It's an interesting statement - feels like Levy needing to explain himself a little, though he hides behind the 'unanimous' decision of the board a little given he's the only one who matters in terms of making a decision at Tottenham.
If you want to compete on multiple fronts, you need a squad able to do that, with the wages to match.
You instead prefer building the cheapest squad possible in terms of wages, which means buying literal teenagers by the boatload and hoping they come good.
Again, the club has very little idea of what it wants, and this dooms any manager, whether it's Ange or that rando Thomas Frank from out of Brentford (if we end up getting him).
Compete on all fronts, with a callow, cheap squad that will fold when exposed to the pressure. Then get sacked because you failed at the impossible job.
Only Poch has ever squared that circle, and he was rewarded for it by...getting sacked at the first sign of trouble.
Budget Chelsea, without the trophies, money or glamour to match.
Bingo!
At the risk of further annoying some people here...
It's a pathetic statement.
Munn is going next.
If Lange survives then it will be because he has agreed to be Frank's conduit/Frank won't come here otherwise (I hope he always sits with his back to the wall facing forwards when our property).
Literally the ONLY thing which would make this different is if we are about to change hands and new operators are insisting on different people. Otherwise it is the same old brick.
Your line about Poch is on-point, yet many refused to see it. Today we have a clamour for his return. It'd be funny if it wasn't sad in many ways.
I will take no pleasure in saying I was right, that he was gone, that we were all wasting our time with endless debates about 'could he couldn't he'.
We genuinely seem to lack some 'audere est facere' when it comes to the crunch, we really do.
In reading Postecoglu's statement, I think it's clear that he employed some (massively I might add) and got rewarded. He got it. I think he would've done some great things for us, but it's all going to be tinkling inthe wind and 'what proof do you have', etc, etc, so there's no point. My opinion. My view. And it is academic/useless anyway because obviously we will never find out.
If it is Thomas Frank (and I believe it will be) then I will wish him the very best of luck and fully get behind him as the new manager of our club. As discussed elsewhere, he is the least alarming of the names mentioned and probably the most likely to succeed, albeit he will have his work cut out for him.