What is spot on mate?
- Joe Lewis is the owner? this is the type of brick that supporters say, a reporter should know better, Lewis owns a company that owns a company that owns ENIC that owns Spurs (and I may have missed out one), Lewis is not "the owner" in any normal measure.
Come on mate, this is just semantics at this point. If you want to frame it like that, neither Abramovich nor Mansour are the owners of City either, and the Kroenkes are not owners of Arsenal - they are all owners of various companies that own companies that own their clubs (ADUG and KSE in Mansour and Kroenke's cases).
Joe Lewis owns us in the same way that every Premier League owner owns their clubs. To pretend he doesn't because he uses holding companies is to basically say no PL owner owns their club.
- The best he can do to highlight how bad we are is to mention our Under 23's lost to City, come on mate, I'm quite sure you and twenty others on this board (including me) could do better re things wrong at club.
Nah. That bit's silly, I agree, but out of an entire article, that is one example he uses out of many.
ESL, again to push that in seems a fudging stretch
Was it not an aborted disaster on almost every conceivable level?
Covid has affected Spurs? no brick, is that different from any other club at all? (notice Inter in sell mode despite winning their league and being in CL)
Inter in sell mode has a lot less to do with COVID than you'd think, that's all. It's more to do with their Chinese owners being rendered unable to get their funding out of China to Inter, due to the PRC's strict new laws regarding external investment.
- Let's be clear ETH, Potter or Martinez will ALL be better appointments than United made with OGS, Chelsea with Lampard, Scum with Arteta but the media won't say that, they will play the small club brick and Spurs fans will lap it up.
Potter of 16th-place Brighton?
Bobby f*cking Martinez?
ETH I'll give you, but you are pushing it with those two mate. At best, appointing those two would be taking us back to 2001 when ENIC took over in terms of the kinds of utterly pointless appointments they would be - not surprising, but a horrible downgrade all the same.
OGS, btw, actually won titles in Scandinavia, making him a better appointment initially than both Potter and Martinez. Just to show how low the bar is here.
And again, Levy knows nothing about football? come on, he may not be a football tactician but I'm pretty fudging sure he knows more about football than some fudging history grad who never played any sport at any real level or been involved with any sporting body but is writing click bait articles.
Seems fair, honestly. This managerial search, his pathetic penny-pinching for 20 years, his constant bungling in terms of who he actually hires, firing one of the best things that ever happened to us in Poch, his clown-like approach in the documentary ('I struggled with my school grades' as a motivational speech to an unhappy player - brilliant, just brilliant).
I'd say he doesn't know much beyond negotiating for pennies for hundreds of weeks, destroying any concept of squad building, and occasionally lucking into good managers that bail out his horrible choices and cowardice.
Let me write the article for him
- We have taken too long to hire replacement manager (his only valid point)
- The media "updates" (e.g. Conte/Poch is close) were a fudge up
- The DoF move should have been done earlier if that was the plan
- Hitchens should be focused on selling/releasing the deadwood now
- The naming rights needs to be sorted to allow funds for new manager
See legitimate criticisms, not one truth plus the old tired narratives, flimflam that's just made up and huge stretches
Add all that to the points made in the article, sure.
For a supposedly brilliant commercial mind, btw, his bungling of naming rights will stand in history as an example of how to fail in that sphere. Even there, I'm doubtful his reputation is all that based in reality - our rate of commercial income growth has barely increased beyond that of our competitors in the same time frame, which should be the most basic example of a good commercial mind.
