But is he spouting the truth? many have suspected Levy of meddling too much this man has first hand experience it seems
1. My understanding is that Spurcat is/was in the employ of the club (AFAIK something related to academy scouting etc) . But likely be quite a bit more ITK than most of us. 2. He rarely posts his opinions here on matters relating to THFC (which could be due to 1) . So on the above basis, I am at first glance more likely to take his opinions on this bloke more seriously. < YMMV >
I saw the banner "headline" , and my immediate question is : Has the "price point" been moving up in recent years at least in line with the rate of increase in revenues ??
Ok This isn't about who is lying out of Spurcat and this bloke. I could say out of him and yourself...with him having worked at the club...he's probably speaking the truth and you are second guessing
I wouldn't say that the guy is lying, but he doesn't really say anything. Levy was involved in transfers, Pochettino had the final word and some transfers didn't happen. He admits that he doesn't know why, but he thinks that some of them would've helped. Doesn't name any names, mention any numbers or even specify when, exactly. All a bit vague and it leaves it open for interpretation and for people to read what they want into it.
If you think about it, there's numerous examples where Levy pulling the plug would be blessed relief Case in point, if Levy stepped in to pull the plug during negotiations with Adrien Rabiot because his batshit insane mother/agent kept making one insane demand after another, then Levy would have made the right call because there comes a point where negotiations for a player are not worth another minute of the arseache And this is before other variables which would potentially cause the plug to be pulled on negotiations, such as a player breaking their leg
Some lucky team gets to negotiate with Mere Rabiot this summer, as he's out of contract at Juve. He's 28, so I assume he'll be looking for a big one. Could go either way, in my opinion.
Four years ago today we achieved one of the most remarkable come backs in the history of cup competition. Since that night, we have regressed at a rate of knots.
We were regressing badly at that time, already. Our form in the 2nd half of the 18/19 season was appalling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018–19_Tottenham_Hotspur_F.C._season Pochettino never recovered from bottling the Mike Dean bullshit.
TBH I think the Season Killer Cup semi is where things started to unravel Immediately after that we crashed out of the FA Cup and scraped a few late wins against Watford and Newcastle, soon followed by Mike "****" Dean's bullshit at Turf Moor kicking off a five game winless run in the league
I tend to agree with CK in the context that we DID turn that tie around but that spirit deserted us after the final and we have not shown it very often since with one or two exceptions.
One of the factors was the poor decision to get rid of Llorente, we missed the option he provided and we still do.
None of us took the advice on the packet... Cousin fells asleep with phone in hand 45 minutes before KO, we woke him up just as the CL music started playing
I don't think that's true. We make comebacks all the time. Pretty sure we're one of the most frequent teams that do so. The problem is that we're often in that position in the first place. Virtually all of our managers and coaches post-Pochettino have had counter-attacking systems. We sit back, cede possession and seek to hit on the break or via set-pieces. Our defence/defending isn't good enough to do so, so we go behind or struggle, at best. Then we have to go for it and our firepower often recovers a result of some kind.
We do make comebacks but I just don't see the fight, the willingness to go in and tackle. The first half against both United and Liverpool were examples we hardly laid a glove on them and then we found ourselves in the second half. As you say we sit back but they seem to have confused sitting back with not getting involved.
