That all sounds quite sensible...although your first X1 is a bit Ossie Ardiles with two wing backs and no proper defensive midfielder. With no other additions the reserve players would be Lloris, Forster Spence, Emerson, Dier, Rodon, Davies Skipp, Hojbjerg, Sarr, Winks, White Gil, Devine, Perisic Richarlison, Scarlett, Parrott So we would need to get rid of 4 of those either by sale or loan
I presume you are referring to Levy, who following a root and branch review of the football side of the business, has had to cede all input into it and authority over it...to someone who has never run a club in Europe, let alone in England?
It could be all them negatives you pointed out but it could be all the positives you choose to ignore too. I'm quite sick of the fear mongering Spurs fans tbh. In life change is necessary at times and I don't see why it's not the case with a football club. Like I said the other day...none of us had heard of the Iranian billionaire who was apparently interested in us a few months back but you seem to want to believe nothing beyond Levy can be positive levy and ENIC have reached their point of incompetency...everything they do from here on in once they completed the white elephant has been a disaster and maybe you can enlighten the rest of us with why you are so confident that he's getting it right next time...I'll happily provide you with a list of brainfarts that suggest he won't be getting it right. It's once again lazy to make remarks like...he got Conte/Mourinho therefore Levy must be ambitious. Yes...he spent money...not necessarily backed the manager hence why Conte wouldn't play the club purchases. We needed a CB best he could provide was a loan...qué the excuses for why he couldn't purchase someone on a permanent...our goals against shows that he wasn't backed where required because he doesn't understand football does he. no mate, what he did was buy something expensive to fill the cracks because his vision when it comes to the football is quite linear. He doesn't understand football one bit...he thinks you just change the man at the top and all will be well because he thinks Spurs are a shop...change the manager and he will re organise the staff. Hence why we still hold onto players like Sanchez and Dier who have outlasted 5 managers. Stop making excuses for the one common denominator that is always overseeing every decision we are making which happens to be a brainfart. It's ok getting Conte in but if you don't quite understand how Conte works to get his success then there is no point in hiring Conte is there? If you are arrogant enough to believe that you will get Conte in then mould him into your lakky and yes man then that just further proves the point that Levy is clueless...and that is what happened. Every road of scrutiny leads to Levy...every single one. I really couldn't give a **** anymore about 'how far' he has brought us. Don't know about you but I expect some kind of progress from anyone who occupies a hot seat for 23 years. The point is he can't take us any further and some of us can see it whilst others are blinded due to some sense of gratification towards him because he built a new ****ing stadium. The last season at WHL read along the lines of Played 19 Won 17 draws 2. He even messed up the timing of our departure and then he thought it was a great idea to stagnate when we were in a position of strength by boycotting the transfer market There's clubs who can't even dream of new stadiums but they rub shoulders with us on the pitch...clubs that were in leagues below not long back. I'm not interested in Levy's smokes n mirrors and I owe him **** all. I want to try someone else's vision of running my football club this is not ENIC FC.
The Iranian Billionaire worth about 2Bn who was going to buy a club worth more than that? Since you don't think having the club's best run ever in league position is progress it's hard to imagine what you would regard as so.
Sorry mate but it's not fantasy it's reality So the OWNER will be mentioned when most factors of the runnings of the club are brought to the fore.
It's an example to make the Levystas realise that head chopping Arabs aren't the only option So maybe next time those obsessed with the murderous Arabs can mention the possibility of other billionaires being interested. Who cares about the Iranian if that's all he's worth but my point still remains...there's other interested parties in the world than murderous Arab sport washing billionaires like many Spurs fans would have us believe due to their loyalties to ENIC
It’s more than that though. Having players in the squad who aren’t up to scratch can have a material negative affect on the pitch and consequentially financially for the club. Not to mention sub-par players taking up non-HG spots etc. Players are financially viewed as assets but football isn’t a normal business. Sometimes you have to sell under value for the good of the club.
I'd take an attacking system and formation for a while after multiple years of mind numbing defensive football to be honest, I miss enjoying football. I think natural FBs and natural WBs can cover their secondary role more than adequately. Rose and Walker could, Davies can to a degree, Reguilon can too, you just have to be a good enough player, something Sessegnon, Emerson and Doherty aren't/ weren't. Perisic would be different due to already being a natural winger playing LWB but I'd rather from next season we utilise him solely as a winger, with him and Gil supporting Son and Kulusevski. I don't think DM will be a huge issue, Bentancur is extremely capable of the defensive side of the game and the Bissouma of Brighton is the closest player we'd probably get to a Mousa Dembele, there'd be steel and quality with that pairing. We'll have Skipp to utilise too if required. Emerson, Rodon, Winks and Richarlison could all easily be added to the Phase 1 group of outs, it's just whether those at the club are capable of selling so many players in one go, if not, don't register them for next season. Scarlett and White will likely head out on loan anyway, possibly Parrott too, though I'd be for giving him a go as Kane's understudy, he can't be any worse than Richarlison and he'd be a HG option too.
I would be entirely happy for ENIC to sell up to some possible buyers. What I'm not happy with is fans trying to drive out the club's best ever owner with absolutely no idea of who their replacement might be. I don't have loyalties to ENIC by the way...only to Spurs.
