Things most spurs fans agree on;
1. We are immeasurably better on and off the field (in the Premier league era) under Levy and Enic than before them.
2. The new stadium was a great achievement.
Some fans are still fully behind Enic and Levy continuing and some are totally against them continuing.
My personal opinion is that Levy should no longer have any say in footballing matters because since 2019 he has taken decisions which have dragged us backwards on the pitch.
The ones that spring to mind are:
1. In Pochettino's last full season we scrapped 4th cos Arsenal screwed up in their second to last game against Brighton.
He also got us to the CL final.
2. JM replaced him even though he did a poor job at getting United to play good football. Yes they won a trophy but very few (if any) United fans wanted him to stay even after they won EL. His man management, tactics and style of football alienated players and the fans.
3. The club sacked JM 2 months too late and only did so to take the heat of their moronic decision to join the ESL. It didn't matter to them that we were in disarray with a cup final just 6 days later.
4. It became obvious that there was no succession planning when we spent an embarrassing 12 weeks almost begging people to be our manager before bringing in Nuno and announcing he'd bring back exciting football to the club.
5. After the predictable car crash we got Conte who got us to 4th spot on the last day of the season cos Arsenal screwed up by losing their 2nd to last game of the season (sound familiar?)
We are visibly worse than we were in 2019.
That is ALL down to decisions taken by Levy.
Levy employed a manager renowned for having to but the best, most expensive players to win things playing pretty boring football (the complete opposite of Pochettino) but didn't give him a fortune to spend. So all we got were a handful of watchable game and a ton of boring football without winning.
Levy then went for Nuno who had a reputation for not needing tons of money (another complete opposite turn) and he gave us some mind numbingly football.
Levy then switched back to a "buying top players" manager in Conte.
There was no consistency in those decisions.
Either we get in a JM/Conte type and give them what they demand or we get a manager in who brings through and buys young players like Jol, Pochettino or Redknapp.
I have no faith that Levy will implement a long term strategy and employ a suitable managerial team to follow that through.
We have had three managers that have left us in a better place than when they found us in their time with us.
Jol was not his choice so he's only made two good managerial decisions out of eleven (I've excluded Jol). By any standards that's pretty poor.
Brilliant post and an excellent summary
Levy the businessman is a genius.
Levy the football 'expert' is a buffoon who occasionally stumbles across a good decision and when it falls in his lap, he doesn't know what to do with it.
As Paratici gets dragged further towards a Turin court of law, we're starting to see Levy's fingerprints on things again. The ridiculous dallying over Porro only to spend exactly what Sporting were asking for a month earlier, the current indecisiveness over Conte and the total lack of cohesive vision moving forward. All these have Daniel's hallmark on them and I worry if Paratici does as is expected receive a lengthy ban, things will regress to the sort of nonsense we saw in the Amazon series where even relatively minor players apparently have the prerogative to sit down with the chairman of a billion pound company over a croissant and discuss transfer deals, or of the chairman sitting down with new signings to give them little pep talks about how with hard work he passed his GCSEs.
Levy approaches business like one of the most shrewd and thorough operators in the world. But he approaches football like a child with a computer game, stumbling from decision to decision too often with stars in his eyes (Mourinho) or delusions of grandeur (Conte), hoping he gets something right.
I am more than happy for ENIC to remain in place as they are in all likelihood far better than the alternatives and tbh if building go kart tracks is the alternative to dismembering journalists in an embassy, so be it.
But an uncompromisingly strong divide at executive level needs to be drawn between 'business' and 'pleasure' and Levy in particular should have absolutely no say in the latter apart from setting the annual budget for purchases and wages. He should only be stepping in at times of real crisis such as if a player is guilty of gross misconduct. He should not be discussing Milan over a croissant or trying to motivate a lard arse with an interpreter explaining what GCSEs are in French.
Will this happen? I hope so. Levy is obviously an extremely smart man. It took two years of misery and a horrifically toxic atmosphere for him to bring in Paratici. As I said, the omens at the moment are not good and hint towards Daniel getting back into the driver's seat. If that happens, I fear for our short to medium term future.
