Having Di Canio would be like appointing John "iron my hood, bitch!" Terry or Frank "another slice of pizza, please" Lampard.
Whoever we appoint, I don't want them to be solely Levy's choice. He has to take this fully on his shoulders. Frankly, Levy's appointment record has be laughable and he should step down at the end of the season and work elsewhere within the ENIC structure. The sackings of Jol, Ramos, Redknapp and his little lap dog AVB were all embarrassing for different reasons. The hiring of Santini, Jol, Ramos and Redknapp were also all under odd circumstances that all lead to more ridiculous situations. He really is in his last chance saloon if you ask me!
Under Levy we've gone from being nowhere to our second best run of league finishes ever. This despite the fact that at least 5 clubs have more money than us. What more do you expect?
Er...well, we could start with, how about he stops wasting ENIC's millions hiring wastes of space like Santini, Ramos, and the most clueless of them all, AVB!!...
Are you for real? The man is a deceiving twat. We don't sell our best players - give it 4 weeks and they are being paraded around the Bernebau. Yes he gets a few million quid off a signing and a tough negotiator but his managerial appointments have been shocking.
Strategically or by sheer luck? Come on PowerSpurs, the Santini appointment, Jol sacking during a match, the Ramos meeting debacle, Redknapp's 4th place finish sacking and now AVB has been farcical. Levy's decision making at times has been nothing short of pathological. Jol was rounded on like a chapter from Julius Ceasar. Redknapp for all his faults was fired because of personal pride. AVB is just another one in a long line of ridiculous appointments that should never have happened. Where does it end? And don't get me started on his buying and selling brinkmanship... Spurs are the great underachievers of the league so I could argue after all the millions we've spent that we should have achieved more!
Yes - because its well known that hiring a football manager is an easy decision - ours actually last longer than most I don't get it at all, we had a clueless manager, hired by an idiot chairman and we signed a bunch of dross. Yet we're still above the Champions......
For most of the 20 years before Levy we were in the top five richest clubs and came about 9th on average. Everyone makes mistakes - you have to see the good decisions too
The fact that Levy has polarised opinion amongst the fans tells me all I need to know. If we all can't agree that he's good for the club, then he's probably not good for the club!
At the moment!....there is nothing wrong with our squad, save the the lack of a top striker. The vast majority of Premiership managers would give their eye teeth for our current squad. They have just been severely mismanaged, that's all. Utd 's case is completely different. Firstly they actually had a manager for more than a year or so!...secondly, the shortcomings of their current squad have been there for all to see for a while. Last season under Fergie they massively over achieved, this season under Moyes their deficiencies are far more obvious. It seems to be plainly obvious to the majority of fans that Levy carries the can for a series of disastrous managerial appointments. The only one he got anywhere near right was Harry, and that was only because he was in a panic after having to fire up yet another of his ****-ups!!
He was only a stepping stone in the right direction and did us well, but he was never taking us the step further imo. The manner of his dismissal was the only f/up. I don't quite get the BMJ love in tbh. Great bloke an all that, but not a top manager, his tactics of trying to see out slender leads backfired plenty of times. He's had mixed fortunes since, so i don't see what the fuss is about, good manager yes, but not enough for us, not before or now.
AVB appointment was Levy telling everyone he was a clever ****er. A self gratifying , vanity, decision from our money man. His policy of selling our best players every 2 years is destroying the team. Heaven help us if he stays .
"He was only a stepping stone in the right direction and did us well, but he was never taking us the step further imo." So since then, two steps forward one step back. Managers who are not up to it, followed by managers who do not appear to be able to move upwards when the pressure/expectation is well and truly on after the initial improvement.
My opinions on AVB are well known but I'm amazed Spurs fans continue to let Levy off scot-free. A fish rots from the head down...
If you read a lot of the comments on the several threads on here District, many of us including myself think Levy's time has come to step down.
You should know Levy has come in for criticism before and is under it now, there are plenty of fans here questioning his appointment history. Atm, the list is managers, I'd like to add DOF's to that, Comollli was hired by Levy, an unprecedented club disaster imo, and we are in the midst of another in Baldini, again just my opinion.
Disagree all of that, to be honest. What's Levy supposed to do if Madrid, Man Utd and the like keep throwing tens of millions at us and destabalising our best players via agents and the press? We can't compete financially with clubs like that and it'd be suicide to try.
