I read this morning (in The Fail admittedly) that our Chairman is "deeply unhappy with the performance of the team under our new head coach" and is now going to "tear up" our scouting plans and literally start from scratch. Here's the article for anyone who wants to see it for themselves. I've highlighted a few points (assuming they are reasonably accurate) just to raise a few points about Levy's way of thinking...
"Daniel Levy will begin a major restructuring of Tottenhamâs scouting and recruitment procedures after their poor start to the Barclays Premier League season. (1) The Spurs chairman is planning the overhaul to help manager Mauricio Pochettinoâs short-and long-term transfer activity. Although Levy is deeply unhappy with the performance of the team under their new head coach, (2) the Argentine has the chairmanâs full support.
Instead )(3) Levy is planning a shake-up to ensure the proper procedures are in place to scout and recruit talent after spending the £86million from Gareth Baleâs sale last summer. The clubâs head of analysis Jonathan Beaker has already left the club and has moved to Australia, but Levy has plans to restructure his scouting policy in the coming weeks. Spurs are still recovering from that chaotic spending spree last summer and (4) Levy wants to make sure there is a system of accountability in place after last seasonâs blame game. (5) Tottenham are widely recognised as the most political club in the Premier League and the fingers were being pointed after last seasonâs depressing results. Their director of football administration, Darren Eales, who was hugely supportive of staff at their new training ground, is serving his notice period. His departure for MLS side Atlanta, announced last month, is unrelated to his work at Spurs. He is leaving for personal reasons and is expected to complete the move to the United States in the next couple of weeks.
(6) Levy wants to bring people in to assist Pochettino before the transfer window opens in January. (7)Sporting director Franco Baldini is expected to play a key role in future plans, but Levy is driving the project. He was disappointed by the clubâs failure to push on last season under Andre Villas-Boas after he sold Bale to Real Madrid for a world record fee. Instead they squandered vast sums on Paulinho, Nacer Chadli, Roberto Soldado, Etienne Capoue, Vlad Chiriches, Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen."
1) So now the Chairman suddenly decides 2 months into the new campaign that he must back the new manager. Not logically in the summer during pre-season when he was recruited but only now, after realising with hindsight that his failure to sign the players Poch wanted was a massive disaster and now the results are exposing last season's poor transfer policies for what they are.
2) No he doesn't. If he did, he'd already have the players he wanted. Not the scraps left over from last season after Baldini and Levy's squandering of the money gained from the Bale sale.
3) Oh great, we need another shake up don't we! If there's one word that has been an ever-present under this regime for the past ten years, it is most certainly not "stability". That's the crux of it. When things don't work, Levy drops the axe. And what amazes me more is that after being at the helm for over a decade, he still hasn't cracked it at putting the right people in place to scout and recruit? If that's the case, where do you think the serious questions should be asked?
4) In other words, how can one save one's own arse from the axe after his recruitment policy? He's clearly out of options. Results and performances have been poor and he damn well knows that firing Poch this early would basically put his neck on the line too. AVB was his man. He failed. Sherwood was his caretaker. He fired him. Poch is his man and is struggling with this squad. Another managerial sacking would look ridiculous so now he's decided to blame the men behind the scenes instead. It's a constant case of who to point the finger at when things go wrong. Who's flavour of the month. Who's in. Who's out.
5) Yeah and who's the root cause of that!
6) Too little, too late.
7) So keep the very man who bought seven players who have all failed to realise their potential. So in actual reality, Levy is just picking on the small guys, who play little part and are easy targets - not the one's who made the final decision of purchasing the current squad. He's like a school playground bully. Pathetic.
Now... before the pro-Levy apologists shoot me down; I am trying to be objective here. Yes, ENIC and Levy had taken us forward in the first 6-8 years of their ownership. They did a great job of getting our finances in order. Have made us a profitable, financially stable club with excellent training facilities and are working to getting us a new stadium. Where balance sheet is concerned, plaudits are justified.
But over the past 3-4 years as a team, we have undeniably gone backwards and where recruitment is concerned, it's been chaotic. Levy's management of human resources is nothing short of laughable. I've said it over and over - he's either getting very bad advice from somewhere or is simply poor at judgement himself. Either way, the bucks stops with him and with the countless managers we've had over the past decade, the hirings, the firings and his handling of certain situations i.e Jol, Ramos, Redknapp, Sherwood etc... it shows he believes he is completely infallible.
Scores of us don't call him Teflon Dan for nothing. This latest twist in the long running soap opera at WHL is just another example of Levy trying to dodge a bullet and lay the blame on someone else. He can't turn on the manager as that would be career suicide. Instead, he sets his crosshairs on the little guy - the back room teams, the scouts. These guys just send reports back to the club on players they've watched or heard about. How they act or decide on them is down to Levy and Baldini and he bloody well knows it.
Mr. Levy - I sincerely applaud you for your astute financial acumen. You've done a sterling job to ensure our club has a solid fiscal future and brought our club back from the brink but that is now history. Please, for the sake of the game, for the glory of Tottenham, for your own pride and humility.... step aside and get Joe Lewis to appoint a new Chairman. One change is all that is required - not a recruitment fire sale. This merry-go-round cannot go on anymore.
