sort of reminds me of that character on Little Britain, the politician who is constantly apologizing for the same c*** ups. While his 'brave wife' ( the fans) stand behind him thinking when will this c*** every learn
Good question, I see a lot of our fans slate Levy but then when asked if they would of sacked AvB and even now sack Sherwood they answer Yes to both questions. Levy isn't perfect, far from it but he does however have ambition and Spurs best interests at heart.
Not wishing to be rude or very silly clever dick (as usual) , I am sure I have had made these points many times over the last year and without boring many by repeating myself. Levy as you are aware is a failure in my eyes and many others. Silverware spells success for me but for others maybe not, 13 years under ENIC 1 minor cup, The 13 years before 2, not great but 100% better than our current buffoons. 13 years before that I think 3. As a chairman you would grow to love me , and I would be reasonably financially sensible good egg.
Wouldn't have employed either of them in the first place, I would have gone for Rudi Garcia who was available relatively cheaply at the time of the AVB appointment. However, if I had Levy's job and inherited AVB yes I would have sacked him because I couldn't stand the football he played. It wasn't Tottenham. I would have replaced him will Hoddle as an interim manager until the end of the season. In the same light if I had inherited Sherwood I would have been looking to replace him now because he needs to learn his trade in the lower leagues, one day he may be a great manager (in fact I think he will be) but he needs to make his mistakes and learn to cope with pressure elsewhere. Notwithstanding the above, almost anyone would have more of a chance of doing well than Levy. The Teflon Don is a two edged sword, he handicaps himself. Every time he sacks a manager he puts another bullet in his own foot. Very astute with finance but nobody of any standing wants to work for him, only misfits; upstarts, wide-boys and failures trying to build/rebuild their futures/reputations. Brendan Rogers politely said that he gave Spurs a miss because he felt he wouldn't get time to realise his plans. Translated into proper-speak Rogers was saying 'there's no way I'd work for that **** Levy, he'd sack me the first time I lost a game', the trigger happy f**ker.
Exactly, yet there still remains a contingent of fans that thinks the sun shines out of his arse and he can do no wrong. If top managers are now at the point of passing up the opportunity to manage Spurs, then we are being held back from fulfilling our true potential as regular top 4 contenders. Levy is a great numbers man. There's a place in the club for him to continue that great work and get our stadium plans into full swing. But please, please lord... give us a Chairman who can identify a good manager/coach to work within our club's system, nurture talent and identify top transfer targets. Levy isn't cut out to do it and the sad thing is, he know's it. He's just too power crazed to admit it!
I don't know if that was aimed at me because of my last comment, but tbh Levy isn't going anywhere so we might as well accept this and support him, after all what's the alternative? I wouldn't call him power crazed though, if he was then why would he consistently insist on having a DoF/Sporting Director etc?
We understand that he is isn't going anywhere soon, but we can not support his incompetent way he runs the football side as he never changes. Always a Dick, bitter short man syndrome . You would have said the same about the prattish Sugar but he was eventually ousted , we must never give up and except mediocrity . The DOF is a shield to deflect criticism when it is khazi time.
So why does he have to release these tepid public statements and not the DOF then? Precisely. Shows cowardice when courage is required.
How many more times has Levy got to prove his incompetence with the appointment of managers before everyone realises that this particular emperor has no clothes? Support him? What choice do any of us have? Like it or lump it, that's the start and finish of it. But why, on a debating forum, would anyone even begin to argue that he should not be criticised? Levy is standing before us all stark bollock naked, and yet some fans are getting pissed-off with me because I won't agree with them that he's dressed up like a dandy. Well, sorry, lads, but I'm telling you I can see his bollocks.
SD, mate, have you seen some of the comments tweeted to the BBC Football website? They're supposedly from Spurs fans (although I suspect some of them may well be Gooner wums), and they genuinely believe that Levy is untouchable. Okay, I'm prepared to accept that there will always be a small number who will take the contrary view to even the most reasonable of counter-arguments, but - I'm sorry - anyone who genuinely thinks that Levy deserves to be in his current job is blind.
Nah, I think we're all pretty much of the same mind on this board. Sure, there are a couple of us who are more willing to be generous towards Levy, but I think all of us would agree that he's responsible for, at the very least, part of what's happened to our club.
...and back again. What gets my goat about our esteemed Chairman is that when Redkanpp got fourth place the first time around, out came Teflon Dan to talk to the Sky cameras. All gleaming, full of himself at the amazing success he has brought to the club by hiring Harry. Onwards and upwards was the sentiment and he was all full of smiles and praise. Fast forward only a year or so... Now where is he after a few (nothing short of) dreadful managerial decisions? You can't simply cherry pick when to have a public persona when it suits you. You're either going to be out front, take the praise when it works, and take the crticism when it doesn't and stick to it. He just picks and chooses when it suits to massage his ego.
Redknapp never got us 4th, that was Vdv, Jol, Berbatov and the three musketeers. But has Levy ever spoken to the media? I can't remember a single media interview.
No, Redknapp had nothing to do with squad selection, team selection, identifying transfer targets, match day tactics, training routines. It was all the players. They got together for a regular little chit chat and managed to decided everything amongst themselves! If that's your belief, why have a manager? Let's just settle for sacking Sherwood and move on without anyone to replace him Levy was happy to speak to Sky on the day we beat Man City to get fourth. I remember it well. Can't find any footage on YouTube but trust me, it did happen.
