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Daniel Levy - Chairman

Compare us against every other team that hasn't broken FFP. Our wages are 50% same as the other "6" no purse strings to loosen. Need to generate more revenue, by building say a new stadium
 
I would. He took a fallen giant of a club, a basket case with crappy finances and look what he has done?

We are about to unveil one of the best stadia in the world. We already have training facilities among the best in the world. The academy produces talent good enough for the team. The club has just been invovled in consequtive title challenges. We have made the CL in an era where our rivals can pay £75m for a single player, as well has having been a top 6 mainstay when our rivals turnover and wages virtually double ours.

By rights we should be upper midtable. That we are where we are is frankly incredible and its down to Levy.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
I would. He took a fallen giant of a club, a basket case with crappy finances and look what he has done?

We are about to unveil one of the best stadia in the world. We already have training facilities among the best in the world. The academy produces talent good enough for the team. The club has just been invovled in consequtive title challenges. We have made the CL in an era where our rivals can pay £75m for a single player, as well has having been a top 6 mainstay when our rivals turnover and wages virtually double ours.

By rights we should be upper midtable. That we are where we are is frankly incredible and its down to Levy.
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All completely valid points. I just can't see a man walking around WHL with his son or daughter and they ask him why there is a statue of man named Daniel Levy and he replies with "he got us in to the Champions League two years on the trot and build a new training ground".

Trophies are the only thing missing. Agree on all other counts though.
 
Arsenal, Chelsea, West Ham in utter dire straights at the minute and us having a really strong and controlled window and people still won't give Levy credit, what a club we have when all around us are falling apart, I love it, even with the Rose story, look how steady our ship is.

Stick that in your negative pipes
 
I get that, its just for me Trophies (lack of) dont diminish the amazing things he has already done.

Whatever happens, if he got hit by a bus tomorrow - he has made a real legacy at this club. We are in a better position now than I could posibly have imagined - and we have a foundation to build and compete at the very top thanks to him.

And best of all, for me, we did it the "right" way.
 
So, we are fully in Levy Time! How I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall in the rooms he occupies on his favourite day. If he pulls in Llorente, Mahrez and Barkley I will sculpt a little figure of him out of mashed up Opal Fruits (or whatever they're called now) and slowly lick and nibble it until he's gone.
 
Best chairman in the Lge bar non, you only have to see how far this club has come since he came here. They will ALWAYS be those who will pick at him and they are usually the ones who have always slagged him off. "no ambition" " only here to fill his and Lewis's pockets" " he will never get us the ground he promised" " and even IF he does he will then sell up before its built" " penny pinching" i could go on but we have all read/heard the moans and groans about him over the years.

Its sad to see and hear that there are still some who can not resist a bitch, our club is in the best position it has been for decades yet the moans, digs are still happening. There are none so blind as those that can not see. As for those who moan about trophys i do agree we have won nothing yet ( most on here will know that i want and have been going on about our lack of winning things since i have been here so and got many disagrees for having that opinion). However this club has risen from the ashes since Levy arrived and i shake my head in disbelief at the stick he gets from SOME fans.
 
Think he's played a blinder for us thus far tbh....probably wanted a few more earlier deals but just wasn't possible
 
Trophies are not the only thing that are going to be remembered by me. I will always remember the times that I have had supporting this club, dreaming that we were realistically in with a chance of winning the league twice in a row. I will remember that Champions League season, and just because we didn't win it won't change just how elated I was. I will treasure Ledley's testimonial as the only time I have really experienced no moaning at WHL. I will remember players like Berbatov, Modric, VdV, Davids, King and Bale just as much as players like Hoddle, Gazza, Linekar, Waddle, Mabbut who were all players that I have had the good fortune of seeing live.

I am also sure that I will remember the first game and season when the new stadium is built. Our new digs, a much bigger show of ambition than a purchase of 2 players.

Relaxing purse strings is an interesting concept. We have broken our transfer record multiple times and to the equivalent of other similar sized clubs. Just because we have bought wisely and therefore have a net spend of nil, people are saying that we could be spending more. There just isn't another example of a club that has done as much infrastructure work (training ground and stadium) and had a net spend on transfers. Why does net spend actually matter? Surely it should just be down to the team that is playing, and whether that team is deemed good enough. Our first XI would give any other team in the league a proper match 9 times out of 10. We are just in the position now where the players that will take us that extra place also are the best players in the world. The strategy that has got us to where we are now has been proven to work and I am quite happy to stick to it, rather than "splash the cash".

@Jurgen the German is right in his assessment that it is quality not quantity that will make a difference to this team. So let them make the quality additions (which they have done) and appreciate the fact that sometimes we won't get the player that we want because that quality that will really make a difference is also one that clubs with far bigger wallets are also after. We cannot just throw money at it, it has to be on the right players and if there is one thing that this club has shown is that it is much better at making player purchases than most other clubs, hence our net spend.

Winning trophies doesn't just happen. You have to build for it and that is what Levy has done. Admirably as well. Just because we haven't yet won anything in no way shows that he hasn't achieved anything. Far from it.
 
