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Daniel Levy - Chairman

I look forward to the day Levy signs a manager who instead of playing a defensive low block actually has a philosophy of attacking free flowing football.
 
Robspur12 said:
ETH is a building manager though more suited to the way we build squads. Conte was successful last season but it appears that the success was built on straw rather than firm foundation. The relationship ended as we expected it to, only sooner. I would trade last season's top 4 for a manager who was building towards sustainable success. Instead we are now in a mess.

Agreed on Nuno btw.
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A ‘building manager’ is likely to fail at Spurs though as Levy will not give them the time to build.
 
NaijaSpurs said:
It was not hindsight to say Nuno was not the answer because most of us were underwhelmed at the time.
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I look forward to the day where the manager gets the players he wants and plays them, and at the same time the club sells those he doesn't use regularly enough, in a ruthless search for better. Unfortunately I think Levy's finance imperative gets in the way.
 
metalgear said:
Nuno was a huge risk and a cheap one too.
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Isn't a risk not knowing what you would get vs hoping of an outcome ... it wasn't a risk but an expectation for those that knew what would happen. It was obvious that nuno would be out quicker than he could settle, it was obvious mourinho was going to kick off and fail under the levy footballing model and it was obvious conte down the line would hit back and out ... I guess the risk or mourinho and conte had the potential risk of some success ... but the predicted outcome also.
 
metalgear said:
I look forward to the day where the manager gets the players he wants and plays them, and at the same time the club sells those he doesn't use regularly enough, in a ruthless search for better. Unfortunately I think Levy's finance imperative gets in the way.
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by finance imperative you mean not spending money we don't have?
 
Levy gets a lot of undue stick from the spending angle in my view.

We have spent, however the people identifying the players 2-4 years ago did horrendously. Paratici did quite well.

If you swapped the combined fees on Ndombele, GLC, Reggie, Gil, Rodon, Sess for just one competent CB and a creative player we’d be in an infinitely better place.

we had that period though between the CL final and Paratici arriving where we wasted piles of cash
 
AdamB said:
Levy gets a lot of undue stick from the spending angle in my view.

We have spent, however the people identifying the players 2-4 years ago did horrendously. Paratici did quite well.

If you swapped the combined fees on Ndombele, GLC, Reggie, Gil, Rodon, Sess for just one competent CB and a creative player we’d be in an infinitely better place.

we had that period though between the CL final and Paratici arriving where we wasted piles of cash
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Exactly this, we don't "penny pinch" which is a hugely overly inflated retort, we spend, we spend what we make, and like you say we waste piles of cash.

Lack of plan, not lack of spending is whats harmed us the most, frustratingly we had a plan up till we started making the CL regular, the young, energetic, talented player who we might have to sell on but improves then earns stacks when they do move, that worked for us. The time we thought we could buy big and spent badly, thats when it started to go down hill....Ndombele signing the start of that period of poor spending IMO
 
Grays_1890 said:
Exactly this, we don't "penny pinch" which is a hugely overly inflated retort, we spend, we spend what we make, and like you say we waste piles of cash.

Lack of plan, not lack of spending is whats harmed us the most, frustratingly we had a plan up till we started making the CL regular, the young, energetic, talented player who we might have to sell on but improves then earns stacks when they do move, that worked for us. The time we thought we could buy big and spent badly, thats when it started to go down hill....Ndombele signing the start of that period of poor spending IMO
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None of those players are actually bad players. The bigger problem is buying some players for a manager and then sacking the manager and lurching to a manager with a completely different style. We’ve collected wing backs over the past year or so but what are the odds our next manger doesn’t play with wingbacks? There has been zero coherent direction from the top for a long while. Our higher age group youth teams don’t even play the same system as the first team which makes it really hard to promote through.
 
Finney Is Back said:
None of those players are actually bad players. The bigger problem is buying some players for a manager and then sacking the manager and lurching to a manager with a completely different style. We’ve collected wing backs over the past year or so but what are the odds our next manger doesn’t play with wingbacks? There has been zero coherent direction from the top for a long while. Our higher age group youth teams don’t even play the same system as the first team which makes it really hard to promote through.
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Some are some are not, I don't think its a blanket answer for all TBH. The fact that more than one manager has failed to get the best out of some of them, here and on loan, shows that some are poor buys. I agree to an extent on what you say about buying the wrong players for the wrong manager, there has to be concessions from managers on players, no club can afford to have a manager simply refuse out of hand to play players, I mean when a manager takes over a club no player is his, part of his job is to impact as he hits the ground. To go back to the original point, I agree with alot of what you say but there is also no doubt we have spent big on some poor players IMO
 
Can't see Levy leaving anytime soon, he's been here so long, his identity must be wrapped up in the club. Not sure he'd know what to do with himself if he left.
 
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Grays_1890 said:
Exactly this, we don't "penny pinch" which is a hugely overly inflated retort, we spend, we spend what we make, and like you say we waste piles of cash.

Lack of plan, not lack of spending is whats harmed us the most, frustratingly we had a plan up till we started making the CL regular, the young, energetic, talented player who we might have to sell on but improves then earns stacks when they do move, that worked for us. The time we thought we could buy big and spent badly, thats when it started to go down hill....Ndombele signing the start of that period of poor spending IMO
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We don't adjust the budget either to make a push for players that could make the difference either.
 
Mosquito_Coasting said:
Can't see Levy leaving anytime soon, he's been here so long, his identity must be wrapped up in the club. Not sure he'd know what to do with himself if he left.
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That's just such negative talk ... we have got him now ... imagine when he is old and senile running the club ...
 
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