Anyone trying to run or understand a football club like he's running the local Tesco express hasn't got a jiffy about football...those involved in it and the whole dynamics of the Sport It is a Sport...even though Levy has convinced many that the ultimate win is a shiny new stadium to boast about. look at us...we call ourselves top 6...but the only ones who don't win on the pitch. However of all the top 6 we have the best 'infrastructure' and Levy has successfully convinced some that the stadium is our trophy. Levy who can't do no wrong skimped on furlough, Levy who can't do no wrong jumped at the chance of joining the SL. He's a money pig a parasite sucking the football out of our club and trying to replace it with corporate visions This man isn't capable of doing the hard yards on the pitch to get us to the top so he found other ways...ways that work for his business. If Spurs succeed in the meantime..then woohoo but if they don't then oh well ENIC still make money through other avenues. our interest is 4th spot, the money spinning banker...this is his crossroads and has been since Poch pointed out that the new house needs new furniture...he's not capable he's been choking on this crossroads for 5 years Get out of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club
Change is inevitable for sure but the big change has been in football itself and in our case the Premier League itself. ENIC arrived in 2001, Abramovich arrived at Chelsea in 2003 and the Oil Men at City in 2008. Those are the two big changes that have affected the whole league. Now Newcastle by Saudi Arabia. I wouldn't want any of those running Spurs and it's likely if that were to happen that I would find another club to support. I support Spurs because I decided to many many years ago on the whim that my parents had met in Tottenham in 1945 and their football was attractive and I loved Danny Blanchflower's comments on the game. Spurs had a football ethic that I could subscribe to. That has been rocked in recent years mainly IMO because money has taken a far bigger place in the game following the set up of the PL and birth of Murdoch's Sky. Both institutions I hate and if I was starting out now I am not sure I would be that keen on football at all. We now see cheating and diving as the norm with very subjective refereeing that I am more and more convinced is based on financial considerations rather than sporting ones. ENIC are not innocents, far from it, but they have run the club as a legitimate business, financing it from the game as it should be. Despite the likes of City and Chelsea they have steered Spurs higher up the league. I am not disputing with you that Levy has not made a lot of football mistakes but he seems to be aware of his own shortcomings by employing a football director on more than one occasion and most have been a disaster. I could argue that Paratichi has done a decent job but of course that is probably about to collapse as well. Now he has employed a new man to oversee football at Spurs so clearly Levy sees the need to bring in football expertise , but there is the problem and the reason why I find your position untenable. Look at the record of any PL football club and find one who has not suffered setbacks making choices about players and management. You could point to clubs like Southampton, Brighton and Bournemouth and say they have done a better job than Spurs but we are not now at their level. We are eating at the top table and competing with the top teams for players. Spurs are in the most difficult position. The New Stadium is about increasing Spurs income AND profile to compete and is the reason IMO we are in the top six at all. We have had a **** season, there is no argument but what you are wishing for could result in a **** 10 or 20 years. That would be far worse than what we have now. The first job is to produce some watchable football, without that stadium receipts will continue to slide and the task just gets harder. At the moment we have something to build on but if you knock out the foundations then who knows what will happen.
Nice rant. But the only thing that will lead to sustained success on the pitch is more money. That's an absolute fact and it has been true for decades and is becoming more true each year. That's why the stadium is important.
You need to spend that money wisely though. It's pointless having high income if you then spend it on players like Richarlison, Lo Celso, Ndombele etc. The Richarlison one more than anything is quite possibly the dumbest decision this football club has done with regards to a transfer. Breaking your club record signing for a ridiculously overpriced average backup is what our rival fans would call Spursy. Mid-April and zero domestic goals to his name, it's beyond a joke. We won't move forward and be successful if we continue signing these sorts of players, doesn't matter how much money we have and make.
Each of those players seems to have been signed because the then current coach wanted them and that's probably the best way to try to waste money. However it ought to be impossible to systematically do worse than average in the transfer market as if there was such a strategy then doing the opposite would be successful and that seems beyond anyone.
Are you describing the stadium as a white elephant? Either I'm missing your point or completely disagreeing with you, but not sure which!
I would love to think Kane will be around, but it ain't happening... Probably same with Sonny I fear. Agree with most of the rest, although I really want to see Sarr and Spence be given a chance somehow. And, in a huge turnaround, I'd be happy to keep Emerson, who was starting to look like a decent - if limited - player. I'm also a fan of Ben Davies who provides defensive consistency and would still give 100% off the bench if we find an upgrade as first choice LCB. (Lenglet certainly isn't!). I'm also less than convinced about Romero, whose talent is getting masked by poor discipline and decision-making. But forking out for another RCB would be ridiculous at this stage with so many other priorities. Under the right coach and injury-free, I also agree that Bissouma could be a top player - the one that was so impressive for Brighton.
It really isn't. It's simply there to make more money for the club. However given your model of how the Club should operate, which seems to depend on a billionaire injecting their own money in whatever amount is necessary to buy success, I can see that it's not essential to have a stadium at all, never mind a good one. The Chelsea model.
