Daniel Levy - Former Chairman

[Baleforce]

I think there is another very interesting sub-plot here, which is a CB partnership between Dutch teammates.

Glad you are not on our scouting team, they are both Belgian.

And even in international football, where everyone is brick, VDV is shunted out to left back.

 

[thfcsteff]

We will see
I still think we may see a back 3 with Senesi and JP in a playmaking role from deep

We certainly have options with him.

 

[Mikey10]

Surely im more likely to be impressed, if it turns out he’s actually good l.

If he is a 52m defender we’ll all be fudging delighted because we’ll barely ever concede.

Romero and VDV are both supposed to be £50 million+ defenders and we’ve just finished 17th in consecutive seasons, having conceded a bucket load of goals each time.

Go figure, as the World Cup joint hosts would say.

 

[Baleforce]

Romero and VDV are both supposed to be £50 million+ defenders and we’ve just finished 17th in consecutive seasons, having conceded a bucket load of goals each time.

Go figure, as the World Cup joint hosts would say.

we paid 21m for Kevin Danso, had we had two Kevin Danso's, for 42m, playing every week, we would never concede a goal

I do not believe Van Hecke is as good as 2 and a half Kevin Danso's, I think he's about a quarter of a Kevin Danso

Kevin Danso is the best CB we have, he is my yardstick

 

[Finney Is Back]

Err I started following Spurs in the 80s, we finished 4th twice and 3rd 3 times with 1 serious league title challenge that decade and won the UEFA and FA Cups when they genuinely still prestigious competitions.

Yes the following decade was awful but when I started following Spurs we were one of the big 5, so yes we fell from that position but I would have compared us to those teams at the time. Even in the Sugar era it took some time before we really began to lose our status, it wasn't until the mid to late 90s when we were truly on the brick heap.

So yes you're right the era directly before ENIC we wouldn't compared but Sugar's reign is hardly the be all and end all of Spurs and we were considered a sleeping giant for a reason.

As I said…. sugar was a godsend for Levy and ENIC as it fooled some of our fans into thinking that we weren’t a big 6 club.

 

[SissokoWasGood (BoL)]

Fair summary here

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These are all fair points from SJ.

Thing he misses though is that Levy was with us last summer. The money was available, the way we engaged with the market had changed. And I just don’t think Levy could hang.

So I don’t really agree that had Levy had this extra capital to get around the wages to turnover ratio that the banks wanted to see, that he would have done better with it. He had his shot through a whole transfer window and floundered.

I do agree with SJ on the bullying point though. Trying to shift the narrative to Levy being the reason for all the problems and ignoring his successes is just low, and it doesn’t wash.

 

[thfcsteff]

Romero and VDV are both supposed to be £50 million+ defenders and we’ve just finished 17th in consecutive seasons, having conceded a bucket load of goals each time.

Go figure, as the World Cup joint hosts would say.

We'll shunt context out the window then I suppose...

 

[Gazza]

What annoys me about that Levy and SJ interaction the other day is how smug levy seems to be about spurs “having their pants pulled down by Brighton”. Texting his mate live on the air …

It almost confirms everything that I thought about his transfer dealings, his ego to negotiate and drive down the prices to avoid getting his pants pulled down in public would be worse than backing the manager.

Then when Spurs finally back the manager and pay over the odds he does the above … he’s not bitter.

Upwards and onwards

 

[Mikey10]

We'll shunt context out the window then I suppose...

Which was kind of the point I was making.

 

[clownfoot]

I’ve not watched any of the SJ texting Levy stuff but seen the headlines, and ultimately that’s what they are after at TalkSPORT. Clips are the currency for that medium now.

At any point has he mentioned asking Levy about selling his shares? If not then he’s not much of a journalist or presenter that he purports to be

 

[Mikey10]

I’ve not watched any of the SJ texting Levy stuff but seen the headlines, and ultimately that’s what they are after at TalkSPORT. Clips are the currency for that medium now.

At any point has he mentioned asking Levy about selling his shares? If not then he’s not much of a journalist or presenter that he purports to be

Tbf I don’t think he sees himself as a journalist or a presenter. He’s a talking head, paid to be controversial.

 

[JerusalemMan]

Tbf I don’t think he sees himself as a journalist or a presenter. He’s a talking head, paid to be controversial.

And to wind up Martin Keown.