"Daniel Levy will begin a major restructuring of Tottenhamâs scouting and recruitment procedures after their poor start to the Barclays Premier League season. (1) The Spurs chairman is planning the overhaul to help manager Mauricio Pochettinoâs short-and long-term transfer activity. Although Levy is deeply unhappy with the performance of the team under their new head coach, (2) the Argentine has the chairmanâs full support.
Instead )(3) Levy is planning a shake-up to ensure the proper procedures are in place to scout and recruit talent after spending the £86million from Gareth Baleâs sale last summer. The clubâs head of analysis Jonathan Beaker has already left the club and has moved to Australia, but Levy has plans to restructure his scouting policy in the coming weeks. Spurs are still recovering from that chaotic spending spree last summer and (4) Levy wants to make sure there is a system of accountability in place after last seasonâs blame game. (5) Tottenham are widely recognised as the most political club in the Premier League and the fingers were being pointed after last seasonâs depressing results. Their director of football administration, Darren Eales, who was hugely supportive of staff at their new training ground, is serving his notice period. His departure for MLS side Atlanta, announced last month, is unrelated to his work at Spurs. He is leaving for personal reasons and is expected to complete the move to the United States in the next couple of weeks.
(6) Levy wants to bring people in to assist Pochettino before the transfer window opens in January. (7)Sporting director Franco Baldini is expected to play a key role in future plans, but Levy is driving the project. He was disappointed by the clubâs failure to push on last season under Andre Villas-Boas after he sold Bale to Real Madrid for a world record fee. Instead they squandered vast sums on Paulinho, Nacer Chadli, Roberto Soldado, Etienne Capoue, Vlad Chiriches, Erik Lamela and Christian Eriksen."
1) So now the Chairman suddenly decides 2 months into the new campaign that he must back the new manager. Not logically in the summer during pre-season when he was recruited but only now, after realising with hindsight that his failure to sign the players Poch wanted was a massive disaster and now the results are exposing last season's poor transfer policies for what they are.
2) No he doesn't. If he did, he'd already have the players he wanted. Not the scraps left over from last season after Baldini and Levy's squandering of the money gained from the Bale sale.
3) Oh great, we need another shake up don't we! If there's one word that has been an ever-present under this regime for the past ten years, it is most certainly not "stability". That's the crux of it. When things don't work, Levy drops the axe. And what amazes me more is that after being at the helm for over a decade, he still hasn't cracked it at putting the right people in place to scout and recruit? If that's the case, where do you think the serious questions should be asked?
4) In other words, how can one save one's own arse from the axe after his recruitment policy? He's clearly out of options. Results and performances have been poor and he damn well knows that firing Poch this early would basically put his neck on the line too. AVB was his man. He failed. Sherwood was his caretaker. He fired him. Poch is his man and is struggling with this squad. Another managerial sacking would look ridiculous so now he's decided to blame the men behind the scenes instead. It's a constant case of who to point the finger at when things go wrong. Who's flavour of the month. Who's in. Who's out.
5) Yeah and who's the root cause of that!
6) Too little, too late.
7) So keep the very man who bought seven players who have all failed to realise their potential. So in actual reality, Levy is just picking on the small guys, who play little part and are easy targets - not the one's who made the final decision of purchasing the current squad. He's like a school playground bully. Pathetic.
Now... before the pro-Levy apologists shoot me down; I am trying to be objective here. Yes, ENIC and Levy had taken us forward in the first 6-8 years of their ownership. They did a great job of getting our finances in order. Have made us a profitable, financially stable club with excellent training facilities and are working to getting us a new stadium. Where balance sheet is concerned, plaudits are justified.
But over the past 3-4 years as a team, we have undeniably gone backwards and where recruitment is concerned, it's been chaotic. Levy's management of human resources is nothing short of laughable. I've said it over and over - he's either getting very bad advice from somewhere or is simply poor at judgement himself. Either way, the bucks stops with him and with the countless managers we've had over the past decade, the hirings, the firings and his handling of certain situations i.e Jol, Ramos, Redknapp, Sherwood etc... it shows he believes he is completely infallible.
Scores of us don't call him Teflon Dan for nothing. This latest twist in the long running soap opera at WHL is just another example of Levy trying to dodge a bullet and lay the blame on someone else. He can't turn on the manager as that would be career suicide. Instead, he sets his crosshairs on the little guy - the back room teams, the scouts. These guys just send reports back to the club on players they've watched or heard about. How they act or decide on them is down to Levy and Baldini and he bloody well knows it.
Mr. Levy - I sincerely applaud you for your astute financial acumen. You've done a sterling job to ensure our club has a solid fiscal future and brought our club back from the brink but that is now history. Please, for the sake of the game, for the glory of Tottenham, for your own pride and humility.... step aside and get Joe Lewis to appoint a new Chairman. One change is all that is required - not a recruitment fire sale. This merry-go-round cannot go on anymore.
