Muttley
John Gorman
Poch hit his peak with us, that's the biggest issue with any argument that moving on from Poch was a poor decision (the fudging guy is managing the US national team now)
Jol -> Harry -> Poch are all steps up, so again, even in hindsight, right decisions
To your top 5 fudgeups, really that is the best someone could come up with
1. Too little too late in transfer market? as discussed widely in the last page on this thread alone, we were struggling through a massive capital investment in the stadium build, again, post fact the stadium build is the best thing to happen to this club and United/Chelsea/Pool would all want to be in our position now
2. Replacing Poch with Jose? probably but the context there was Covid, the expectation was Jose would have had more investment, in that context it looks different
3. Furlough, fudge, tell me someone is a fudging child without telling me someone is a child. A government program designed to do exactly what the club (one of the biggest tax payers in the league) used it for. Where were you/everyone else in protesting the banks/other businesses from using it? (this is a absolute failure to understand it's actually Levy's duty to the club to use these mechanisms)
4. Super League, like #4, this is typical English stupidity, Spurs had no choice, if a super league happened and we weren't part of it, it would have doomed us from ever participating at an elite level. And outside of the concerns re qualification Super league is superior to the flimflam the FA/UEFA put on the table in many ways (wage caps, infrastructure investment support, etc.), but hey Sky/BT/FA wound you up to protect their investment under some flimflam pretense of "for the betterment of the game"
5. Firing Jose a week before? sure, timing was off
And lets end with the flimflam "time is up" help me understand?
- Are you going to fire him, someone else on this forum/reddit/twitter?
- Is the media going to fire him?
- Help me understand who has the power and genuinely believes Levy's time is up?
By the way, I could make a list of mistakes for Levy/ENIC but none of it matters, this is about as useful as me disliking the pumpkin latte at Starbucks and saying the CEO's time is up .. it's utter delusion. Take a look at the Glazer at United, absolutely destroying the club milking it for money, creating a huge debt burden, having huge organized protests against them for years ... nothing, fans have very little power ..
I think you've taken this the wrong direction. Replacing Levy is not the direction most fans come at it from. We just root cause some of the woes of the last 25 years back to his football operations leadership. Deep down, I think he knew that he didn't have the football DNA in his gut to be making those decisions but still made them. 2 and 5 are football ops decisions. 3 and 4 are in Levy's domain as a chairman. Problem is, he made 2 and 5 himself. He's NOT qualified to make those decisions.
As for 1, my point above was just make the right comms. We were all behind him on what he was trying to achieve. Him making those statements about the stadium and football sides being mutually exclusive financially was just stupid leadership. He should have known better.
As for 5, Levy got this one way wrong. If he spent so much time at the training ground, he should have known there were problems. That toxic prick should have had his sorry arse kicked out of our club way before the cup final that he would have lost anyway.