DL always knew what he wanted in a Manager. I think (as much as we loved him - and I still do) he could see Jol's limitiations - when many of us (myself included) couldn't. Harry (on reflection) was always going to be a stopgap, a strong manager to steady the ship and make us move forward - but a little too old in the tooth to move with the times. AVB and Sherwood were both young managers that fitted his profile of what he wanted, they just failed to deliver.

In Poch, Levy got the man he knew would fit within his long term plans for the club. Someone with whom he could work with, believed in what he was trying to achieve with the youth set-up through to the new stadium. I genuinely believe we have the best chairman, and the best fit of manager for that chairman (who is a pretty bloody brilliant manager as well).

I think we, as Spurs fans, are very privileged at the moment. We are witnessing the beginning of what I believe to be a golden era in this great club. Hopefully, we will start to win some silverware - and at that point I can stop going on to my two lads about the great team of the 80's - cos this lot from the tea lady right the way through the club to the Chairman are something special.

COYS!
 
Eatmyownbrainwithaspork said:
So, we are fully in Levy Time! How I would LOVE to be a fly on the wall in the rooms he occupies on his favourite day. If he pulls in Llorente, Mahrez and Barkley I will sculpt a little figure of him out of mashed up Opal Fruits (or whatever they're called now) and slowly lick and nibble it until he's gone.
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StarBurst, ironically.
 
Jurgen the German said:
All completely valid points. I just can't see a man walking around WHL with his son or daughter and they ask him why there is a statue of man named Daniel Levy and he replies with "he got us in to the Champions League two years on the trot and build a new training ground".

Trophies are the only thing missing. Agree on all other counts though.
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Levy can only create the conditions to win a trophy. He can't kick a ball or give a team talk. There have been a number of what ifs - had we signed Suarez from Ajax or Mane last year would we have won the title? Yet if chel$ea were not being supported by petro dollars and lecister by Asian duty free goods, we'd likely be double league winners. The journey is unfinished, once done, maybe you'd show a sibling a statue of the man who transformed Spurs while our competitors were pumped full of billionaires millions.
 
SpurMeUp said:
Levy can only create the conditions to win a trophy. He can't kick a ball or give a team talk. There have been a number of what ifs - had we signed Suarez from Ajax or Mane last year would we have won the title? Yet if chel$ea were not being supported by petro dollars and lecister by Asian duty free goods, we'd likely be double league winners. The journey is unfinished, once done, maybe you'd show a sibling a statue of the man who transformed Spurs while our competitors were pumped full of billionaires millions.
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Agreed. The idea that the 'we need to win a trophy!' argument has come into a thread about Levy is frankly ridiculous to me. What he can control is the conditions by which we can compete, and the paradigm we are now operating in.

I think it bears repeating, what we have done is absolutely, utterly remarkable. To be in a position with our 36k stadium where we were the closest title challengers two years in a row, with a net spend of -0, with an amazing training ground, a flourishing academy, and the best stadium in the country about to be unveiled...to people realize how amazing this is? Do people realize where clubs like Saudi Sportswashing Machine and Villa are now - they could have done the exact same thing given their comparable resources to ours but they are nowhere near.

Where were we before he came? Even in the Jol or Harry years, being a genuine title challenger was miles away. The dream was to scrape into 4th. How the hell are we even here? A genuine title challenger. It is mental. It is so remarkable and the fact that we apparently need to win an FA Cup or a League Cup as proof of anything, when teams like Swansea, Portsmouth, Middelsbrough etc have won it in recent years, is nonsense. If we continue to do what we are doing, we will win stuff eventually. But the fact that we are even here should frankly beggar belief.
 
nayimfromthehalfwayline said:
This is the weird thing, he really should be recognised and lauded as an EXCELLENT chairman, and the success at Spurs should be all credit to him. And this is not the case at all.

This is the weirder thing. He is made out instead as a pantomime villain, laughed at, made fun of - and Spurs achievements are barely recognised at all.

How fudged up is that?
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This has been the case since he played hardball over Modric and Berbatov.... how dare Daniel Levy not rollover and say 'tickle my tummy' to the Sky 4 teams? The impudence, the rudeness, what ever next? There is a media line that Levy is tight fisted and a villain, and the mass of football fans who believe Talksport and Sky without question have swallowed it whole.
We will have the best stadium in Britain come the start of next season which we will sell out, with manageable debt (here's looking at you Arsenal) that will not impact on player purchases. We are playing fantastic football and have a great manager and crop of players. Levy has learnt over the last 16 years from some mistakes, but on the whole he is our pantomime villain, and I would't swap him for any other chairman.
 
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lovely rita said:
Sorry but I think the whole doing a Leeds thing is surely old hat. We have had no nett spend at all , we have the lowest nett spend in the PL over a 5 year period. We would not go bust if we loosened the purse strings a little.

Yes Levy is good is getting a few quid more for players and yes we have had a couple of brilliant signings Bale and Ali. But we have not won anything , Arsenal have won 3 FA Cups in the last 4 years , while we have won just One LC in the Levy's 17 years. That should put things in perspective a little more.
If we build on our current position and win something or even sustain a PL challenge then yes all can be forgiven.\but it could easily not happen
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But it easily could happen.


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