of not having to make the 'real' decisions which affect livelihood's and the long term future of the club. I defend Levy because overall he has presided over a good period for Spurs and taken the club forward in the football world. I don't actually like the whole system of neo liberal financing of football and the exclusion of fans from the whole process. For example I think Levy should look very closely at the cost for fans of watching Spurs. He needs to maximise income to compete but he also needs to make the games accessible to it's core support I don't think he pays enough attention to that.